In Protest

Despite a strict blockade by Israel, a boat with 27 pro-Palestinian activists docked in the Gaza Strip last Wednesday; the second in three months. Dignity left Cyprus and arrived in Gaza to protest against Israel's blockade after Gaza was seized by Hamas in June last year. The activists in Dignity included Nobel Laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire (Nobel Peace Prize in 1976 for peace efforts in Northern Ireland); Palestinian parliamentarian Mustafa Barghuti and Israeli activist Gideon Spiro. Barghuti called it "a historic day" as he would normally require a permit to enter Gaza being a resident of Ramallah in West Bank. The first boat docked in August to focus attention on the state of the 1.5 million people who live in the area. Israel warned activists not to enter the military zone around the Gaza Strip but did not move to stop Voyage.

Payingpost Officially Launched

Press Release:

PayingPost, another Consumer Generated Advertising Network, released Beta 2.0 of its online blog advertising service. Payingpost was online since a few weeks but officially launched today. \"This website is focused on improving the quality of content for advertisers and bloggers,\" stated Jason King, founder and CEO of PayingPost. \"We have introduced a variety of features that will allow our service to naturally improve itself and provide the best Web 2.0 advertising experience for both bloggers and advertisers.\" Whether you provide web design services, business consulting or sell products online getting people to talk about your company is probably the best marketing technique available. Customers get bombarded with advertising in our society, often times reducing the overall efficiency of those campaigns and creating what is called ad-blindness. The result is that direct recommendations or feedback by real people like bloggers will create more value and visibility for your services or products. The most obvious benefit from buying sponsored reviews is the traffic that they will drive to your website. Popular blogs can generate tens of thousands of page views daily, and if they write an interesting review it is probable that a good percentage of their readership will check your product. Optimal results can be achieved if you communicate to the reviewing blog what sides of your business you are trying to promote, why the readers could be interested on your product and the like. Apart from generating traffic sponsored reviews will also improve your search engine rankings. Like it or not Google and other search engines rank your website based, among other things, on the number of incoming links and on the authority of the websites that are placing those links. Your company might have a website with the most comprehensive and detailed information about a certain topic, but unless people are linking to it you will have very small chances of appearing on the first results for important keywords related to that topic. Jason King also stated that \"PayingPost only charges a 20% fee while our competitors may charge 30-35%.\" You can read more and register at PayingPost.com. 

Paying Post:

Paying post pays for blogging. With paying post advertisers are willing to pay you for your opinion on various topics. Paying post promotes the concept of long term blog advertising. Once your blog is accepted, you will get paid to mention related websites, products and services. It pays you for writing your opinion about people’s products, services and websites on your blog. No advertising, just write your opinions. You are free to select the subjects that interest you. You can post in multiple blogs to earn more. Paying Post provides access to opportunities from companies to post about their news releases. You are paid per posting. All bloggers are paid via Paypal. Make a blog posting, get your content approved, and get paid.

Flying Cars soon

Flying cars may soon leap from the world of science fiction into reality, if automobile engineers are to be believed. A team at Moller International is designing a flying car, called 'Autovolantor', which it claims would be in the market in just two years' time. The vehicle will have the ability to take off vertically and hover.

Ice alert row sank the Titanic

The Titanic disaster, that claimed over 1,500 lives 96 years back, could have been averted if its radio operator had not been rude,  a new documentary claims. According to the documentary, the 25-year-old radio operator, Jack Phillips, had a row with his counterpart on the nearest ship who tried to warn him of ice in the area on April 14, 1912. In fact, Phillips, who had a backlog of greeting messages to send for the luxury liner's passengers, told Cyril Evans of the SS California: "Shut up," The Sun reported. An angry Evans reacted by switching off his radio equipment just ten minutes before the Titanic hit an iceberg on her maiden voyage to New York. So SS California, just 20 miles away, didn't get the doomed ship's SOS and 1,523 people, including Phillips, died in the disaster early on 15 April 1912, the documentary to be aired in Channel 4 has claimed. The Titanic hit an iceberg during her maiden voyage on the night of 14 April 1912, and sank two hours and 40 minutes later. At the time of her launching, she was the largest passenger steamship in the world. The sinking of the Titanic, which used some of the most advanced technology available at the time, is considered the deadliest peacetime maritime disaster in history.