Bookmarks... 07/31/2010

• The Importance of CRM Customer Relationship Management - Annotated

  tags: CRM software Management

  • helps the management and customer service staffs cope with customer concerns and issues
  • gathering a lot of data about the customer
  • more satisfied customers, a more profitable business and more resources available to the support staff

• Grim Arts of Melancholy

  tags: Metal Music Albums

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Bookmarks... 07/29/2010

• Cheerful Depression on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads - Annotated

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• مركز الدراسات الاشتراكية - مصر - Annotated

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• What Wikileaks Means for Technology and Media | Social Enterprise

  tags: Wikileaks journalism Web Internet

• ei: Israel wages war against media and activists - Annotated

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Bookmarks... 07/27/2010

• YouTube - Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

  tags: Black Sabbath Music Metal Doom metal

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Bookmarks... 07/25/2010

• Text of H.R.5741 as Introduced in House: Universal National Service Act - U.S. Congress - OpenCongress

  tags: Universal National Service Act US Congress Army War Resolutions

• Chomsky and Palestine: Asset or Liability? « P U L S E - Annotated

  • He is pursuing policies, which, in my view, are quite sensible, policies of essentially developing facts on the ground

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Bookmarks... 07/24/2010

• BBC News - The ups and downs of social networks - Annotated

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• Internet Evolution - Dan Cypra - A Social Media Marketing Survival Guide - Annotated

  • When you post a poll or interact with your audience in any capacity on a social site, leave it open-ended, allowing users to write in their own responses in addition to selecting one from the poll
  • networking
  • keep it professional by ensuring proper spelling, comma use, and sentence construction

• ei: International labor report's omissions reveal pro-Israel bias - Annotated

  • stemmed from a Muslim Brotherhood culture that focuses on these institutions as hubs of cultivating support and popularity

• Let’s Meet David “Go GOP” Ramadan: An IKHRAS Political Profile | Ikhras اخرس

  tags: Housies Arab Americans GOP Arabs Ikhras David Ramadan

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Bookmarks... 07/23/2010

• CorpWatch : U.S. Congressional Wartime Commission Targets Armed Contractors - Annotated

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• CorpWatch : Gulf Dispersants: BP and Nalco Play Toxic Roulette - Annotated

  • Nalco's Corexit has made the oil less visible, thereby disguising the full environmental impact of the spill, and helping BP limit its legal and financial liability
  • BP has now applied an unprecedented almost one-million-and-counting gallons of chemical dispersants, some sprayed by the US Air Force from two C-130 Hercules cargo planes that can fly three missions a day, and cover up to 250 acres per flight.
  • Corexit 9500 and Corexit 9527
  • But the older formula, Corexit 9527A -- which contains 2-butoxy ethanol, a compound associated with headaches, vomiting, and reproductive problems at high doses -- is more toxic.
  • Asked to define "limited quantities," Nalco senior manager for external communications, Charlie Pajor, said he didn't know
  • In 2009, the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office criticized the EPA for failing to adequately assess risks from thousands of toxic chemicals.
  • The EPA also acknowledged that no studies had been carried out on how long Corexit 9500 persists in the environment-perhaps even after the oil it was meant to control has biodegraded
  • In the first month of the spill, Nalco stock spiked, and estimated sales of Corexit garnered $40 million
    • This remembers me of the Shcok Doctrine described by Naomi Klein in her great book. Corporations are making profit of human disasters and they would pray for more profitable disasters like this!
  • Nalco board member Rodney F. Chase, is a nearly four-decade veteran of BP, most recently as a managing director and deputy group chief executive. (A former Exxon Mobil Corp. president is also on Nalco's board of directors.)
    • Aha, Now we can get it!

• Rachel Corrie’s Hometown Divests From Israel : Political Theatrics - Annotated

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Bookmarks... 07/22/2010

• Colonial Feminism Among House Muslims | Ikhras - Annotated

  • t is highly unlikely that the French legislature intended the niqab ban as a means to present Muslim women with a more progressive, egalitarian interpretation of their religion; the legislation was more likely fueled by intolerance and racism
  • It is highly unlikely that the French legislature intended the niqab ban as a means to present Muslim women with a more progressive, egalitarian interpretation of their religion; the legislation was more likely fueled by intolerance and racism.
  • allowing “the political right and the Muslim right to seize the situation
    • WTF?!!!

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Bookmarks... 07/20/2010

• تغيير سياسي أم ثورة اجتماعية؟ | مركز الدراسات الاشتراكية - مصر - Annotated

  • رفض الثورة الشعبية ورفع شعار "الديمقراطية السياسية كفاية".

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Bookmarks... 07/18/2010

• Middle East — Global Issues - Annotated

  tags: imperialism Politics Economy War Geopolitics

  • This was especially so during the European colonial times, as so vividly examined by Edward Said, in his well-respected book, Orientalism

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Bookmarks... 07/17/2010

• International Socialism: Imperialism and global political economy

  tags: imperialism Politics Economy War ISJ

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Bookmarks... 07/16/2010

• Two Keys To Be Influential On Twitter | Jeffbullas's Blog - Annotated

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• 10 Tools for Distributed Developer Teams

  tags: Developers Programming 'Distributed programming'

• Facebook | ‏Ibrahim Zaher: عابر سعادة‏ - Annotated

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Bookmarks... 07/11/2010

• Google's Long History of Social Media Attempts [INFOGRAPHIC] - Annotated

  tags: google socialmedia infographic Social Networks twitter facebook

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