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New police records reveal there’s more to the Amber Newell/Flock story than a simple “camera glitch.” Milwaukee police used 30 days of Flock location history to identify her vehicle’s travel pattern, positioned officers along its predicted route, conducted a high-risk stop, and seized the vehicle as homicide evidence. Ten days later, after the vehicle had apparently been returned, an outdated alert led Brookfield police to stop it again at gunpoint.

https://www.reddit.com/r/1A_Auditor_Summit/comments/1vx3mbw/...

The big unanswered question: How did a vehicle go from police evidence custody back onto the road without the law-enforcement alert being cleared? We’re continuing to request the Flock audit trail and alert history to find out.

Re:Pagoda Box: A One-Year Review on Thursday February 11, 2016 @09:51AM (#11080416)
Thanks.
Re:Speakers wanted for WordCamp Chicago 2013 on Thursday April 25, 2013 @06:22PM (#5610312)
I'll apply now.
I agree. There could have been many other projects tied into the scope of work.
Without seeing the proposal or statement of work from the website developer, I'm not going to comment on whether this is an outrage or not.
Re:How I Made $13,490.50 With Adsense Last November on Friday November 16, 2012 @12:59AM (#4792642)
Hi ashray, I'm the owner of that site / author of the article.

I'd love to do more of this Adsense and affiliate marketing stuff in the non-November months. My day job keeps me pretty busy though.

Doing affiliate links did make some good $, but really, the revenue from Adsense is where I make most of it.

Re:How I Made $13,490.50 With Adsense Last November on Thursday November 15, 2012 @04:06PM (#4790745)
Are you saying I only revealed my secrets because they don't work any more?

Actually, this year my ads are making me more money per visitor than last year, so the opposite of what you say is true.

~ Scott [ owner of thanksgivingblackfridayads(.)com ]

Re:How I Made $13,490.50 With Adsense Last November on Thursday November 15, 2012 @04:04PM (#4790731)
People click the ads on my site because they find them relevant. ~ Scott (Site's owner)
Re:How I Made $13,490.50 With Adsense Last November on Thursday November 15, 2012 @04:02PM (#4790725)
Yes.. it was going well for me until the penalty. (That was my fault and I don't blame Google at all). ~ Scott (TBFA webmaster)
Re:How I Made $13,490.50 With Adsense Last November on Thursday November 15, 2012 @03:58PM (#4790706)
I'm glad you found my article useful. I tried my hardest to be factual and to back my observations up with data. ~ Scott (the website's webmaster)
Re:How I Made $13,490.50 With Adsense Last November on Thursday November 15, 2012 @03:56PM (#4790698)
Hi xpose2000, sorry to here you are disappointed. Like I said before.. I'm pretty big on sharing my knowledge. I hope my experiences can be used to help someone else avoid the same pitfalls I did. That's all. I'm pretty sure SEOmoz decided to publish my article because they saw value in what it was saying and figured their user base could benefit from it. ~ Scott
Re:How I Made $13,490.50 With Adsense Last November on Thursday November 15, 2012 @03:53PM (#4790683)
Hi Trotsky, the site and content are not low quality. I understand what you are trying to get at, but it was really just my poor choice in linkbuilding activities that got my site penalized. Also, the fact that I have an EMD (Exact match domain) doesn't help as much either. ~ Scott
Re:How I Made $13,490.50 With Adsense Last November on Thursday November 15, 2012 @03:51PM (#4790672)
Yes. People stay on my site and view 10+ pages at a time and usually end up either clicking an affiliate link to go buy something on Amazon, for example, or clicking an Adsense ad, which is their own choice. Thanks for your feedback. ~ Scott (webmaster of the TBFA site)
Re:How I Made $13,490.50 With Adsense Last November on Thursday November 15, 2012 @03:49PM (#4790665)
Hello. I'm the owner of the site mentioned. I'm not sure I understand your comment. Why do you feel my site is unoriginal? Scott
Ya, I really did try my best. In my reconsideration request, after removing bad links as good as I could, I even apologized, just in case the Google reviewer reading my request might see that I'm being genuine.
This is my site. I hope Google and friends can offer some insight. Let me know what you think.