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Welcome 2011! Let's get back to business.

It’s seems a little odd to me that winter vacations are taken just as winter has started and not when it is in full swing. All around the world, local temperatures trail the solstices and equinoxes by as much as a month so it would make sense to take a vacation now. In any case, I’ve been on a “staycation” since winter officially began, taking time away from Twitter, Stumbleupon, and most other online media to revisit some of my past interests. I can’t recall how long it has been since I read a hardcover book or played a board game, but I think it is important to take a break from the online world once in a while. Of course, I still kept in touch the events around the world through news sites and rss feeds, I couldn’t be completely in the dark, and somehow Facebook was the one networking site I couldn’t stay away from.

Well I’m back online as of last Wednesday. With a queue of videos from Robert Scoble waiting along with some interesting developments in Facebook and Google, you’re going to see a few more updates on webmazing as well as eco-techo.

Wishing you all a wonderful new year, and the strength to keep your resolutions (if you have any).

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Addicted to blogging? Possibly. One more started this week.

Oh my goodness, it's been over a months since I've posted here. It's not that I haven't been blogging, oh no, I've just been busy with other blogs and websites. So Ecotecho was a blog that I started with a classmate as part of a course on internet marketing. To be honest it didn't work out as well as I had hoped. I mean the mark we got on it was excellent, but I was aiming a bit higher. In any case, I won't be updated it as often as we were. I will aim for one a week  but don't hold your breath.

If you haven't seen it the URL is http://eco-techo.blogspot.com, and there you will find articles and views about being environmentally friendly. :-) Of course I still care about that, I'm just juggling other things at the moment.

 

One of those things is a blog that I've begun about engaging with the world wide web. It will start as simply a how-to and introduction to the variety of websites, focusing on social media and interacting with people. Then I plan on moving towards creating and maintaining your own presence online, which includes blogging, and eventually making your own website for personal/professional use.

I welcome all comments and suggestions. This proect is not even a week old and I have scheduled posts for roughly one each day. The skeleton is up an running, I'll jazz it up and make it look better as time permits. Drop and say hello any time! http://webmazing.blogspot.com

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Eco-Techo: The Story of Electronics (2010)

We've begun increasing the online presence of EcoTecho with twitter, digg, and youtube. Our latest blog post. 

Here's an excerpt: 

The "design for the dump" mentality is leading to expanding electronic waste. Companies are pushing products to market which are not designed to be used beyond the next innovation, and consumers are left with very few environmentally friendly choices. Annie gave the example of her old DVD player which would cost much more to fix than to purchase a new one, and we can all think of similar products which we have used ourselves.

Millions of products which use precious metals and toxic materials are poorly recycled, if at all, and negatively impact the communities located near the waste. Maybe it's time to design products to be modular, for a longer lifespan, and to proactively offer a product "take back" program.

If you like what I post, you can find me online by going to www.faysal.tel, where I have listed many of the online handles I use on social media sites.

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Eco-Techo: The "Green" Revolution

I've started a new series on one of my blogs, EcoTecho, which is called The "Green" Revolution. Over the following weeks I'll talk about the problem we face as an oil consuming society and explain the importance of renewable energy and sustainability.

http://eco-techo.blogspot.com/2010/11/green-revolution.html

Here's an excerpt: 

"...The most well publicised problem we face is the carbon emissions that are a by-product of burning fossil fuels. In order to use oil for energy, we must burn it to produce heat; the process of burning the fuel creates carbon dioxide, among others, which is a greenhouse gas. According to the majority of climate scientists, over the past century we have produced enough greenhouse gasses to significantly alter the atmosphere of the earth. Not surprisingly, increasing global populations and the industrialization of poor nations means we're headed towards even more greenhouses gas emissions.

The second problem we face, which is still not well known, is the depletion of oil reserves throughout the world. The oil that we use for energy can be burned very quickly but it is very difficult to make. The natural process which made the oil we use took a much longer time. Biomass, plants and animals, deep within the Earth must be compressed and/or heated under pressure for millions of years before it turns into oil...."

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Eco-Techo : Nissan automobiles turn over a new LEAF, good-bye carbon emissions.

Faysal Ahmed has sent you a link to a blog:

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Blog: Eco-Techo
Post: Nissan automobiles turn over a new LEAF, good-bye carbon emissions.
Link: http://eco-techo.blogspot.com/2010/10/nissan-automobiles-turn-over-new-leaf.html

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BBC E-mail: Apple shares fall despite profits

Faysal Ahmed saw this story on the BBC News website and thought you
should see it.

** Apple shares fall despite profits **
Apple shares drop 7% in after-hours trading, despite reporting expectations-beating profits of $4.3bn for the last quarter.

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