An underground business, that charges companies high fees to delete negative news or posts against them, has been flourishing in the run-up to World Consumer Rights Day today, normally regarded as the most important day to highlight a company's good reputation. Such business operators describe themselves as "public relation experts for dealing with crises" and release their cheap nfl jerseys mobile phone numbers or contact details through online instant messaging programs such as QQ on the Internet. Although there is no data available on the number of operators, a Baidu search in Chinese of "professional post-deleting company in Beijing" revealed a total of 679,000 pages. Insiders told METRO they work like agents for companies or individuals worried about online scandals or negative reports and persuade portals reproducing or forwarding such information to delete it.

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agreed to a four-year contract Friday. The deal is worth $27 million and will pay him about $18 million over the first two years, according to two league sources.
That would be a major upgrade from the $2.521 million one-year tender that had been on the table since March, and Bethea barely beat a Tuesday deadline that would have allowed the Colts to reduce the amount of the tender.
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As the morning sun crested the old hill and fog settled on the old lake, I thought I'd take my new puppy, Grandpa, out for a walk... but it was just too darn foggy. You know that kind of fog that rolls in, forming little hands as it chases after you? Y'know, the kind that sounds like distant screams for help? Yeah, that kind of fog. So we went back inside.

Country living has been hard on me. I don't know how to start a fire, I'm awful at canning, and I'm not sure where the bathroom is, yet. Oddly enough, my months of preparing for the trip by playing "Oregon Trail" has left me scratching my head. But I'll discuss the perils of public computer use another time -- in spite of all my problems so far, I've dedicated myself to finishing my book. Then, after I get a sense of how a book goes, I'll start writing one of my own.

Swine flu... it's something on all of our minds. A virus with no prior immunity, no known vaccination, and no respect for human law. If panic is any indicator, this virus is surely the one that will end the human race as we know it. Of course, a few hundred of the most wealthy and influential will survive in massive subterranean luxury tubes. However, some scientists believe that small pockets of land-walkers CAN survive if the right precautions are taken. Here are some helpful tips!

1. Wash your hands! Your mom toldja right. Washing your hands doesn't actually do anything, but at least it will make your brain think you're washing off all the creepy crawlies that you know are on there. Remember: disease is 99% mental.

2. Masks. Wear them. The sillier the better, too. Buy some of those panda shaped ones the Japanese wear. They're actually better suited to filter out particles more likely to carry strains of a burgeoning pandemic... plus, they're fun!

Warning: What follows is less than meets the eye.

I have this thing about ugly words or phrases. Kinda like going into an old style delicatessen and having to choose sandwiches named after some long dead comedian. After all, who wants to order a MiltonBerle, or a JackE.Leonard, or a JerryLewis (not technically dead)? Not me.

Getting to my minimalist point here.

I love blogging. I'm hooked so badly that my eyeballs are about to fall out. Blogging stirs up so many endorphins in my brain that I'm getting dizzy, ready to fall over, just in writing this post.

Okay, blogging is great. It adds meaning to life, for the reader and the writer.

BUT, the word 'blog' looks and sounds ugly. Hateful even.

So here's what I propose. Let's have a contest to create a new term for what we do. The new word should be as elegant and intriguing as the experience of blogging.

It's not like I don't already have a blog, or two...

This blog, though, is going to focus more on my writing, which is something I'm trying to focus on in my life at present. I've written quite a bit for online sites, admittedly with the goal of getting paid for said writing. That's one of the nice things about the internet--just about anyone can get paid for spilling the contents of their brain onto paper... errr... the screen.

But what I want to do with this blog is to work on improving my writing. Anyone can make and keep a blog these days. I'd like my blog here to be a little more than that. I want to challenge myself to write well and interestingly here, and use that to improve my writing everywhere else.

Call this my own personal gigantic piece of scrap paper.

The interesting thing about blogs is that they are the closest some people get to reading a book. Young people especially love blogs, and would choose to read a blog over something like The Diary of Anne Frank or Dear Mr. Henshaw, both of which are perhaps 10 times more interesting than anything one could find on the Web these days.

I have to admit that I’m falling prey to the lure of the blogosphere. I am usually an avid reader of books. I adore Toni Morrison and James Baldwin. To me, they write so well it hurts; I fall in love each I time I read one of their novels, and sometimes reading their work can be even more satisfying than sex.

Want to see a group of editors get really riled up?

Ask them if a sentence needs a comma.

I spent 20 minutes in an editorial meeting today with my colleagues discussing the pros and cons of adding a comma to a sentence with a “then” clause. Most people don’t care about such particulars, but to editors, adding a comma to a sentence in just the right place is like the difference between tiddlywinks and chess. In fact, good punctuation is like playing a game: you’ve got several moves to choose from (periods, question marks, dashes, and colons), but only one will help you win.

Non-professionals often talk about how editors love to read, how they love language. Both of these are true. But people often forget that editors must also be the kinds of people who get excited when they see a tough sentence punctuated correctly.

When I see a great sentence in a book, I underline it. Then I think about the person who put it together. How about you?

Hi Everyone -

I'm Julie. I don't actually recall where I found out about this site, but I've been debating starting a writing related blog and when I saw this site it seemed like a good place to play with it. I setup a fairly comprehensive "About Me" page, so I suggest you check it out if you want to learn more about me and my writing projects.

Julie

This is the perfect thing to feed my procrastination! Glad I found it. I've never had a blog or really posted anything before, but it's 1:30 in the morning and I have to feel like I've accomplished something productive before I go to sleep. So I've created this new account and inspired myself to dedicate more time to writing, oh and actually posted something. That sounds productive enough, aka bedtime :)