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Comment on How to set up your own Koi Pond by Byron Peterson

Byron Peterson — Sun, 02 May 2010 13:38:38 +0000

What a great addition to an already great backyard. I’m green with envy. If it is handy please tell me the name of the company that made the pond. Thanks. Byron

Comment on TCOBaG: Japanese Realtors and Cialdini? by Murfreesboro Real Estate

Murfreesboro Real Estate — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:32:49 +0000

this provides valuable insight for me and is much appreciated.

Comment on About by Ron Callari

Ron Callari — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:58:50 +0000

Hi Alan, I sent an email to your thru your YouTube site. But not knowing how often you check that wanted to touch base with you here.

I’m writing an article on Twitter songs for InventorSpot. Would like to include yours. Would you like to be interviewed by email? If so, send me an email: roncallari@comcast.net and I will send you the questions.

My current blogs can be viewed at: http://inventorspot.com/writers/ron_callari

Look forward to hearing from you.

Regards,

Ron Callari
twitter.com/roncallari

Hi Ron,

Thanks for contacting me. I’m afraid I haven’t seen any message from you through Youtube, so this was a good idea

Sure, I’d be up to a short interview.

Just DM me through Twitter now if you’d like, and I’ll give you an email address to use.

Be well,
Allen

Comment on Twitter Song: How to Use Twitter, Sort of… by Ferrell butikofer

Ferrell butikofer — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:22:11 +0000

Is our best man still around 22 years but who’s counting.

Allen says: Might be, but I’m sorry I’ve no idea who you’re talking about

Comment on Twitter Song: How to Use Twitter, Sort of… by Ferrell butikofer

Ferrell butikofer — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:17:46 +0000

Looking for dr. JAmes Flattery
We are still in Idaho.
tony says goodday.

Allen says: Nope, sorry. Not here. Good luck with that.

Comment on Happy (belated) Birthday, Jim Kukral by Allen

Allen — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:35:16 +0000

Ha! Jim, flattery will get you… If you want to torture yourself more you can hear me doing Johnny Cash’s “Get Rhythm” on the new YouTube Channel I set up for this site, to be able to post your B-day song. Was something I’ve been needing to do, so nothing like that for motivation. So, really, thanks to you, too.
–Allen

Comment on Happy (belated) Birthday, Jim Kukral by Jim Kukral

Jim Kukral — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:58:35 +0000

ha, this was awesome. Nice work, and thanks! You can actually play, unlike me. And sing!!!

Comment on ThisIsTrue.com loses 20,000 subscribers due to Yahoo!’s idiotic blocking. by Allen

Allen — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:03:35 +0000

@Alexander,

So first, they are not my ‘ex-readers’ though my newsletters may be or may already be affected by this kind of reaction from ESPs. It was not a majority (120,000 or so readers, of which 20,000 were Yahoo! subscribers, from which the ‘report this as spam’ produced what Y! decided was an inordinate amount of reports and promptly blacklisted the site and blocked all email from it to all those using their service. Not a swipe at Y! users in general, just the idiots among them.

Secondly, spam, though wide in concept, is specific in nature: Unsolicited Commercial Email

With subscription email, regardless of quality of content, if you asked for it, then confirmed you asked for it, then it most definitely is not spam. If you no longer want to receive it, the quality isn’t to your liking, or for whatever reason, you use the unsubscribe button to leave the list, not the “report this as spam” button.

It is the responsibility of both, the users, and the provider. But though I’m sure the majority of Yahoo! users are great people, apparently some (frankly, I don’t know that Y! said how many reports, just it was over their threshold). I’m sure those users exist in every ESPs database, the ones who are just too lazy to bother with unsubscribing or maliciously and intentionally mis-report legitimate emails they’re receiving.

However in this case, the asylum directors should remain in charge, so yes, the blame is on the email provider. Provide the service, educate your users, and act responsibly.

And, oh, you should read a sample issue or two of ThisisTrue. I have the feeling you would enjoy it.

Comment on ThisIsTrue.com loses 20,000 subscribers due to Yahoo!’s idiotic blocking. by Alexander

Alexander — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:50:21 +0000

“the sludge of the earth subscribers who report legitimate email as spam”

Nice. I like how you refer to your ex-readers. Who is to determine what is legitimate email and what is not. I’m not a subscriber to ThisIsTrue.com, but possibly the quality of the content has gone down to the level of spam? It seems that many users mark it as spam, and if the majority thinks its crap, then it must be true. I am not deriding ThisIsTrue itself, but this is how the current model works for any company, legitimate or not.

You don’t pin it on the email provider for listening to its users. You blame the idiotic subscribers for their lack of respect for the mailing list.

Comment on TCOBaG: The Self-Starter Myth? by admin

admin — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:38:58 +0000

One thing to keep in mind about ‘motivation’ is that – other things, other people, and outside forces do not motivate us, we motivate ourselves.

We are responsible for taking, or not taking, action.

No outside force is capable of this.

Now, that said, if you’re hanging by your fingertips over a boiling lava pit, you will be motivated to hang on.

But, it’s not the pit motivating you. It is your own fear of the consequences and your desire to avoid them that is the true mechanism for hanging on.

Sure, that heat rising up off the pit affects you, but the motivation is strictly yours.

If you choose to act, and especially if you choose to act as though your life depends on it, you will find that you achieve more. Much more.