[Discuss] BLU's SEO (Bill Horne)

[jguarino at evolutionaryit.com (Joseph Guarino)]

Hello Bill/Everyone,

> Dammit, let's have some competent marketing here!

Perhaps we can discuss this next meeting and get a group focused on
this.  I'm volunteering to help and some others in the group are open to
this as well.  


> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 18:56:45 -0400
> From: Bill Horne <bill at horne.net>
> To: BLU Discussion List <discuss at blu.org>
> Subject: Re: [Discuss] BLU's SEO
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> On 10/23/2013 7:44 AM, Daniel Barrett wrote:
> > On October 22, 2013, Richard Pieri wrote:
> >> Except that it isn't objectively truthful.
> > Finally! I always wondered if there was objective truth in the
> > universe. Should someone call Immanuel Kant? (And maybe Einstein?)
> >
> > Oh by the way, I have a brand new, in-box, 16-core Ubuntu server that
> > I don't need, and it's sitting on my curbside in case anyone wants it
> > for free.  In the interests of full disclosure, I must mention that
> > the outer box was once sneezed on by a 9-year-old child who likes
> > Hannah Montana, and that to the best of my knowledge, no members of
> > the Red Sox (or their families) have ever made side-glances at this
> > server during a hailstorm. Whew, my objective marketing conscience is
> > now clear.
> >
> > -
> 
> Dammit, let's have some competent marketing here!
> 
> */WHICH/* curbside?
> 
> Bill
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> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 06:42:15 -0400
> From: John Abreau <abreauj at gmail.com>
> To: Bill Bogstad <bogstad at pobox.com>
> Cc: Boston Linux and Unix <discuss at blu.org>
> Subject: Re: [Discuss] UEFI
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> Everything you list there (other than "etc., etc., etc) is under either
> /etc or /var/named.
> Backup both of those as well, and you've got all your config data.
> 
> I generally also run "rpm -qa > ~/ALL-INSTALLED-RPMS" before installing the
> newest
> Fedora or CentOS, so I retain a record of what packages had been installed
> prior
> to the upgrade.
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Bill Bogstad <bogstad at pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Richard Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Protip: put /home, /opt and /usr/local on dedicated partitions or
> > volumes so
> > > that you can reformat /, /boot, etc., without erasing user data and
> > custom
> > > software installs.
> >
> > But I would still  lose my DHCP, internal DNS, NFS, NTP, multiple user
> > account passwords, printer configs, crontabs, etc., etc., etc.; if I
> > did this.   Even though I only have a few machines, I don't run them
> > as if they were single-user Internet browsing machines.
> >
> > > It is not possible to go the other way (GPT to MBR) without wiping and
> > > reformatting the disk.
> >
> > Apparently not always true.   This guy apparently wrote GPT fdisk:
> >
> > http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/
> >
> > and has a page which describes how to do it (when it is possible):
> >
> > http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/mbr2gpt.html
> >
> > He also discusses using Hybrid MBR/GPT partitioning on other web pages
> > as well as UEFI booting.   Looks like a good resource overall for
> > this.
> >
> > Bill Bogstad
> > _______________________________________________
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> > Discuss at blu.org
> > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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> Message: 5
> Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 07:24:43 -0400
> From: Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
> To: discuss at blu.org
> Subject: Re: [Discuss] BLU's SEO
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> On 10/22/2013 03:45 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
> > Joseph Guarino wrote:
> >> With the greatest respect I have to disagree.  Your current
> >> understanding of Marketing is biased to say the least.  Marketing is the
> >> art/science of communicating value to customers.  There is nothing
> >
> > [snrk]
> >
> > Marketing is neither art nor science. It's the process of selling
> > things. "Communicating value to customers" is corpspeak for advertising.
> >
> I beg to differ on this. Marketing is scientific in nature. While the
> end result is sales, a lot of marketing has to do with product
> development and planning, research into the market, even the colors of
> the box. Advertising is certainly one part of it. I had a marketing
> professor who claimed to be the guy who came up wioth the Arnold Stang
> Orkin commercials in the 1970s. His point was the Arnold Stang was
> obnoxious and so are bugs. He also opened a god food pland adjacent to a
> chicken processing plant so he could get the discarded chicken parts
> cheaper. However, his marketing efforts failed when the students
> petitioned the dean not to let him use his book for the class (forcing
> the students to buy it).  In any case there is a lot of science that
> does go into marketing along with some non-scientific things like
> intuition.
> 
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> Message: 6
> Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 11:09:49 -0400
> From: Richard Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com>
> To: discuss at blu.org
> Subject: Re: [Discuss] BLU's SEO
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> Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > I beg to differ on this. Marketing is scientific in nature. While the
> 
> Yes, it is. Marketing -- at least some aspects of it -- is a scientific 
> process.
> 
> That's not the same thing as being a science.
> 
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> Rich P.
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> Message: 7
> Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 11:14:20 -0400
> From: Will Rico <willrico at gmail.com>
> To: announce at blu.org
> Subject: [Discuss] BLU Desktop GNU/Linux SIG Meeting - Introducing the
> 	Pirate Party -	Weds, Nov 6, 2013
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> When: Wednesday, November 6, 2013 6:30PM
> 
> Location: Akamai, 8 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA ?
> 
> Directions
>     http://www.akamai.com/html/about/driving_directions.html
>     Also easily accessibly by T.
> 
> Notes
> 
>         1) Please note the location is different from BLU's
>            standard MIT meeting location.
> 
>         2) Akamai has generously agreed to provide space
>            and 'free as in food' for this meeting.
>            Thank you to our sponsor!
>            http://www.akamai.com/
> 
>         3) Sponsorship of this meetup should not be
>            construed to imply endorsement of the ideas
>            discussed.  This is a free and open forum
>            where views expressed are those of the
>            person or persons expressing them.
> 
> Summary
> 
>         Introducing the Pirate Party of Massachusetts:
>         The Intersection of Open Government and
>         Open Technology
> 
> Abstract
> 
>     Did you know that there is a Pirate Party of
>     Massachusetts?
> 
>     Join us for an introduction to the Pirate Party by
>     co-founder and current captain, James O'Keefe.
> 
>     James will discuss the Pirate Party's fascinating
>     vision of a more open government and greater
>     transparency in our civic and digital lives.
>     This is a timely discussion and one which
>     will appeal to both technologists, members
>     of the broader community, and citizens
>     concerned about privacy and freedom
>     in an age increasingly dominated by
>     powerful corporate and government
>     entities.
> 
>     Join the discussion and learn ways you can get
>     involved including steps you can take to increase
>     freedom and transparency for yourself,
>     your family and your community.
> 
> About Our Speaker
> 
>     James O'Keefe is a co-founder of the
>     Massachusetts Pirate Party and
>     is its current Captain.
> 
>     He fell in love with the Internet in 1990 when he
>     started work in Technical Support at FTP Software.
>     He occasionally reminisces about his life before
>     being able to be on the Internet at the touch of
>     a finger, but not often and seldom for long.
>     He views defending the Internet and expanding
>     the possibilities it offers for our world
>     as his lifelong calling.
> 
>     James presently works at Akamai as a software QA
>     engineer while making a reasonable attempt at
>     coaching his son's soccer team and being his
>     family's chauffeur.
> 
> Transportation & Parking
> 
>     The Akamai office is a short walk from the
>     Kendall Square T stop and other public
>     transportation.
> 
>     Metered parking is normally available near our location.
> 
> More Events & Announcements
> 
>     Digital Media Conference:
>     Freedom and Unfreedom in the Digital Age
>     Fri Oct 25 - Sun Oct 27 at Lesley University
>     http://digitalmediaconference.org/2013/
> 
>     Surveillance vs. Privacy in the Digital World, Part II
>     Mon Nov 18 at St. Paul's Church, Natick
>     http://millermicro.com/FOSSUserGroupArchive.html
> 
>     Data Privacy on Android Devices
>     Wednesday, November 20 at MIT
>     http://www.blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2013-nov
> 
>     BLU Installfest L
>     Sat Dec 7 at MIT
>     http://www.blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2013-ifest50
> 
>     Learn Zim: The Free Replacement for Evernote
>     and Solution to Chaos in Your Life
>     Weds Dec 11 at Akamai
>     (Link with details coming soon)
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> Message: 8
> Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 11:42:31 -0400
> From: Randy Cole <randyokc at gmail.com>
> To: Will Rico <willrico at gmail.com>
> Cc: L-blu <discuss at blu.org>
> Subject: Re: [Discuss] BLU's SEO
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> On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Will Rico <willrico at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> > Meetup.com has been a fantastic way to find new people.  I cross-post
> > mainline BLU meetings when they fall into one of the categories listed
> > above, and I always list all BLU meetings in our "More Events and
> > Announcements" section.
> >
> > If I'm looking for a user group these days, the first place I look is
> meetup.com.  I love how meetup.com integrates with whatever calendar you
> are using (google in my case).  (Unless you change your meetup password,
> then the integration breaks.)
> 
> 
> > If the goal is to bring in more users, the lowest hanging fruit is to
> > integrate our SIG (meetup) community more with the main BLU community via
> > this mailing list as well as encouraging more cross-attendance of events.
> >
> > I want to do a better job of getting people who join via Meetup.com, to
> > subscribe to this list and become integrated into the broader community.
> > Meetup.com is a proprietary system and I think it's fine to meet people
> > there, but it would be good for the users to bring them into an open/free
> > system, which this list better represents.
> >
> Amen.  BLU doesn't want to be subject to the whims (or fees) of a
> proprietary system.
> 
> Meetup allows mail address hiding, which is a semi-good thing.  Their email
> system works fine, but their "message board" sucks.  They have a built in
> registration system that helps with food ordering, room size and building
> security (none of which BLU needs).  Keeping a meetup group and a website
> in sync by cross-posting events is a pain in the neck, confusing, and
> probably not worth it.
> 
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