20 years in jail for scraping a video site
Sep/091
I was just reading reddit and saw a link to an article about someone that was facing 20 years in jail for uploading a video he found on liveleak.
I am not sure but i think they confused uploading with the cut and paste code because most of these media dumb asses cant cope with the bandwith hit.
If it is true and he did just cut and paste the video code this has implications across the internet for everyone and especially the Australians.
There is a link to the article here but please let me know what you think because it all seems like a rediculous article if i didnt know the Australians werent the smartest people on earth.
What is a Social Media Consultant?
Feb/0911
Going back a few years i entered the SEO arena when it was still a developing market.
I learned my skills and developed lots of sites to make money and did lots of client work.
SEO is a tough process with man/woman battling against the google/yahoo and msn so its very difficult to understand and to win.
Recently there have been a lot more people turning their back on the SEO market because its now a highly developed market and its much harder to make a noise in the crowd.
Last year it seemed like everyone was an seo but all thats changing.
Enter the Social Media Consultant!
I am still trying to work out what a social media consultant is, what they do and what the deliver or promise to deliver?
It seems the role of a social media consultant is to spend all day on twitter and facebook helping to build the profiles of companies that confuse popularity and page views with sales or conversions.
The SEO consultants making the most noise a few years ago were mostly full of shit and often had made very little revenue out of their few sites they built in between talking shite on forums and blogs about how great they were.
What about Social Media Consultants?
I am assuming they are highly skilled at talking about crap 24/7 on twitter and spending countless hours pretending to be hot girls on facebook or myspace to build up the amount of “friends” they or their clients have.
I hope someone can reply to this and correct my thinking that a social media consultant is just someone who charges clients to show them how to waste days and nights messing about on facebook or twitter rather than trying to generate sales and conversions through conventional methods.
Does this mean that the search engines are even more wide open for the pillaging while all these social media consultants are becoming experts in talking trash on twitter and facebook?
Please correct me if my thinking is way off!!