Tip-Seeking Farmers Swarm Online Forums
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By JAMES HANNAH MARTINSVILLE, Ohio - Tucked away in the den of his 127-year-old farmhouse, Ed Winkle huddles over his computer. The screen's soft glow lights up his eyeglasses, reflecting messages about tractors, corn hybrids and crop insurance.
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The Internet is changing the way consumers complain about companies, products, and services. Instead of grumbling to a neighbor or filing a complaint with the company, a regulator, or the Better Business Bureau, more and more consumers are taking their beefs online, either contributing to gripe sites or setting up their own. There's even a website called Webgripesites.com that catalogs ...
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Blog: New blog site, started by political veterans and bloggers, is trying something new--allowing Net roots activists to help write legislation.
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By ED CULLEN  USDA plant scientists, working in a small building on the campus of Southern University, cultivate a plant Web site that gets 50 million hits a month from botanists, conservationists and landowners curious about the native or naturalized plants growing on their land.
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For anyone who has been using open source for a while, the current commercial enthusiasm for communities, collaboration, and all things Web 2.0, is rather amusing.  After all, the idea that users are not to be regarded simply as passive and grateful recipients of whatever is handed down to them from on high, but need to be treated as partners and participants who can make valuable contributions to the formulation and development of new products, is central to the way that free software works.  But some companies that are starting to dabble with Web 2.0 ideas are discovering that you have to be careful what you wish for when you solicit this kind of user feedback.  Just ask Michael Dell.
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Complaints about apartment buildings have found a raucous new outlet as residents turn to online message boards to share gripes and gossip.
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Partners get tools, encouragement to put applications online.
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Collard greens and black-eyed peas, a New YearÂs tradition, on a chefÂs site; Virtual-Bubblewrap.com lets you punch holes with your mouse; KnowItAllVideo.com, where amateur instructional videos are posted and rated.
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By Johanna D. Wilson, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  Jun. 16--An increasing number of restaurant owners are orbiting cyberspace to boost their customer base, visibility and profitability as their industry heightens its Internet savvy.
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By GALLOWAY, Jill  16 farmers in the region are hoping to be finalists. ------------ --------   Sixteen farmers in Horizon's Manawatu-Wanganui region are going for the top environment prize, hoping to be finalists in the region's Ballance Farm Environment awards.
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Found in the search marketing forums: Major Site Exclusion Failure; Reciprocal Links Are (Still) Not Dead; Tips or Tools for Viewing Location-Specific Ads; and more.
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The debacle over posts by Whole Foods CEO John Mackey shows that message boards, relics from the 1980s, continue to thrive. And who's on them may surprise you
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There's a lot of talk these days about healthy food, but it's not always what we're looking for on the Internet
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What's new in search? Found in the forums: But Is The Traffic Any Good?; What is Your Best AdSense Tip?; Ranking Without Links; and more.
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Found in the search marketing forums: Are You an AdWords Addict; Can Link-Bait Mature; Choosing Keywords; and more.
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Steve Rubel at Micro Persuasion stumbled across Technorati WTF (currently down), which lists the most popular blog stories of the day in a Digg or Techmeme type hieracral system.  It&#8217;s nice to see more niche search engines using the Digg model for gauging popularity via user voting, and this form of social media is slowly growing [...]
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Found in the search marketing forums: SEMPO In-House Salary Survey; Starting the SEO Process; Have I Messed Up My Ranking? and more.