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Politics, business, religion, and culture by Samuel J. Scott and Jeff Guevin

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A Blog

February 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Administrative, Blogroll, Blogs From Left to Right

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/08/a-blog/’,size:‘large’} I’d like to see The Volokh Con­spir­acy (sam­ple blog) on our blogroll, not because I’m a lib­er­tar­ian, but because I think they nicely bal­ance out my own China-is-taking-over-without-anyone-noticing ten­den­cies and Sam’s America-is-going-down-rise-of-the-East ten­den­cies.
Thoughts?

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Radio Interview

January 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Administrative, Israel, Media, Personal, The Middle East

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/01/26/radio-interview/’,size:‘large’} Sam will be inter­viewed on Arutz Sheva — Israel National Radio — in just under an hour at 21:00 Israel time, 2 p.m. EST, 1 p.m. CST. Lis­ten live here.
Never mind — last-minute sched­ule change. Sam will be on the radio another week.

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New Writer: Jeff Guevin

January 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Administrative, Blogosphere, Boston, Massachusetts, Personal

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/01/06/new-writer-jeff-guevin/’,size:‘large’} Way back in Boston, I would always sit in dorm rooms or over pints in pubs and dis­cuss every­thing from pol­i­tics to reli­gion to phi­los­o­phy to busi­ness with my friend Jeff. Now, years later, it is my plea­sure to announce that he has joined Con­sid­er­a­tions as a co-writer. We […]

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Admin Update

December 27th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Administrative, Blogosphere

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/12/27/admin-update/’,size:‘large’} The blog might be down for part of Sun­day and/or Mon­day as I final­ize the migra­tion from the old site to here. See you on the flip side.
Update: The migra­tion is com­plete. Wel­come to all vis­i­tors from both the new and old sites!

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SEO Update">SEO Update

December 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Administrative, Blogosphere, Humor, Marketing, Personal, Technology

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/12/24/seo-update/’,size:‘large’} As some­one who’s worked in var­i­ous capac­i­ties in the search-engine opti­miza­tion (SEO) field, I always get a kick out of see­ing which search-engine terms bring peo­ple to the blog. Here are some inter­est­ing ones — I think I’ll make this a reg­u­lar fea­ture. (Lan­guage trans­la­tions of the Ara­bic and […]

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New Website Update

December 23rd, 2009 · 3 Comments · Administrative, Blogosphere, Marketing, Media, Personal, Technology

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/12/23/new-website-update/’,size:‘large’} Note: My blog has moved to this URL. Please update all links, RSS feeds, and book­marks.
So I signed-up with Blue Host as the new host for the blog — $7 per month with the domain name included. I also down­loaded and then uploaded the Word­press plat­form, the Cut­line theme […]

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Administrative Update

December 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · Administrative, Blogosphere, Personal

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/12/22/administrative-update/’,size:‘large’} Note: My blog has moved to this URL. Please update all links, RSS feeds, and book­marks.
I am migrat­ing to samueljscott.com today and tomor­row, so read­ers might have a few tech­ni­cal dif­fi­cul­ties. But the 2.0 ver­sion of this blog should be a vast improve­ment  since it will have addi­tional features […]

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Blogging for Money

December 16th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Administrative, Advertising, Blogosphere, Business, Journalism, Marketing, Media, Personal

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/12/16/full-time-blogging/’,size:‘large’} So, I’ve been doing some addi­tional research into web­site adver­tis­ing and online mar­ket­ing. Since I started my career as a news­pa­per jour­nal­ist and then went into Inter­net mar­ket­ing, mon­e­tiz­ing the blog might be a log­i­cal step.
Any­one have any advice or thoughts?

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Online Advertising

December 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · Administrative, Advertising, Blogosphere, Business, Marketing, Media, Personal

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/12/02/online-advertising/’,size:‘large’} I am now accept­ing var­i­ous types of adver­tis­ing on the blog. Have a part­ner­ship idea or some­thing to pitch? Go here for more information.

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Personal Update

November 25th, 2009 · No Comments · Administrative, Personal, Traveling

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/11/25/personal-update-3/’,size:‘large’} BELLEVILLE, Illi­nois — Blog­ging might be light over the next sev­eral days since I’ll be trav­el­ing to Chicago for the Thanks­giv­ing hol­i­day. But I’ll be back in Israel on Mon­day — more updates then.

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Was I Censored by Israel?

May 31st, 2009 · No Comments · Administrative, Business, Civil Liberties, Israel, Law, Media, Personal, Politics, Technology, The Middle East

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/05/31/was-i-censored-by-israel/’,size:‘large’} RISHON LEZION, Israel — Yes­ter­day evening, I wrote a short post about cen­sor­ship in Israel. I said that any news reports that men­tion Israel’s alleged xxxxxxxxxxxxx must go through a mil­i­tary cen­sor and that the country’s Film Rat­ings Board has the power to cen­sor movies as well.
Today, I logged into […]

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Back to Israel

October 31st, 2008 · No Comments · Administrative, Israel, Personal, The Middle East

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2008/10/31/back-to-israel/’,size:‘large’} BELLEVILLE, Illi­nois — I’ll be back in Israel on Mon­day morn­ing, so this is my last post for a few days. Is there any news I have missed there?

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Question for Readers

October 29th, 2008 · No Comments · Administrative, Blogosphere, Personal

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2008/10/29/question-for-readers/’,size:‘large’} Fre­quent read­ers know that I write about a wide vari­ety of sub­jects, espe­cially since I have an eclec­tic back­ground. So I won­der: About what would you like to see more posts and writings?

U.S. Pol­i­tics
Israeli and Mid­dle East­ern Issues
Busi­ness and Finance
Judaism and Gen­eral Reli­gion
Jour­nal­ism and Media
Cul­ture and Soci­ety
Lengthy Essays
Something Else?

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New Design

October 13th, 2008 · No Comments · Administrative, Personal

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2008/10/13/new-design/’,size:‘large’} As fre­quent read­ers can tell, I just changed the design of my blog. Let me know what you think. I have two one com­plaints: There is no “About the Author” link so peo­ple can know my back­ground, and I can­not seem to place the pic­ture of Jerusalem I had at the top […]

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Changing Datelines

January 8th, 2008 · No Comments · Administrative, Blogosphere, Personal, Traveling

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2008/01/08/changing-datelines/’,size:‘large’} Since I recently moved to Israel to work, write, and fin­ish my M.B.A., I will soon stop putting Israeli date­lines before my blog posts. Unless I pro­vide a dif­fer­ent date­line, my read­ers should assume that I’m writ­ing from Israel.

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