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Re: WordPress pricing debunked: How much does a WordPress website cost? How much for an e-commerce based on WordPress?

pkenjora — Tue, 24 May 2016 12:29:05 -0000

So I ran the above infographic through the Website Cost Calculator I use, and it gave me $7,155 for the site you described in the infographic: http://www.awarelabs.com/ca...

Re: Skull Clock

pkenjora — Tue, 03 May 2016 12:18:42 -0000

Great, thank you!

Re: 17 Things We Learned About Income Inequality in 2014

pkenjora — Tue, 12 Apr 2016 17:36:45 -0000

In the time it took you to read this article Bill Gates earned enough to buy a new luxury home. The trouble is money makes money, and all the tricks in the world won't prevent income inequality. Its a fundamental economic problem, and it needs to be solved in the interest of the many not the few.

This will put things in perspective for you, see how much people make per second: http://paul.kenjora.com/mon...

Re: The Fallen of WWII - fallen.io - Data-driven documentary about war and peace

pkenjora — Wed, 03 Jun 2015 15:07:10 -0000

Long story short, you can white wash your own history but don't go around trying to make yourself look better by distorting the history of others.

A Dane from Denmark, whose government openly collaborated with the Nazis ( not Germans ) in exchange for amnesty and the deportation of their Jewish population, accusing Eastern European countries ( who openly fought against the Nazis ) of "jumping on the [Nazi] bandwagon" is...

1. Ludicrous.
2. A shameful distortion of history.
3. Modern propaganda.

If you want to paint a rosy picture of Danish history to make yourself feel better, go for it, I really won't bother you, but don't dare disrespect millions of dead to play political games with the history of others.

We thank you for your service at the UN, and just like military service did not entitle Hitler to falsehood and wrong doing, neither does it excuse you.

I've said my peace and I stand by my words.

Re: The Fallen of WWII - fallen.io - Data-driven documentary about war and peace

pkenjora — Wed, 03 Jun 2015 14:13:53 -0000

Was there any implication in this thread that Poles = Good and Germans = Bad? I read the whole thing again didn't see it,

Because you say it doesn't make it true. so lets not go around in circles. We are having this discussion because of two of your quotes...

"but don't forget, many-many other countries and peoples happily jumped on the bandwagon once the killing started, in particular in Eastern Europe: Hungary, Romania, Croatia, the Baltic Countries and indeed Poland."

"many of whom actually lived and fought during WWII, who will lament and lauder the losses of Polish 'Patriots' (resistance fighters) killed by the Nazis"

To summarize...

YOU applied the term "patriot" where you should have used the correct term partysant. Your error not the Poles.

YOU made a blatantly historically false statement about "jumping on the bandwagon", not sure being bombed by the Luftwaffe and having 16% of your population exterminated is jumping on any bandwagon. Compared to Denmark's deal with the Nazis to supply agriculture in exchange for amnesty for the Dutch and the expulsion of the Jews from Denmark, I would say Hungary, Romania, Croatia, the Baltic Countries and indeed Poland definitely did not "jump on the bandwagon". Your error not history's.

So we agree that you made a poor choice of words and misrepresent history and made statements that were your opinion not facts which are much more complex.

Re: The Fallen of WWII - fallen.io - Data-driven documentary about war and peace

pkenjora — Wed, 03 Jun 2015 10:58:58 -0000

Poles call their resistance fighters: partyzant - translated into english as guerrilla ( soldier who engages in irregular warfare (usually a member of a loosely organized band of soldiers which utilizes hit-and-run methods to fight the enemy). An overly accurate representation of the Polish resistance against the invaders, the term guerilla applied as well to many other countries using those tactics.

http://www.english-polish-d...
http://www.english-polish-d...

So again, correction there, you used the word "patriot" which could be confused for partyzant if you don't know the language. The Polish word for "patriot" is "patriota", not the same as "partyzant".

Otherwise I think we've come to an agreement as far as we can or need to given our seats in the stands spectating on history.

Re: The Fallen of WWII - fallen.io - Data-driven documentary about war and peace

pkenjora — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 22:24:07 -0000

It only took 4 sentences taken out of context on purpose or through ignorance to set you off on a 3 page essay trying to explain why your country, Denmark, was just in its actions during the war. So why wouldn't you expect anyone else to correct you when you distort 600 years of Polish and Jewish history.

Your comments about Polish "patriots" ( patronizing quotes not used anywhere else by you in your comments ) and your comment of "many-many other countries and peoples happily jumped on the bandwagon once the killing started, in particular in Eastern Europe: Hungary, Romania, Croatia, the Baltic Countries and indeed Poland" were both just as biased, inflammatory, distorted, dishonets, and ignorant of 600 years, of as you put it, "complex history".

Its easy to erase 600 years of a nations history in a few words, its easy to twist what should be proud history into shame, its easy to feel better about your own history when putting down others. Its easy to spread propaganda and make generalizations. Its what the Nazis did to the Jews, its what you did to Hungary, Romania, Croatia, the Baltic Countries and indeed Poland.

Its hard to admit you used a bad example, misrepresented the facts, or singled out one or two countries for persecution when you know there were bad apples in every country. You shouldn't cherry pick parts of history that suit your argument, it does injustice to all the patriots, Danish, Polish, Jewish, Russian, American, Yugoslav, who died so you and I could have this conversation.

70 Million people died, the least we can do is respect their sacrifice, learn from their mistakes, not propagate ignorance and hate that separates us. What will that accomplish? Nada.

My apologies for dragging the Danish through the mud to prove a point to you, it doesn't erase all the good they did.

Re: The Fallen of WWII - fallen.io - Data-driven documentary about war and peace

pkenjora — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 18:40:26 -0000

Singling out one nation as an example or cause of a global problem seems to be what the Nazis did in WWII with the Jewish people, its dangerous and takes away from your point about Nazis vs. Germans.

Danes exporting Jews to Sweden in WWII could be taken as saving them or simply leveraging a situation to purge their Jewish Problem in more PC way. Especially since the Danes collaborated with the Nazis early in the war by supplying agricultural products to them thus enabling the mass murder of Jews and Europeans all over Europe, in exchange for amnesty.

In fact Denmark's Jewish population is shrinking today due to anti-semitism: http://www.timesofisrael.co...

While Poland's is growing. I'm only talking about what is common knowledge in Denmark, infer what you will, its just a nuance point.

So was the point that Nazis are not all Germans? Or that anti-semitism exists in Poland and Denmark? Or that Danes collaborated with Nazis and used WWII to purge their population of Jews by exporting them ( for a fee of course ) to Sweden?

My point is simple: Careful about tarnishing the reputation of any group, its too easy to do, No country is 100% innocent, respect the good they did and remember the lessons from the bad. If YOU forget, YOU will repeat history.

Re: The Fallen of WWII - fallen.io - Data-driven documentary about war and peace

pkenjora — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 12:15:49 -0000

If you're going to ask why so many Jewish people died in Poland you should ask how they got there in the first place:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

So after Poland invited the Jewish people in to their country, and protected them for 600 years, while the rest of Western Europe persecuted them, there were millions of Jewish people in Poland when WWII started. Hence the high Jewish death toll in Poland under Nazi invasion is because Poles gave Jews safe heaven and died in high numbers to protect that ideology after the Nazi invasion.

But if you are going to focus on anti-semitism during WWII, treat it on the whole, every country on earth has some level of anti-semitism. As an extreme example: The US had Henry Ford ( you drive his cars today ) who bought a newspaper to publish anti-semitic propaganda. He also openly blamed the Jews for WWII. Shall we judge every citizen in the United States by that, or the world? Probably not because that does not reflect the truth.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/ame...

The point isn't to devolve this into a finger pointing session ( there aren't enough fingers to go around ). Neil Halloran did a great job as one man putting this together, more than most have done and I thank him for this work. I also understand it is a work in progress and have helped him fund many of the inevitable corrections and additions that will emerge.

Re: Link Exchange For Tough Times

pkenjora — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 11:16:09 -0000

delte

Re: Google Telling Webmasters They Don't Have Manual Penalties

pkenjora — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 18:19:09 -0000

Any plans to do a pre-consideration request?

Let's say I'm launching a service or startup, and I want to know it's good with Goolge. Could I get an opinion before launching?

Yes there are services that fall into this, for example directories, aggregators, or social sites. Not all are reputable, some are. pre-consideration would help improve them.

Re: How to Get Plenty of High Quality Links With Minimum Efforts

pkenjora — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:15:35 -0000

Or you can just use Arkayne for free. Find a few friends using the search option and you've got a network of thousands of links in a few minutes.

Has anyone here tried us?

Disclaimer: I'm one of the founders.

Re: There Is No Such Thing As A Marketing Page

pkenjora — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:38:20 -0000

Why a photo of a kid with chocolate cake on his face? Hmm, people getting into marketing are much like kids, they forget their manners and get Twitter, Facebook, and other marketing tools all over their face. Mostly its just a mess, very little actually makes it down the hatch.

Re: 5 WordPress Plugins to Keep in Touch with Your Blog Co-Authors

pkenjora — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 10:47:43 -0000

Ann,

Would something like Arkayne qualify for an author to author, keep in touch tool? The ability to recommend fellow blog authors is pretty neat as far as staying in touch.

-Paul

Re: Minimum Essential WordPress Plugins

pkenjora — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:33:34 -0000

Anytime,

We've been using MailChimp for about 2 months now. Nice job on the API, integrating various mailing lists into our site has been cake.

Even started using it for our PR, we're asking interested media to sign up directly for our PR media list on our buzz pages:

http://www.arkayne.com/buzz

Great that it does not have to leave our website to get a signup.

Re: Painless Amazon EC2 Backup

pkenjora — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:09:32 -0000

I'll make the spelling edits soon. The Arkayne project is keeping me busy, also all in Django.

You restore from this by listing all your AWS images. Log into your AWS console via the web and check your images. There is also a command line tool in the ec2-api java toolset for launching instances. First run the register command then run launch instance.

Re: Little Things Bloggers Crave And Most Never Get

pkenjora — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:14:19 -0000

Andrew,

I felt exactly this way when I first started blogging. So I asked what if there was a social network for bloggers? Would that help?

There wasn't one so I built it after raising some capital and building a team we have: http://www.arkayne.com/prod...

Anyway we're looking for feedback and case studies, since you're passionate about this topic reach out to me I'd love to talk.

Thanks!

Re: What Is Your Version Of Django

pkenjora — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:51:13 -0000

Make sure you installed it under the correct version of Python. Sometimes I have to force the version by using python2.6 explicitly instead of python when running the install.

Re: Outsourcing Killed By Django And Ruby On Rails

pkenjora — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:20:59 -0000

It's relative and Im guessing you've never used Django or Rails well.

Re: The Social Customer Strikes Again

pkenjora — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 21:27:28 -0000

Francine,

This sounds more like a customer service (a form of authentic social interaction) than social CRM, but for the sake of argument I'll run with it...

What you've done here is blogged about your experience. Why? Because 155 characters on Twitter doesn't quite give the rest of us the full effect. So you blogged and Tweeted a teaser. Had you been able to post this entire review on Twitter, all followers would have seen it in their Twitter feeds immediately, maybe more would have replied, others would have shared their own stories.

But you blogged instead. If only there was some way this blog post could be distributed to other blogs to spark a conversation? If only you could write this and instantly see if anyone is responding or writing about something similar? If only someone could respond to this and have it magically connected like a conversation. Maybe you could even connect with the blog for the restaurant you went to... then you'd have true Social CRM.

I know of at least one company here in AZ working on this. Maybe just maybe Social CRM will be owned by an AZ startup...

Re: Big Money Does Not Build Great Online Products

pkenjora — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:59:13 -0000

I can absolutely testify to this. We put together a great team in roughly a year and peanuts in funding compared to some of the VC numbers I see out there. This was 2 years ago in a down economy (not that its up much).

We kept our burn rate low, attracted really motivated people, and played to our advantages. We are now well ahead of many over funded startups. Arkayne has customers, is almost cash flow positive, and is engaging in regular online sales as well as enterprise customers.

Why? Because lower funding means you have to be smarter, more resourceful, and have an honestly better product.

Re: http://www.joomlablogger.net/blog/joomla-extension-reviews/review-scribe-seo-for-joomla/

pkenjora — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 23:59:07 -0000

If you're considering alternatives try Arkayne. Unlimited checks and it includes internal linking.

Re: Making the Process Clear: Improve Your Search Engine Rankings in 6 Steps

pkenjora — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 08:54:52 -0000

Dont spend too much time worrying about keyword difficulty. Just choose the right keywords first. Also consider partner networks or communities to get your content distributed.

Re: 12 Ways to Market Your Event With Social Media

pkenjora — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:14:26 -0000

Pretty good suggestions, these are comprehensive enough to tack on a wall and simply check off as your event date draws nearer.

I was hoping for more on the blog section (#4). here in Phoenix TEDxPhoenix and IgnitePhoenix both had tremendous blogger support. They simply wrote articles and used their blog as engaging content instead of just event information. The rules of marketing aren't that different between events and websites. Content is still king.

Re: Outsourcing Revisited And No One Is Safe

pkenjora — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:50:12 -0000

Absolutely, there are still tasks that don't require complex tasks like coding or architecting software. This article does not talk about those things.

By the way Link Building is a thing of the past, with Twitter and Facebook there are better tools out there. Try looking at:

http://www.arkayne.com