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Two dogs and a view.

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Paul Lindner hung out with 1 person.Julie Lindner

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Mike's already picked up on the +1s bleeding through.

We have an open bug on choosing a URL from the body text.  Another possible solution -- allow posts with links to use full-bleed photos.

Originally shared by Mike Elgan

How Google+ could improve viral G+ marketing for free.

Unlike Facebook, Google+ is a great blogging platform.

Let's say you want to blog about another post somewhere. If you paste in the link, or click on the link icon, Google+ will add a thumbnail from the external post, plus a blurb. 

But this is ugly. Some of the highest-traffic bloggers on Google+ don't use that system, including me. What we do instead is add a big, appealing photograph, the paste in the link in the body of the post. 

The first method links plus-ones on the other post. In other words, when someone plus-ones a post on Google+, the original source plus-one count goes up by one. It's linked forever. If the same user comes back and un-does his plus-one, the count on the source site goes down by one. 

However, if you do the big-picture method, plus-ones on Google+ are not reflected on the external post -- the plus-ones are not linked. 

Here's an example of the problem: Yesterday I posted an item on Cult of Mac using the big-picture method. The post and its comments got well over 2,000 plus-ones. But over on the Cult of Mac site, the post got only 76 plus-ones. 

https://plus.google.com/+MikeElgan/posts/B9VLptUGikF

People always mentally compare the Facebook "Like" count with the Google+ "plus-one" count and Google+ often looks like a slacker. But the reason is that likes for the the big-picture posts on Google+ aren't counted. 

If Google+ had counted the "plus-ones" for my post, for example, the G+ count would have been much higher than the Facebook count, and people viewing the source page would have a more accurate comparison between Facebook and Google+. 

Here's my proposed solution. 

When a user pastes in a URL in Google+, and the system auto-generates the thumbnail-and-blurb thing and links the plus-ones of the two posts, the user should have the option of replacing the thumbnail-and-blurb without de-coupling the linked plus-ones. 

That way, bloggers like me could use big-picture blog posts and still have plus-ones reflected on the source page. 

Is this possible or desirable? 

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Paul Lindner hung out with 1 person.Julie Lindner

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Paul Lindner is hanging out. https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/dede4319707138a8db41fd1b7747a42fbf4534be #hangoutpost

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Paul Lindner hung out with 1 person.Julie Lindner

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The rain has let up enough for a relaxing 2 dog brunch..

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Nice to see a punk community springing up in Google+!  Here's my first pick.  Posting the play store link since they don't have many youtube videos available and since Revolution and World on Fire are my faves...

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There are almost 100k public schools in the USA.

Let's assume a police officer in each school costs $50k/year.  (And that probably doesn't include pension costs).  That's $5 billion dollars per year.

There are around 10m guns sold in the USA per year.  So to fund this we'd have to add a $500/gun tax.

I couldn't find stats on ammunition sales, but it might make even more sense to tax bullets.  Maybe based on their lethality.  BB guns are free.  Cop Killer bullets are $2000.

[left this originally as a comment Dan Gillmor's post, but I think it deserves broader sharing since I think it puts this whole thing into perspective...]

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Spotted: +1 buttons on LinkedIn.  Never thought I'd see the day...

Also this article is just so true :)

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