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Knife Pornography From Boing Boing Gadgets

One of my goals in life is to be on Boing Boing, so in many ways my dreams are coming true every day in so many ways in the form of getting a guest blog post on Boing Boing Gadgets about the ultimate gadget, my hand-made, bespoke, Randall Model 1 knife — many thanks to my buddy John Brownlee for inviting me over and for not only considering my knife a gadget but fancying it worthy of bbG:

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Thank You Operation Survivor Bloggers Encore

While I have already thanked all of the wonderful, generous bloggers who have blogged about Operation Survivor since Labor Day, there has been a countinued outpouring of support. As a result, I have added all of the new posts, banners, Twitters in addition to the initial posts — as of 25 November, this is everyone.

  1. 5 Minutes Around the World via 5 Minutes for Mom.
  2. Banner via A Disgruntled Republican.
  3. Survivor Corps Program-Help! via Swimming Against the Red Tide.
  4. Survivor Corps: Founds Operation Survivor Project to Assist U.S. Military Combat Veterans in Transitioning to Civilian Life via A DC Observer.
  5. Survivor Corps. Rise Above. Give Back via All 4 My Gals.
  6. Banner via American and Proud.
  7. Support ‘Survivor Corps’ this Veterans Day via American Thinker.
  8. Support ‘Survivor Corps’ this Veterans Day via Americanthinker.
  9. Returning Troops…a Noble Cause via Dodgeblogium.
  10. Indigenist News Items for: 11-14-2008 via Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo.
  11. They don’t go away when Veterans Day ends via Around the Island.
  12. Survivor Corps via Assoluta Tranquillita.
  13. Survivor Corps via Jake’s Life.
  14. Banner via Bearing Drift.
  15. Vast Write Wing via Be Logical.
  16. Survivor Corps Operation Survivor: A Worthwhile Cause to Consider via Mount Virtus.
  17. Someone alerted me to the good work that Survivor Corps via Big Bark.
  18. Standing up for Max Cleland on Veteran’s Day via Big Bark.
  19. Twittered via How to Change the World.
  20. Do Not Abandon Our Vets via understanding the effects of unresolved abandonment issues.
  21. Help Our Troops This Veterans Day via Locust Fork Blog.
  22. Soldiers Angels Web Surfing via MySpace: Kathie’s Soldiers Angels Account.
  23. Banner via Blog Mommas.
  24. An Appeal via Don Surber’s blog.
  25. Survivor Corps: Help a veteran break the cycle of violence via Hormone-Colored Days.
  26. Support the Survivor Corps via Burbsblogs.
  27. Veterans Day via Bodhi Baby.
  28. Supporting Our Troops via Booker Rising.
  29. Operation Survivor via Britannica.
  30. As Per Request via Budget Nomad – US Ex – Pat on the Move.
  31. Per a Request via Budget Nomad – US Ex – Pat on the Move.
  32. Help veterans through Survivor Corps via South by Southwest.
  33. Remembrance Day via Around the World in beautiful Shoes.
  34. Veteran’s Day via Danny Fisher.
  35. Survivor Corps via Charming Just Charming.
  36. Veterans Day via Chip’s Quips.
  37. Please Help Me Support Our Troops on Veteran’s Day via Chris Abraham.
  38. I Will Not Be Broken via For the Heck of It.
  39. Ray via Notes from the Cookie Jar.
  40. Survivor Corps Helps Injured Vets Cope via Connecticut Bob.
  41. Help Our Troops This Veteran’s Day via Culture11.
  42. Supporting Our Troops: Operation Survivor via Culture Kitchen.
  43. Supporting Our Troops: Operation Survivor via The Daily Gotham.
  44. Donate to help our Troops via Make it Happen.
  45. Survivor Corp-Returning Troops via What’s Delmer Look Like?.
  46. Banner via Popcorn and Sushi.
  47. Banner via Supercozy WorldHome.
  48. Supporting Returning Troops via Donklephant.
  49. Operation Survivor-Survivor Corps and TroopTube via Where the Hell Am I?.
  50. In Their Boots via Holly’s Fight for Justice.
  51. In Their Boots via Holly’s Fight to Stop Violence.
  52. Banner via Gapers Block.
  53. Banner via Gary Presley.
  54. Operation Survivor via The Political Junkie.
  55. Veterans Day via On the Fringe.
  56. Survivor Corps Supports Returning Troops and Their Families via GoMekong.com.
  57. Support Our Troops NOW via MamaBugs…Homeschooling Where the Air Force Sends Us!.
  58. Soldiers Angels Web Surfing via Hooah Wife & Friends.
  59. Breaking the Cycle of Violence via Another Opinion.
  60. New Book from the founder of Survivor Corps via The IAVA Blog.
  61. Some Odds and Ends of the Election via The Liberal Life of a Navy Wife .
  62. cross-post via Personal Injury and Social Security Disability Blog.
  63. Banner via Iraq The Model.
  64. In Honor of Veterans’ Day via James Kotecki.
  65. Survivorcorps.org via Jelly Mom.
  66. Banner via Into the Woods, Living Deliberately.
  67. Survivor Corps via A Leg Up.
  68. Standing up for Max Cleland on Veteran’s Day via Informed Comment.
  69. Helping Veterans (a day late) via Just Enjoy Him: Ramblings of a Mid-Life Mom.
  70. Soldiers Angels Web Surfing via Mail Call! Supporting the Troops.
  71. Survivor Corps via Kung Fu Monkey.
  72. Banner via Kim Stagliano.
  73. Survivor Corps via Knee Deep in the Hooah.
  74. Banner via Kentucky Progress.
  75. Courage via Last One Speaks.
  76. Banner via Leucadia Blog.
  77. Iraq snapshot (The Common Ills) via Like Maria Said Paz.
  78. Banner via Lisa’s Cookbook.
  79. For a Good Cause via The Local Crank.
  80. Banner via LooneyBin4Sure.
  81. Tis the season to help our troops via Manatee’s Military Moms.
  82. Thoughts of a conservative mind: A worthwhile charity via A different kind of Conservative Blog.
  83. Banner via Married to the Army.
  84. Veterans Day via State of Ohio Blogger Alliance.
  85. Veteran’s Day via Weapons of Mass Discussion.
  86. Operation Survivor via Big Blueberry Eyes.
  87. Survivor Corps offers peer support to injured vets via Media Dis&Dat.
  88. Survivor Corps via Tanker Bothers – Soldiers in the War on Terror.
  89. Survivor Corps via Tanker Brothers.
  90. Miss Beths Victory Dance via Miss Beth’s Victory Dance.
  91. Survivor Corps via Miss Cellania Blog.
  92. side bar Banner via Mommy Bytes.
  93. Survivor Corps. Help for Surviving Troops via Mommy Does it All.
  94. Operation Survivor via My American-Iraq Life.
  95. Banner via Myrtus.
  96. Mine removal personal ambition for Missouri State instructor via News-Release.com.
  97. Survivor Corps: Support for returning heroes via News Blaze.
  98. Veterans Deserve Your Help via New Zeal.
  99. Supporting Returning Troops via Northloop Neighborhood.
  100. Read Terrance D.C. via Oh Boy it Never Ends.
  101. Banner via only red head in taiwan.
  102. Banner via On the Upside.
  103. Banner via Papamoka Straight Talk.
  104. Banner via Pardon Me For Asking.
  105. Survivors of War via Ponderings on a Faith Journey.
  106. posted link on blogroll via Political Grind.
  107. Survivor Corps: Operation Survivor via Political Reps.
  108. A Day To Honor Those Who Have Served Their Country via Political Vindication.
  109. Banner via Praise and Coffee.
  110. Banner via Preemptive Karma.
  111. Survivor Corps Supports Returning Troops and their Families! via Progressive Independent.
  112. cross post via Quick Quotes Online.
  113. In Banner Rotation via Redline.
  114. Veteran’s deserve not just a word, but also a hand: Operation Survivor via Rich Kirkpatrick.
  115. Survivor Corps Supports Returning Troops and their Families! via Right Michigan.
  116. Banner via Rightwingchamp.
  117. Katrina Vanden Heuvel is an Idiot via Ruth’s Report.
  118. Katrina vanden Heuvel is an idiot via Ruth’s Report.
  119. Survivor Corps via Sanbans Lymphorama.
  120. Helping the Walking Wounded on November 11 via Serge the concierge.
  121. Banner via Seven Wheelchairs.
  122. palin, survivor corps, heroes and more via Sex and Politics and Creeds and Attitudes.
  123. Links, Awards and Other Good Blogishness via She Lives.
  124. Peace, be still. It’s Armistice Day. via Short Woman.
  125. Sick of It via SICKOFITRADLZ.
  126. posted Banner and review of I will not be broken via Writing in FaithWriting in Faith: Previews and Reviews.
  127. Banner via Socialism.
  128. Survivor Corps – Electronic Media News Releases via Soldiers Angels Network.
  129. Survivor Corps via Soldiers Angels New York.
  130. Survivor Corps via Soldiers’ Angels New York.
  131. Need a little Inspiration? via My Life As A Military Spouse.
  132. Banner via Stepping Right Up!.
  133. Survivor Corps via Straight, Not Narrow.
  134. Veterans Day via The Adventures of Super Mommy & Spitup Boy.
  135. Support ‘Survivor Corps’ this Veterans Day – American Thinker via Survivor.
  136. Operation Survivor – excerpt from website via Arthriticyoungthing.
  137. posted Banner via Screw Politically Correct B.S..
  138. Banner via The Political Jungle.
  139. Survivor Corps via Tao of Katie.
  140. Help veterans through Survivor Corps via The Reaction.
  141. The bridge, the sacrifice, more via The Common Ills.
  142. Banner via The Inside Dope.
  143. A Belated Veterans (Day) Post via The Moderate Voice.
  144. A Belated Veterans (Day) Post via Funny Blog.
  145. Veterans and PTSD via Where There’s a Will There’s a Way.
  146. Tuesday, November 11. 2008. via This French Life.
  147. we posted? via This Fucking War.
  148. Survivor Corps Website via Untreatable Online.
  149. cross post via News Updated Frequently.
  150. Survivor Corps via Unveal Blues.
  151. Banner via VDog and Little Man.
  152. Banner via Virginia Left Wing.
  153. cross post via Today on Vot3r.
  154. Banner via mikesmercurialmaddness.
  155. As Long as We’re Bailing Out CEOs… via World-O-Crap.
  156. Wake Up Americans via Wake Up America.
  157. Survivor Corps via Wake Up America.
  158. Xyence via The Xyience Diet Resource.
  159. Please Help the Veterans via Yaw and Mog.
  160. Survivor Corps Supports Returning Troops and their Families! via Young Philly Politics.
  161. Survivor Corps Supports Returning Vets and Their Families! via Zimbio.
  162. Mojo Mom says thank you to military families via Mojo Mom.

I daresay we’ll be get more so there might very well be another thank you email. Again, both Abraham Harrison and Survivor Corps thank you very much for all of your continued generosity and support!

Thank You Operation Survivor Bloggers!

Veteran’s Day this year is especially poignant since it has been 5 years since the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan began. Thank you to everyone who helped Survivor Corps get the message out about Operation Survivor and all the amazing work that Survivor Corps does for vets, for returning troops, and for their families. Here’s a list of all of your fine work:

You have done an amazing thing for the vets and also for the mission of Survivor Corps domestically and around the world. Thank you for your posts and for your banner placement. Never hesitate to contact me personally or my team at Abraham Harrison. Also, always please feel free to contact the entire Survivor Corps team.

Sarah Palin Comment Thread Par Excellence

If you have not been keeping on top of all of the great comments streaming in to the AH Poll entitled “If John McCain died or became incapacitated, would Sarah Palin be competent to be President?” you are really missing out! Some of them are the most insightful, thoughtful, and brilliant collection of thoughts representing the best and the worst of the right and the left! Roll up your sleeves and batten your hatches because you’re going to have one hell of a ride. Oh, also, these comments are in reverse-chronological order so the most recent are at the top. If you want to keep track of them live, please go visit them where they love and breathe. Read below for the most amazing Sarah Palin comment thread of the Internets!
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Don't Be Seduced by the Lure of Astroturfing

I wrote this a couple years ago, but it is still really relevant, especially after all the interest in Jonathan Trenn’s article, Flogging: Advertising or not – it’s wrong. Wrong or not – it’s inevitable:

Whenever you engage the Internet on behalf if a company or organization, you are acting as a brand ambassador. If someone is curious as to who you are and why you’re so passionate about an event, product, or service, the understanding is that they will pretty easily be able to find out that you’re a marketing professional.

For some, that is enough. Legally-speaking, it is enough. In terms of building a long-term relationship with your current, future, or present customers, hiding your identity as a professional marketer in the folds of your online profile may be considered deceitful.

You may be attracted to covert online marketing: special ops, black ops, spycraft – “fifth column marketing,” if you will. Don’t be.

The blowback that can result from using a false name, a false email (a Yahoo, Google, or Hotmail address created for the campaign and the false name), and a false bio, isn’t worth it.

There is a term for shooting for the short term by being opaque in your intent, no matter how effective it may be: astroturfing, which “describes formal public relations campaigns which seek to create the impression of being a spontaneous, grassroots behavior.”

Accusations of astroturfing can compromise the integrity of the organization you are representing, and further put your ability to communicate future messages in danger.

Over the short term, pretending to be just another denizen of an online community or a blog works if you can pull it off. It isn’t tough to sneak in and talk, talk, talk.

Even though your reputation online is more defined by your contributions to the conversations rather than who you are, the culture of the Internet doesn’t suffer being fooled, duped, or suckered.

If you are ever found out, you are screwed.