Archive for June, 2007
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Saturday, June 30th, 2007by Michael Dorausch, DC
I was browsing through some web pages on Planet Chiropractic today and I came across a half a dozen pages that had links to photos that were taken during chiropractic missions to Panama and Costa Rica from May and October of 2000.
All the pages are grouped together and if you want [...]
Chiropractic Web Guru Giving Away Websites
Saturday, June 30th, 2007by Vera Arteaga
Michael Dorausch of Planet Chiropractic announced on chiropractic blogs yesterday that he will be giving away the designs, content, and templates of his popular chiropractor website in an effort to provide chiropractors with more options for putting content online.
The site will be available under creative commons licensing and should be available for download and [...]
Giving away my chiropractic website
Saturday, June 30th, 2007My first attempt at this post got back spaced and I inadvertently deleted all the content before I saved it. Lesson: incremental saves.
OK, you saw the title… I’m giving away a website. It’s late so I’m not getting into much detail now but I’ll update this as I move further along.
Simply, I spent about $3000.00 [...]
Local Chiropractor Search Pages
Friday, June 29th, 2007The local chiropractor pages on Planet Chiropractic are getting more visitors every month. This post explains how to get listed so those searching in your state can find you.
The pages offer listing of chiropractic office information, school addresses and contact info, as well as organization and association resources. There is a webpage for each of [...]
Planet Chiropractic RSS on your iPhone
Thursday, June 28th, 2007by Michael Dorausch, DC
It’s good news for tech folks, an even greater news for chiropractic tech folks, the greatly anticipated Apple iPhone goes on sale Friday. According to reports on several websites, and the presence of a new URL, reader.mac.com, it looks as though the Apple iPhone is going to have its own RSS interface.
While techie iPhone owners will likely be quick to add feeds for sites such as engadget and apple.com (Apple has a popular RSS feed titled: Apple Hot News Ticker), tech minded chiropractors will have access to not only one, but three forms of RSS content coming from Planet Chiropractic.
Using a Web browser, an RSS enabled e-mail client, RSS reader, and soon possibly your RSS enabled iPhone, chiropractors can access the freshest information on topics such as Chiropractic News, the latest posts to Chiropractic Blogs, and up-to-the-minute postings to the chiropractic classified ad system.
While reading news and viewing blogs via RSS is a pretty spectacular feature to be enabled in the iPhone, the potential for platforms such as classified advertising via RSS is humongous. Forget for a moment chiropractic classifieds and imagine the potential for any classified ad system that enables their content in RSS feeds. An end-user could subscribe to a niche market RSS feed and view it on their iPhone, via the Apple-designed RSS aggregator.
One potential scenario I could think of would be ticket sales. Someone could post tickets for the Los Angeles Lakers playing at the Staples Center to a classified ad system that supports RSS. The iPhone user would be subscribed to a “tickets for sale” feed and could potentially have the information almost instantly. No doubt there will be many great ways to use RSS on a mobile handset such as the iPhone.
RSS technology will continue to improve and it looks as though Apple will be the first to capitalize on the many opportunities RSS brings to the mobile market.
It will be interesting to see how Apple’s inclusion of an RSS reader will affect third-party vendors and established RSS services such as FeedBurner, owned by Google. We may be seeing advertiser supported feeds in the not to distant future. Apple anticipates that it will sell an estimated 15 million iPhones by the end of 2008.
You can get more information about RSS and read about how we are using the popularly expanding protocol at Planet Chiropractic to deliver content on the cutting edge at rss.planetc1.com.
Potential Content is Everywhere
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007Yesterday I posted an article to Planet Chiropractic News titled Live Subluxation Free or Die Hard. The article was about Bruce Willis, his 4th Die Hard film (opening tomorrow), and chiropractic.
People sometimes ask where I get this stuff. Do we call an agent for Bruce Willis? Did someone from his promotional office call us? Nope. [...]
Independence Day comes early for chiropractic classifieds
Monday, June 25th, 2007We were waiting until July 4th of 2007 to release the latest news regarding the chiropractic profession’s number one ranked online classified ad service.
If you haven’t been on the website lately you may notice something different, there are no fees for posting ads. That’s right, freedom from paying fees to post chiropractic related classified ads. [...]
World?s oldest man born September 1895
Monday, June 25th, 2007The world’s oldest man appeared in news articles last week (Monday, June 18, 2007) after he received an official certificate from the Guinness World Records, verifying him as the world’s oldest male.
According to report on Yahoo! News, Tomoji Tanabe is currently 111 years old, born on September 18th, 1895.
Chiropractors will recognize that date as the [...]
Live Subluxation Free or Die Hard
Monday, June 25th, 2007by Michael Dorausch, DC
Bruce Willis, the man who starred in the greatest action movie of all time, is at it again, and he’s still doing his own stunts. The film, “Live Free or Die Hard”, opens nationwide in theaters this Wednesday, June 27, 2007. It’s the actor’s fourth in a series of Die Hard films, with the 1988 release recently being named “Greatest Action Movie of All Time” by Entertainment Weekly.
Popular entertainment destination, starpulse.com, had this quote regarding the actors chiropractic care he received during the making of Die Hard 4. “Let’s just say my chiropractor wasn’t surprised to see me. It was a lot easier to do this kind of stuff 20 years ago.” - Bruce Willis found jumping out of a car at 35 miles per hour during the making of Live Free Or Die Hard painful.
According to news reports, rather than rely on CGI effects for many of the films stunts, Bruce and and others on the crew of “Live Free or Die Hard” did many of their own stunts. A good friend of mine, Chris Boardman, who wrote and orchestrated on the first three Die Hard films, told me he believes Bruce did the stunt himself where he jumps spread eagle off of Nakatomi Plaza (Fox Plaza in LA) with the building blowing up behind him in the first Die Hard film.
Planet Chiropractic loves when celebrities and sports stars speak positively about chiropractic care. I’d suggest all chiropractors support Bruce by going to see this film (or other films produced by Cheyenne Enterprises, Bruce and co-founder Arnold Rifkins Los Angeles based company). With more than 80,000 chiropractors in active practice in the USA alone, collectively we could give him a big Thank You at the box office.
While he hasn’t stopped my my office just yet, the 52-year-old Willis has apparently been receiving chiropractic care for quite a few years, and he has spoken highly of those that have cared for him. Bruce Willis is one of many celebrity names to often appear on chiropractic websites as a supporter of chiropractic care.
Willis strikes me as one of those guys that supports a lot of stuff and does lots of good things, not for publicity, just because it’s stuff he wants to do. He was one of several actors to donate funds to Sean “Puffy” Combs when he ran the New York City marathon, raising over $2 million for children. Not surprisingly, “P-Diddy” received chiropractic care from his Manhattan chiropractor Drew DeMann, in preparation for the run.
While Bruce Willis may be a great actor and chiropractic patient, his Die Hard character, John McClane, is a better example of your typical American guy coming in for a subluxation removing chiropractic adjustment. Not when he’s all bloodied up after a day of fighting bad guys, but a guy that’s just finished a hard days work. The John McClane’s of the world go to work everyday, and their work takes an emotional and physical toll on the body, creating those spinal stresses we chiropractors refer to as vertebral subluxation. They often show up in chiropractic offices towards the end of the shift, leaving the work and sweat of the day on the chiropractors adjusting table. They love those chiropractic adjustments. By the way, if you’ve never been on a film set, let me tell you everybody works hard in the hours are seriously long. Back to back fourteen hour days are not uncommon when making action films like Die Hard, making regular chiropractic care during the production of any film, a great benefit.
If you’re reading this online, go see your chiropractor and tell them you’re going to see the film because you support those that support chiropractic. Thanks Bruce, we appreciate you.
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Dr. Michael Dorausch is a chiropractor practicing in Los Angeles, California. His ADIO chiropractic office is located nearby Sony studios in Culver City and he provides chiropractic care to a number of people in the film industry.
Granular Data Project at Planet Chiropractic
Sunday, June 24th, 2007Programmers at planetchiropractic.com were recently looking at the growing list of thousands of news articles that exist on the popular chiropractic website.
Even though the web site has offered several different ways for visitors to view and search information, programmers are always at work seeking ways to better improve the end-users experience. A topic that came [...]