November, 2011

Ari Herzog

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On Moving On

Ari Herzog

Leaves by grafixar. Kirsten Wright quit her sole proprietorship and joined Social 5150 as its social marketing director. Tyson Goodridge quit his sole proprietorship and joined Acsys as its social media director. He recollects: A while ago, I starting asking myself some simple questions. Am I scalable? Is this business model sustainable? What is my experience and skill set worth on the open market?

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Fight U.S. Government Internet Censorship

Ari Herzog

The video above discusses the U.S. Senate version of the PROTECT IP Act , but the House bill, the Stop Online Piracy Act , is worse. If passed by Congress, the government will receive new powers to block Americans’ access to websites that corporations don’t like. Think about the number of videos you record and upload to Facebook and Youtube.

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Introducing Vokle and Seeking Your Participation in a Live Video Event

Ari Herzog

Vokle is a live town hall platform enabling anyone to broadcast video and audio to internet viewers, along with taking real-time video calls and text questions from the audience. Receiving seed funding earlier this year, the application can be embedded anywhere, such as below this paragraph. You won’t be asked to download any software or visit any other websites.

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Why the Kindle Fire is Not For Me

Ari Herzog

I did not want a Kindle to replace the experience of reading tactile books when I wrote about it in February 2009. The majority of your comments agreed with me. Fast forward nearly three years and I still don’t want the thing. The Kindle Fire is not for me. Not yet. Engadget reviews the Kindle Fire with a concise conclusion: The Kindle Fire is quite an achievement at $200.

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How You Can Get Netflix For Free

Ari Herzog

I resisted Netflix from its beginnings in 1999 until earlier this summer when I downgraded my Comcast cable from their “digital preferred” package to basic cable (essentially about a dozen stations) and decided to pay Netflix $7.99 a month for the ability to stream movies and TV shows through my Roku player and onto my HDTV. Comcast enables me to stream 250 gigabytes of data every month — which is quite a lot of data, considering I watched 120 episodes of “Lost” in

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Looking Back at 6 Months of Tweeting

Ari Herzog

The 440 people and organizations I am following on Twitter today is progressively growing. Check my Twitter profile tomorrow and the number will likely be increased. My tweeting is changing. With more people and their updates appearing in my news feed, I tend to click the “reply” button more frequently and press the “retweet” button more often to share noteworthy thoughts and links with my online community.

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Letting Go

Ari Herzog

Leaf by mxruben. Leo Babauta’s guide to creating a minimalist home is significant for many reasons but mostly because it is so simple to implement. It is pathetic how much clutter winds up on my desk, my coffee table, and on my floor. Every time I clean a spot and turn it vacant, it gets cluttered a day or two later. I need to stop procrastinating and increase my white space.