Everything is online nowadays. Dictionaries, stores, friends, companies, journals, etc…people have whole lives online. We build websites with the hope that people will visit them and hear what we have to say, buy what we have to sell, or be impressed with our company. But getting people to visit can be a challenge, and we all know the livelihood of any website depends on its traffic.

Penny Sansevieri, author of Red Hot Internet Publicity: An Insider’s Guide to Promoting Your Book on the Internet, recently wrote an article for Huff Post Books about increasing traffic to your website. The article, Twenty Ways to Drive More Traffic to Your Website and Blog, is informative and thorough, leaving the reader with a firm grasp of what could be done to increase traffic. So if you have a website or blog and you would like more people to see it, use the methods mentioned in this article and see your website’s traffic grow.

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In an article published by Neiman Reports, Danny Schechter discusses the media’s misstep in reporting the Financial Crisis to the American Public. The highly informative article, goes back to the first signs of the impending Financial Crisis and how the media failed to report it and America failed to see it. In some ways Schechter is pointing out the denial we were all living with. Choosing instead to focus on the economic boom and avoiding what, many projected, was yet to come. Schechter’s article, Is the Financial Crisis also a Crime Story?, gives an interesting perspective on the financial crisis and is worth reading for anyone who is befuddled or frustrated by this crisis.

To read more of Danny Schechter’s work see The News Dissector, Danny’s blog. And to hear Danny speak more about this topic and the many others that interest him, check out his appearance on The Edge with Max Keiser.

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Cosimo, Inc. would like to announce the launch of a new imprint under the services of CosimoB2B. Transitions, a Prague-based nonprofit organization dedicated to improving journalism and news media in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, has published their first book, Classroom Struggles: Education Reporting and Analysis from Transitions, using CosimoB2B.

Classroom Struggles: Education Reporting and Analysis from Transitions is a collection of news and feature articles written by young journalists in Eastern Europe and the Balkans, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Russia. These regions are facing many roadblocks within their education systems and the articles in this book expose and discuss these roadblocks. This book is an ideal start for this new imprint venture as it fits closely with Cosimo’s ideals of informing and engaging readers about important current events and issues.

CosimoB2B offers publishing services to organizations, such as Transitions and also research institutes, think tanks, magazines and other institutions interested in setting up their own publishing company without having all the technical know-how or manpower in-house. These organizations have the opportunity to create imprints while CosimoB2B becomes the production, distribution and marketing departments for the imprint. Companies can take advantage of CosimoB2B’s experience with on-demand print technology and its expertise in designing and publishing books.

ABOUT TRANSITIONS
Transitions is a nonprofit organization established to strengthen the professionalism, independence and impact of the news media in the post-communist countries of Europe and the former Soviet Union. Based in Prague, the organization does this through a combination of journalism and media training programs, and the publication of Transitions Online (www.tol.org) magazine.

ABOUT CosimoB2B
CosimoB2B is the services unit of Cosimo, Inc. based in New York, a specialty publisher of books and publications that inspire, inform and engage readers. Cosimo’s mission is to create a smarter and more sustainable society by connecting people with valuable ideas.

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September is upon us, bringing with it back to school time, brilliant colors, and colder weather. Fall is a transitional season when people tend to leave the lazy, careless days of summer behind and buckle down into a more serious outlook. And from that serious outlook comes our new book of the month: Wall Street and the Financial Crisis: Anatomy of a Financial Collapse written by The U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.

The economic crisis in this country is no secret. There are constant reminders of the unemployment rate, houses are foreclosing faster than ever, and businesses are laying off, cutting back, and shutting down. Financial trouble is all around us, but how many actually know what started it all?

After a two year investigation by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigation the report Wall Street and the Financial Crisis: Anatomy of a Financial Collapse details where the blame should be and why. This report, re-released by Cosimo, with a new foreword from the publisher, takes an in-depth look at Wall Street’s blame in the financial collapse. Outlining four very clear causes of the downturn: high risk mortgage loans, regulation failures, inaccurate AAA credit ratings, and investment bank abuses.

With the gloriously tranquil days of summer behind us, we can no longer ignore the harsh reality of our Country’s financial situation. It’s necessary for us to take a look at the causes. Where are the flaws that allowed this to happen? Can we prevent further damage? And where do we go from here? Wall Street and the Financial Crisis: Anatomy of a Financial Collapse, can help lead us to the answers.

THE U.S. SENATE PERMANENT SUBCOMMITTEE ON INVESTIGATIONS (PSI) is a bi-partisan team of senators that deals with Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, and is currently headed by Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) and Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK). Formerly known as the Committee on Government Operations, PSI is the oldest subcommittee of the Senate Homeland Security Committee.

Read Wall Street and the Financial Crisis: Anatomy of a Financial Collapse for more about Wall Street’s role in our country’s Financial Crisis and an in-depth look at the flaws that allowed this to happen.

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Everyone remembers where they were on September 11, 2001. Ask anyone and they can, with startling details, recall the exact moment they learned that the Twin Towers and the Pentagon had been hit by passenger jets. The haunting images of the Towers on fire against a clear, crisp September sky are burned into the memories of people all over the world. Nearly 3,000 lives were lost that day and it will always be remembered as the day no American will ever forget.

As the tenth anniversary of this traumatic event approaches, many are reflecting on what happened before, during, and after the attacks. How did we miss the signs? What was going through the heads of all those people on the planes, in the towers, waiting for calls from loved ones? What happens next? It’s scary, when you boil right down to it, and sad. There are some interesting reports, all released by the government, that shed some light on the events and the questions many have asked.

The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, gives a minute by minute transcript of that haunting day, including airport surveillance, phone conversations and other unheard details. It discusses everything that went wrong on that day, as well as the things that went right, with clues on how to avoid future similar attacks. An informative read and bestseller, this report offers answers to the many questions surrounding that day.

Three more reports Individuals Guide for Understanding and Surviving Terrorism , Terrorist Financing: On Deterring Terrorist Operations in the U.S., and A Military Guide to Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century offer insight into the military and financial aspects of terrorism. Being informed about more than just the attacks can help in the prevention of and protection from further attacks.

No matter how you choose to reflect upon the upcoming anniversary one thing is certain: the 9/11 attacks were shocking and terrible events that left much to be learned.

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At 80 years old, Budd Hopkins, a sculptor, painter, and UFO investigator died from complications of cancer. Though his art transformed over the years, his passion for it never ceased. His art is hanging in many museums including the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington and the British Museum.

Budd Hopkins is widely thought of as the father of the Alien-Abduction Movement because he was the first to being collecting and recording the stories these people had to tell. His interest came from the siting of something flat, silver, and airborne, which he deemed unfathomable as belonging to this world. Many famous UFO writers credit him with their interest in this field. In addition to the books he published on UFOs, Hopkins also wrote the Introduction to the Cosimo Book Left at East Gate: A First-Hand Account of the Rendlesham Forest UFO Incident, Its Cover-up, and Investigation.

Read his obituary from the New York Times.

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