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Sat, 21 Apr 2007 17:23:54 -0700

Ma.gnolia: Apple-Friendly Social Bookmarking
Social bookmarking tools evolved from a way to better organize your favorite URLs into an entire ecosystem based on sharing and discussing the rapidly evolving content on the World Wide Web. The unusually named website Del.icio.us is widely credited with starting the trend, earning it a spot in Yahoo!'s portfolio of web services. In late 2005, Larry Halff hired the respected design team from Happy Cog to take some of the core ideas from Del.icio.us even further.

The result was Ma.gnolia, a site that many of its users describe as a broader social experiment than other social bookmarking websites. In addition to tracking common links, Ma.gnolia allows users to organize themselves into groups, where members can easily monitor collective activity and offer commentary on the latest bookmarks added to the service.

Because of its clean design and the abundance of Apple-specific tools available for the service, Ma.gnolia has attracted a strong following among Mac users. Here are just a few of the ways you can use your Mac to participate in the Ma.gnolia community.

Using Ma.gnolia Ma.rker on your Mac OS X Dashboard
Adding links to your Ma.gnolia feed is easy when you download the free Ma.gnolia Ma.rker plugin provided on the site's official tools page. Although there are a few bookmarklets and browser plugins available, the Dashboard plugin is a really simple way to plug more links into Ma.gnolia using your Mac's built-in tools. Hitting F12 or clicking your Dashboard icon brings up the Ma.gnolia Ma.rker widget, pre-populated with the title and URL of the page you're browsing. Clicking "save" marks your page without ever taking you away from the site.

Ma.gnolia Ma.rker is just one of a growing number of Dashboard widgets that allow Apple users to optimize their experience with the social bookmarking site. Another widget allows Mac owners to view a virtual river of thumbnails as the collective bookmarks of the community roll by. As Ma.gnolia develops more external APIs and Apple makes Dashboard development easier in the forthcoming Leopard OS, expect to see even more tools and features for the Mac.

Getting to the Roots of the Discussion
While many bloggers enjoy the simplicity of using a social networking tool like Ma.gnolia to preserve their bookmarks, a growing number of the site's users are interacting with each other in live discussions that happen in relation to bookmarks. This discussion is especially vital on pages that don't offer live commenting, trackbacks, or forums for audience members.

Ma.gnolia calls these discussions "roots," and they're easily accessible from both the website and from a JavaScript bookmarklet that you can add to your web browser's toolbar. By clicking on the "Roots" bookmarklet, Ma.gnolia uses a lightbox effect to fade your current web page to the background and bring up a highlighted discussion about that page. Users can add their comments or mark the page for inclusion as a Ma.gnolia bookmark, while keeping the page itself in the background.

Swapping and Sharing Bookmarks
Like similar sites, Ma.gnolia makes it easy to share bookmarks with other users. Ma.gnolia also allows users to export their bookmarks and comments as a feed that can be integrated into a variety of websites and desktop applications. Bloggers who use popular website publishing tools like Wordpress or Moveable Type can use Ma.gnolia to maintain a "sideblog" or an "external links" list that appears in the sidebar of their web pages.

Mac users can download Tasty, a free software package that was initially designed for use with Del.icio.us, but has been converted to work with Ma.gnolia bookmarks, as well. Tasty lets users convert old bookmarks from Safari or from the Dock into Ma.gnolia bookmarks using a simple, drag-and-drop interface.

The Future of Ma.gnolia
While Ma.gnolia is currently supported by a variety of text and banner ads that appear throughout the site, company representatives have suggested that they may soon offer "pro level" services in exchange for subscription fees. While the company expects to keep the core bookmarking and discussion services available for free, some of the fee-based services could include advanced publishing tools for professional bloggers and custom statistics for publishers about their included URLs.

In the meantime, while Del.icio.us has captured the lead in the social bookmarking space, Ma.gnolia has won the hearts and minds of discerning users who prefer discussion and insight to a simple list of links.

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Sat, 21 Apr 2007 17:20:34 -0700

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Deer Hunting With Jesus

All-Podcast-Secrets
Deer Hunting with Jesus (Random House). Interview with Author Soon to be Released
September 14th, 2006

Jason Broadwater: Basically, just an intro here. I've seen a lot of interview of you starting to creep up. I'm sure that's happened a lot in the past, and there will be more as your book comes out.

Joe Bageant: I forget how many there are. I'm going to be on Book TV and interviewed on NPR. All that stuff.

Jason Broadwater: Of course, of course.

Joe Bageant: I didn't know, you see. They have publicists. I'm in shock. [Laughs.] Harper's. The whole... arena. I'm kind of amazed.

Jason Broadwater: That's terrific. I've heard you give a positive review, off-handedly, to Harper's, saying that it's one of the last good reading magazines around.

Joe Bageant: Yes, well, it depends of your definition of "good reading," of course, and pretty much being a leftist. If Harper's has a vice, it's probably an overeducated group of people running it. But by God they tell the truth, you know, as they see it. They make some pretty good attempts. They have a lot of courage. As much as you can have and still be a publishing institution. Publishing in America is institutionalized. It doesn't even know it's trapped. I consider Harper's the best of what's available in America, but I'd much rather read an Italian leftist magazine. [Laughs.]

Jason Broadwater: So, do you think you can do anything within the system, within the institution? Do you think you can make change?

Joe Bageant: It depends, you know. Within the publishing world, you mean?

Jason Broadwater: Right.

Joe Bageant: Well, the publishing world operates on capitalist principles and, first and foremost, it must make a buck. Well, most of the greatest things said in this world, some of the greatest truths, wouldn't turn a buck. But we're information deprived by the mere machinery of the corpocracy that we have now. Thoreau couldn't get published now.

Jason Broadwater: Do you think that capitalism, flat out, is bad, as a whole?

Joe Bageant: No. Karl Marx didn't, either. He thought it was gonna save the world, if they read him closely. Of course, they didn't know about ecological limits, then. But he said, at last we have a way to produce enough for everybody. He saw the inherent flaw in a feudalistic approach, an ownership approach, the control of money, fees, you know. And owning the means of production. No. I mean, there must be some reasonable balance. At the rate it's going now, [unintelligible].

Jason Broadwater: It's about self-preservation?

Joe Bageant: Well, when it pits people against each other. Workers have to own the means of production in some way or another.

Jason Broadwater: What about the concept that if you bring value, you will be rewarded, and that's capitalism?

Joe Bageant: If you bring value, you will be rewarded? That's an incomplete statement. I don't know. That's too hazy for me.

Jason Broadwater: A lot of the people, I'm sure, that interview you will try to either celebrate your leftism or to pin you down or challenge you...

Joe Bageant: Oh, I've been interviewed by the Christian Broadcasting Network. [Laughs.]

Jason Broadwater: Is it their job to try to bring balance to an interview, or just let you speak?

Joe Bageant: I really don't know. I just sit here and try to make it up as I go. [Laughs.] The underlying points I try to make in the book and in the essays is brotherhood. The left thinks that's a corny phrase. The right won't even use it. They make no pretense. But, you know, we are our brother's keeper. Somewhere underneath that, Marxists and Buddhists are linked together. It's the common good. The American drive, the greedy drive that masks itself as individualism and accomplishment is so destructive to not just most of the rest of the world - the Third World in particular - it's a destructive social contract, it's destructive to our relationships with our community, with our family, and so on. Look how, in the name of success, families have been spread all across the nation, to where the jobs are, supposedly. Now, they've turned them into migrants, just for sustenance. Of course, in America, it's the illusion of wealth, the illusion that someone is getting rich, the illusion that Formica counter top will spice up your life. It's a mass hallucination that has been very consciously generated by marketing since the 1890s, you know? Certainly, it kicked off well after World War I. Right now, my argument is, we live in a hologram, created primarily by the media, not by some mean, evil scheme, but by ourselves, reinforcing the system. You know, capitalism is holistic and it comes together, but the thing is, that we live in a world of church spires and eagles and brave boys in Iraq. And all this stuff. Our languid south and the beautiful canyons of the west, and all this crap. America is mostly strip malls

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Sun, 15 Apr 2007 14:43:42 -0700

Marshal Sandler
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I watched with great interest the recent trial of
a very popular talk radio host on MSNBC and WFAN ! Mr Don Imus
insulted A University Woman,s Basketball team! Mr Imus used a
very Vulgar Term to describe the woman as Prostitutes !
The term was created by the Rap Music Community and is Broadcasted
hourly as accepted content to the Rap Audience ! Rap music producers have
developed their own semantic jazz and it has been adopted by many African
American as well as white Teen's as acceptable speech ! Mr.Imus has apologized to his audience as well as the Woman's Championship basketball
team of African American and White Student's !
Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson the acknowledged world wide
Watch dog's for the African American Community lit a
fire as they usually do and have claimed victory since Don Imus was fired
from both Networks ! One African American reporter described Jackson and Sharpton as fire fighters who after the fire is over then pick the victims pockets! To be honest I think that what got Mr Imus fired was Advertisers
pulling out of the show ! Not the flame kindled by Sharpton and Jacksons
Diarrhea of the Mouth !
Imus was of course wrong since what lives in the gutter should stay
in the gutter ! Until what walks in the street , decides to clean up stand up
and walk proudly on the sidewalk!
The Team from Rutgers have chosen to walk as the best of our
American Youth and commented on the incident as Adults ! The Coaches
wined the School Officials winded but the students exhibited adult behavior.

I am sure that in the future Mr.Imus will Pop up on the WWW, as the
Imus in The Morning Video Cast , supported by a fantastic Blog and Social
Network Site and we can all enjoy him for 99 Cents ! This will restore his freedom of speech and give some great content to I Podders !
Marshal.m1@gmail.com !

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Wed, 31 Jan 2007 11:08:12 -0800

Mariner Software Profile

Named in memory of the founder's fathers passion for space and ocean-going sail boats, Mariner Software was founded in 1990 and incorporated in 1993. The first product, a HyperCard stack with pascal extensions to chart the stock market was posted in 1989 on CompuServe and other online services as shareware, making minimal revenue but generating public interest.

In 1991, the program had evolved into a mini spreadsheet, with graphics, functions and the beginnings of layers and was posted. In 1992, a Japanese distributor engaged with Mariner (Calc) and ultimately, in 1993, Mariner 1.0 was released under the name of Pascal in Japan. As a highlight in 1995, Pascal was bundled with Word Perfect in Japan, giving the product acclaimed exposure and worldwide recognition.

Mariner Write was a product request from the Japanese distributor, who had been funding development of a word processor for three years and still didn't have a product close to completion. In May 1996, Pascal Write 1.0 shipped in Japan. Mariner Write was released in the US a few months later.

From 1998 through 2001, both Mariner Calc and Mariner Write were updated and established themselves as legitimate office productivity solutions for the Macintosh operating system.

In late 2001, work began to relaunch Mariner Software with a new identity and business model. In second quarter 2002, the new Mariner Software was born.

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Wed, 31 Jan 2007 11:06:29 -0800

Marshal Sandler Executive Producer of Apple-of-my-i.-com in a effort to Present Excellent Software to the Apple Community is working with Mariner Software and The Staff at Revenflo.com to
develop a contest for our visitors ! Real Simple we will be giving away Free Mariner a Mariner Software full version of
[The MarinerPak - Macintosh Office Software (Mariner Write & Mariner Calc)] Revenflo is a web marketing firm not affiliated with Mariner Or Myself, but based on their expertise will develop very simple contest rules, which will be posted soon ! You may enter as a business or an Individual!
You may have a family member who uses an Apple Or Mac Spread the Word ! Contest Rules will be posted soon ! For More information prior to the contest send you questions to marshal.m1@gmail.com

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Sun, 14 Jan 2007 09:07:45 -0800

Soon we will add VIDEO PODCAST on how to add content to You Tube it is done by a professional it will be on http://www.apple-of-my-i.com hope you find it usefull !

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Wed, 03 Jan 2007 09:47:37 -0800

Mission Statement, so to speak
Written by Administrator
Monday, 02 October 2006
We have created this site... no, I start again... We are perpetually creating this site to be an online community for Apple users. We are currently working on ways that you will be able to control the content on this site. This is for you, not us. So, please come here as often as you like. And add content, add content, add content.

All we ask is that you are respectful of our mission and members. And that you don't just use this site for blatant sales techniques. Having said that, if you offer a valuable service that could help our members, sure, feel free to mention it and provide a link. But don't just spam us with sales crap.

Thank you for your energy and enthusiasm.

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Wed, 03 Jan 2007 09:30:53 -0800

How to Create a Podcast
Podcasters use software like PodShow or GarageBand to mix voice and music into MP3 files. Services like AudioBlog let you add voicemail-style messages to your podcasts. You can manage your podcast with weblog tools like Moveable Type or Wordpress. Or, companies like FeedBurner or Odeo can spread your podcast for you for free.
Even if you have never set foot in a radio studio in your life, podcasting offers you the chance to share your passion, your insight, and your experience on any topic with listeners around the world. Whether you consider yourself a technical wizard or a total newbie, there's a combination of equipment and services to fit your podcasting needs.

Podcasting Studio Gear. Depending on your patience and your budget, you can either create the ultimate podcasting studio in your home or your office, or you can organize a simple setup to get you through your initial recording sessions.
Sample of Information on my blog http://www.all-podcast-secrets.com/