Tom is a Bitch

Black PR is becoming a problem. (Black PR is the use of misleading or derogatory statements and pointing them at competitors.) The net allows you to say anything about anyone and with that; websites like unvarnished are coming out of the woodwork. Unvarnished is an online resource for building, managing, and researching professional reputation, using community-contributed, professional reviews. To me this is.... where I anonymously trash competitors.But why would I stop there? I could use Twitter, Google Buzz, and my other social sites. Do you have a contingency plan or will you just ignore the snide remarks?

Your reputation is getting much harder to control. Are you ready?

I just filed a Class Action Lawsuit

Well it isn't a done deal. I need others to join in first.
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I think that it is wrong that I am supposed to check my credit score weekly to ensure that someone didn't half ass their job and put something on my credit report that isn't correct. If I use someone else's information for a profit like Experian, Transunion, and Equifax do, I am expected to verify all information for accuracy. Credit reporting companies like the ones I mentioned above are apparently exempt. They want me to ensure their offshore employees are doing their job correctly. That is BULLSHIT!

How sick are we?

As I was flipping around the channels Monday night, I watched a show called Intervention. Then there was another show called Hoarders. The Intervention show is about drug addicts and alcoholics. The Hoarders show is about mentally ill people who fill their houses with trash and usually have insect and rodent problems.

What I found to be the most disturbing was that the American people are being entertained by the misery of others. The producers of these shows are raking in the dough by exploiting the mentally ill.

Are the truly mentally ill the ones who tune into these shows every week?

Poor Little Sandy Bullock

It is hard to feel sad for someone who walks through a barn full of cattle, barefoot and that is just what Sandra Bullock did. She likes "Bad Boys" just like so many of her American sisters. She marries a guy who can't keep his pants zipped and then is surprised when he can't keep his pants zipped.

Did anyone think that this may just be Sandy's fault. She couldn't keep her man because it appears he doesn't like skin that hasn't been run through an inkjet. Sandy is not a scag and therein lies the problem.

Don't Use Your Cell for Business

30% of American workers are self employed or freelance. It is a wonderful life working when you want and where you want. The downside is that you must constantly keep an eye and an ear open for new opportunities and you can’t shut off your phone Friday at five. The internet doesn’t sleep and many customers don’t believe you should either.

I asked Google for a Voice number. It is the # on all of my business handouts. Actually it is the number I use for everyone except family and friends.

Who gets my email account when I die?

Have you updated your will? I finally got around to it, not that anything major had changed. I’ve known for a long time that I had to specifically include my ‘digital assets” in my last testament. Who did I want reading my emails, my documents, my ideas and the book I started but never finished?

There is no pot of gold in my letters, notes, and emails, but I don’t want there to be a question of whose property they become, and I consider my email and docs personal. I have even thought of letting most of my information die in one of Google’s server farms. I’ve had to think long and hard about my virtual property, Have you?

10 ways you know that your website sucks

1) Your "bounce rate" is 101%.
2) People cook dinner while your site loads.
3) Your copyright says 2007.
4) It only loads in Explorer.
5) Your website was designed by "Flash Jimmy".
6) Your meta description says "I need money"
7) All of your outbound links take customers off-site.
8) Your competitors use your site as a "what not to do".
9) You made your logo from Clipart.
10) Google refuses to put AdWords on your site.