2008-12-15T13:50:18Ztag:blog.limedaley.com,2018:/isso/thread/post/trendfo.comtag:blog.limedaley.com,2018:/isso/480/20782008-12-15T13:50:18Zjondaley<p>A little hard to say since the customer pays me by the hour, and I work on lots of projects for him simultaneously, so though the bills probably made sense at the time, since we knew what projects we were working on, it is kind of hard to go back and look at it later. Something less than $2000.</p> <p>One of the tricks is to be able to parse all the feeds without getting blocked by using up too much of the source's resources.</p>tag:blog.limedaley.com,2018:/isso/480/20772008-12-15T11:37:19ZHerman<p>Hi jon,</p> <p>I intrested to have site like http://trendfo.com/</p> <p>can you tell me how much budget must i spend for it?</p> <p>thanks</p>tag:blog.limedaley.com,2018:/isso/480/20762008-11-18T14:05:47ZSursumCorda<p>Many, many years ago my father attended a lecture given by a young, relatively unknown Canadian named Peter Jennings. What impressed my father (and what I've remembered all these years) is Jennings' insistence that journalists were wrong to claim to report unbiased news. It is impossible to be unbiased, he said; the best you can do is be open and upfront about your prejudices and let them audience take that into account.</p> <p>It's clear that the news media have now abandoned any attempt to minimize bias, though they (and Jennings himself) usually neglect the part about being honest about their prejudices. News stories are now as full of opinion as the editorial pages, so I think Jennings was wrong: by abandoning the pretense of impartiality, journalists feel free to give full vent to their biases.</p> <p>One thing impressed me about the howobmagotelected interviews, however. I had doubted their claim that they were looking for the brightest Obama voters to interview, but apparently there's some truth to that. Everyone recognized that to claim to have campaigned in 57 states was ridiculous, even if they didn't know it was their own candidate that said that. What makes this indicative of above-average intelligence is the story of a friend of ours, who frequently attends garage sales. At one she purchased an American flag because it had only forty-nine stars, making it a rarity. In the conversations that ensued, she discovered that no one at the sale knew that there are currently 50 states in the U.S. Appalled, she asked the same question at the rest of the day's garage sale stops, and found the ignorance universal.</p>