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=== Monday | December 27, 2010 === | |||
[[File:Bob Brown Tires.jpg|thumb|Typical yellow pages-type print ad.]] | |||
'''Yellow Pages Replaced By "Google Pages"?'''<br /> | |||
Heck, who even ''uses'' a land line anymore? And even those of us who do, the last thing we want kicking around our living spaces is that huge, ugly, unwieldy telecom-age dinosaur: the yellow pages directory. Unfortunately, countless main street businesses operating in their local communities once depended on the print ads they ran their local yellow pages directory to drive new business. Although most "mom & pop" shops hated to do it, they would often agree to pay outrageously exorbitant rates the directories charged in fear of the business they'd lose to their competitors if they refused. But the overall usefulness of yellow pages ads has steadily declined for nearly a decade, with few viable alternatives in sight.<ref>[http://www.frederickwebpromotions.com/2009/09/06/yellow-pages-who-uses-them/ Yellow Pages, who uses them? A serious case of pulp friction The phone books still pile up, but have they outlived their usefulness?]</ref><ref>[http://www.newfangled.com/local_search_making_yellow_pages_obsolete Let Your Fingers Do the Clicking]</ref> Until now?<br /> | |||
:''Go to story'': [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703814804576036252770969080.html Ring, Ring. Hi, It's Google] | |||
:''Go to Google Boost'': [http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2010/10/advertise-your-local-business-with.html Advertise your local business with Google Boost] | |||
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=== Sunday | December 26, 2010 === | === Sunday | December 26, 2010 === | ||
[[File:UseHipCodes.png|thumb|Put the "hip" back into zip codes.]] | [[File:UseHipCodes.png|thumb|Put the "hip" back into zip codes.]] | ||
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:''Go to web page'': [http://www.thewoodsportland.com/ The Woods, Portland]<br /> | :''Go to web page'': [http://www.thewoodsportland.com/ The Woods, Portland]<br /> | ||
:''Go to bingo page'': [http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bingo-and-Bourbon-with-Brian-Perez/171904006168561 Bingo and Bourbon, with Brian Perez is on Facebook] | :''Go to bingo page'': [http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bingo-and-Bourbon-with-Brian-Perez/171904006168561 Bingo and Bourbon, with Brian Perez is on Facebook] | ||
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News
Monday | December 27, 2010
Yellow Pages Replaced By "Google Pages"?
Heck, who even uses a land line anymore? And even those of us who do, the last thing we want kicking around our living spaces is that huge, ugly, unwieldy telecom-age dinosaur: the yellow pages directory. Unfortunately, countless main street businesses operating in their local communities once depended on the print ads they ran their local yellow pages directory to drive new business. Although most "mom & pop" shops hated to do it, they would often agree to pay outrageously exorbitant rates the directories charged in fear of the business they'd lose to their competitors if they refused. But the overall usefulness of yellow pages ads has steadily declined for nearly a decade, with few viable alternatives in sight.[1][2] Until now?
- Go to story: Ring, Ring. Hi, It's Google
- Go to Google Boost: Advertise your local business with Google Boost
Sunday | December 26, 2010
What's Your Zip Code?
Sure, the post office is largely an anachronism; hardly anyone remembers how to address an envelope, much less actually mail a card or letter. But this post-Christmas, why not express your gratitude for all the gifts you received by actually mailing your thank-you cards, rather than simply blasting out a quick email, text message, Twitter or Facebook post? To see if you're ready for such a dramatic leap into the unknown, try answering this simple riddle: What is your zip code?
- Go to Portland zip code map: Portland Oregon ZIP Code Map
- Go to Portland neighborhood zip code chart: Portland Area Zip Code Chart by Neighborhood
Christmas Day | Saturday | December 25, 2010
Merry Post-Consumer Christmas!
Sure, spiritually bereft, mindless consumerism is a Christmas tradition as American as apple pie and preemptive air strikes. But as "Western Society" descends into post-enlightenment neofeudalism,[3] and shakes off over-consumption in favor of finance industry-coerced "austerity" for the bottom 98%, Portland's "post-consumer advocate" has a plan. Thriftilicious! Merry Christmas Everybody!
- Go to story: Merry (Thriftilicious) Christmas!
Christmas Eve! | Friday | December 24, 2010
Why Portland Rules On Eve Of Christmas Eve
Do you find your holiday bliss "hacking away" on your favorite "open source social network project"? Do you and your friends passionately toil away in frequent and unpaid "spontaneous hack sessions" and similar "Nerdouts" in the darkened confines of a former flophouse cum "Coolest Hotel In America"? Can't abide Hummers, or the idiots who drive them? Yes? Then you already understand the secret to "Why Portland Rules (if you're a nerd)."
- Go to story: Why Portland Rules (if you're a nerd)
Thursday | December 23, 2010
Local Right-Wing "Think Tank" Labels Renewable Energy Efforts A "Failure"
"White paper" published by Cascade Policy Institute says Portland and Oregon "have failed miserably" in pursuing ambitious renewable energy targets. The paper's authors suggest that the city and state "should stop trying." At least one Cascade Policy Institute critic points out that the particular formulations of "individual liberty, personal responsibility, and economic opportunity" promoted by the institute are similar or identical to agendas commonly favored among large business interests and wealthy individuals. Also noted is the apparent irony of how notions like "free markets and limited government," as promoted by organizations like Cascade Policy Institute, often translate into support for "billions in pork-ridden expenditure, insurance mandates, heavy-handed central planning initiatives, property seizures..., metastatic bureaucracy at local, state and federal levels and massive expansions in law enforcement."[4]
- Go to story: Are Oregon Renewables Not Meeting Goals?
- Go to Portland Afoot profile: Cascade Policy Institute
- Go to critic: Cyclists vs ‘Libertarians’ in Portland
Wednesday | December 22, 2010
Are Somali Immigrants To U.S. "Different"?
"The first big wave of Somali immigrants came to the U.S. after the Mogadishu government collapsed in 1991, fleeing what became the most chaotic nation on Earth.... Somalis who settled in...the U.S. were war refugees, with little money and not many job skills.... (They're) among the "youngest and poorest" newcomers to the U.S...." Why does integration "have less to do with religion, and more to do with culture and income, than today's Islamophobes...care to admit"?
Go to story: What Makes Somalis So Different?
Go to sting posts: Portland bomb sting posts
Tuesday | December 21, 2010
Former Sellwood Funeral Parlor Is Where "Quiet Is The New Loud"
Q: Where can you sip bourbon and play bingo at the same time?
A: At former Sellwood funeral parlor, The Woods, "where quiet is the new loud."
- Go to web page: The Woods, Portland
- Go to bingo page: Bingo and Bourbon, with Brian Perez is on Facebook
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