Tem muitos gumes este punhal macerado por todos os lados que se chama Israel. 

The first target for feeding The Daily Motion.

To beggin with: 

This has become a pub-blog. A 95% sponsored weblog. I use the reviews that the sponsors provide as an excuse to blog away telling and inventing the stories I like. Every single time I’m paid to blog I tell everyone by categorizing the post as publicity. I refuse to write concealed advertisements.

This for me is as honest, if not more, than what google does in it’s “free” services like Gmail and the works.

Today, Google honored Ex-Adufe 3.0 with a 0 Page Rank. With this Google proves, for instance, that it is not interested in distinguish between a pub-blog that levels with you informing what is an ad from another that completely conceals its deals. Google is more concerned with its business than with you. Google Page Rank is not a freebie provided by Google, it is a simple way to control what is Google deserving from what it isn’t. According to who? To Google naturally.

The link business and the review business are not owned by Google. They provide a way to earn money outside Google’s ad program and they expose the frailties of Google’s all mighty algorithm by exploiting its excessive automation and amorality.

Page Rank should be all about content, honest, undeceiving, externally evaluated content. Since when a good ad or review should be automatically banned from good guys city? Since you put in Google’s hand the decision about what is and it isn’t good for you. The battle is just beginning and new warriors are thankfully arriving at the fight.

I for starters am part of the figure. Venice and Rome were our main destinations for the week we managed to spare in tour.

For once, money was not a big issue and we didn’t save when it come the moment to choose the hotel. Well, I’m exaggerating. Without the money restriction to choose a hotel ended up being an even harder choice! Italy hotels are usually expensive but if you want to go particularly to the main cities during the high season the sky is not the limit.

Rome hotels have quite a big range of prices, from the low budget options nearby the Termini (main train station) to the wonderful villas in the Aventino. Yes, we stayed for some days in the Aventino Hill in Sant’Anselmo’s.

Venice hotels have also a wide range of prices but starting in a higher threshold, at least if you are not considering staying I the mainland. It’s with an huge amount of saudade that a recall the nice little Locanda that was our main base to explore the only city in the world without a single automobile.

O patrocinador de hoje produz e comercializa uma ferramenta concorrente mas de outro campeonato. Aliás a lista de clientes famosos que orgulhosamente apresenta no seu site impressiona. Mas que ferramenta é esta? Tanto quanto consegui perceber (está disponível para demonstração gratuita durante 15 dias) é um software multifuncional orientado para tarefas como o tal email newsletter software, mas também para direct email marketing ou para servir de survey tool.

Perante a listagem de contactos de pessoas que demonstraram interesse nos conteúdos de uma página, estas ferramentas permitem compor a newsletter a enviar, realizar inquéritos periódicos a estes leitores de elite, bem como proporcionar recursos para realizar marketing directo junto daqueles que tenham demonstrado disponibilidade.

O preço, para a minha carteira, é elevado, mas confesso que a seu devido tempo tentarei encontrar uma ferramenta que me permita interagir com a “clientela” que gosta mais de ler no email do que andar a navegar erraticamente.