Greenpeace’s Guide to Greener Electronics produces a new series of incendiary videos to alert people about how the big video-game system makers need to do more to rid their consoles of toxic chemicals. Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo have all taken heat from the Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics for using toxic chemicals in video-game consoles and other electronics. Now Greenpeace has upped the ante, zooming in on the companies’ excessive use of toxins in the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Wii with a series of videos that turn scraps from the consoles into creepy-looking (yet effective) spokesmen against dangerous substances such as brominated flame retardants (BFRs) and polyvinyl chloride (PVC).

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Greenpeace Attacks Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony With Their Own Creepy Game Console Scraps

SUBJECT: LIVE! Perry Belcher Social Media Webinar Special Announcement:                                                             My friend Perry Belcher will be  LIVE! on a FREE invitation only webinar this Wednesday night at 9:00 PM EST. This is a brand new training from Perry on making money from Twitter , Facebook , YouTube and blogs…This is gonna be great! The best news is Perry has invited me and a few of my best friends to be on too…FREE so that’s why I’m mailing you.

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LIVE! Perry Belcher Social Media Webinar

It’s forty years since Neil Armstrong sundered humankind’s history in two: The era before the Moon landings, and after. Here are a couple ways for you to get involved in Lunar fever online today. Walter Cronkite’s Famous TV CoverageCronkite’s CBS News coverage of the events as they unfolded on live TV is almost as famous as the Moon landings themselves.

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How You Can Land on The Moon Today, July 20th 2009

By Ty Tribble, Founder – MLM Blog The MLM Blog team would like to wish the MLM Watch Dog, Rod Cook a speedy recovery from Pneumonia.While this site, MLM Blog was Network Marketing’s first blog reporting news and opinion about the Direct Selling/Network Marketing industry (founded in 2003), Rod Cook was way ahead of his time with his site, MLMWatchDog.com. Rod’s site has been reporting news and information way before the MLM Blog.We understand that Rod is home now and on bed rest for 10 to 12 day

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MLM Watch Dog Rod Cook Recovering From Pneumonia

At the Inman News Real Estate Connect Conference in the Big Apple last January, one of my two favorite editors (I only have two if you don’t count Steve, which of course I don’t) cornered me for an impromptu chat about — get this — real estate.  Here is my, thankfully edited, conversation with Annalisa Burgos of HGTV’s Frontdoor.com . So much wisdom in so few words, you are thinking (not)

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Waxing philosophical with HGTV’s Frontdoor Unlocked

This post should perhaps be subtitled “The Theatre of the Absurd.” At Healthcare Renewal and other sites I’ve often commented on the remarkable accommodation given to IT personnel in hospitals, even when these personnel make capricious decisions that are contrary to the support of the mission of healthcare organizations, or contrary to the mission itself. I wrote that many HIT problems observationally appeared due to ill-informed, capricious edicts of overempowered (relative to clinical leadership) MIS leaders, sanctioned by equally ill-informed executive leadership, for which the IT personnel were rarely held accountable.

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Philadelphia VA Hospital Brachytherapy Debacle: For The Want of One Competent and Industrious IT Person

Here’s the blurb I received from PW about their webinar. Of course it looks like a pretty one-sided affair on the “pro settlement” side, but it should be interesting nontheless: In a webinar first, the leaders involved with crafting of the Google Library Project Settlement will share with the publishing industry the benefits of the agreement for publishers and authors.

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Publishers Weekly webinar on the Google Book Settlement

ResourceShelf sent me an email about how Springer agreed preserve its entire electronic book collection of 21,000 e-books. “Through this agreement with Portico,” says Springer, “Springer furthers its digital preservation strategy, which already includes participation in Portico since 2007 on behalf of 824 titles from its e-journals collection as well as the inclusion of 68 of its journals in JSTOR.” I didn’t know anything about Portico, so I thought you might be interested too

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Portico – preserve your articles

“On the heels of Amazon’s recent price reduction for the Kindle in the US (to $299), Sony has just lowered its recommended price of its Reader in Germany by 17% to 249 Euros (from 299 Euros).” – Publishing Perspectives . The TeleRead take: PP cites the German-language Buchreport , which says Sony may fears competition from the forthcoming Vodafone reader. Will the new Kindle 2 price, earlier $359, mean a price reduction in the U.S

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Sony drops PRS-505 e-readers’s price in Germany: Price cuts on the way for the U.S. and elsewhere?

Australia Nephrology and Urology Devices Investment Opportunities, Analysis and Forecasts to 2015 Summary This report is an essential source for in-depth information and data relating to Australia nephrology & urology devices market. It also offers detailed and comprehensive coverage of market revenue, volume, distribution and company share information; and latest news, financial deals and pipeline products information of each of the key sub-segments of the nephrology & urology de

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Australia Nephrology and Urology Devices Investment Opportunities Analysis and Forecasts

A Web site for these hard times! SAN FRANCISCO, July 20, 2009 — A new Web site has been launched, promising its users a place to market their intellectual properties such as photos, videos, music, writings, inventions, musical groups, and even news stories to prospective buyers. MyPayCut.com’s business model has been designed to provide a site for writers, journalists, inventors, artists, and musicians to market and present their works, and get paid by users. The President and CEO of MyPayCu

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MyPayCut.com Launched Today Promises a One-Stop Shop for the Marketing of Intellectual Property

Lest you think that we have party lines here at TeleRead, just read Paul Biba’s thoughtful essay below where he depicts Amazon as a dumb giant who happens to do evil things because it doesn’t understand e-books. I disagree somewhat. Not everything about Amazon is evil—the company has its positives, such letting readers speak up in customer reviews—but it undeniably does do evil things

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Ignorance of e-books is no excuse for the Orwellian zap: Why Jeff Bezos just might be the McTeague of publishing

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JAMA UPDATE NEWS: Planning of Special Events in Full Gear for the 41st Tokyo Motor Show 2009 (The Auto Channel)

Conservatives propose regional press creating TV news – as alternative ‘top-slicing’ funding from BBC licence fee Local newspaper companies could step in to produce local and regional TV news on ITV, the Conservatives said today in a proposal that would abandon the government policy to top-slice the licence fee. Lord Carter’s Digital Britain report proposed using about £130m a year from the …

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Tories: local press could make TV news (Guardian Unlimited)

Building payment platforms is one of key challenges facing news organisations, says Financial Times editor Lionel Barber The Financial Times editor, Lionel Barber, has predicted that “almost all” news organisations will be charging for online content within a year. Barber said building online platforms that could charge readers on an article-by-article or subscription basis was one of the key …

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FT editor: most news sites will charge within a year (Guardian Unlimited)

A recent press release by the ACS shows how the digitization of journals is becoming more and more important. As a matter of fact, at least for the ACS, it seems to be what the members prefer. Here are a couple of interesting snippets from the release: Regarding a print format change to condensed print and the move to digital: Reader reaction to the print format change has been muted thus far, King says.

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American Chemical Society pushes it journals into digital format

A recent press release by the ACS shows how the digitization of journals is becoming more and more important. As a matter of fact, at least for the ACS, it seems to be what the members prefer. Here are a couple of interesting snippets from the release: Regarding a print format change to condensed print and the move to digital: Reader reaction to the print format change has been muted thus far, King says.

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American Chemical Society pushes its journals into digital format

The Solomon Scandals , my Washington novel published by Twilight Times Books as a paperback and e-book , will be discussed 8 p.m. EST Tuesday, July 28, a week later than scheduled earlier. Tom Peters , a trained academic librarian, will interview me for  Online Programming for All Libraries and also accept questions from others.

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‘Solomon Scandals’ book discussion now set for 8 p.m. EST, Tuesday, July 28.

Providing a newsletter for your opt-in list subscribers provides many benefits in terms of driving web traffic into your site as well as boosting the sales and profits of your site and company. This is one marketing technique that will not hugely dent your marketing budget and will not also require a lot of man-hours in developing this project. With a newsletter, you can inform the public about your company and products as well as services.

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5 Important Things to Remember When Publishing a Newsletter

Jason Moffatt has found his match! Inside this provocative episode of Internet Marketing News, Ron Goodwave (Anchorman), anal-yses Jason Moffatt and pretty much rips him to bits. Jason Moffatt had better watch out. He’s now been exposed! Watch this video now to see how Jason Moffatt gets humiliated… Sign up for future episodes at: www.InternetMarketingNews.tv Jason Moffatt Internet Marketing Internet Marketing News Click Here to view the site top marketers don’t want you to know exists!

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Jason Moffatt Exposed – The Bad Boy Of Internet Marketing