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This week I was honored to guest lecture at the prestigious Monterey Institute for International Studies. The topic was nation building but because I am the founder of MicroCredit Enterprises, which finances microloans for poor women in the developing world, the discussion shifted to people building.

My talk was open to the public (what a splendid idea for all universities!) and in the audience a raised hand came from a gentlemen with deep faith convictions. He described how his church addresses the multidisciplinary nature of poverty in African villages by drilling wells, building schools, erecting health clinics, etc. while also distributing bibles and proselytizing the gospel.

photo credit: Danny Gallant

As I suggested to the class (pictured here) that all economic development promotes one sort of gospel or another. Microfinance, for example, inherently proselytizes the virtues of free market capitalism. Microfinance embeds gender equality, women’s empowerment and human rights — development for the whole person, if you will. Enduring economic development upsets the status quo.

What disturbed me about this particular gentlemen was not his faith motivation which was genuine, but his unwavering conviction that his church’s time and money is actually doing good on the African continent. Whether it is or not, he is never going to know because he is not asking any self-examining questions about his impact on the lives he purports to save.

From beginning to end, he unconditionally follows the personality cult of his Savior and the doctrine of his religion. He is a change agent without doubts.

He not much different than the donors, journalists and other apostles who believed in Greg Mortenson, best-selling author of Three Cups of Tea and founder of a school-building program in Afghanistan and Pakistan. His compelling (but allegedly hyped) personal story created a media blizzard of belief in him and a dearth of data about his impact.

For two very thoughtful commentaries read Three Cups of BS by Alanna Shaikh and It’s Not About The Tea by Kevin Starr.

One regrettable defense for Mortenson is that he is simply a bad manager. This narrative feeds an urban legend pushed by ideologues and market fundamentalists who want to believe an alternate reality. Nonprofit is a tax status, nothing more. It does not establish management quality or results. It is certainly not an excuse for anything.

Yes, some nonprofits are poorly run, as the Mortenson dustup and opulent church altars surely suggest. However, by the same fuzzy yardstick, British Petroleum confirms the mendacity of all corporate chieftains and Donald Trump is an icon of political truth-telling. We can reject the charlatans of social change without concluding that dedicated nonprofit executives don’t care a whit about the efficacy of what they do, wantonly waste money or poorly evaluate programmatic results.

Let’s reject social change by personality cult and embrace empowering the poor to speak up, speak out and speak for themselves. That’s what good nonprofit leaders have always done.

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May 13, 2011

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Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: Organic Rooibos Tea — billytrujillo1979 @ 8:32 pm

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From beginning to end, he unconditionally follows the personality cult of his Savior and the doctrine of his religion. He is a change agent without doubts.

For two very thoughtful commentaries read Three Cups of BS by Alanna Shaikh and It’s Not About The Tea by Kevin Starr.

Let’s reject social change by personality cult and embrace empowering the poor to speak up, speak out and speak for themselves. That’s what good nonprofit leaders have always done.

More weak tea from Gallup:

Gallup began tracking Americans’ views of the Tea Party in March 2010, when 37% had a favorable and 40% an unfavorable view. Those views stayed roughly the same through January of this year, but have now turned somewhat more negative. The April 20-23 USA Today/Gallup poll finds favorable opinions of the Tea Party movement dropping to 33%, from 39% in January, and unfavorable opinions rising to 47% from 42%. Twenty percent of Americans say they haven’t heard of the Tea Party or have no opinion of it.

Republicans and conservatives (i.e., tea party members) still like it, but you know what? They ain’t a majority. More and more of the rest of us think it sucks.

But here’s something you probably didn’t know.

The Tea Party has a relatively strong appeal to men aged 50 and older, 49% of whom have favorable opinions of the movement. By contrast, women aged 50 and older are the most negative, with more than half holding a negative opinion.

Once again, there’s strong evidence women are smarter than men. And don’t you be blaming all seniors for Tea Party support when it’s only the the menfolk who are deluded.

And while we are at it, note:

Southerners are most positive about the Tea Party across regions, with essentially equal favorable and unfavorable opinions. Americans living on either coast are the most negative.

Bottom line:

The data reviewed here demonstrate the nature of the political challenges Republican congressional leadership faces in responding to Tea Party-supported members. A majority of rank-and-file Republicans nationwide give the Tea Party favorable ratings, but a sizable minority say their opinion is unfavorable or do not classify themselves as supporters.

Further, the overall image of the Tea Party among all Americans has become substantially more negative than positive over the last several months, which could weaken its perceived clout among GOP congressional leaders. Americans’ negative views of the Tea Party contrast with their much more balanced views of the Republican Party, measured at 44% favorable and 47% unfavorable in the same April 20-23 USA Today/Gallup poll.

The Tea Party image is only going to get worse as it gets more and more closely associated with birthers, the Donald, and ending Medicare as we know it. The “nature of the political challenges Republican congressional leadership faces”, as Gallup puts it, is that their program will prove extremely unpopular.

Run on that, Republicans.

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November 6, 2010

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Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: associatedcontent, blogsearch, flickr — billytrujillo1979 @ 10:44 am

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We recently brought Blekko CEO Rich Skrenta into our office to talk about why his company’s recent attempt to enter a market where two search engines hold 90% of the market share is not completely insane. The prevailing “Blekko is doomed” argument holds that because Google already does search so well, it’s fruitless to for anyone else to bother trying.

Granted, it’s hard to imagine a future where people Blekko themselves. But, once you get past the goofy name and syntax, the idea of a category search deserves some exploration.

Blekko’s killer feature of being able to search crowdsourced “Slashtags” shouldn’t be too off putting for any sort of Google power user, but certainly isn’t a Google Killer. Skrenta answers this point by stating that Blekko isn’t trying to kill Google, and that if anything it is trying to kill Ask.com which currently has 4% of the search market share.“We’re cool with being number three,” he said.

Operating under the motto “there is no one-size-fits-all” for search, Skrenta is targeting both early adopters and power users with Blekko, holding that everyone has their own Blekko usecase.

After our interview, I asked Skrenta for his top three searches that you could execute on Blekko and not on Google, and they were, in this order:

Searching for links to yourself by time i.e. http://www.techcrunch.com/ /link /date
Searching for sites in a Google Ad network through an Adsense ID i.e. techcrunch /adsense
And searching for coverage of a certain topic over a certain period of time by a certain media sector, like (to use Skrenta’s example) running a search for initial coverage of Cuil to see if people predicted that it too was doomed cuil/dr=2008/techblogs

In accord with his logic, Skrenta’s top three Slashtags are drastically different from my top three. Blekko’s SEO tools are amazing with regards to transparency and the http://www.techcrunch.com/ /seo search is a gold mine of inbound link data (Any writer or web editor that’s ever had to track links will really appreciate this). I’m also fond of its direct API search features like Deer licking a cat /youtube.

And I’m a huge fan of the simplicity of Blekko’s “most recent” category search /date. In fact, I just used the information found in Foursquare valuation /date to tweet out this pithy attempt at cleverness, “Meg Whitman could have bought Foursquare, and kept the change.”

Heh. I know. But it’s the little things that keep you using a search engine. Says Skrenta on Blekko’s longevity, “The more people see the Slashtags the more they will use them, We got a lot of money in the bank [$24 million to be exact] so we’re not going anywhere.”

You can read more about Blekko in “TechCrunch Review: The Blekko Search Engine Prepares To Launch” and learn more about how to personalize its features in the demo video below.

One of the hot topics in the SEO world is consistently “article marketing.” Primarily, there are conversations around how SEO professionals are using article marketing as a method of link building.

The practice is not without controversy. In an article titled, Dear Google… Stop Making Me Look Like a Fool!, Jill Whalen, of High Rankings, expressed her distaste of the practice of article marketing simply for the sake of building links. I couldn’t agree with her more!

Spamming the Web with “spun” articles, across a wide network of article directories, adds no value to the user experience when they are searching for good content about a topic.

Unfortunately, in the current search engine environment, this practice does indeed work for building links to a website, and increasing keyword rankings. While this statement may also be food for debate, it has been my personal experience that this works. Yes, I’ve actually engaged in this practice! Never, ever for a client. But, I have experimented with the tactic for websites that I personally own.

Why would I ever do this? I am firmly in the “white hat” camp when it comes to SEO. I believe that building a great user experience on your website, creating truly valuable content, and making people aware of that content (through social media and more-traditional PR outreach) is the best way to engage in an SEO campaign. By “making people aware of that content”, I practice appropriate etiquette, and do not blindly broadcast a message that shouts “please link to me!” But, over the years (much like Jill), I have continuously bumped into competitors of my clients that engage in spammy link-building techniques, including publishing inferior content across article directories.

Because I have been frustrated with seeing my clients’ competitors win in the quest for keyword rankings using these tactics, I did what any good SEO practitioner would do – I experimented. It took me roughly 9 years in the SEO trenches to finally succumb to trying article marketing solely for the sake of link building.

I still find the practice distasteful. But it’s worked for me.

The practice is still something I would be highly reluctant to recommend to a client. Especially to a company that carefully manages its brand. Pushing out low-value content across the Web will eventually come back to haunt you – either through risking damaging your brand, or by eventually getting “caught” by Google and other engines, and risking losing keyword positions, or having your site devalued on a broader scale in the search engines’ indices.

That all said, I do think there is a place for B2B companies to engage intelligently in article marketing. A good link to your site will always be valuable. Maybe not from a keyword ranking standpoint, but at least from the standpoint of bringing qualified visitors to your website.

The key is to produce valuable content. Produce content that will position you, your company, or its staff as subject matter experts.

By publishing articles in relevant article websites, and in article sites that have real traffic and value (here’s a good reference point for finding these directories), your articles will often be found in SERPs by users. If the content is good, it will serve you well in establishing you as an authority in that particular subject.The reader may find the content of enough value to either click through a link you provide (in the body of an article, or in your author profile), or go back to a search engine and re-query your name, or your company’s name.

In the current search engine environment, those links often help boost your website’s authority in search engines, and can directly help boost a target keyword’s ranking.

For a B2B company, or for any company, that combination of brand building, direct traffic generation, and link presence, is a win-win-win situation.

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All the hoopla over the Wall Street Journal’s so-called Facebook “privacy breach” article, it’s subsequent and curiously-timed MySpace followup, and also the New York Times’ take on the ability of Facebook advertisers to target ads for nursing schools to gay men is unwittingly creating cover for a social networking privacy issue that’s much bigger. It might be surprising to some, but it turns out that U.S. federal agents have been urged to “friend” people in order to spy on them.

The feds operate such social sting operations aided by the fact that there are very few individuals that actually know every single person in their “friend” list on Facebook. For instance, it is typical to connect to someone because one thinks they might have met them. Or, a connection might take place because two people share common interests and want to view each other’s news posts going forward. But that’s not how the government sees it.

In a memo obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) discovered that the Feds see Facebook as a psychological crutch for the needy. Here’s a direct quote from a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) memo: “Narcissistic tendencies in many people fuels a need to have a large group of “friends” link to their pages and many of these people accept cyber-friends that they don’t even know.” And it gets worse.

The memo explains that these “tendencies” provide “an excellent vantage point for FDNS to observe the daily life of beneficiaries and petitioners who are suspected of fraudulent activities.” Translation: spy on unsuspecting people on Facebook and MySpace in order to catch the bad guys.

Such tactics are decidedly creepy (how many completely innocent people are they spying on), but the argument could be made that if you have nothing to hide, then why worry? Here’s why: many people post items to their profiles that they forget to update or that are not necessarily true, and which they certainly wouldn’t be saying if they knew they were under investigation. Indeed, a recent study initiated by UK insurance company Direct Line concluded that “people are more likely to be dishonest when chatting using technology, such as Twitter, than they would be face to face.”

Why is it that people might lie more on social media than in person? According to Psychologist Glenn Wilson, “we sometimes use these means of communication rather than a face-to-face encounter or a full conversation when we want to be untruthful, as it is easier to fib to someone when we don’t have to deal with their reactions or control our own body language.” This leads to a few common sense conclusions.

First, government officials need to take note that one should not believe everything one reads on the Internet—even if it is generated by a “person of interest.” Second, as the EFF’s Jennifer Lynch pointed out, “the memo makes no mention of what level of suspicion, if any, an agent must find before conducting such surveillance, leaving every applicant as a potential target.” In a country that prides itself on freedom of speech, government should not be in the business of creating an atmosphere that could chill expression.

On October 18th, Congressmen Edward Markey (D., Mass.) and Joe Barton (R., Texas) sent Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg a letter in which they expressed their concern about marketing companies that “gathered and transmitted personally identifiable information about Facebook users and those users’ friends.”

To many tech folks, it seems more than a bit hypocritical for government representatives to be going after Silicon Valley companies for using social networking data when the government is doing exactly the same thing itself (and more). In addition to bureaucrats urging agents to befriend targets, the EFF also discovered that the Department of Homeland Security used “a ‘Social Networking Monitoring Center’ to collect and analyze online public communication during President Obama’s inauguration.” And, recall how Google Maps has been used to track down hoes with “unpermitted” pools in Long Island, NY. Those Big Brother moves are much more disconcerting than Facebook applications using referrer URLs to better target ads.

Editor’s note: Guest author Sonia Arrison is a senior fellow in technology studies at the San Francisco-based Pacific Research Institute and has been writing about privacy issues for over a decade. Follow her on Twitter @soniaarrison.

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All over the design one can find references to Formula-1 and Mercedes-Benz. The sport car effect is emphasized by the arms with vivid red inlet. Pressing the buttons on both sides of the Mercedes logo releases the strap. The source of the light airy character of the watch is the placement of the arms. The arms are placed on great cogwheels which make them rotate not around the center but connected to the rim. By this and the non-continuous strap I could achieve the light air of the inner surfaces. Out of the three middle arms the left one is the tenth, the right one is the hundredth seconds while the bottom one displays the charge of the watch. The button is placed in the first TAG-Heuer logo. The watch is supplied with both a rubber and a metal strap.

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November 5, 2010

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According to the folks who follow all things BMW, the automaker's Vision Efficient Dynamics (VED) concept has been given the greenlight and a few details on the green machine have come along for the ride.

The VED's will reportedly carry either the i1 or i100 name, and that moniker will be placed on a chassis made of carbon fiber and powered first by either by a gas hybrid or fully electric motor. About a month ago it was rumored the coupe would first be available with the drivetrain from the ActiveHybrid 5 Concept, which itself was derived from the ActiveHybrid 7 Series. That option would be good for 300 horsepower thanks to a TwinPower turbo paired with a 40 kW electric motor and running through an eight-speed transmission.

The ultimate hybrid variant, however, would be a 1.5-liter, three-cylinder motor with 181 horsepower, paired to two electric motors each putting out 93 ponies. Output would be channled through a double-clutch transmission, and while the hybrid is supposed to be all-wheel drive, a rear-wheel drive model is supposedly planned as well – perhaps the sole electric version.

All that juice in a carbon fiber body shouldn't disappoint, and predicted numbers are a 0-to-62 mph run of four seconds, 58 miles per gallon, yet a lower-than-expected 250-mile range. The price for all that green when it appears in 2013: from €125,000 to €175,000 ($174,145 to $243,817 U.S. at today's rates). Which is why we suppose it makes (rumored) sense that BMW would only plan on building “30,000 units within five years.”

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September 11, 2010

book

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by Robert Quigley | 9:36 am, August 25th, 2010

A fellow named Benjamin Oláh Lindholm came up with a clever, geeky way to show his affection for his girlfriend Elizabeth: He used digital music service Spotify to assemble twenty-six different song titles into a love poem. Who knew there was a song called “As“?

Click to see the setlist full-sized.

The words: “Elizabeth / I Have Seen / The Last Day on Earth / I Have Seen / Santa’s Little Sleigh Bells / But, Honestly / It Doesn’t Matter / Because / Nothing Compares To You / In Your Eyes / I See / The Ocean / In Your Lips / I Feel Free / In Your Hair / I Can Feel / The Youth / Smooth / As / Silk / Over And Out / Your Protector / For All Time / I Hope / Your Boyfriend / Won’t Let You Down.”

(via Gizmodo)

It can be difficult to conceptualize just how much your awful job is better than anyone else's. But this is an area where fiction comes in handy. Just think to yourself, “at least I'm not one of the people on this list.”

This is our Power Grid of people who could really use some labor organization.

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September 8, 2010

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Filed under: Uncategorized — billytrujillo1979 @ 6:33 pm

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“Breaking-news live-blogged from Twitter” is great when you can find it… But signal to noise ration on twitter in general means most people won't find it. If your writing within a tech-journalist bubble, sure twitter is great. But the rest of the world is not using twitter to get info in the way that tech reporters think they are.

For me, twitter is a good way to share what I'm finding on the web everyday… And when I check my re-tweets I get a better sense of what my followers are interested in. Likewise, I follow others Tweeters for this reason…

Of course that's a much different type of communication than using twitter as a tool to get news coverage… Point is twitter followers are far less engaged compared to those on other link sharing networks.

I mean one of my posts was retweeted by Ashton Kutcher once and even though he has millions of followers the amount of traffic he drove to that particular post:

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_10_youtube_videos_about_bill_gates_steve_jobs.php >

was minuscule compared to what Digg, Facebook and more loyal twitter follows offered.

Posted by: Deane Rimerman |
September 5, 2010 5:58 PM
There is no doubting Twitter's efficiency, nor its record already for breaking major news stories. Personally though, I believe Twitter redefines the role of the witness rather than the media.

Ultimately, the media is still the media. It does the same things it always did, although yes, how it does it is constantly changing. The witness, on the other hand, has been completely reborn. No longer is it one person shouting out to everyone in earshot, “Hey, look over there!” Now that one person can shout to the entire world, and even have people subscribing, waiting for the next shout or tweet.

The media still spreads the news, but now there are more people who will have already heard it… directly from the witness.

Posted by: Lorne Pike |
September 5, 2010 6:07 PM
Hope he considers starting his own site to develop a similar (if not bigger) following, where he could report on things like this that fall outside his usual work. That's the message for all of us these days – even if you are working for a “major organization,” you ultimately are your own brand and need to have a way to deal directly with people who might be interested in your work.

Posted by: Tracy @ WSB |
September 5, 2010 6:17 PM
I think Twitter liveblogging is a great idea because I can follow events (such as the apple conference..) live and easily from my 'dumbphone'.

Posted by: Jeremy Brown |
September 5, 2010 7:31 PM
“Typing 140 characters is faster than TV and much faster than blogging – especially if you can do it from your phone.”

Journalism online is becoming a clusterphuck of ricocheted misinformation. In this particular case, someone with knowledge, and command of the English language, happened to use Twitter wisely, and with proper motivation.

It's fantastic that Mr. Penenberg was able to comprehensively inform the public, while the media were too busy fomenting the latest stratagem which would pay their bills.

Ultimately, yes, news online is being “dumbed-down”, or more accurately, watered down by the number of self-aggrandizing wannabes out there “reporting” on anything from death to what they are either eating – or extruding – at the moment.

We are amidst a Golden Age of misinformation, in which there is a town cryer manning every keypad. Just wait until we are all multicasting our own video content as “Breaking News”. It's going to get messy.

Posted by: TweetDeckTV |
September 5, 2010 10:21 PM
@Jimmy, Sorry to hear about your friend, What your friend needs is a consultation with a personal injury lawyer, here is the one that I know of http://bit.ly/9LrdU9 who offers no charge consultation, hope he feels better soon

Posted by: lunawolf |
September 5, 2010 10:54 PM
“C'mon reporters. Am I only one who thinks $131 MILLION verdict against FORD in a product liability suit is news??”

All the mainstream media outlets have Ford as an advertiser, thus this wasn't reported.

D'uh!

Ref. Pork industry pressures network news to stop saying “Swine flu” and say “N1H1″ ( which they systematically did after the other white meat threatened to pull advertising )

Posted by: Todd |
September 6, 2010 6:11 AM
Seems it would have been more effective all round to tweet the major headline then write a longer blog post. Reading/referencing a 1000+ word essay in 140 character installments isn't very practical. Not to mention archival considerations.

Posted by: Marc Seyon |
September 6, 2010 6:32 AM
Twice this past week I learned of breaking news via Twitter. First, the gunman at Discovery Channel headquarters. Second, the earthquake in New Zealand. Eventually there was better coverage elsewhere–unlike the story here–but Twitter got it first. If not for that I might not have thought to look elsewhere for details.

Tweeting a 1000-word news report is efficient and I wouldn't recommend it; however, a few short tweets with appropriate links to a longer online story is definitely an effective way to get some attention when other media aren't covering it.

Posted by: Karen |
September 6, 2010 7:36 AM
I'm in no way affiliated with Twitlonger, but it's a good way to post an article. The first 140 characters show, and there is a link to the rest.

As people become more familiar with Twitter applications, there will be more opportunity for those Twitterers who can research and write effectively to contribute to journalism intelligently, without solicitation.

Posted by: TweetDeckTV |
September 7, 2010 12:55 PM

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poetry

Filed under: Uncategorized — billytrujillo1979 @ 12:20 am

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Living in and around our nation's capital, we always have our pick of numerous free museums. So it's slightly hard to get too excited for Museum Day, which offers free admission to participating museums all across the country. But this September 25, you too can partake in Museum Day and take advantage of free admission to area museums that normally charge for admission. The Woodrow Wilson House, the National Geographic Museum and the National Museum of Crime and Punishment are a select few which you can enter for free, by just printing out a Museum Day ticket to participate. For a full list of participating area museums, consult the map here.

>> Speaking of the National Geographic Museum: go see some colorful reptiles in Geckos: Tails to Toepads, opening September 24. Fifteen different species will be on display to the delight of biologists and reptilian fans alike. $7.

>> A Revolution in Wood: The Bresler Collection opens at the Renwick Gallery, September 24. This newly donated collection showcases the increasing sophistication of the craft of wood turning.

>> At the American Indian Museum, Vantage Point: The Contemporary Native Art Collection showcases the the concerns and experiences of Native people in the current day in 25 contemporary works. The collection addresses memory, history, and the significance of place for Native communities and opens September 25.

>> Only two more weeks before the Hirshhorn closes Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers. So hurry and don't miss out on this exemplary retrospective of this artist's short career. Closes September 12.

Faith Brown vents her frustration towards the stream of oil lapping at the shores through poetry.

The thick, tarry crude paints a gruesome picture. Forming black swirls in the water, the current carries it. Families working in the local fishing industry watch as the threat to their livelihood slowly drifts closer to home.

Brown describes it in her poetry book, Endless Seasons:

The floating, lifeless, bloated fish
In the now blighted river
He is a poor victim of the black gold.

Since April, the world has watched 4.9 million barrels of oil spew into the Gulf of Mexico after an explosion on BP's Deepwater Horizon drilling rig.

But Brown lives nowhere near Louisiana. In her setting, there is no underwater webcast. Even if there were, there are efforts to stop the leak.

Brown's landscape is the Niger Delta, the resource-rich wetlands of Nigeria sometimes called the Oil Rivers. Lax environmental standards and poor monitoring have led to kilometers of corroded pipeline. They cause spills amounting to one Exxon Valdez every single year, for the past fifty years.

“The Niger Delta has an enormously rich natural endowment in the form of land, water, forests and fauna. These assets, however, have been subjected to extreme degradation due to oil prospecting,” said the United Nations Development Programme in a report. “For many people, this loss has been a direct route into poverty.”

The delta is the third-largest wetland in the world. Farmland and fishing should be a source of income for 31 million inhabitants. However, the oil-saturated water has destroyed most crops and fish stock.

Besides no 24-hour news coverage, what distinguishes the Niger Delta from the Gulf is the oil doesn't come from one source. Yearly, an average 1,598 breaks or leaks occur in the pipelines. In the last seven months, there have been four major oil spills.

Amnesty International reported in 1995, the Shell Petroleum Development Company acknowledged its infrastructure resulted in 50 per cent of its Nigerian spills. But, the human rights organization says since then, little work was done to stem the flow.

“Without independent assessment there is no way of confirming the scale and extent of poor pipeline maintenance,” it said in Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta. “However, by SPDC's (Shell's) own admission, the situation prior to the 1990s was poor, a pipeline replacement programme was ended …and the subsequent Pipeline Integrity Management System is under-funded and behind schedule.”

That means oil is continually spilling into the delta.

In Bomu, children wade through saturated waters searching for seafood seemingly fit to eat. In Taylor Creek, another spill caused damage to local cassava plants, the staple starch in the diet of locals. Meanwhile, Shell admits it lost 100,000 barrels of the commodity last year alone.

Oil companies maintain 90 percent of the Nigerian spills are caused by saboteurs. While this is a problem, crippling poverty caused by the environmental degradation and loss of income is often its source. People whose farmland or fisheries were destroyed by spills sometimes siphon oil to sell on the black market.

However, the scale of this theft is disputed. While oil companies claim it's the primary cause, investigations by Nigeria's National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency have contradicted many of these claims, citing poor maintenance instead.

Through these disagreements, the delta is inundated by oil. As a relief well is drilled in the Gulf, corroded pipelines leak in Nigeria. As BP makes an initial $3 billion deposit into a compensation fund, the delta's local population struggles to find work, their livelihoods gone.

As Anderson Cooper reports live from Louisiana, the Niger Delta remains a faraway region — just another developing nation immersed by poverty, corruption and greed.

Today, the Niger Delta needs an advocate. It needs clean-up. It needs to be awarded the same standards as here in North America.

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