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On the 2nd of February, we're expecting more than 200 women to descend on George Washington University for a one day conference on women, feminism and technology.

This is the beginning of a conversation started between different people about the tide of change happening to all kinds of activism, especially in the feminist front. Blogs have become one of the most powerful points of discussion and organizing among a not just a new age of feminists but a new technological tribe of feminists that cross ages, ethnicity, race, ability and even gender itself.

I was in the middle of some of these conversations about the present, past and future of feminism and felt that there was a need to get the veterans and the noobs, the geeks and nerds, the men and women and all the different "tranches" of what we today call "Feminism" in the United States, throw them in a room and just have them shake hands and start conversations, collaborations or debates.

It is my hope that Feminism 2.0 is the first of annual meetings where feminists of all kind can come together to celebrate and air, vent and dream, rinse and repeat

It's why we need your help to spread the word. We need media partners : People who will advertise the event on their blogs, spread the word on their mailing lists, twitter the hell out of what happening, make it a thing on Facebook and MySpace.

If you take the code and decide to help spread the word about Feminism 2.0, please leave your name and a link to your blog in the comments section or use the private message feature at the foot of this post. We want to link back to your blog and acknowledge your contribution.

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I put up a post about Sarah Palin's appearance with YouTube embeds, and guess what? They're gone. Fucking NBC/Universal/GE had them taken down because, of course, people put them up without any of their advertising.

Greedy, douchebaggy, motherfuckers. A pox on them. I hope they die of a slow painful death.

Ugh.

The douchebags at NBC/Universal are greedy motherfuckers who won't negotiate with other video streaming sites thinking they need to monopolize all advertising revenue.

No, the douchebags at NBC/Universal/General Electric want to fuck around with internet conventions and treat fucking web media EMBEDS as little TVs, skullfucking them with advertisements at the worst point, the beginning of the clip.

The legal and marketing departments of NBC fuck puppies, skin kittens and drink the blood of newborns to ensure they remind us that they own our time, our attention and our value, because we are worthless to them unless they feel their making a buck off us RIGHT NOW, IN THIS CLIP, WITH A FUCKING AD!

Smart, very smart.

Capitalizing on the fact McCain not once uttered the words "middle class", Team Obama slapped together an ad that they're using to fundraise. They've titled it "Zero".

Here's part of the email, "In case you missed it", signed by Obama's campaign manager, David Plouffe :

Proof that McCain will try to lie his way into the White House and will do anything, whatever the consequences, to get there. Even if it means losing many of your enablers supporters in the press. After all, they are now the enemy.

The question is, will US Americans not so much believe him but choose to not care for fear of voting for Barack Obama?

Thanks to Culture Kitchen's ad lineup, I just learned something I really wanted to know but wouldn't have known to look for any other way, probably. (Keep watching those ads, y'all!)

If Ira Glass' --yes, that's the possessive with an apostrophe and NO extra S! -- new tv show is destined to be as good as his "This American Life" on radio, then I finally have educational justification to add the network airing it to my cable service. His NPR show on superpowers, with John Hodgman interviewing regular folks on the street about whether they'd choose flying or invisibility and why, was an instant classic. And the show about what three things we live and die for -- talk about power of story. . .Ira Glass doesn't tell stories the way anybody else does.

Episode 1 - "Reality Check"
Three stories of people who hatched plans in the hopes of making their dreams come true, but were snapped back to reality by unpleasant outcomes: an elementary school student tries to solve a common childhood problem; a rancher resuscitates a beloved pet, which later turns on him; people team to give an unknown rock band the greatest night of its life.

I remember the last bit, about the unknown rock band, from the radio show. There was a LOT more to it than this, about creativity and community, whether contrived spontaneity and ambush improv is fair (a la Borat?) and whether it's true, for the players OR the unsuspecting audience -- I'm still thinking hard about the cultural questions of meaning it raised for me.

Have you molested our advertisers yet?

American Greetings has a hysterical grandpa in a superhero suit promo for their new eCard service. Go check them out.

We also have the great honor to have been premiumed by my favorite Democratic presidential candidate, John Edwards. If I weren't so in love with his wife, I'd so hit that. Honestly, Elizabeth Edwards is the reason why I drool over his candidacy. So go hit that ad.

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Yeah. Pimping does the advertising good.

Another Friday, another day to remind you to get your advertiser freak on. Thanks to :

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Traffic in the world of blogs is one way to get well paid through advertising. But who clicks on an ad and for how long they stay at the advertiser's sites is probably more important than the traffic we provide. When it comes down to it, that's what targetted or niche marketing is all about. It is not about volume but quality.

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