This essay was a draft I did at home when preparing for my English 101 in-class cause-effect paper on Chris Paine's Who Killed the Electric Car? (click to see on YouTube). The in-class paper was not nearly as wordy (to understate). In fact, to save time, my argument changed: Instead of pointing the...
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Ramona Iftode is a web designer. In 2002, she created Dojo.ro, a Karate website in Romanian and the first website she designed. Miss Iftode started designing websites for clients in 2003. At around that time, she was developing a knack for community management, and tested herself as designer with...
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Originally written for my History Lesson The Cold War was the period of continued confrontation and hostility primarily between USA and the USSR who emerged as super-powers at the end of World War II. It was a continuous state of military tension, economic competition, ideological clash and...
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Martin Reed is an online community builder, which means that he specializes in starting, growing, and maintaining communities on the Internet, whether they exist on message boards, chat rooms, blogs, or other web applications that allow groups of people to interact and forge relationships. In 2000,...

“The War of Northern Aggression” is a popular phrase among Confederate apologists, referring to the supposed outrageous aggression shown by the Union to bring the otherwise peaceful Confederate States back under its rule. But how true is it? I have dealt at length in previous essays about the...
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The Battle for Humanity (originally written for a class) Artificial Intelligence has been a popular topic in science fiction for decades. It's usually used as the basis for exploring ethical dilemmas or preaching scientific hubris, but it can also be used to explore what it...

Patrick O'Keefe is a website developer and manager—in short, a webmaster. He specializes in website and community management, writing, and social media. His experience in community management has even prompted him to write Managing Online Forums, a comprehensive guide book on the subject. Mr....
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What is the 'guest welcome message'? The guest welcome message, as it relates to the Internet forum, is a notice, usually placed near the top of the front page (whether the index or the portal), which explains to the first-time visitor what the forum is about, and entices him to register....
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Criticism on Christian Ethics Christian ethics is not ethics in an ordinary sense….when we discuss about ethics we ordinarily discuss about what criterion we depend upon to make an ethical evaluation on certain actions. Consequential ethics would insist that the best criterion is to observe the...
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There have been numerous articles created about how to build content on your forum and keep a community going. For example, it has been said many times that you, as the administrator, should get involved with your community (e.g., by posting topics, starting competitions, and replying to...
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Introduction The shoutbox, as it relates to the Internet forum, is a feature, usually attached to the front page, which provides a space for a type of interaction similar to an instant messenger program in that there is more of an emphasis on synchronous communication. Also, since the shoutbox,...
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1.0 Sobre la Codificación Quiero empezar esto con unas cuantas nociones generales del desarrollo web, que, si bien deberían saberlas, o las saben las refrescamos un poco. Los WebBrowsers son los aplicativos con más poder lógico que existen en el planeta, tomar una página cualquiera, y...

Magic:The Gathering and the Internet The last time I assisted a Standard tournament some weeks ago, I was amazed of what I saw. Every person in the room except me and my play group were playing the same 4 decks. Vampires, some beatdown, white something and another thing with artifacts I don’t...

Everyone has their favorite comic book character: Batman, Superman, Spider-Man. Some people even enjoy a collection of characters, grouping them as their favorites: one of the multiple incarnations of the X-Men, the original Fantastic Four (As of the writing of this article, Storm and Black...

I first submitted the following as my argument essay for my Eng015 class on 4 May, 2009. According to a recent study1 by the nonprofit political organization, League of Women Voters, over 70% of Americans support direct election for president, which entails abolishing the Electoral College. The...
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