From their site:
“Shelter-in-Place in an Emergency

There are six basics you should stock for your home: water, food, first aid supplies, clothing and bedding, tools and emergency supplies, and special items. Keep the items that you would most likely need during an evacuation in an easy-to carry container–suggested items are marked with an asterisk(*). Possible containers include a large, covered trash container, a camping backpack, or a duffle bag.”

The main Red Cross Site
PDF version of the Disaster Supplies Kit
Personal Workplace Disaster Supplies Kit
Personal Workplace Disaster Supplies Kit

‘I don’t see why I can’t be the next Michael Eisner or Barry Diller . . . someone has to be.’

So what can we learn from the redoubtable Jason Calcanis?





1.The real face of new media is that it wants to be old media. It means that if want your nanopublishing venture to make it big, it helps to have the same savvy that Jason Calacanis has.



The article goes on to say, Calcanis has always wanted to be big.



Compared to someone like the ever-experimental Nick Denton of Gawker, Calacanis, who also ran the Silicon Alley Reporter, which later folded up, is in the old media mould.



In fact, Engadget, the superstar among the Weblogslogsinc network owes its enormous success to Peter Rojas. How Peter Rojas left Gizmodo for Engadget is just like the usual old media ’staff - poaching’ tales.



2. Run your blogs like a magazine. If you run a gadget blog, look up PC magazine and see what works. Put all the workable content into neat categories. Build up a community around that useful content.



3. Always be on the look out for deals: anything that gives a better visibility to your online publishing ventures will do.

Being high up has always appeared to matter a great deal to Calacanis. From the earliest days of, his avid gadflyism has always seemed driven by a naked (and even refreshing) eagerness to shimmy up the greasy pole.

4. Center your content around events: for example, Engadget does great on-the-spot coverage of all consumer technology events like CES.



5. Find a bigger playground where you can shine out.



Standing out is important to top-obsessed people like Calacanis.

Consider Calacanis’s stated rationale-calculating and needy in equal measure-for preferring AOL to Yahoo: ‘If I’d landed at Yahoo, I’d be hanging out with [Del.icio.us founder] Josh Schachter and [Flickr founder] Caterina Fake, debating the finer points of this stuff. But at AOL, I’m probably the most knowledgeable person on this area, so they really needed my help.’

Bonus: Pick big, king-of-the-moment topics and pick your bones about it. If you stay on big topics, people pay attention, the reasoning goes.



Calcanis’ personal blog is good example.



Now, I hope you are ready to be the next Jason Calcanis.

“The Internet entrepreneurs of Nigeria, for creating and then using e-mail to distribute a bold series of short stories, thus introducing millions of readers to a cast of rich characters — General Sani Abacha, Mrs. Mariam Sanni Abacha, Barrister Jon A Mbeki Esq., and others — each of whom requires just a small amount of expense money so as to obtain access to the great wealth to which they are entitled and which they would like to share with the kind person who assists them...”

Read the Complete Winners’List.

“Every Muslim knows his life is not his, since it belongs to this violated Islamic nation whose blood is being spilled. Nothing should take precedence over this.”

Eligibility: If you are into video production and for editing statements, footage and international media coverage about militants in Iraq, the Palestinian territories, Chechnya and other conflict zones where militants are active.





How to Apply:Use the internet to find a contact with the Global Islamic Media Front.If you manage to do that, the organization will get in touch.



Via: Wired

However, Nintendo must not rest. Going by the reports, PS3 will have superior technical features and it will lead the global market eventually.

Enterbrain, the Japanese publisher of Famitsu magazine has analysed the chances of the three console makers and forecasts that by 2009, Sony will lead the market with 34 million PlayStation 3s, followed by Microsoft with 28 million Xbox 360s. Nintendo will have to make do with the third position with 25 million Wii consoles in the market.

Titled ‘know your limits’, the shock and desist ad campaign will run through November and the ads have begun appearing from today in cinema, television, radio, magazines and online.

The ‘know your limits’ campaign exhorts 18-to-24 year olds to drink responsibly. It aims to educate young people about the risks associated with excess drinking.

The ‘know your limits’ ads employ youth-appealing imagery, in this case it uses the superheroes theme. For example, in one TV commercial, a young man transforms into Batman and scales a building to catch balloons that have escaped from a group full of pretty women. The commercial ends with the ‘pseudo-batman’ crashing to the ground as a mere mortal.

This ad ends by saying, ‘Alcohol makes you feel invincible when you are most vulnerable.’

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