Al's Blog-o-Sphere

Greenwashed, greenwashing, greenwash. That’s a new word coined and coming into use.

What’s it mean?

It is the practice of every company, product, and P/R firm using environmental issues to make themselves ‘look good’ by being ‘green’ whether it is, or not. It’s just spin. They find a way to make their product look like it is somehow going to save the planet, even (and usually the case) if it has nothing to do with it.

I first heard it and thought “Here we go, another buzzword like ‘monetize.'” I’m sure it will be. Remember I told you so…

I can’t believe what I just heard in the news:

McCain has said he believed the Iraq war can be won by 2013, leaving a functioning democracy there and allowing most U.S. troops to come home. [Link]

Oh my God, what is he thinking? That’s FIVE more years of a war that has degraded into a quagmire everyone is tired of after six years.

It’s ruining our economy, jacking up Gasoline prices and the cost of everything that depends on it. Five more years of us and the terrorists will have won – they will have destroyed the U.S. by destroying the economy.

Just one more item of proof that electing McCain is four more years of Dubya.

Once again we’re two weeks away from the first Thursday at the Square event and Buffalo Place is just getting around to letting us know who will be there. I don’t know why it’s such a big secret. I’d think that the sooner it was promoted, the better for everyone.

I’m not saying we need to know who is playing in August right now, but the first show is May 29. That’s just 14 days away. I already know who will be playing in all the bars around the square afterwards, but don’t know who will be there. Continue Reading…

Is blogging journalism? They seem to think so at the Buffalo News. The News runs Buffalo.com, a web portal as well as their own site for the newspaper, buffalonews.com. They also run a public free blogging site called Your Hub as well as a photo sharing site called spotted. Both of the latter are pre-packaged “solutions” that are simply customized for their use, mostly by adding the word “Buffalo.”
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