[GPSCC-chat] Spencer's Blog Zoe Lofgren's Office Protest Thursday 4-5PM

[John Thielking]

Spencer,

I think it would be much better to enable comments rather than enable editing for users other than yourself. I raise the same objection here as I did when Drew proposed debating Small Businesses Are People Too on a wiki platform that you had set up. The potential for committing serious censorship of other's comments in the name of "editing" is just too great if there is more than one editor on a site like this. Please find a way to enable comments for the general public. Thanks.

Sincerely,

John Thielking

PS My trial ad campaign on Facebook for my page Small Businesses Are People Too was a small success. For $12 I got 8 clicks and 8 new likes (though only 6 of the new likes were recorded by FB as being officially part of the campaign).

The click through rate was a bit low, only 0.12% or so, but that could be normal for FB considering how often I don't look at the ads in the right hand column.

I'm searching for lower cost options than paying FB $2.50 CPM for impressions. I tried TFD Ads (penny per click) but so far they are living up to their bad rep told to me by one of their users (not very many impressions and zero clicks so far). Any ideas?


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 From: Spencer Graves <spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com>
To: John Thielking <pagesincolor at yahoo.com> 
Cc: GPSCC <sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org>; Donna Wallach <palestineis at dslextreme.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, September 4, 2013 2:50 AM
Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] Zoe Lofgren's Office Protest Thursday 4-5PM
 


On 9/3/2013 10:28 PM, John Thielking wrote:

Interesting blog post Spencer. Any clue as to how to enable comments posting?
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      Thanks for the question.  I was unaware that you couldn't
    until I looked just now.  


      This is on Google Sites.  I can authorize specific people to
    edit, but the obvious place to control access does not have a
    separate option for comments.  That surprises me, because I thought
    it had that feature.  


      Do I need to pay Google for that feature?  


      Thanks, 
      Spencer 



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> From: Spencer Graves <spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com>
>To: John Thielking <pagesincolor at yahoo.com> 
>Cc: GPSCC <sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org>; Donna Wallach <palestineis at dslextreme.com> 
>Sent: Tuesday, September 3, 2013 10:05 PM
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>      Thanks, John, for this.  
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>      Zoe may be officially undecided, but she
                    signed two different letters reminding Obama that he
                    does NOT have the authority to attack Syria without
                    explicit authorization from Congress.  One of these
                    letters states essentially that the decision to use
                    force in Libya was unconstitutional.  Reading
                    between the lines, this suggests to me (and I hope
                    to Obama) that if he goes into Syria and it turns
                    into a mess (which it most likely will), he could
                    convince enough Democrats to join with most
                    Republicans to approve articles of Impeachment in
                    the House and convict in the Senate;  see "http://lofgren.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=825:zoe-on-the-crisis-in-syria-the-us-constitution-and-the-war-powers-resolution&catid=41:of-note-content&Itemid=160".  
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>      I agree that protesting and lobbying Zoe and
                    other members of the House and Senate is wise. 
                    Boxer and Feinstein have both stated support for
                    intervention.  A recent poll indicated 56% opposed,
                    19% for with 25% undecided (http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/03/us-syria-crisis-usa-idUSBRE97T0NB20130903).  Boxer and Feinstein should know that if US involvement in Syria produces seriously negative results, it could be trouble for them.  
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>      Best Wishes, 
>      Spencer 
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>p.s.  You may be interested in my blog on Syria if
                    you haven't seen it already (https://sites.google.com/site/effectivedefenseorg/blog/intervening-in-syria).  
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>On 9/3/2013 9:40 PM, John Thielking wrote:
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>All,
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>>There will be a protest against the impending US war against Syria in front of Zoe Lofgren's office this Thursday September 5, 2013 from 4PM-5PM.  The office is located at 635 N 1st Street, San Jose, CA.  Zoe Lofgren is undecided on how to vote on the war resolution concerning Syria, though she sympathizes with Sam Farr who is going to vote against it. We need to show her that we are serious. Thank you.
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>>Sincerely,
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>>John Thielking
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