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Syndication

by

Philip Bromley

If you listen to Experts and Gurus they will all tell you that to be sucessful your website needs content. Fine but when you are starting out, or even established, providing content is a time consuming business. You write content yourself or spend hours searching net's FREE content sites. That sadly is not end for in order for your site to attract visitor return or "Stickiness" you have to find fresh content on a regular basis.

That sadly is just begining of your problems as you now have task of adding this new content to your web site. almost certainly this will involve some downtime for your site. There has to be a better way,and there is! Before you are completely put off by my explanation try this experiment. Paste following code into Notepad or any other suitable text editor. Save file as an html page. I suggest you call file syndication and save it to your My Documents. Click on this html file and you will see one of our test panels

“Adopting an attitude of universal responsibility is essentially a personal matter. The real test of compassion is not what we say in abstract discussions but how we conduct ourselves in daily life.” Dalai Lama

I was recently on a glorious vacation in Los Angeles. I took ten days off to play, rejuvenate and get some well-needed sunshine with my family. I was aware during my “time off” that political crisis in Iraq was heating up.

I don’t often feel directly vulnerable to threat of terrorism. I live in a small rural city in New Hampshire; for most part I have luxury (or illusion) of feeling safe in my physical environment.

During days in LA I was inundated and saturated with newspapers and media. After all, there I was in heart of a major possible terrorist target. I couldn’t keep my eyes off of LA Times, I was irresistibly drawn to stories about bombs and chemical warfare and small pox horrors. I looked around at hundreds of people on streets and wondered what would happen if there was an emergency? The thought left me cold.

The day before we were scheduled to fly home security rating went up a notch to high alert. I was starting to truly be concerned about getting on an airplane.

I wanted to quell my anxiety; I certainly didn’t want my daughter to pick up on my fears and be worried about flying home.

Then, it occurred to me. “They” were winning. I was experiencing terrorism. According to Webster’s Dictionary, definition of terrorism is “use of force or threats to demoralize or intimidate.” And it was working.

In that moment I realized it was my choice to stay afraid or not. I became aware of “game” that is being played and how easily I fell into it. Suddenly, I felt a calm and a resolve that I wouldn’t let my life be dictated by fear. I became aware of balance between staying informed and getting sucked in. The tide of fear was turning.