2009 was a year like many that seen many trends come and some go.. Crocks are no longer allowed for every day wear. I have learned the hard way.. apparently there was a fashion expert on TV that pointed this out but I don’t care do you? Speaking of Crock…. this year saw us get fed a crock of you know what with bailout’s to corporate america every twist and turn from the very beginning of 2009 after President Obama took office and promised the world “Change”. Bank Of America and CIT Group seen some change but the taxpayers did not…
This year many people adopted more technologies that have been around before 2009. For example Social Media sites like Facebook launched on February 4, 2004 and infamous MySpace in August 2003. Myspace was eventually overtaken internationally in August of 2008 so that is why this year 2009 it seems like the craze of facebook has had everyone adding friends and creating every sort of fan page you can imagine like.. Texting the person next you stuff that you can not say out loud.. yes that is a fan page.. During 2009 when facebook was having a record year with everyone signing up and logging in atleast 1-3 times a day Myspace was forced to cut 30% of its workforce in June of 2009. Where was the bailout there! We needed a social media bailout! where was it?
And then there was “Twitter” March 21, 2006… 140 characters. Short form communication is now a reality to people who normally would have said what is that and how does it work. For business owners and marketers social media is an extremely important part of todays business.
But guess what here is what I see for 2010. People are going to be logging in less to facebook and twitter. You see many people are tired of having to log into all of these different accounts. I have accounts for Flickr, Myspace, Facebook, Youtube, Stumble Upon, Delicous, Linkedin, and Bebo…. so here is what I see happening. There are services that act as a gateway to your social media sites. You log into one site such as friendbinder and this site will allow you to update your status for both twitter and facebook at the same time. There is another site called SPNb@bble that allows you to connect to many more sites and again updates more than one social media site at a time.
A great app for your iphone that will allow you to update your status on Facebook, Twitter, and Myspace is called Statustic
So now we have covered the technology and it is time to talk about the least liked part of the message..and that is the terrorists.. and before I go there I must say that I am not racists, I am just going off the data that I am provided. There are people who claim to be on a jihad mission and they try to bring down our airliners like on Christmas day. This guy had explosives on his body in his underwear. He tried to do the same thing that Richard Reid the shoe bomber tried to do on December 22, 2001. Is it ironic that the dates were so close to one another? I don’t think so. These people want to cause as much damage as they can and will do whatever they can to do so. I feel that somewhere along the chain of command there is a huge ball being dropped. Somewhere along the way this guy was dropping explosives out of his under wear yet he was still able to get on a plane to the USA. Instead of the government saying look there was some big miscommunication on why we can’t seem to stop the shoe bomb and the under wear bomb but look here is what we are going to do to prevent it from getting on the plane.. They say look we are going to set up some very strict guidelines basically we are going to run our airlines like a prison system. Prison systems are set up to keep all contraband and weapons out of the prison system but yet shanks still make it into the system… cell phones, drugs, and money all make it into the system.. But below are some rules that have just been rolled out by the TSA..
1. Everyone must stay seated one hour before landing on international flights.
1. No blankets or pillows or items in laps in the last hour of a flight.
2. No announcements from the cockpit about cities, landmarks or perhaps even when planes start to descend.
3. No route-tracking displays on international flights
4. No laptop computer use in-flight. Some passengers reported this. Let’s hope it’s simply over-aggressive low-level TSA officials, air marshals or flight crews.
Now people if you look at any in flight situations that have occurred since 9/11 like the Richard Reid shoe bomber and this latest incident on Christmas day both of them were brought down by passengers people like Todd Beamer who was on hijacked United Airlines flight #93 under this new rule would not have been able to take control of that situation on that hijacked aircraft in fear that your going to be federally charged if that plane lands.
Let’s not forget the victims of the Fort Hood shooting. What upsets me about this case is that the terrorist who committed this heinous act that ended with 43 victims one of which was pregnant is that he is still referred to as a “suspect” in the case. If you look here you will see that when you get to his name Nidal Malik Hasan the terrorist who committed the act above his name they refer to him as a “suspect”. Hasan went to church with two of the 9/11 hijackers. A Rasmussen national survey found that 65% of Americans favor the death penalty in Hasan’s case, and that 60% want the case investigated as an act of terrorism.
In closing I wish you all a happy and and safe new year.. feel free to friend me on twitter or facebook and say hello more often in 2010 there are simply more ways to say hello!
Happy New Year,
Malcom Chakery
