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I discovered a comment Mean Dean (of Heal Your Church Website) left last week (on my 9/14 post titled Churches Must Engage, that I somehow missed, with my New Aggregator's comment list, as well as referring links, I missed it both ways.
Anyway, I posted a comment under the post where he links to my article about the Brochureware approaches so many Churches take.
(And, oh yeah, I also added http://www.healyourchurchwebsite.com/index.rdf to my RSS Subscription List, which I don't know how I managed to NOT do up until this time) Now it's there if my uploads and Radio are working like I think they are, or should, or MIGHT.....I never know lately)
3:05:14 PM 
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Toshiba seems like a good test case for "Cluetrain" scrutiny; a lesson on "what NOT to do".
It is obvious to anybody who can use "Google" to look up PDA topics and "Toshiba e740" that Toshiba blew it on this one. I have one, and have been having fun with it, but I see frustration ahead in the continuing insensitivity Toshiba exhibits toward this issue of Windows Mobile 2003 upgrades. Toshiba is clueless on the Customer support front, particularly in this "Weblog era" when all one can find about the Toshiba e740 is how cheated people feel, and how they will never buy another Toshiba product. Clueless attitude number 2: they think that by just not covering the issue at all on their site, they will escape the problem, or that keeping the issue away will enable them to do absolutely nothing. Guess what, Toshiba? Nobody is fooled.
I have little doubt that as soon as the economic situation in this household is on the mend, and as development in Web and tech things begin to spawn new developments and new projects (and with them, additional compensation), then my Toshiba will become a hand-me-down, outdated, and a reminder to steer clear. I wonder if all of the stories like this will ever reach their awareness ("awareness" as in "Clued in" awareness that results in reform and a recognition that they will pay dearly in the pocketbook when they stiff a crowd who is a prime target market for "Connected lifestyle" -- ie. People who bought one of the earliest WiFi enabled PocketPCs --- and a crowd who will not hesitate to "spread the word".
Nowhere in all the Google searches is there any response from Toshiba other than the quotations of the response from Toshiba that basically said "No". Even if there are legitimate technical reasons (Toshiba's response makes this seem less plausible), there should be, at minimum, some attempt to "incentive" the e740 owners to upgrade. Toshiba apparently thinks this will just go away. Anyway, I gotta go. Just my two cents. I'll still look around for some possibility of a solution --- maybe somebody will "hack out" something. Then again, maybe the ones with such "hack skills" already use something else.
11:18:43 AM
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I had a comment posted under my previous post that qualifies as SPAM Comment. First, it is totally unrelated to the post that I made. Second, it seems it is a campaign, and third , it is seemingly an indoctrinating type of campaign, seemingly dominated by Conservatives (thus their "targeting" Christian blogs, assuming that all "Chriatian Blogs" must be Pro-Bush.
Not that resistance to totalitarian regimes is a bad thing; it is certainly part of a Christian ethic in my book, it's just that I am not too friendly to the idea of planting Blog comments on a "list" of Blogs (I suppose they found me through "Blogs 4 God"-- which is largely conservative, but I nevertheless signed up there because of my belief that I must "speak for my faith" and not allow it to be "shouted down" by the assumptions of others who claim to speak for God).
I took a look around the list of blogs mentioned in the comment, and I found lots of blogs that argue that weapons of Mass Destruction WILL BE FOUND, and lots of "Bush/Cheney 2004" banners, and lots of references to Andrew Sullivan. It didn't take long to form the sense of a pattern. If anyone sees otherwise, or has comments on the growing "Comment Spam" trend, please comment HERE, where I am addressing this
9:57:22 AM
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