Just in Case I Need an #Excuse (for this low-level #KiddieCracking) @issuu @okgazette @guardian @Vimeo @Ecosia

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I've been a big fan of alt-weekly Oklahoma Gazette for the last 20-or-so years. Oklahoma Gazette is–like most alt-weeklys, I imagine/hear/hope–a 'FREE' newspaper for consumers in its distribution area (obviously not 'FREE' for its publishers, writers, editors & subscribers (restauranteurs & clinics etc.), but graciously passed on to the businesses' communities).

I'm not quite capable of 'the economic participation it would take to do a standard citizen's part in justifying advertisers' & subscribers' sponsorship of the alt-weekly,' so I do my best to "multiply" the advertisments' worth by my 'word-of-mouth' (or whatever they call my online-writing—mostly my posts on this blog which I share (along with my other Tweets) on Twitter and -on Facebook, where I also post Events that are Advertised in Oklahoma Gazette (and in any other alt-weeklys I happen-upon))

That's my excuse for what some might falsely call "plagiarism"—I'm not plagiarizing, because I'm not claiming to be "the original source" of the copied information; but ...

Some of those ads contain information-&-graphics that I'm not able to communicate clearly without 'directly copying it into a posting.' I could go directly to OKG's 'digital archive,' but somehow (maybe they linked to it, I forget) I found out that 'a digital copy' of each issue is also kept at Issuu.

Finding that content, I can't always copy-&-paste it here without a little bit of 'Kiddie-Cracking' (like "hacking," but ... not—see, I understand that there are TONS of code beneath the surface of these 'user-textboxes' (e.g. entry-form for a blog-post, textbox for a Tweet or -for a Facebook-post); I just have no-or-little idea 'what that code is.)

The main 'kiddie-cracking' I do: I found a program online that lets me 'save screenshots.' I open that program, open Issuu's copy of the page of an ad I want to copy, save that screenshot, edit the image down to 'just the ad,' save it on my desktop, and upload the image to the Internet.

Oh! I usually 'link the image to the URL I got it-from' & -@Tag 'Issuu' (or the Twitter-name of whatever other publisher I 'borrow' the image from) ... something I learned from my years as a 'clickbait fisherman'—trying to earn money by getting a large number of 'clicks' on the articles I wrote ... when I share my articles (usually on Twitter, sometimes on other social-network sites), I try to @Tag the accounts of any other content-providers if I use- or link to-their online-content: a kind of 'link-sharing'

for example:

... Excuse ... 'That word' (below-hyperlinked to the video that inspired me to 'do my small part' in assisting alt-weeklys advertising) is built on an even-deeper source ... something crucial that firms the foundation upon which our lexicon stands ...

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The word “Excuse” is built on words that mean “Out, Away (Ex-) + Accusation, Legal Action (Cause)” (Forgive, Pardon, Accept Another's Plea of Excuse, to Obtain Exemption-or-Release from Charges of Obligation-or-Duty, to Beg to be Excused, to Defend as Right, to Serve as Justification for, Exonerate, Attempt to Clear from Blame;

("Excuse Me"—Mild Apology or Statement of Polite Disagreement).

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