popbestline4: The Truth About Article Marketing | Writing and ...

It seems as though article marketing is the biggest thing in Internet marketing right now. How do you get your name out there? Articles. How do you become an expert in your niche? Articles. How do you [insert money making phrase here]? Articles. But why? And how?

?You Should Believe Me Because I Know All?

Well written articles are powerful things ? they demonstrate your expertise to readers better than any ad, website, or banner can. And once you?re considered an expert, people listen to you. If a licensed medical doctor told you that you should take aspirin every day to lower your risk of a heart attack, would you listen? Yes (Well, hopefully) What if you read an article in Newsweek that said the UK was going to convert to using the Euro, would you believe it? Yes. Why? Because they?re experts on those subjects, and they say so. That?s the power articles can give you.

Author Resource Boxes Are The Trail Of Reese?s Pieces Leading Back To The Author?s Website

Why do authors write articles? It?s not just to solidify their expert status. That status alone is pretty much worthless. You?ve got to give the reader a place to go when they?re done reading your article ? a place to find out more about the subject. If they?ve read the entire article, chances are, they want to learn more from you. Authors give their readers that chance by putting a link to a place where they can find more information in your resource box, aka ? the About the Author area. Think about the traffic you would get from a site with 500,000 subscribers or more, and feel free to make the Homer Simpson drool sound.

Googlebot Loves Candy [or] There?s A Reason Why It?s Called Inktomi Slurp?

Who else loves to read an entire article, then follow the link back to the author?s website? That?s right, search engines do. Search engine bots will follow your trail of Reese?s Pieces all the way back to your site, then chill out there and look around while they finish the rest of the bag.

Your Link, All Over The Internet

Now that your article with your link in the resource box is on the web, publishers can read it. If they like it, they can re-print it in newsletters, ezines, websites, all over the web. And what are your conditions? The publisher can?t change it, and they have to include that active link to your site. Now you have your link, all over the Internet.

Another added bonus of other sites reprinting your articles is SEO. If a site that ranks very high in the results for keywords related to your article picks it up, the chances of someone getting to your article through a search engine are high. This is kind of a round about way of getting search engine traffic, as some of those people will also follow the link in your resource box.

Where Can I Submit My Articles?

Yep. You can submit your article to individual article directories by hand, and get the job done. In fact, here is a great site that has around 100 directories listed on it:?http://www.arcanaweb.com/resources/article-directories.html

But even if you assume it will take 1 minute (that?s being very generous) per submission, that?s still over an hour and a half of work you?re doing to submit your article to only 100 sites.

Wow, That Sucks? Is there a better way?

Yep again. I use a service called Article Marketer (http://www.Article-Marketer.com) to submit my articles. They go above and beyond the call of duty to ensure that publishers are only sent the highest quality work by weeding out spam, advertorials, and articles with bad grammar. In fact, since my articles aren?t spam, they?ll work with me to whip the article into shape, and ensure that I?ll get the most bang for my submission buck, and the publishers get the content they?re looking for.

Article Marketer can submit to roughly 30,000 publishers and article directories, and is very reasonably priced. If you?re about to publish a few articles, you have the choice of a low per article fee, or you can get a 3-month subscription and submit an unlimited number of articles. This choice is invaluable if I?m launching a few websites in a month and need to promote them all.

Best of all, it doesn?t take me hours, it takes me minutes. Using a submission service saves me time and effort, and it gets my articles out to places and people I never would have known about otherwise. Actually, I?m going to use Article-Marketer.com to submit this article, too. (By the time you read this, I?ll have already submitted this article through them, haha!)

Wow, You Really Know Your Stuff

I write articles for nearly every website that I create, and I see the benefits almost instantly when I submit a well-written article. (I also own my own article directory, so I know what it?s like to be on the receiving end, too)

Now that you know why article marketing is king, start writing. There are thousands of content-hungry publishers out there, ready to reprint your articles and make you an expert with TONS of Reese?s Pieces?

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Xunlei CEO - Web 2.0 Asia Blog

Recalling the past ten years, Zou Shenglong, founder and CEO of Xunlei, concluded that premium subscription is the best consumer-facing business model for internet services, citing advantages it brings on cash flows, pricing power and building the overall platform (source in Chinese).

Founded in January 2003 and becoming?one of the leading download and video streaming services in China, Xunlei introduced the subscription model in 2009.?Till today, it has four million subscribers ? 1% of the user base, paying?RMB9.8 ($1.5) or RMB15 ($2.4) per month, to contribute approaching half of its total revenues.?The company expects to have 10 million subscribers in two to three years.

The revenues generated by subscriptions as a percentage increased from 2.4% in 2009 to 16.9% in 2010 and to 26.4% in the three months ended March?31, 2011, according to its?F-1 filing with SEC?in July 2011.

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Different from premium services offered by western products, the package a Chinese service would offer must range way more widely than its core business.?Xunlei?s?includes 30 plus privileges, from premium download offerings to online gaming. Tencent is widely recognized as the creator of the subscription model for monetizing an internet service. From 2000 to now, Tencent?s QQ Membership, with 20-plus combinations of offerings,?has over 20 million subscribers. Contributing the first revenues to the company, the model still generates about 20% of the internet giant?s total revenues.

Xunlei acknowledged it modeled Tencent?s both in?gaming business and the subscription service. Zou Shenglong pointed out that it took six years for Tencent to get one million subscribers, thinking that must be a turning point for such a business. So he didn?t think it?s a coincidence when Xunlei?s subscriber growth accelerated after having gained one million sign-ups.

Zou also counts the membership model as the base for developing other transaction-based paid services, such as gaming his company started operating in 2008. He thinks two preconditions can have more users pay for more services: a powerful platform that can?have impact on?user behaviors and a paying user base.

?Unrealistic to make big money through video advertising?

Besides subscriptions and gaming, the third revenue source of Xunlei?s is online video advertising. But that? s not a good business, according to Zou, given the content costs. The company has spent hundreds of millions yuan each year on licensing copyrighted video content since 2007, trying to scale up an advertising-based business and promising to share revenues with content providers. Unexpectedly, video content prices skyrocketed in the next years when online video streaming services crowded the market. Though prices declined to be comparatively reasonable in this year, Mr. Zou said ?currently it?s unrealistic to make big money through video advertising?.

Its online advertising revenues as a percentage declined from 70.7% in 2008 to 51% as of March 31, 2011, as disclosed by its F-1.

Although most Chinese web services with large user bases, including?Sina Weibo?and?Youku, adopted the subscription model, Xunlei is one of the few that succeeds in making a considerable income there. While it?s proven that users would like to pay several yuan a month to speed up downloading or video streaming, it seems online video sites like Youku have difficulty in charging for accessing premium content ? or there is little to offer since fierce competitions make it really hard not to offer any video for free. As to?Sina Weibo?s subscription offerings, I really think they are just trifle features that should have been for free anyway. It may be too early to judge. Maybe that premium subscription model will still be workable for any web service when premium offerings and timing are right, as Zou Shenglong believes in.

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The Daily Grind: What gaming-related choice would you have ...

If you're reading this, it's proof that the end of the Mayan calendar did not result in the end of civilization and the world. Shocking, really. But if it had ended yesterday, there are a few things that I really would have been sad about. I can just see myself looking at the rising waves of burning destruction and thinking that now I'd really never get a chance to play WildStar. And I'd be dead, but priorities.

So let's turn this over to you, dear readers. If the world had ended, as everything crumbled to ash, what gaming-related thing would you have regretted? Would you have wished that you had played Tabula Rasa when you had the chance? That you had specced for tanking instead of damage in Star Wars: The Old Republic? That you had waited until The Secret World was buy-to-play before picking up a copy? Or just that you hadn't tried to talk to your guild by voice chat while you were a bit tipsy?

Every morning, the Massively bloggers probe the minds of their readers with deep, thought-provoking questions about that most serious of topics: massively online gaming. We crave your opinions, so grab your caffeinated beverage of choice and chime in on today's Daily Grind!

Source: http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/12/22/the-daily-grind-what-gaming-related-choice-would-you-have-regre/

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Help Harlem's Sweet Enuff End Childhood Obesity |

Harlem?s SWEET ENUFF has been nominated for Michelle Obama?s PHA Innovation Challenge. SWEET ENUFF works primarily with Harlem youth as a diabetes and obesity prevention project.

SWEET ENUFF is the only Harlem/New York based project nominated for this Challenge. Harlem World Magazine asks you to help SWEET ENUFF win Mrs. Obama?s Challenge and represent Harlem in Washington DC this March. ?There may even be an opportunity for some SWEET ENUFF Harlem kids to perform.

Let?s represent Harlem for our First Lady!

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Movie Review: ZERO DARK THIRTY - Assignment X Assignment X

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN / Contributing Writer

Posted: December 23rd, 2012 / 08:09 AM

Rating: R
Stars: Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler, Jennifer Ehle, Harold Perrineau, James Gandolfini
Writer: Mark Boal
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Distributor: Columbia Pictures
Release Date: December 19, 2012

By now, pretty much everybody knows about the U.S. Navy SEAL raid in the compound in Pakistan that led to the death of Osama Bin Laden, head of Al-Qaeda, which claimed responsibility for the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the U.S.

What most people don?t know is exactly how the compound was found, how long it took and how it was determined to be the residence of Bin Laden. ZERO DARK THIRTY climaxes with the Seal Team Six nighttime raid (?Oh-dark-thirty? is the military term for 12:30 AM), but before that, director Kathryn Bigelow and writer Mark Boal, give us a chronicle of what led up to this.

We see much of ZERO DARK THIRTY through the eyes of CIA field agent Maya (Jessica Chastain), who has spent her entire adult life working for the CIA, and most of that time trying to find Bin Laden. We meet Maya as she arrives at a CIA ?black site? outside the U.S., where ?enhanced interrogation? (torture) is permitted. Maya watches as experienced interrogator Dan (Jason Clarke) does truly horrendous things to prisoner Ammar (Reda Katteb) in the name of getting information. Ammar begs Maya for help when they are alone; Maya tells him, ?You can help yourself by telling the truth.?

This aspect of ZERO DARK THIRTY, in addition to being tough to watch, has proven controversial, as the film depicts torture as a technique that can (albeit very slowly) yield useful information. Many in the intelligence community disagree with this assessment. In any case, the film doesn?t delve into the morality of this, beyond the toll it takes on both prisoner and interrogator. There is a moment of dark humor as the CIA agents watch President Obama on a newscast saying that torture will no longer be used. The alternative the CIA comes up with is more expensive, more effective and a lot easier to live with for all parties concerned (and makes for a bit of levity).

The eventual raid on Bin Laden?s compound, which forms most of the climax of the film, is of course action-packed and thrilling. However, the real demonstration of skill here, as other reviewers have pointed out, is how director Bigelow and writer Boal take what had to be a grueling slog of an investigation and turn it into something that makes us sit up in suspense at every turn. Maya (said to be a composite of several women involved in the investigation) is determination personified and she doesn?t have a lot of patience for even people above her who are hesitant to commit resources to the search.

Outright dread also comes from the unpredictability of the surroundings ?Pakistanand Afghanistan are countries where violence can very easily occur in even the safest-looking surroundings, as is shown repeatedly. Even when we realize that we?re about to see a dramatization of a known event in recent history, we?re made to feel as though we?re right on the ground with the characters.

Chastain gives us a real human being who lives for her work. This isn?t the unfortunately all-too-familiar situation of a young actress trying to show us someone with a steel spine, but rather a highly skilled performer who has no inhibitions about finding and revealing a fierce inner drive, along with an occasional bout of despair.

Clarke and Katteb are seamless in their scenes together and James Gandolfini is unexpectedly gentle as the CIA director. Jennifer Ehle is excellent as a colleague who initially disagrees with Maya on tactics but bonds with her anyway and Joel Edgerton is very persuasive as the Seal Team Six leader. TORCHWOOD fans should note that John Barrowman turns up in a small role.

Since many characters are composites, ZERO DARK THIRTY shouldn?t be taken as the last word on the raid on Osama Bin Laden?s compound. However, its depiction of the process by which the compound was ultimately found is richly detailed and feels authentic. There?s no show-boating or wasted time here ? this is a case where well-researched?art makes us believe we?re watching something that is true.

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How Can Healing Physical Therapy Help? An Interview with Mark ...

A professional healer and alternative health practitioner explains the art of intention

Mark Havilan ? Physical therapist and alternative healer

Mark Haviland is a physical therapist, healer, masseuse and alternative health practitioner based in San Francisco, CA. In his business he deals often the elderly, they infirm and the dying, employing touch- and motion-based therapy to lift spirits and ease tensions. He spoke with SevenPonds about his experience in the field.

Antal: Could you start off by telling us a about your work in alternative health, physical therapy? How does your field relate to the end-of-life?

Mark: I?ve been practicing in the healing arts for about 12 years now, and there are many different facets to the practice that I?ve cultivated over the years. I started off as a volunteer at an AIDS hospice in San Francisco. I had to get really up close and personal with the regulars, I spent time right at their bedside. I started studying with the volunteers, and it changed my life in many ways, going into that area of service, with others like rabbis, clerics, teachers. You know, people who work in the hospice field or with the elderly, patients who have taken trauma, those who need emotional release in grief. I learned that it?s really so challenging for people to take care of themselves.

I?ve been doing grief and growing practice for about 16 years. At Beyond Body Work we have about 5 to 6 therapy sessions with everyone together. We train them, and give them family grieving attention. We have morning conferences. We learn that the body is a record-keeper, a space that stores grief. In hospice situations we teach people simple things, like holding hands, movement, and that the most important part is a sense of intention, making a claim from your heart, and make the ailing person more at ease if they?re feeling unbalanced, locating their physical meridians.

I lost my mom about 3 years ago to a brain tumor, and I don?t care how prepared you think you are, you aren?t. It was a beautiful, annihilating experience. I have regrets. My family and I, we weren?t there for her ourselves.

Antal: So how can people take care of themselves when they?re in those sorts of situations?

Mark: I taught a class called Temple Keeper, which was a self-care class with several elderly clients who received regular work ? we taught them massage, stretches, points they can hold on their body, their wrist, their arm, ankle or chest, that can help alleviate stress. This field is changing, there is this huge wave of taking personal responsibility. People want to take care of themselves. I teach people stretches, Tai Gong, this sort of internal martial art, similar to Tai Chi, it?s simple and gentle. I like to keep it simple in general: stretches, yoga. Energy follows intention, so the intent you have can help to have a calming effect.

Antal: Tell us more about this. How do you deal with patients with terminal illness?

Mark: Very delicately. I had a client, just today actually, going into chemo. This person is dynamic, ambitious, full of life force, and I hadn?t gone specifically through this sort of training. A lot of it is knowing what to do, what not to do, and sometimes just putting your hand on someone, holding them, serves as a perception shifter to help them alleviate their own experience. Having a space for trust and bonding with their therapist is good enough. Several clients had cancer. I?ve had clients who died, have had growths taken out. Ultimately I?ve found that it?s touch ? intentional, healing touch. You can?t do a lot for people taking poison into their bodies, like in chemotherapy, so knowing where to stop is self-regulating. It?s something that can?t really be taught, that you feel out.

Antal: How can someone make the most of your service, or in the time in between sessions? How about those who maybe have trouble even with the most basic physical tasks?

Mark: Okay, say you?re someone who is very overweight, housebound, weighs between 300 and 400 pounds. You aren?t able to leave your house, so I have to be very functional in the work that I would normally have them do. So we practice with movement and music, any sort of movement in the body. The body loves rhythm and movement. When you?re going through the experience of not being well, when your spirit?s low, a lot of times it?s about reaching out, and there are a lot of resources out there. But reaching out is one of the hardest things to do. Some people see it as a defeat, acknowledging your own limitations.

Vigorously rubbing your joints, your skin ? polishing your body induces circulation and energy and blood flow, your immune system. Patting your legs and chest is helpful for your autoimmune and your lymph system. There are hundreds of thousands of other basic activities you can partake.

Antal: Do you have any advice for those who are emotionally ill? Who are grieving?

Mark: There?s this great book out there called Kayak Mornings that I recommend those going through that process. See, grief comes all at once, and we expect it to leave all at once, but that?s not how it works. We have to live with it. We develop a relationship with grief and we learn skills, ways to take care of ourselves and to deal with it, and its tendency to come in these overwhelming waves. There is a connection between life and death, but unfortunately there is hardly any discussion on death in this society.

You are looking life right in the face when seeing someone die. It is a spiritual, visceral experience. Everybody dies differently, everyone grieves differently, everyone has their own experience. There is help out there, and you have to reach out. Death and grieving may seem extraordinarily isolating, but in fact they create space for humanity.

Antal: That?s exactly what SevenPonds thinks about it. Thanks so much for your time.

Mark: Absolutely, keep up the good work.

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You can reach Mark at his San Francisco office by phone: (415) 596-4293.

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• Take in SevenPonds? review of the work on life and grief that Mark mentioned, Kayak Mornings, by Roger Rosenblatt.
• Learn how one San Francisco organization buoys the spirits of its clients through animal companionship.

Source: http://blog.sevenponds.com/professional-advice/how-can-healing-physical-therapy-help-an-interview-with-mark-haviland

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Engineers seek ways to convert methane into useful chemicals

Friday, December 21, 2012

Little more than a decade ago, the United States imported much of its natural gas. Today, the nation is tapping into its own natural gas reserves and producing enough to support most of its current needs for heating and power generation, and is beginning to export natural gas to other countries.

The trend is expected to continue, as new methods are developed to extract natural gas from vast unrecovered reserves embedded in shale. Natural gas can be used to generate electricity, and it burns cleaner than coal.

"With petroleum reserves in decline, natural gas production is destined to increase to help meet worldwide energy demands," said Matthew Neurock, a chemical engineering professor in the University of Virginia's School of Engineering and Applied Science. "But petroleum ? in addition to being used to make fuels ? is also used to make ethylene, propylene and other building blocks used in the production of a wide range of other chemicals. We need to develop innovative processes that can readily make these chemical intermediates from natural gas."

The problem is, there currently are no cost-effective ways to do this. Methane, the principal component of natural gas, is rather inert and requires high temperatures to activate its strong chemical bonds; therefore the practical and successful conversion of methane to useful chemical intermediates has thus far eluded chemists and engineers.

Neurock is working with colleagues at Northwestern University to invent novel ways and catalytic materials to activate methane to produce ethylene. This week the collaborators published a paper in the online edition of the journal Nature Chemistrydetailing the use of sulfur as a possible "soft" oxidant for catalytically converting methane into ethylene, a key "intermediate" for making chemicals, polymers, fuels and, ultimately, products such as films, surfactants, detergents, antifreeze, textiles and others.

"We show, through both theory ? using quantum mechanical calculations ? and laboratory experiments, that sulfur can be used together with novel sulfide catalysts to convert methane to ethylene, an important intermediate in the production of a wide range of materials," Neurock said.

Chemists and engineers have attempted to develop catalysts and catalytic processes that use oxygen to make ethylene, methanol and other intermediates, but have had little success as oxygen is too reactive and tends to over-oxidize methane to common carbon dioxide.

Neurock said that sulfur or other "softer" oxidants that have weaker affinities for hydrogen may be the answer, in that they can help to limit the over-reaction of methane to carbon disulfide. In the team's process, methane is reacted with sulfur over sulfide catalysts used in petroleum processes. Sulfur is used to remove hydrogen from the methane to form hydrocarbon fragments, which subsequently react together on the catalyst to form ethylene.

Theoretical and experimental results indicate that the conversion of methane and the selectivity to produce ethylene are controlled by how strong the sulfur bonds to the catalyst. Using these concepts, the team explored different metal sulfide catalysts to ultimately tune the metal-sulfur bond strength in order to control the conversion of methane to ethylene.

Chemical companies consider methane a particularly attractive raw material because of the large reserves of natural gas in the U.S. and other parts of the world.

In 2007, Dow issued a "Methane Challenge," seeking revolutionary chemical processes to facilitate the conversion of methane to ethylene and other useful chemicals.

The company received about 100 proposals from universities, institutes and companies around the world.

In 2008, the company awarded major research grants to Cardiff University and Northwestern University to advance the quest. Neurock is a member of the Northwestern University team. He is using theoretical methods and high-performance computing to understand the processes that control catalysis and to guide the experimental research at Northwestern.

"The abundance of natural gas, along with the development of new methods to extract it from hidden reserves, offers unique opportunities for the development of catalytic processes that can convert methane to chemicals," Neurock said. "Our finding ? of using sulfur to catalyze the conversion of methane to ethylene ? shows initial promise for the development of new catalytic processes that can potentially take full advantage of these reserves. The research, however, is really just in its infancy"

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