My ‘Net-Insanity’ Has Reached an Apex: Internet Security in 2009

This is the ‘feel free to rip-me-off’ attitude, only as far as all this net-chatter & net-postings goes anyway.

I have officially become a ‘Twitter-geek’.

I have, or will, join any network they create.

(Look daddy! Every time a bell rings, a social network gets it‘s wings!)

I have been doing this far a lot longer than you might think for a twenty-six year old.

The internet-geek itself thing, I mean.

Now all my multiple profiles, and some blogs with little Twitter-Update windows, are integrated. I can text message randomness ‘on-the-go’ into my cell phone and everyone can see it.

Furthermore, anything I do on Twitter is reposted into Facebook instantly thanks to these wild little things called Apps that I know at least one person who is doing fine right now thanks entirely to.

My cycle of madness is now complete. More or less.

Why do this?

Am I so trendy that just because something is catching on that I must go immediately partake?

I make no personal apologizes about being ’trendy’ and constantly in on the latest ’fad,’ but that’s not why I am doing the Twitter.

I see the internet as having two functions and most everything else is just dressing on the side. (Images, Videos, etc.)

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Connectivity and Useful Information.

CONNECTIVITY:

While communication itself is something far beyond the limits of 150 text characters, the essence of all primal communication comes down to one simply concept.

Saying:

“I’m here! I’m existing, right now!”

The “What Are You Doing? / Status Update” phenomena may baffle some, but I remain a fan. I remind fellow bloggers you can widen your audience significantly by using these features in any free social networking settling. (Copy and paste, copy and paste!)

“Read My Blog! This is Not a Commercial! Read My Weblog Today! No ads! Non-profit American citizen blogging made for you!”

If you can ‘text speak’ you fit almost anything into 150. Leading out to your real thoughts in weblog format.

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USEFUL INFORMATION:

Reading almost any blog posting I do most likely has some form of useful information, as far I see it. I always enable and post comments and my WordPress About Me is clear proof that my blogs are a ‘come-one come-all’ format.

I am willing to review almost any information laid before me and try the use the motto of ‘source me’ as a standard. I stay off right wing sites but am not against their existence.

However, I will say that at least one of them engaged in illegal activity over the past presidential campaign of America and faced no legal repercussions. This is not my job. A watch-dog watches his post, nothing more.

So let’s hear it is my response to any conservative or libertarian. Give me your useful information and I’ll give you mine.

To those who stand only to hear their own opinions echoed back at them I warn you that might have deal with someone with an independent mind in the comment section. Sometimes perhaps ‘independence’ is not what is going on, but let’s hear it anyway.

My useful information is this:

Research the net-lingo “Pic Collectors” and run a keyword search on “Facial Recognition Software”.

Ever driven by a stop light at most any major intersection of America? Your on candid camera!!

Lobbys, Lobbyists and Interest Groups

“One study of eighty-three (primarily liberal) public-interest groups found that one-third of them received half or more of all their funds from foundation grants; one-tenth received over 90 percent from such sources. In one ten year period the Ford Foundation alone contributed about $21 million to liberal public-interest groups. Many of these organizations were law firms that, other than staff members, had no members at all. The Environmental Defense Fund is supported almost entirely by grants from foundations such as the Rockefeller Family Fund. The more conservative Scaife foundations gave $1.8 million to a conservative public-interest group, the National Legal Center for the Public Interest.” [Wilson, DiIulio 2008]

The concept of using public interest groups to promote the agendas and ideals of a movement is, by this source, not exclusive to the liberal movement but heavily favored by it thus far.

President-elect Barack Obama may ultimately isolate himself from major liberal movement members if the proposed audit of Washington politics were to take a lasting toll on the liberal lobbies. The next four years will certainly answer just how far this coming administration is willing to go to remove corruption in public interest group finance and practice, but four years from now there will also once again be a national referendum on the highest office.

Should the effort ultimately take power from once strong lobbies for popular liberal agendas, the informed American Democratic Voter could potentially face a struggle at the polls when considering a vote for the incumbent President.

The power of an interest-group, in a classic design, should expand as the number of members and contributors expands. The ‘funded & unoccupied lobby’ described in quote above as a law firm is a critical element of what causes the real disruptions in Washington politics.

The figures and organizations that form the American lobbies and public-interest groups of today are not necessarily the root of the problem so much as the agendas of the highest funded public interest groups overriding the highest agendas of the wills of the people.

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If the National Legal Center for the Public Interest (a weak lobby) were to receive a large increase in both number of members and in contributions. they should rightly increase in the voice and recognition in Washington and receive foundation grants in turn.

If the Environmental Defense Fund (a strong lobby) were to lose both member and public support their voice as a lobby should rightly decrease and even though they do not receive a majority in foundation grants they should be kept from taking them if they lacked any significant support in the public domain.

This is all within a classic definition of how the public interest groups should work. Any number of factors can increase or decrease the power of a single lobby and for this reason most of us limit our discussion on public-interest groups, or lobbies, to the number of members that are well-known or outspoken and the money behind the group.

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Lobbyists are not are always motivated by ill or by good, despite the fact the lobby they work for is focused on a critical social issue or an important national matter that concerns you--or perhaps for a group with which you disagree strongly.

To speak broadly, they are like salesmen of political stances a person in Washington should take.

They are not invested into the case they are making in every single case but rather deliver the best argument in favor of the lobby that they can devise.

Politicians and lobbyists are very much the same, in many ways.

Without means to search the hearts of others to know for sure if they really believe what they contend or if they are simply going with the popular ideology to gain your favor, we will never know for certain if they stand for the people or if they stand for their own private interests.
We can only judge their actions in office as solid statements of policy.




Eric Lightborn

http://americapress.wordpress.com/

December 2008