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Tips for the dead zones that haunt our lives. Enjoy and feel free to add your own tips and tricks of the trade to the comments below.

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In the words of a friend of mine "slow your roll" Google.... don't forget that over expansion eventually leads to unavoidable contraction (every dog has its day - you guys may want to lighten up on the play and hone in on your increasingly irrelevant ineffective algorithm)

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Something about bkfn.org's web design hypnotizes me - whether its the minimalistic approach of the links & content or the oversized typeface & interesting photograph each page is graced with - whatever it may be, I somehow appreciate & like the paradox the two aforementioned characteristics create: one extreme site (design-wise that is).  Take a look-see for yourself (this critique is based on the site as of 8-9-2010 (but just so you know - it hasn't been updated since we bookmarked it originally sometime late 2009 early 1010...) Comment below.

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YESSSSS, I was just saying the other day how I'd really like to learn how to hack into internet connections (not because i'm evil but because 3.49 an hour for wifi is just plain dumb). Here's step one in our 'wannabe a techie' learniing series. Course 101 - compliments of da plunga's daily emails from LIFEHACKER (no pun/joke intended)... Gotta admit though, as ridiculous/humorous as it seems to aspire to hack into your own wireless networks, etc. it is pretty fun to figure it out/learn about and become the next

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I hate to be the one to tell Yahoo! to just give it up already, sure they've made some mediocre acquisitions in the past five years, but as far as I can tell Flickr is the only thing anyone uses of those acquisitions - and while I feel it superior to Picasa, it's no flawless wonder, its an evolved webshots.  Someone put this poor company out of its misery so they stop grasping at straws with services like 'mybloglog' which I had never heard of until I went to clean out my bookmarks.... And this was bookmarked in '08 so not hearing about it kinda says something to me - its the purple logo - its throwing off my psyche.... regardless, comment on what you think this struggling (yet determined) internet company should do with its assets - sell or continue to "innovate" but not generate income...?

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Allows students to get a jump start on the job search & only provides current available government jobs that fit their education level.

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Open Culture - "The best free cultural & educational media on the web"

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Since we try to remain unbiased in our site 'mound' we thought we throw in a competing quote site to ours (Quotivation) for good measure.

HolliesQuotes.com was a recommendation from a friend upon hearing me talk about Quotivation & my personal love of quotes.  Here's to quotivating the web, one catch phrase at a time.

User interface could use some tweeking on HolliesQuotes - but its more about the content on sites like these - than it is about the functionality and asthetic appeal so we'll let it slide :) Comment below and let us know what you think about HolliesQuotes and don't forget to check out Quotivation.org as well if you haven't already (wink wink).

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Site selling business books - critique using comments feature. Good question posed in critiquing this site is obvious - what will set it apart and make it successful with the Amazon behemoth its competing against?

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Make one and try to shake up some ever present support - every time they are online (in the browser window) your mark is there. Too bad Firefox is letting users choose their personas. If advertisers paid Firefox to change the persona on the browser window every x minutes/hours they might just be on to something worthwhile.  Because god knows I'm not about to select the walmart persona. I mean who does that? It would only be acceptable to do so if I were working at a Walmart store and customizing some desktop to be decked out in Walmart propaganda. Anyway, do what you like with it and enjoy the ease of personas over downloading and finding the grueling themes of firefox past. Keep blazing the Mozilla, kick internet explorer's butt for the gazillionth time.

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Another sports-related social network... Came across today on a shareThis button.

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Updown.com faces stiff competition with this Dow Jones acquistion. The fake stock market trading site called the Virtual Stock Exchange isn't too easy on the eyes, nor is it easy to find like WSJ's other more popular ancestors (buried in a 'More' drop down menu). Create a username, give it a try, and tell us if its worth the fake money.

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"....Everything—everyone—will get rated by Web users. You. Me. The dentist. All the hairstylists in town. The sermons in every place of worship. Youth soccer coaches. Lunch meats. Wine. The fact is, on tomorrow’s Internet, everyone will know if you’re a dog.

If my memory serves me correctly, ratings websites (in their more developed form) go all the way back to Myspace & 'the proliferation of hot or not' sites (pre-facebook & pre-twitter booms- remember those?)...The advertisers (in their attempts to survive this unprecedented downturn in all things money) have resorted to such fly by night, get rich quick ad generators because this revenue model is bound to fail.

......Zillow just built a way to rate mortgage brokers alongside its information about housing prices, hoping to draw more house shoppers, who are targets for ads from Home Depot and Snapper lawn mowers."

Not only fail, but sites like these, based solely on generating a particular type of user with very strong views (on the favorable and less favorable side) is going to get ugly.  And apparently it already has.  I'd bet you didn't know doctors and lawyers are banding together by the thousands to shut down the doctor/lawyer rating sites.  Point for the lawyers who successfully dismantled Avvo (a lawyer rating site) in court... While somewhat amusing E! News is likely to be generated by such sites, there are already too many players in an all too variable pool.  Dotcom bubble III is likely to be filled with hundreds of these (ratings and video sites that is).

Rate on a 1 to 5 scale your agreement or disagreement with the above article: 1 being strongly agree, strongly disagree... just kidding...

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Source Quote: "The Rating Game" by Kevin Maney, The Atlantic.  July/August 2009

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