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The Mid-Missouri Solid Waste Management District and Mid-Mo Recycling are holding a residential electronic waste collection Saturday at Reactor Field off Providence Road in Columbia, Missouri.

You may drop off items between 9 am and 1pm. Contributors can drop off electronics including computers, televisions, printers, microwaves, cell phones, batteries, and other household electronics for recycling.

Cathy Rupard of Mid-Mo Recycling said there is no limit to the number of items people can bring in. She said there is a $5 charge for computer monitors, televisions and microwaves.

For more information, call 874-7574 or visit www.mmswmd.org or email recycle@socket.net

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Its only been a few weeks since AirPlay rocketed past 11,000 members and now here we are at 12,000 artist and record label accounts.

What makes AirPlay Direct different from myspace, iTunes, and all the other websites you can purchase or stream music from?

AirPlay Direct’s target audience is radio stations, not the general public.

AirPlay encourages artists to reach the general public by posting music and band information on myspace, iTunes, and related sites. Artists can link to such websites from their Free AirPlayDirect.com artist page and vice versa. AirPlay Direct is geared towards the thousands of radio stations listening to and downloading broadcast quality music. We’re not targeting the millions of general public audio listeners.

AirPlay works to connect independent artists with radio stations and broadcasters around the world.

Read more about Airplay Direct on blog at http://www.airplaydirect.com/blog

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Delta Systems is part owner in AirPlayDirect.com

Delta Systems has completed the rebranding effort of the Heart of Missouri United Way website. Previously, the organization was known as the United Way of Columbia. The old website at http://www.unitedway-columbia.org will still work for quite a while and will automatically redirect to the new website at http://uwheartmo.org

If you need to email anyone at the organization, simply change the domain on the email to uwheartmo.org; example: contact@unitedway-columbia.org becomes contact@uwheartmo.org

Delta Systems took this opportunity to shift the site to using more a more user-friendly content management platform. The site looks exactly the same, but the backside administration tasks are now much more powerful, yet remain simple to use.

The Heart of Missouri United Way also said goodbye this week to longtime Executive Director David Franta. David has moved to St. Louis with his wife, Pam. The Heart of Missouri United Way is now on the hunt for a new Executive Director.

AirPlay Direct reached another milestone in the past 2 weeks by signing up their 11,000th artist! Artists are being added so fast, that we almost missed this one; today we have 11,475 artists signed up!

This morning, AirPlay Direct went offline for a few hours while we increased storage capacity on our servers. One of these days we’ll switch to a data storage service like S3 and then we won’t have to go offline ever again since our capacity will be infinite. But in the interim, we continue to grow at a record pace –  with record breaking numbers of visitors, hits, streams, and downloads every month.  Read more about Airplay Direct on their recently launched blog at http://www.airplaydirect.com/blog

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Delta Systems is part owner in AirPlayDirect.com

The Columbia Business Times ran a story on Phishing, Pharming, and Hacking. They consulted several local businesses that deal with these types of threats. Both Kevin Schmutzler and David Nivens also had several useful insights as to how to prevent these issues using several layers of protection.

We found it interesting that this story went live the same day that the latest round of attacks from the Asprox botnet started spreading via the web and Microsoft SQL Servers.

If you think your website has been infected by the Asprox botnet, give us a call.

We’ve figured out a few ways to innoculate sites from the attacks, even without fixing XSS vulnerabilities in the code itself.

How do you know if your site is infected?

For one thing, you will see links to banner82.com in the form of

<script src=http://www.banner82.com/b.js></script>

If you Google for banner82.com you’ll see thousands of sites that have been compromised.

The National Newspaper Association brought their new website live recently at nna.org This new site features a design by Delta Systems with content being supplied by Avectra’s NetForum association management software.

The NNA has retained some features of the old site that Delta helped with, including the membership dues calculator that allows potential members to calculate their annual membership fees before they sign up.  (Delta previously featured a story about the member dues calculator). Delta also helped save the NNA some money by suggesting using an off-the-shelf collaboration system (phpBB) to launch their NNA Great Ideas forum.

Recently, the Columbia Daily Tribune ran a story on our friends over at Photo Gliff. Delta Systems has been advising and incubating Photo Gliff since they opened their doors in January 2008.

Photo Gliff offers event and on-site photography services. From action shots at sporting and cultural events to portraits for school yearbooks and business directories, owners Scott Smith and Ric Wilborn provide digital photography and printing services for a variety of clients and occasions. Using the latest digital technology and graphic designing software, Photo Gliff also offers on-the-spot photos, which allow customers to review and purchase photos the day of an event. Photographs also are available for purchase online.

You can read the full story in the Columbia Daily Tribune

 The good people at the Business Times Company electronically delivered the latest issue of the CBT to Delta in PDF, printer ready format. Delta then publishes the PDF and dumps graphics and stories into WordPress to get the individual stories properly indexed by Google News and a myriad of search engines.  The official publication date is every other Saturday.  The online issue is set to automatically go live at 5:00pm on the Friday before the day of publication since print copies start arriving in mailboxes on Friday.

The Columbia Business Times can be found online at http://www.columbiabusinesstimes.com

Everything you see on that site is database driven – no human layout is required for each issue - it is automatically handled by the system and all stories in each issue are pushed live simultaneously and automatically.

On March 6, 2008, AirPlay Direct added its 10,000th artist.  2008 looks even more promising with soon to be announced company leadership and salesforce additions.

Read the full story on AirPlay Direct’s new blog

Delta Systems helps to support AirPlayDirect.com’s technical systems, artist members, and radio station members.  Delta Systems is a founding partner and part owner of AirPlay Direct.

AirPlay Direct is pleased to announce that we have appointed music business executive, Roger Smith, to the newly created position of Director of Advertising & Sponsorships.

In his new role, Smith will be responsible for developing and executing all advertising and sponsorship revenue development programs for AirPlay Direct.

Smith was most recently President of the music promotion firm, Roger Smith Promotion & Marketing, and has held executive positions previously at Elektra, Sony and Atco

“AirPlay Direct has created a strong brand and a fantastic artist driven promotional platform and community. I am very excited to have this wonderful opportunity to contribute to and share in the explosive growth AirPlay Direct is currently experiencing” said Roger Smith.

“We are truly excited to have Roger join the AirPlay Direct team.  His strong professional background and industry experience will be a welcome addition to the team as we look to aggressively grow the company in 2008″ said AirPlay Direct CEO Robert Weingartz.

Roger can be reached at roger@airplaydirect.com

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Delta Systems is a minority owner of AirPlayDirect.com