I have independently confirmed that Goog 411 is no longer accessible whatsoever from payphones although Google still has neglected to update the Goog 411 web page to inform its users of such. I confirmed this by using a free VOIP gateway and randomly dialing Goog 411's toll-free access number while spoofing the outgoing number from a list of over 10,000 payphone numbers across the country by modifying the data pre-sets on the PBX and other telephony hardware.

I currently have a better business bureau complain in to Google headquarters and am awaiting a response. I will notify my readers as to Google's response as soon as one is provided.

Goog-411 is a free service provided by Google and according to their FAQ and Information pages available the service is to be free to the general public from any phone whether it be a payphone or landline or mobile phone. Over the last week I noticed that Goog-411 is not allowing access to its service from payphones anymore and so far Google has made no announcement as to the reason for any block of it's service to Payphone users.

Google currently provides minimal support for it's Goog-411 service and I did send two e-mails to Google which have gone unanswered. I am not sure if it is simply that a set range of telephone numbers have been blocked from using Goog 411 or if its all payphones.... I do know that I tested their service from 15 randomly located payphones this week and each payphone made a weird "beep beep beep" noise when trying to access the Goog411 service which is not the case in the past.

I then tried calling Goog411 from two different landline phones and funny enough the call went right through so I think Google has failed at providing notification to it's users that it has either blocked calls from "All Payphones" or just "Some" or that they are having some sort of service issues that they are currently working on. So far this blog is the first blog to take notice to this problem in the Goog411 service and I will post updates as more information becomes available.


Excerpt from Goog411 Website (http://www.google.com/goog411/) :
You don't need a computer, an Internet connection, or even the keypad on your phone or mobile device. GOOG-411 is voice-activated, so you can access it from any phone (mobile or land line), in any location, at any time. For free.

I was the only blogger approved by the Democratic Central Committee and the Hillary Clinton for President Campaign to receive Media Credentials at Bill Clinton's speech in Eureka, CA. As the only blogger I naturally received a lot of interest in my blog from the mainstream media and several reporters and correspondents noted my blog's web address.

I was provided the same accommodations as all other press and media members and was entitled to access to three media areas and had the best views of Bill Clinton's speech and of course I was not required to wait with the General Public.

Bill Clinton spoke for about a hour and covered Education and Health Care issues which all sounded good in my own opinion. Bill Clinton claimed that $80 Billion can be saved by requiring health care providers begin digitalizing patients medical records to prevent errors and save time.

In any case one thing that I found to be significant about Bill Clinton's appearance was his extremely large hands. Furthermore the Secret Service agents allowed a adjacent rolling door to be opened while Clinton was speaking which I was amazed by since it seemed that by opening the large door that it could have compromised Clinton's security since people outside of the structure had a line of sight once the door was opened.

My new contributing writer Jacklyn Gardenhire was in attendance with me and she will begin contributing to posts starting next week.

For all my readers that are bloggers themselves I highly recommend you check out BlogReach.com this is a effective tool in the generation of targeted traffic and new readers for your blog.

I am now averaging several thousand unique visitors (meaning first time readers) every couple days and I also have my loyal readership of a few hundred who visit either each day or every other day.

Over the next few weeks my blog will be going through a total change in it's overall look and further more media such as images and video will be included in future posts and links to relevant content.

There will be no downtime during this transition since my blog is hosted on Google servers in a load balanced enviroment and I also keep archives in a XML/RSS dump on a seperate server just in case.

So stay tuned for announcements on the changes and look forward to a new more crisp design!

Jacklyn has been showing me how to make some very nice pieces of Hemp Jewelry and I think each night we will work on a few pieces which she plans to sell in Old Town Eureka.

Tomorrow we plan to head out to Arcata, CA for the day and I believe Jacklyn also needs to e-File her taxes tomorrow. The weather in Eureka, CA is really sunny and nice today with a small breeze but other than that its a relatively nice day for a stroll in town.

Anyways I'm hoping when I am in Arcata tomorrow that Ill get to visit the Humboldt State University campus and visit some friends who attend there and maybe see some hippies if I am so lucky.

Stay tuned for more random writings!

Well I have officially moved to Eureka, CA as of this last Friday and things are going decent right now. Last night I went to a Seventh Day Adventist church which was all new to me and I was offered a job by one of the Director's of St. Joseph's Hospital.

I have been shopping in the Mall today at Ross and other places and me and Jacklyn purchased a new blanket and matress padding and a luggage that was on sale at a luggage shop.

Anyways so I am probably going to be working in a few weeks since there is plenty of work here for me.

I often recommend my readers subscribe to my blog well let me give you some instructions on how to easily do this.... I am now using rssHugger which I have found to be a very useful site as it sends new readers to your blog.

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I have been using AdSense for a number of years now and it has brought me profits that I never imagined I could attain simply from blogging. Anyways AdSense has now released a nifty AdSense Calendar to let all of its users know when to expect checks and to generally have a better idea as to what is occurring in the AdSense community.

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From Christmas Day thru New Years Eve this blog received 10,000 unique visitors as recorded and analyzed by Google Analytics and other traffic monitoring software. In celebration of this accomplishment during the Holiday Season I will be donating all revenue generated on this blog for the month of January 2008 to Electronic Frontier Foundation.


On a side note and not relevant to this post I would also like to encourage my readers to get out and vote if you are a resident of the United States. I am not endorsing nor recommending any specific candidate although I encourage all U.S. Residents to take part in the upcoming election.

Thank you for your continued Readership and please do not forget to Bookmark this blog or even better subscribe to it using a RSS or Atom Subscription utility. I have Lot's in store this month including the first in-depth review and evaluation of a electronic device that many of my readers will be trying to get their hands on and my review and evaluation will be fully exclusive.

Furthermore I will be doing a interview this month with a very interesting subject at this time I cannot disclose the person's name but more details on this interview will be available in weeks to come and this interview will only be available at SyndicatedElitist.com.

If you have questions, comments or other concerns feel free to e-mail me at contact@syndicatedelitist.com and I will make every attempt to respond in a timely fashion however sometimes due to a large influx of correspondence my response time isn't always timely.

In response to a blog here by Lisa:

Facebook did technically have the "Friend Updates" system in place far before MySpace and further Facebook allows you to track all changes in you friends network and does not limit you to a set amount as is the case with MySpace.

I do not necessarily believe at this point and time that Facebook is outgrowing MySpace in total Unique users but I do believe Facebook's active user base is increasing and that the playing field is slowly but surely leveling out between these two giants.

Thanks to Lisa for pointing this out although I was aware of Facebook's friend update feature I just forgot to give Facebook the proper credit for possibly being the originator of this idea. Feel free to visit Lisa's blog at http://lisamcconrad.wordpress.com. I will continue to track Lisa's blog and consider it for addition to my BlogRoll.

I am currently in Eureka, CA and have been staying with various friends and different motels during the New Years week. I plan to return home some time next week so that I can resume my studies and work on my book's and other projects.

In February I will be relocating to a new locale where I plan to generally reside for the next few years and I have plans to have children soon and be married in a relatively small timeframe so things are coming together quite nicely.

Exploitation of corporate and government resources is on the rise and when I speak of Exploitation I refer to exploits of resources that are controlled or managed by technology in some fashion or another. The reason for the rise in exploits of these resources is not because such systems cannot be secured but instead because government's and corporate entities alike are making improper decisions when it comes to risk assessment and mitigation.

Both government and corporate entities need to have a combination of solid proven solutions that mitigate the risk on a hardware and software level and also need consulting on top as a layer of additional security to prevent social engineering based attacks. One of my favorite reads has been the "The Art of Deception" by Kevin Mitnick and it isn't because I personally know the author that I am referencing this book but instead it is because it discusses some practical knowledge that a lot of companies and governments should be looking at.

I too am personally working on two books right now in part I was inspired to start writing by a good friend of mine Cara Bruce a well recognized author and also in part by Kevin Mitnick. I am working on a autobiography of sorts and a book on threat mitigation. The autobiography will cover my life and provide details of my exploits and will also cover a rather undisclosed event when in 2003 the Federal Bureau of Investigation and U.S. Secret Service investigated me for the release of the SoBig virus. The second book will be a practical guide with detail information on how to prevent modern day attacks and threats from causing losses.

Kevin Mitnick's book was rather unique in it covered territory that was left alone in the past although I do not feel it covered as much ground as it could have and I intend to expand on the areas covered in his book and also have several other more important areas that are not yet covered well in existing texts.

I will have more updates on the books progress as work continues I currently already have a publisher and marketing agency to handle the book and right now I am on a holiday hiatus from all work until next week sometime when I well head home to resume my work and studies.