The Internet the Way it Should Have Been. One Techie Wearing 8 ...

Morning Folks!!

We all know how it was, but how should it have been? Let's walk with me in the perfect setting. In the setting of goals and not all the petty nonsense we have wasted 20 years with. We did have a dot com crash or two along the way.

Why?

Because the IT guys (techies) were in control of things that they had no business being in control of because the business owner was completely ignorant to anything online. So owners depended on the IT for every decision including sales and marketing. Please!! Not the fault of the IT guy. But it lands on him anyways!

So the IT guy has his blinders on and sees the world in one dimension. Why? Because IT guys are paid to think that way. That does not translate well when you have to interact with others. Some "Nerds" don't interact well. Big news to ya??

But let's look at the way it should have been and how it will evolve and then you will see what I see. Maybe. Then you can see why standing back for 20 years was REQUIRED. If it were up to me we would have been to this point in about 20 months not 20 years.

Back to the subject.....

Let's have a rectangular table with 8 seats. Let's figure who to put in those 8 seats to make a complete business.

1. You have the domain name at one end of that table. Sorry, all starts there no matter what your IT guy told you 20 years ago. He was wrong and you asked a nerd to make a marketing decision for you. Think that is smart Mr. Business Owner? See you have to take some of the responsibility because it was your decision to listen to him and not learn for yourself.

Guess what....20 years later and you have been FORCED to learn or risk going out of business. So you have a choice, you can keep listening to your IT folks, take control yourself or find out who really has the CORE answers you need.

2. You have the business owner sitting on the other end of that table. This time take your seat and don't give it away to your IT guy because he will be sitting right next to you anyways.

3. Your IT guy. Yes, I want your nerd at the table. He belongs there. He in a very important piece of the seating. But until now Mr. Business Owner, you have allowed him to occupy all 8 seats. Not Good!! But we are going to get past that TODAY! Hold his hand if you must.

4. Sales and Marketing. They need to be on the other side of the Business Owner. They keep the money flowing if they do their job right and you suffer big time if they do not.

5. Content and Graphics. Sometimes the IT guys are good at this too. Usually not. So you need a creative department that us actually creative.

6. SEO....NOW is the time for the SEO guy to come to the table. When everything is setup, THAT is when he becomes important in the equation.

7. This is when Mr. Business Owner steps up to the plate and lets go of the hand of the IT guy and takes back control of his company and his destiny. I don't know who # 7 is, but I can tell you Mr. Business owner will figure out who it will be to help him once he understands his company again.

8. A guy like me that tells you what you don't want to hear cuz it's no skin off my nose. So Mr. Business owner, you have a choice. Leap or keep holding the hand of the guy that can't lead you where you want to go. He may be a great guy and I am sure he is, but he has no business occupying all 8 seats and so it takes a guy like me to grab you by the neck and force you to look at your business and take back control of it. YOU made the business what it is, are you sure you just want to throw that away?

My point is we all wasted so many years getting to the point we are at now. The starting point. Many now armed with knowledge. I wish it did not take this long. But I always knew it would and eventually we would get to this point. The point where something like this post actually makes sense to the end user because it is exactly what they did. I have traveled with them in their shoes and as each reads this they will be blown away by just how spot on it is. They will relate and they will see things much differently than before they read this post.?

Or they will just shrug their shoulders and carry on whatever. They used to be excellent, but progress and the lack of will to keep up with their peers made them mediocre and that's just something all sides have to accept. One day some lead gen site will come along and eat their lunch and they'll never know what happened.

Rick Schwartz

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Where to Get Inspiration for Your Arts and Crafts | Productivity in ...

Many find arts and crafts to be a relaxing past-time as they can lose themselves in the creation of something that didn?t exist before that moment. This is also a great activity to involve children in as the imagination can create a whole new world of crafting for the child. However, sometimes we can be faced with a form of ?creator?s block? and are unable to focus on what it is we may want to create. Sometimes, having a way to be inspired can get the creative juices flowing in order to put together that masterpiece you?ve always wanted to construct.

1. Pinterest ? Visual stimulation is one of the best methods for inspiring people to create works of arts and crafts. What better location on the Internet to provide that inspiration than images provided on Pinterest? Thousands upon thousands of images are available on this social media hub and everyone is eager to share images based on virtually any subject. The hardest part about using Pinterest for your inspirational source is picking the project you would like to emulate or improve upon. Once you?ve completed your project, why not ?pin? it on your own Pinterest account and help others like yourself?

2. eBay ? Yes, even the online auction super giant can be an inspiration for your creationism. Many companies call eBay home for selling their wares and craft supplies. A seller can reach millions of customers simply by having a store on this website. By browsing through various items for sale, you can get inspiration to create virtually anything you wish. Hundreds of thousands of listings of craft supplies are available from sellers from all over the globe. If you are looking to make an oriental motif project, eBay is a good place to start. Not only can eBay provide great inspiration for your project, but the cost of the supplies are usually much cheaper than those at retail brick-and-mortar stores. This is aside from the fact that the selection is much greater as well.

3. Radio Shack ? Who says that arts and crafts can?t include technology? For developing electronic crafts, one of the best places to go is Radio Shack. Simply walking through the store can stir the creative side of any tech-junkie looking to create something useful for the home. Whether you are looking to build a Do-It-Yourself solar phone charger project or simply want to create a method to connect all of your game systems simultaneously to your television, Radio Shack has what you need. Who knows, maybe your project will peak the interest of friends and family and you wind up making more of these creative devices ? it may not hurt to post it on YouTube or Facebook.

4. All Electronics ? Like Radio Shack, All Electronics is another great place for the techie to get his or her creative on. Various components for your electronics hobby project can be found here from adapters to solar panels. In fact, All Electronics has a decent selection of small solar and photovoltaic equipment for nearly any weekend family craft project for a great price.

Inspiration for your arts & crafts can come in a variety of ways. Whether it is looking at pictures of crafts completed by others or simply looking at the raw materials, you can be inspired to create. From woodworking to technical innovations, you never know when your hobby may one day be used to provide a richer life for yourself as you invent a product that has never been seen before. Fill your life with arts and crafts and discover talents you never knew you had.

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Solidoodle 3D printing stores set to bring 'upscale fashion shopping' to Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan

Looking for an "upscale fashion shopping experience" in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan or Belarus? Solidoodle's got your back. The company is set to launch 3D printing stores in those areas, featuring its low cost 3D printers and "lifestyle" items created on said devices. The Russian store is set to be the first to open this summer. The company also used its press conference today to announce plans to sell printers in Brazil, Canada, Korea and Japan, as well as a join initiative with Georgia Institute of Technology's Mars Society to test the devices in "harsh environments like Mars" (places like Utah, apparently). More info on the announcements can be found in an exceedingly enthusiastic press release after the break.

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Diddy, Mark Wahlberg Launch Water For Those 'Play Hard' Nights

'I drank this water, I loved the way it tasted. It gave me a certain amount of energy,' says Diddy about AQUAhydrate.
By Gil Kaufman, with additional reporting by James Lacsina

Mark Wahlberg and Sean Combs at the Aqua Hydrate Press Conference
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Despite ?child porn? remark by South Dakota legislator, MMA on its way to regulation there

It turns out comparing MMA to child porn is not the best lobbying technique. After a congressman in South Dakota rallied against a bill to regulate MMA by calling it "the child porn of sports," the bill still passed through the South Dakota House 50-20.

Steve Hickey, the representative who grabbed plenty of headlines by fighting against MMA's regulation in his state, tried to add an amendment to create a commission that would oversee different disciplines of martial arts but not MMA, because that makes a ton of sense. Wait, no, it doesn't. The South Dakotan House saw the lack of sense in that amendment and defeated it.

After the bill makes a quick stop in the Senate to review the amendments that were passed, the bill will head to the desk of South Dakota governor Dennis Daugaard. He has strongly opposed MMA in the past, but the South Dakota Argus Leader says it will still likely become a law:

Daugaard could sign the bill, veto it, or let it become law without his signature. Both houses of the Legislature passed the fight commission bill with margins sufficient to override any veto.

Hickey's remarks about MMA brought back memories of governments across the country banning "no-holds barred" fighting in the late 90s, and Senator John McCain calling MMA "human cockfighting." Since then, regulation and rules have turned MMA into the sport we know today. It's now regulated in 46 states, and in 2007, McCain even praised MMA's progress.

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aiyatheydidnt: Taiwan's most famous professional mourner

Crying on command isn't easy, but Liu Jun-Lin is hired to do it every day, at funerals for people she never knew. She's Taiwan's best-known professional mourner - a time-honoured tradition in her country that may be dying out.

Crying for a living is controversial, seen by some as the commercialisation of grief, but mourners like Liu say their profession has a long history in Taiwan, where according to tradition the deceased needs a big, loud send-off to cross smoothly into the afterlife.

"When a loved one dies, you grieve so much that when it finally comes time for the funeral, you don't have any tears left," says Liu.

"How are you going to suddenly switch your mood to show all that sorrow?"

Liu is there to help strike the right tone.

In earlier times, daughters often left home to work in other cities, and transport was limited, she explains. If someone in the family died, they often couldn't make it home in time for the funeral, so the family would hire what's known as a "filial daughter" to lead the family in mourning.

Traditional Taiwanese funerals are elaborate, combining sombre mourning with louder, up-tempo entertainment to fire up grieving spirits.

For the entertainment portion, 30-year-old Liu and her Filial Daughters Band wear bright costumes, and perform almost-acrobatic dance numbers. They do the splits, back-bends, and somersaults. Her brother, A Ji, plays along on traditional stringed instruments.

Later, Liu will change into a white hood and robe, and crawl to the coffin on her hands and knees. There, in time to her brother's organ playing, she performs her signature wail.

Her sounds are long and drawn out, somewhere between crying and singing. At home, she demonstrates a typical wail for me. "My dear father, your daughter misses you so much!" she cries. "Please, please come back!"

I ask Liu how she manages to manufacture tears at will. But she insists all her crying is real. "Every funeral you go to, you have to feel this family is your own family, so you have to put your own feelings in it," she says. "When I see so many people grieving, I get even sadder."

With her long eyelashes, dimples, and sing-song voice, Liu seems much younger than her 30 years. At home, she wears an orange jogging suit and sparkly nail polish. I'd sooner believe she was a nursery school teacher than a professional in the grief business.

Funeral director Lin Zhenzhang, who has worked alongside Liu for years, says that's a big part of her appeal.

"Traditionally, we think of this as a job for women a generation older," he says. "But Jun-Lin is so young and beautiful. That contrast makes people very curious."

Liu's grandmother and mother were both professional mourners.

As a young child, she would play outside the funeral homes while her mother worked. At home, she mimicked her mother and older sister as they rehearsed.

"I'd grab any object and pretend it was a microphone," she says. "Then I'd pretend there was a coffin and crawl to it."

Both of Liu's parents died when she was young, leaving her grandmother with three children to bring up, and a heavy burden of debt. So the grandmother pulled Liu and her older brother into the family trade. Liu was just 11 years old.

She had to get up before dawn each morning to rehearse, and often had to miss school for work. When she did go to class, other children would make fun of her job and the strange costumes she wore.

"They'd say, that's so weird, so ugly, you look so stupid!" she says. "I felt really inferior and thought other kids didn't like me."

Performing wasn't much easier. Stigmas around death make many people look down on mourners.

"Sometimes before we'd start the performance, the grieving family would be very sour when they talked to us," says Liu. "But after we performed, they'd cry and say thank you, thank you, thank you!"

That's when Liu realised the real purpose of her job. "This work can really help people release their anger, or help them say the things they're afraid to say out loud," she says. "For people who are afraid to cry, it helps too, because everyone cries together."

Mentored by her grandmother, a tiny woman in wire-framed glasses and a tight perm, Liu trained rigorously as a performer, and developed the shrewd business skills that have lifted her family from poverty to prosperity. Liu and her siblings each have their own house, and their company charges up to $600 (?380) for a performance.

But it's a business in decline, says Lin Zhenzhang, as the economic downturn and simpler modern tastes turn people away from lavish traditional funerals,

"The tradition of professional mourners is going to slowly be eliminated," he says. "So people like Jun-Lin are going to have to find a way to reinvent their profession, or find new sources of revenue."

This hasn't escaped Liu. That's why she has recruited some 20 female assistants. They're young, good-looking women in black and white uniforms, who help funeral directors with embalming and memorial services, and they've brought Liu a lot of attention.

"There was no-one else doing this in northern Taiwan, and it ended up being more successful than I'd thought," says Liu. "Within this industry, I know I need to find niches that no-one else is exploring."

No matter what, Liu says, she won't ever leave the family trade.

"This is something my grandmother struggled to build up from the ground," she says.

"I have to teach others what she taught me, and carry on her tradition."

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