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Thursday's Essay Preview

The first paragraph of the essay, "Egosurfing (I Googled myself)" reads as follows: 
I Googled myself recently out of curiosity, but I’m not alone according to Rachael Rettner of LiveScience.com, who wrote an essay, “Most people Google themselves now,” which begins with this paragraph: “If you've Googled yourself recently, you're not alone. The majority of American adults, 57 percent, now keep tabs on their reputations online, using search engines to track information about their Internet identities, according to a report from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project [based on results from telephone interviews of 2,253 individuals in 2009], released today [May 26, 2010]. That's up from 47 percent in 2006" (Rettner, “Most people . . . ,” May 26, 2020).  So, I’m not alone; this is what I discovered.


Thursday's Essay Excerpt - from the last paragraph of the essay

One of the surprises (although it shouldn’t have been a surprise had I simply thought more about it!), was the large number of publishers and authors who used my reviews of their books to advertise and sell their books on the Internet.  Many of the web sites displayed offered my reviews.  Once again, having posted well over a hundred reviews on Amazon.com, this would be an expected outcome, and I am delighted that so many have found my reviews well-written, concise, and flattering enough to reprint them in other contexts.  Thank you.
                                    



And Then Some News

High-end, High-tech, And Then Some

And Then Some Publishing, LLC, has joined forces with Tahwyas International, LLC, to produce and distribute luxury high-end, high-tech gadgets for the world market. Because technology makes our lives better and most everyone today is involved with technology in some capacity, we have been in search of a compatible company for some time, and when we discovered Tahwyas, we immediately pursued a relationship. Although somewhat reluctant at first, once they discovered the breadth and depth of our publishing interests, it became a foregone conclusion and a perfect match. The agreement has Tahwyas marketing and distributing the wide range of And Then Some’s publication list, and And Then Some doing the same with Tahwyas’ high-end, high-tech gadgets.

Let’s just say for a moment, that you're enjoying your new high-definition television, have your work and personal appointments organized on your computer, your fully-loaded iPpod is bringing your selections of music using your iPod dock and satellite speakers, and your Torq mobile phone with its hand crank, re-chargeable AA battery concept, which comes equipped with a touch-sensitive LCD panel instead of a regular keypad, that allows you to answer the handset by simply holding it to your cheek, and lets you send messages by swiping them off the screen with your finger. Also, you pay your bills electronically and save time and money. Tahwyas has combined all of these elements into one palm-sized computer with the smallest HD-LCD screen available. This new instrument is so new, so high-end and high-tech, that it is impossible to bring you all its characteristics in this one short essay; however if you visit the Tahwyas’ AllOne.com website you will acquire all the information you need to understand and purchase this new piece of equipment.

I know that you might believe it couldn’t get any better than this (if you read and understood the equipment described above), but it does. If you watched "Star Trek," you will remember seeing the crew of the Starship Enterprise live out their fantasies in a room called the holodeck. The holodeck is a giant, holographic, projection room that allowed the crew to touch and interact with projections as if they were in a big video game. We have developed a new communication technology that allows you and your friends to interact inside a simulated environment even if you are thousands of miles apart. Our holographic technology depends on the use of holograms, holographic discs, and holographic memory. By combining cameras and Internet telephony, our videoconferencing technology allows the real-time exchange of information without physically bringing each person into one central room. Our teleimmersion process takes videoconferencing to the next level by creating a central, simulated environment that allows everyone to come together in a virtual room, and no one will have to leave their physical location to do so. This technology is available at once, and it can be yours to better understand and purchase by visiting our website, Holographyworks.com

We have developed a high-end, high-tech speech recognition program as well. With this software it will allow you to dictate to your computer and have your words converted to text in a word processing or e-mail document. You can access function commands, such as opening files and accessing menus, with voice instructions. People with disabilities that prevent them from typing use our speech-recognition system. If you have lost the use of your hands or eyes, or for or when it is not possible to use a Braille keyboard, our system allows personal expression through dictation as well as control of many computer tasks. Our software saves your speech data after every session and allows those with progressive speech deterioriation to continue to dictate to their computers. Our software, Speechtechworks.com has a vocabulary in the tens of thousands and allows you to speak at a normal, conversational speed.

We have an electronic display screen that is as thin as a sheet of paper that requires low power usage, allows complete flexibility, and is more readable than a book. It replaces all books, newspapers, and magazines, and can be used for cell phones, PDAs, pagers and digital watches. Not only can it hold a display of the same text for weeks without any additional charge applied to it, it can be changed in an instant. An advantage of our electronic display is that it can be printed on any surface, including walls, billboards, product labels, and T-shirts. Homeowners can change their digital wallpaper instantly, and its flexibility makes it possible to develop roll-up displays for electronic devices. For greater understanding and the purchase of our software, go to Tronicdisplayworks.com

You may think all this thus far in this essay is surprising, but you haven’t experienced surprise until you read about our next high-end, high-tech gadget. Have you ever wondered, why do human beings do the things they do? Until now, the connection between the body and the mind has remained a mystery. How we perceive the world and learn new things will no longer fascinate and confound you. The answers to questions like, “Are you born with certain qualities, or are you the product of your experiences and upbringing?,” or “How do you form an idea, gather information, and learn to adapt?” MindTech is a simple way to see what goes on in your mind and make sense of it. MindTech takes theoretical psychology to a new level. It allows you to hypothesize about something you can't visualize. MindTech gives you tangible data, or psychometrics, to grasp the more intangible aspects of your psyche. Its uses are broad for it will assist you in education, the workplace, counseling, and health. MindTech will help you understand, predict, and even control your human thought processes and emotions. To understand and then purchase this high-end, high-tech gadget go to MindTechWorks.com

You can understand now why we at And Then Some Publishing, LLC, are so excited. Not only have we developed a wonderful, tight relationship with Tahwyas International, LLC, but we have now on the market a group of products that are outstanding. Not even discussed above is our convergence device that combines a cell phone, digital camera, radio, camcorder, GPS receiver, MP3 player, portable video game device, television, and allows you to surf the Web. This one includes a printer as well. It is a multi-functional device and can help you save space when you pack for a trip. Go to Convertechworks

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See Crystal Campbell’s “High tech meets high-end cuisine” (April 1, 2009) at Content for Reprint

At Unique Homes luxury is being redefined. Camilla McLaughlin writes in “REDEFINING LUXURY: High-Tech at the High-End,” that new technology is changing the way we buy, sell, and live.

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Copyright April 2010 by And Then Some Publishing, LLC

And Then Some News

Thursday’s essay is called, “The second anniversary of posted essays.” Not only is it intended to celebrate the second year of essays, it is a chronicle of some of what has taken place over the past two years as well.

Share your link. Have you written anything on second anniversaries? Celebrations? Are you a person who truly believes in celebrating various events? Do you know others who believe this? Can you share some insights about any of your own (or their) experiences with anniversaries or celebrations? How do people cope with such occasions? Any personal information you would like to share? Share your link with us. We’ll post it and move traffic in your direction. And, a big “thank you,” in advance, from AndThenSomeWorks.com, for sharing your link.

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Thursday's And Then Some Essay preview:
The second anniversary of posted essays
by Richard L. Weaver II

Excerpt:

There is another element about each of the books that And Then Some Publishing L.L.C. has published thus far (There are five total.). If you have an opportunity I hope you will take the time to check out the websites for each of the five books. First, you will quickly discover that they are professionally constructed. Each is a masterful work-of-art put together by my webmaster, ANT, and, second, each one includes essays (and, in some cases, videos) that support the book advertised on the website.

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