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Vlog Action Day! The time has come for Vlog Action Day. One day where Vloggers around the World make vlogs about one topic. I got the idea from an email from the organizers of Blog Action Day and it occurred to me that we needed a Vlog Action Day. So to my surprise the URL was available and for $10 which means no one thought to do this before. A real shock. So now I am forming the Vlog Action Day organization. A non profit effort to use vlogs to foster a World dialog. But I need your help! Contact me. Let's talk. Let's plan. Let's do. Let's vlog! A video-blog post for Oakland Focus IFTTT

Bethany Mota is the first YouTube Partner to be on Dancing With The Stars as a contestant. She has over 7 million subscribers and her own fashion brand. All of this and she is just 19 years old. Bethany Mota is part of YouTube's big push to select certain partners and promote them. The dirty little secret is that many of those subscribers and views are bought. Now YouTube is on a push to make the public awareness match the numbers. I say this because prior to Dancing With The Stars there were more people in Oakland who had heard of me than of Bethany Mota. That is not good if you are trying to draw advertisers. I am not hating pn Bethany Mota but trying to tell the truth about how all of this works. Bethany did not really organically grow. She had to have help. It is terrible to know that three are other fashion vloggers on YouTube who feel they will never get their due. Vlogging should be about empowering others to tell their stories, not intimidating them into doing nothing. A

The Oakland Mayor’s Race, already white hot, just got even hotter, thanks to Peter Liu. Peter Liu, one of 15 candidates in the Oakland Mayor’s Race, wrote, in a heated email exchange with fellow candidate Bryan Parker, that he “killed multiple people just to survive in this World, didn’t even know their names. Was it […] from WordPress http://ift.tt/1ma3Q7P via IFTTT

The Oakland Mayor’s Race, already white hot, just got even hotter, thanks to Peter Liu. Peter Liu, one of 15 candidates in the Oakland Mayor’s Race, wrote, in a heated email exchange with fellow candidate Bryan Parker, that he “killed multiple people just to survive in this World, didn’t even know their names. Was it […] from WordPress http://ift.tt/1ma3Q7P via IFTTT Zennie62

Peter Liu, one of 15 candidates in the Oakland Mayor's Race, wrote, in a heated email exchange with Bryan Parker, that he "killed multiple people just to survive in this World, didn't even know their names. Was it a sin? No. It was self defense." Liu, who also says he is the World's Smartest Candidate, then wrote "But promoting LGBT activity is definitely a sin, a deadly one. Oakland is becoming like San Francisco, a city of awful sinners..." A video-blog post for Oakland Focus IFTTT

A’s lose Sacramento affiliate; weekly honors for Jon LesterSFGate (blog)One plus of Sacramento was the proximity to the Bay Area; the A’s could get a player to Oakland in 90 minutes if needed. But with Class-A Stockton also nearby, the team can continue to send rehabbing major-league players to a convenient location, and …Sacramento River […] from WordPress http://ift.tt/1t23wZM via IFTTT

Raiders give Vincent Brown a chanceESPN (blog)ALAMEDA, Calif. — With needs across the board, the 0-2 Oakland Raiders have added to their receiving corps by agreeing to terms with former San Diego receiver Vincent Brown, according to two NFL sources. The signing is expected to be made official …Oakland Raiders to work out WR Vincent […] from WordPress http://ift.tt/X9NGiT via IFTTT