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Reviews, philosophies, ideas, best practices, worst practices, and advice by me or for me when it comes to technology and how I use it or it uses me ... depending on the day.
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Activism
Activism doesn't make you a socialist. It doesn't make you a liberal either. When the public interest is at risk it is our responsibility to raise our voice ... anywhere we can be heard and until we're heard.
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Bloginess
Sometimes you just have to write ... about nothing in particular or about something very specific that doesn't fit into a nice neat drawer, folder, or bin. Writing for the sake of writing because you feel like something blogee.
View items...Nina Easton, Fortune Blogger, Panders to Rich Frie
Last week, Nina Easton, Fortune Magazine's Washington Bureau Chief, described an apparent traumatic event on her blog. "Last Sunday, on a peaceful, sun-crisp afternoon, our toddler finally napping upstairs, my front yard exploded with 500 screaming, placard-waving strangers on...
Read moreHomeowner Activists: We Told You So
Over the past few weeks many of us with skin in the game have watched as the media finally started covering the foreclosure fiasco. Some homeowner activists saw it as the beginning of a long string of investigative reporting. The rest of us knew that it was only a matter of t...
Read moreMorning E-mail From Austan Goolsbee
I got an email this morning from Austan Goolsbee and spit my coffee across the desk. I had wondered if he’d heard me when I talked to him D.C. and apparently he did. In his email Goolsbee expressed his dismay and wrote, “I have been forwarding the shamethebanks.org information...
Read moreFinally Some Hope of HAMP Oversight
Last month I wrote a piece on ShametheBanks and in HuffPost about an amendment sponsored by Sens. Al Franken (D-Minn.), Olympia J. Snowe (R-Maine), and Patty Murray (D-Wash.) The amendment to the Financial Reform Bill would create an Office of Homeowner Advocate to assist home...
Read moreDeck Stacked Against Homeowners
This post can also be seen at Huffington Post Arianna Huffington wrote an article last week on how the deck is stacked against homeowners when it comes to legal representation in foreclosures and mortgage related cases. In the article she addresses not only the prohibitive cos...
Read more10 Reasons Not to Buy the i-Pad
I don't hate Apple. I don't even dislike Apple. I have an i-Phone. I made fun of everyone I knew who had an i-phone ... until I got one, then I couldn't believe I had lived without one for as long as I did. But the i-Pad? The following was pasted from this article. Note: This...
Read moreEastern Bank Responds to Customer Complaint by Com
By now almost everyone has heard about Bank of America's new five dollar charge for using a debit card. It should come as no surprise that the banks would spin it as the fault of the Durbin rule that regulates excessive charges, but make no mistake those charges were always the...
Read moreScott Brown -Truck or Limo? What Kind of Senator
Having recently traveled to D.C. a couple of weeks ago to lobby with others from around the country for financial reform and a strong Consumer Financial Protection Agency, it has become increasingly difficult to not take the Senate votes personally. I read the stories on S...
Read moreJohn O'Brien MA Registry of Deeds: AG Tom Miller S
John O'Brien, Registry of Deeds for Southern Essex County in Massachusetts is asking that Tom Miller, Iowa Attorney General, step down. Miller is the lead AG in the controversial settlement with the big banks on mortgage servicing fraud. In his most recent obscene act Miller k...
Read moreNew Plan To Help Homeowners: Here We Go Again
Based on the past dismal failures of mortgage-related rescue plans proposed by current or past administrations, it's difficult to believe that the latest set of plans, proposed by the Obama administration will be any more successful. In fact, it may serve as yet another wa...
Read moreThe Web Today
The web has changed and continues to evolve, and as users demand more, websites have become destinations in and of themselves: a place where users interact with them on a regular basis. Simply put, the days of spending a fair amount of time and money creating a site that stay...
Read moreMass. Courts to Banks on Foreclosures: The Law Mat
On Friday the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court upheld a controversial decision by Land Court Judge Keith C. Long, who ruled in the case of two Springfield, MA homeowners that the foreclosures were invalid because the mortgages were not officially recorded as being owned by th...
Read moreCA Anti-Virus Sucks
A few years back CA Anti-virus was pretty good. I'm pretty sure they went under another name, "e-trust" or "etrust" and may even have had some Microsoft affiliation, or so they claimed. I know you could get a copy from MS at the time and with a six month trial too. I got a co...
Read moreMr. Zombeck Goes to Washington and Needs Your Stor
Thanks to MASSPIRG and Americans for Financial Reform (AFR), I’ll be going to Washington next week to meet with my Congressmen. I’m hoping to have thousands of stories on shamethebanks.org from people who have suffered at the hands of banks and financial instructions. The same b...
Read moreHostgator Sells E-mail
Because of the websites I've built and domain names I own I have thousands of e-mail addresses available to me. It came to me a few years ago that I could use those e-mail addresses when I sign up for certain things to keep track of what happens to my e-mail. So when I sign up...
Read moreWhen Facts Aren't on Your Side Lie, Like Banks Do
Cross posted in Huffington Post When you're a bank and the facts aren't on your side, it's apparently perfectly acceptable to just lie. No side-stepping, no spin, no double talk. Just flat out lie as if no one will ever check your facts or assume that by the time they do it...
Read moreIt's all about content
Content can be broken down into a few areas. There are blogs, books, articles, e-books, white papers, etc. Not everyone can generate content, but anyone who has a website needs it. Below are just a few of the area covered. You'll find some samples at the bottom of this post. ...
Read moreDemocrats Throw Life Line to Unemployed in the Mid
While the GOP is putting legislation in place to shove homeowners further underwater, Democrats are scrambling to throw them a lifeline. Barney Frank (D-MA), Chair of the House Financial Services Committee, and Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), a ranking member of the Committee, spo...
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