Stumpedia is a human search engine launched in February 2008 by founder Luis Pereira. Stumpedia enables registered users to submit sites along with matching keywords and phrases creating a Social Semantic Web project. The relevancy of search results are then ranked and rated by the volunteer community through the ability to vote listings up or down. Stumpedia is different from Google and or other algorithmic search engines because it is powered and influenced by the very people that use it. Unlike traditional search engines they do not use bots or crawlers, but real-time indexing.
Privacy
Currently Stumpedia users and the Stumpedia founders are working on the Terms and Data Protection Guidelines. Stumpedia users shall be given the right to decide about modifications of the Privacy Terms. Since all data belongs to the users they get to decide how their data is handled. Stumpedia does this because companies with commercial interests have unmerited exclusive authority to determine ranking and relevancy of public data.
Advertising
Stumpedia uses a new internet advertising model and concept they developed called Pay-Per-Chat. Stumpedia's Pay-Per-Chat model matches consumers inquires to advertisers in real-time. Users are presented with a non-obstructive dialog box every time they perform a keyword search that matches an advertiser's business and are given the opportunity to directly contact those advertisers by submitting a short text message describing their consumer needs. Advertisers can then respond to those requests in real-time. Advertisers manage their Pay-Per-Chat advertising account similar to Pay Per Click by submitting keywords and phrases that are relevant to their business.
Critics
Jolie O'Dell, staff writer of ReadWriteWeb said, "Social search still needs to amass and index content using traditional search algorithms if results are to be useful to the end user. Then again, you could just let Google have this one and wait for your next big idea." O'Dell cited the fact that any site that permits user-submitted links is going to suffer the predictable, lamentable onslaught of black-hat, link-stuffed atrocities, especially for competitive verticals.
Privacy
Currently Stumpedia users and the Stumpedia founders are working on the Terms and Data Protection Guidelines. Stumpedia users shall be given the right to decide about modifications of the Privacy Terms. Since all data belongs to the users they get to decide how their data is handled. Stumpedia does this because companies with commercial interests have unmerited exclusive authority to determine ranking and relevancy of public data.
Advertising
Stumpedia uses a new internet advertising model and concept they developed called Pay-Per-Chat. Stumpedia's Pay-Per-Chat model matches consumers inquires to advertisers in real-time. Users are presented with a non-obstructive dialog box every time they perform a keyword search that matches an advertiser's business and are given the opportunity to directly contact those advertisers by submitting a short text message describing their consumer needs. Advertisers can then respond to those requests in real-time. Advertisers manage their Pay-Per-Chat advertising account similar to Pay Per Click by submitting keywords and phrases that are relevant to their business.
Critics
Jolie O'Dell, staff writer of ReadWriteWeb said, "Social search still needs to amass and index content using traditional search algorithms if results are to be useful to the end user. Then again, you could just let Google have this one and wait for your next big idea." O'Dell cited the fact that any site that permits user-submitted links is going to suffer the predictable, lamentable onslaught of black-hat, link-stuffed atrocities, especially for competitive verticals.
Sam Dodson, also known as Sam Miller, is an American political activist, independent journalist of the Obscured Truth Network, and member of the Free State Project who gained media attention after being arrested for attempting to film in the lobby of a public courtroom in Keene, New Hampshire.
Arrest
In April 2009, Dodson attempted to film the arraignment of a fellow journalist. While in the lobby of the courtroom, he was told by court security officers, citing a court rule taped to the wall, to turn his camera off. Dodson told the officers that the rule had no force of law because it was not signed by a judge and refused to turn his camera off. He was arrested and imprisoned at a jail in Westmoreland.
After being arrested, Dodson refused to cooperate with the police and used what he saw as his fifth amendment right to remain silent, by refusing to provide his name. He did, however, allow fingerprinting as required under New Hampshire law. He was informed that he would be held indefinitely without trial, unless he co-operated and gave his name. In order to protest his imprisonment, Dodson went on a hunger strike, refusing to eat solid foods. Dodson has also complained about the conditions of the jail where he is being held.
Trial
On 4 April, a trial was scheduled for Sam, to take place on 15 June.
Arrest
In April 2009, Dodson attempted to film the arraignment of a fellow journalist. While in the lobby of the courtroom, he was told by court security officers, citing a court rule taped to the wall, to turn his camera off. Dodson told the officers that the rule had no force of law because it was not signed by a judge and refused to turn his camera off. He was arrested and imprisoned at a jail in Westmoreland.
After being arrested, Dodson refused to cooperate with the police and used what he saw as his fifth amendment right to remain silent, by refusing to provide his name. He did, however, allow fingerprinting as required under New Hampshire law. He was informed that he would be held indefinitely without trial, unless he co-operated and gave his name. In order to protest his imprisonment, Dodson went on a hunger strike, refusing to eat solid foods. Dodson has also complained about the conditions of the jail where he is being held.
Trial
On 4 April, a trial was scheduled for Sam, to take place on 15 June.
Preloaded debate OR Salma Conway
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Salma Conway is a British journalist, illustrator and writer. She graduated from University of York in 2005.
She wrote and illustrated "The student kitchen survival handbook" and has illustrated a number of other books such as "How to Pull Women" by Ed West and "Mad About Cats" by Kitty Bunton.
Conway does currently work as a senior reporter specializing on the telecom industry for New Media Markets.
External website: salmaconway.com.
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Salma Conway is a British journalist, illustrator and writer. She graduated from University of York in 2005.
She wrote and illustrated "The student kitchen survival handbook" and has illustrated a number of other books such as "How to Pull Women" by Ed West and "Mad About Cats" by Kitty Bunton.
Conway does currently work as a senior reporter specializing on the telecom industry for New Media Markets.
External website: salmaconway.com.
Meaning
A tabo is a bucket used to remove residual fecal matter after defecation in the Philippines.
Alternate Definitions
Tabos comes from a T9 predictive texting error of the word Tacos. On Tuesday nights at the Del Taco restaurant in Provo, Utah, one can buy 3 tacos for $.99. This deal is affectionately known by the locals as "Taco Tuesday". Once, when Lee Adams sent Andrew Hansen a text asking if he wanted to get tacos, because of the T9 error, he actually asked if he wanted to get "tabos". Andrew replied, "I don't know what tabos are, but I'm down."
The word "Tabos" has stuck ever since, referring to the tacos that are part of the deal known as "Taco Tuesday".
A tabo is a bucket used to remove residual fecal matter after defecation in the Philippines.
Alternate Definitions
Tabos comes from a T9 predictive texting error of the word Tacos. On Tuesday nights at the Del Taco restaurant in Provo, Utah, one can buy 3 tacos for $.99. This deal is affectionately known by the locals as "Taco Tuesday". Once, when Lee Adams sent Andrew Hansen a text asking if he wanted to get tacos, because of the T9 error, he actually asked if he wanted to get "tabos". Andrew replied, "I don't know what tabos are, but I'm down."
The word "Tabos" has stuck ever since, referring to the tacos that are part of the deal known as "Taco Tuesday".