For those of you with a good memory and those that follow uber geek news you may recall an agreement about a year ago where the Microsoft Bing search engine would start powering the Yahoo search results. The driver behind the agreement is to release the burden of Yahoo competing head to head with Google in search technology, allowing them to focus on what they do best; providing a content portal and selling ads.  From Microsoft’s standpoint they are committed to making the investment in search technology and this provides another source of revenue and traffic for them

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Why You Need to Optimize for Bing

A Cartoon Guide to Becoming a Doctor: The med student gunner: profile . Nice one… via Doc_Rob on twitter… Related posts: BlogWorld Medblogger Track There are several of us twittering the medblogger track now…

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A Cartoon Guide to Becoming a Doctor: The med student gunner: profile

Last week I mentioned that I was moving away from more traditional construction DIY projects and focusing on those that could have an actual impact upon your freelance writing business. Starting with how to install a WordPress theme on your freelance writing blog last week, this week we’re going to take an introductory look into how to promote your freelance writing blog using 5 different social media tools. N.B.

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How To Promote Your Freelance Writing Blog Using Social Media

It would be very much simpler to find a good affiliate program to join if there were not so many options available today. There are currently literally thousands of products online that you can promote as an internet marketing affiliate.

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How to Choose a Good Affiliate Program to Join for Your Internet Based Home Business

From Wachter’s World , which he prefaces with: As a member of the executive committee of the American Board of Internal Medicine, I can’t provide too much of the inside scoop, so I’ll mainly point you to the published descriptions of a remarkable case: that of one Dr. Arora, who ran an ABIM board review course with a difference. Good for the ABIM.  If you need to cheat to pass the Boards, you don’t need to be Board Certified

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Cheaters Never Win (and sometimes they have their Board Certification stripped and get sued)!

Service Tax – Works Contract – Benefit of composition scheme not available for ongoing projects on which ST was paid prior to 01.06.2007 under respective services: High Court follow the link below for more details:- http://www.taxindiaonline.com/RC2/inside2.php3?filename=bnews_detail.php3&newsid=10976

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service tax – compounding scheme not applicable if tax paid prior to 1.6.2007

Roger Ebert’s name is synonymous with movie reviews. Many of us remember him bantering with Gene Siskel on the TV shows Sneak Previews and At the Movies . But he doesn’t banter much anymore

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What All Content Creators Need to Learn From Roger Ebert

This week, after much thought and back and forth arguing with my other personalities, I bought a Kindle. Now, anyone who knows me knows that as much as I like computers, laptops, and televisions, I kinda hate technology. I hate GPS systems because I like to rely on my own little sense of direction; I hate cell phones because I don’t like being accessible at all times and don’t really enjoy talking on the phone anyway; I’m not a fan of texting and I don’t like the iPad.

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Amazon Kindle: Good for Freelance Writing Work and Play but Useless as a Coaster.

The Institute’s attention was drawn to certain news reports giving the impression that the Institute has mooted a proposal to open doors for MNC audit firms to operate in India . Consequent upon the Satyam scandal coming to light, the Council of ICAI had constituted a High Powered Committee to look into the matter

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Denial of contents of news report on multinational accounting/audit firms – (08-06-2010)

Eli Pariser, the president of MoveOn.org, answered the PdF 2010 question “Can the Internet Fix Politics” with a warning about how the hidden personalization features of search and newsfeeds were subtly destroying the notion of a common public space.

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PdF 2010 | Eli Pariser: Filter Bubble, or How Personalization is Changing the Web

Yikes! Hospital uses armed man in unannounced drill Test of security procedures results in frightening moments By Marshall Allen Saturday, May 29, 2010 | 2:01 a.m. How’s this for an ill-conceived emergency preparedness drill? An off-duty cop pretending to be a terrorist stormed into a hospital intensive care unit brandishing a handgun, which he pointed at nurses while herding them down a corridor and into a room.

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Hospital uses armed man in unannounced drill – Saturday, May 29, 2010 | 2:01 a.m. – Las Vegas Sun

Here is another case in the annals of over-paid executives of not-for-profit health care organizations, this time from the Burlington (VT) Free-Press , Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Vermont overpaid its former chief executive officer by $3 million over an eight-year period and has been ordered to pay the money back to its subscribers by 2012 in the form of reduced premiums , a top state regulator said Wednesday.

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"A Kind of Blackmail": A Not-for-Profit Health Insurance Company CEO’s Salary So Large It "Had Broken the Law"

Ah, not this one again. The folks at Iglu Cruises have put together a helpful infographic to explain various features of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill (via Deep Sea News). Here’s the bit where they compare the recent spill (which, by the way, is still ongoing at a fantastic rate) to previous oil spills

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Pie Are Square; Oil Spills Are Round | Cosmic Variance

The 2010 American College of Emergency Physicians’ Scientific Assembly is in Las Vegas this year. I’ve registered, bought plane tickets and have a marker on a box under a bridge (but very near the convention site, so I’m good). So, time for you EP’s to get in there and register, and, I’m going to blog it (unless ACEP gets a court order preventing it (they weren’t interested in me blogging for their house blog, so only time will tell…))

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2010 ACEP Scientific Assembly: I’m in

From Harvey MuddSteve Jobs proved again on Monday that all he needs to do is stand up with an Apple device of some kind and the business press gushes forth with billions of electrons and barrels of ink of fawning attention. So it’s nice to know that the Apple exec (shown, l, in a Monday Reuters news photo at the iPhone4 unveiling) also can be generous in sharing that monumental spotlight on occasion as he did recently by geeking out on the blog of a computer science student in Claremont.

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Student’s blog is briefly apple of Steve Jobs’ eye

Over at Inside Higher Ed they have a news report on complaints about the content of required reading for students entering college. This comes from the National Association of Scholars, a group dedicated to complaining that multiculturalism is corrupting our precious bodily fluids pushing aside the shared heritage of Western civilization, so most of it is pretty predictable. I was surprised by one thing in their list of commonly assigned books this year, though: What are the freshmen reading…

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Required Reading in Science

If you have a blog, you tell stories. You may have dealt with the frustration of not having very many people see your stories, of not having enough subscribers or readers. Nevertheless, you keep on documenting your story in your blog posts, your Facebook status updates, your Twitter feed.

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How to Use Stories to Change the World

The corporate affairs ministry will initiate talks with the commerce ministry and RBI to allow global audit firms like KPMG, Deloitte, Ernst & Young and PriceWaterhouseCoopers to open shops in the country. “This matter is not for us alone (to decide), it is a matter which involves the RBI as also the commerce ministry..

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Khurshid for entry of global auditors

I’ll just say this–thank god there’s summer programming. All my favorite TV shows with one exception are off the air and I’d be bored during the day if it weren’t for the Food Network anyway, but there’s a few shows that have started to tide me over until fall. What did people do in the days before cable?

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Freelance Writing Jobs – June 8th, 2010

Apple’s CEO, Steve Jobs dials up a pal to demo the iPhone 4′s new FaceTime video calling feature.