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Book Review: “Inbound Marketing”

March 8th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Advertising, Book Reviews, Books, Boston, Business, Culture, Journalism, Marketing, Massachusetts, Media, Personal, Technology, The Boston Globe, The Middle East

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/03/08/book-review-inbound-marketing/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — If you build it, they will come. And by “it,” the authors of “Inbound Mar­ket­ing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs” mean a qual­ity online-presence sup­ported by effec­tive Internet-marketing.
In the olden days of mar­ket­ing — say, before 2000 — most mar­keters and public-relations pro­fes­sion­als used […]

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Airport Security

December 31st, 2009 · No Comments · Civil Liberties, Culture, Israel, Law, Palestine, Personal, Politics, Technology, The Middle East, Traveling, War on Terror

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/12/31/airport-security/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — The Toronto Star won­ders whether North Amer­i­can air­ports should be “Israeli­fied” to make it eas­ier for pas­sen­gers:
“It is mind­bog­gling for us Israelis to look at what hap­pens in North Amer­ica, because we went through this 50 years ago,” said Rafi Sela, the pres­i­dent of AR Chal­lenges, a […]

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Al-Qaeda Magazine

December 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Islam, Journalism, Marketing, Media, Politics, Religion, Technology, The Middle East, War on Terror

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/12/30/al-qaeda-magazine/’,size:‘large’} Did you know the ter­ror­ist group has an online pub­li­ca­tion? Nei­ther did I. Here is a Slate arti­cle on “Sada al-Malahim (The Echo of Bat­tles).”
Ear­lier: I dis­cuss the best way to use tech­nol­ogy to fight Islamic extremism.

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World in 2025

December 27th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Books, Britain, Business, China, Culture, Economics, Education, Energy, Europe, Globalization, Islam, Oil, Politics, Religion, Russia, Technology, The Middle East, War, War on Terror

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/12/27/world-in-2025/’,size:‘large’} So I recently came across a report writ­ten last year by the U.S. National Intel­li­gence Coun­cil on what the world may look like in sev­en­teen years. Here is a summary:

The whole inter­na­tional system—as constructed […]

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Holiday Season

December 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Advertising, Business, Christianity, Culture, Entertainment, Humor, Marketing, Media, Religion, Technology, War on Terror

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Fans of the tele­vi­sion show “24″ should like this par­ody involv­ing Santa Claus. I’m sure it’s a viral video for some­thing, but it sure is funny.

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How to Fight Terror

December 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Afghanistan, Blogosphere, Culture, Education, Egypt, Europe, Globalization, Hizbollah, Immigration, Iran, Islam, Israel, Journalism, Judaism, Marketing, Media, Palestine, Politics, Religion, Technology, The Middle East, War, War on Terror

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/12/24/fighting-al-qaeda/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — For­eign Pol­icy looks at how Al-Qaeda recruits fol­low­ers:
…al Qaeda suc­ceeds because, for more than two decades, the net­work has waged a suc­cess­ful infor­ma­tion cam­paign that pushes its mes­sage out to the world as effec­tively asym­met­ri­cal as its use of sui­cide bombers on the battlefield.

The most impor­tant point […]

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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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Moving to Israel

December 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · Boston, Business, Culture, Dating, Economics, Education, Essays, Europe, Globalization, Health, Immigration, Israel, Journalism, Judaism, Language, Law, Massachusetts, Personal, Politics, Religion, Technology, The Middle East, War, War on Terror

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/12/23/moving-to-israel-2/’,size:‘large’} Eighth in a series of essays
JERUSALEM — In an edi­to­r­ial, the Jerusalem Post cor­rectly points out the rea­son that more Amer­i­can Jews do not move to Israel:
THE OBSTACLE to Amer­i­can aliya [mov­ing to Israel] is not finan­cial. It is cul­tural. Amer­i­can Jews live their Jew­ish lives dif­fer­ently from anyone […]

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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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Japanese Culture

December 17th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Business, China, Civil Liberties, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Dating, Economics, Entertainment, Europe, Feminism, Health, Japan, Law, Media, Politics, Sex, Technology, War

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/12/17/japanese-culture/’,size:‘large’} RISHON LEZION, Israel — Roger Cohen makes some depress­ing obser­va­tions on the land of the ris­ing set­ting sun:
…I’m not aware of any other nation where fan­tasy, escapism and the cyber world have fused with such inten­sity.
Indeed, there’s a Japan­ese word, otaku, denot­ing a whole uni­verse of mono­ma­ni­a­cal geek-like obsession, […]

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Global Warming

December 17th, 2009 · 8 Comments · Business, Conservative Pundits, Economics, Energy, Environment, Global Warming, Politics, Science, Technology

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/12/17/global-warming/’,size:‘large’} Stew­art Brand clas­si­fies the view­points on cli­mate change into four groups: denial­ists, skep­tics, warn­ers, and calama­tists. I fall some­where between the sec­ond and third:
SKEPTICS This group is most inter­ested in the lim­i­ta­tions of cli­mate sci­ence so far: they like to exam­ine in detail the con­tra­dic­tions and short­com­ings in cli­mate data […]

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Daily Reading

December 17th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Anti-Semitism, Business, Culture, Economics, Entertainment, Europe, Finance, Humor, Israel, Judaism, Politics, Technology, The Middle East

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/12/17/daily-reading-2/’,size:‘large’} What (for­merly) every­day items have dis­ap­peared in the last decade? The effects of unem­ploy­ment are dev­as­tat­ing — not only to the per­son who lost his job, but also to those around him. Mak­ing sense of mod­ern anti-Semitism. How to live hap­pily on 75-percent less money. The cul­tural rise and […]

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Outdated Checks

December 16th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Britain, Business, Civil Liberties, Economics, Europe, Finance, Israel, Law, Personal, Privacy, Technology, The Middle East

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JERUSALEM — Great Britain might phase-out checks in the next sev­eral years:
The board of the UK Pay­ments Coun­cil, which over­sees pay­ments strat­egy, is meet­ing to dis­cuss whether the cheque clear­ing sys­tem could end by 2018.
Cheques, first writ­ten 350 years ago, are widely regarded by experts as being in ter­mi­nal decline.
How­ever, the […]

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Daily Reading

December 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Business, Culture, Economics, Entertainment, Finance, Hizbollah, Israel, Politics, Religion, Science, Technology, The Middle East, War, War on Terror

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/12/16/daily-reading/’,size:‘large’} The burst of the agri­cul­ture bub­ble in the 1980s might pro­vide some eco­nomic lessons for today. A com­puter model could pre­dict events in the world’s hot-spots. Pak­istan might implode. Han Solo and game the­ory in “Star Wars.” New Sci­en­tist mag­a­zine “proves” that dogs are bet­ter than cats — but […]

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Reading List

December 12th, 2009 · No Comments · Afghanistan, Anti-Semitism, Business, Civil Liberties, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Economics, Education, Europe, Global Warming, Islam, Israel, Journalism, Judaism, Law, Media, Personal, Politics, Religion, Science, Technology, The Middle East, War on Terror

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/12/12/reading-list/’,size:‘large’} It seems that I have a lot of read­ing for the next few days. These arti­cles look inter­est­ing:
From For­eign Pol­icy:
Why is the United States let­ting jihadists have free reign online?
How Israelis see Barack Obama
How Osama bin Laden escaped Tora Bora while sur­rounded
From the Chris­t­ian Sci­ence Mon­i­tor:
Are more Amer­i­cans are […]

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