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Thursday THREATCON – 03 March 2016

It's Thursday Threatcon, your intelligence briefing on right wing activity. Below are the best reports, investigations, exposées, and debunkery of the wingnutosphere this week. Due to MSNBC's firing of Melissa Harris-Perry, our Threatcon Color Code is STEALTH-BAN BLACKLIST Jerry Delemus, the failed New Hampshire sheriff's candidate who took part in the Bundy ranch standoff and…
The Value of a Yelp Elite to your Business
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The Value of a Yelp Elite to your Business

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJQ7E92twUI While Elite Pete does look a lot like a few Elites I know, the power they wield should never be underestimated.  By pissing off just one Elite, Red Spaghetti Tattoo ceased to exist. Thier phone stopped ringing, all their good reviews were instantly filtered, just as her threats suggested they would be. Doesn't matter…
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How Trusted Is Your Business

When searching for our next meal, purchase, service, etc., it is common for us to resort to simply Googling whatever resource it is that we need. The results seem intuitive; the highest links are the most reliable (I admit I don’t even venture past the first page). But how exactly are these particular businesses promoted…
What if Yelp Were Real Life?
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What if Yelp Were Real Life?

An interesting idea, taking how Yelp behaves online and doing it in the real world. Even though there are differences between online and the real world, there are still rules of society, and pretty obvious right and wrong. This video does it brilliantly! [embedplusvideo editlink="http://bit.ly/1ua76Tp" standard="http://www.youtube.com/v/fYpmJHlXuVc?fs=1" vars="ytid=fYpmJHlXuVc&width=450&height=283&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=0&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=" id="ep6829" /]