Web logging has come so far. I started a website: “Cinders Garbage” as a freshman in high school, in 1998. I wanted a place to keep a journal of my daily life, on the Internet. I made my own weblog by adding entries to a single page for each month of the year and separated each entry with a line break and had separate pages for months and years. It was a little time consuming though. Each time I wanted to update my journal I would actually have to go into the code of the page and update it that way. So I didn’t update very often. After awhile some web sites came along that made it easier to have a journal on the web. I started using DiaryLand.com which was not too bad but a little boring and really had no way of communicating with other bloggers on the site besides a main page that had links to the newest five entries from their users. I also tried other sites like Greymatter.com (which is now a software site) and Blogger.com which had more customizability but not the community I was looking for. After a year or so a fellow blogger and friend of mine mentioned a new site that was really getting a lot of attention named Livejournal.com. I eventually got a journal there and have been posting to it for years now and I can also read about my friends’ lives because everyone I know has one.
I have never really used my blog as a way to post news that would be relevant to the general public but I find the ones that do very interesting. Once and awhile I will take a search through journals to see what's going on in the world today and people’s opinions on what's happening. Some times it can be difficult to differentiate between the two because some people feel that their opinions are the facts and that can be misleading to people who don’t know how to look for that. It almost scares me that the media would be going to blogs to see what is happening because I only see the blogs that all opinions.
Blogs could be a good source of information for mass consumption but people must be careful to make sure they are getting the facts and not just really well written opinions.
Wednesday, October 27, 2004
Thursday, October 21, 2004
Clash of the Namespaces
The domain name system does work well as opposed to having to remember IP addresses. Through this article though, I have seen how much trouble it has also caused among people and businesses. People using the Internet to extort money from people that would use name space for better use sounds horrible. Are these people tried in courts of law? It seems as though Jeff Burgar is getting away with it. Famous people should have to right to use their name as a trade mark and own all aspects of it, so long as they can afford it. Obviously if he registered over a thousand domain names, all of famous people, he must have had other things in mind than just honest “fan” sites. It is ridiculous really. It hardly seems he is using the names in good faith.
I think that using IP addresses is not a bad idea though. It would make it harder to find websites but it could really make search engines much more powerful over the Internet. Google seems to be doing very well but all if website names were written with numbers plus the file names people would need a way to find what they want or become familiar with the language of IP addresses. I think the old search engines would reemerge and be seen once again. People would have a choice. Google could also become more powerful than ever and earn more and more revenue.
It is hard to say what we could do to stop the fighting and legal disputes between people and companies who feel they need to own anything slightly resembling their trademark. It seems though that it will not end anytime soon and one must be careful not put up a website for their XingBake coffee company even though its based on the other side of the world and was established decades ago, because Starbucks will sue for taking their identity.
I currently want to set up my own web space but it seems that the thousands of other Ashley Moores out there, including the Christian singer/songwriter Ashley Moore and the porn star Ashley Moore, have all beaten me to it. I better find another name.
I think that using IP addresses is not a bad idea though. It would make it harder to find websites but it could really make search engines much more powerful over the Internet. Google seems to be doing very well but all if website names were written with numbers plus the file names people would need a way to find what they want or become familiar with the language of IP addresses. I think the old search engines would reemerge and be seen once again. People would have a choice. Google could also become more powerful than ever and earn more and more revenue.
It is hard to say what we could do to stop the fighting and legal disputes between people and companies who feel they need to own anything slightly resembling their trademark. It seems though that it will not end anytime soon and one must be careful not put up a website for their XingBake coffee company even though its based on the other side of the world and was established decades ago, because Starbucks will sue for taking their identity.
I currently want to set up my own web space but it seems that the thousands of other Ashley Moores out there, including the Christian singer/songwriter Ashley Moore and the porn star Ashley Moore, have all beaten me to it. I better find another name.
Wednesday, October 06, 2004
The E-Biz Surprise
The internet is constantly growing and becoming more profitable. I am amazed how eventually many e-biz’s paid off. People thought they could make millions through e-commerce and the ones that stuck it out are now making money.
There were ideas for web businesses that in no way could fly off the ground. One of the main problems with some of the ideas were that they weren’t cost effective. Sending couches and kitty litter through the mail is very expensive.
A friend of mine has an e-biz. Basically he buys web space from a server and sells it to other people. He has different packages and services available, and he doesn‘t charge very much for them. The company started out small with just a handful of customers, but now the number is over 50. He doesn’t really advertise and gets most of his business from word of mouth. He also works at a supermarket but he tells me that it is his main source of income.
I would think that companies such as UPS are doing very well. More and more people are buying items over the Internet and it creates more work for postal workers. Many websites have associations with UPS or FedEx and are always sending out packages through them. I would really like to know if e-commerce has effected them greatly, what sort of impact has the Internet made on them?
I see more and more trucks for Pea Pod every day. Originally I thought it was a bad idea and either they would be flooded with requests and not have the man power to fill the orders or no one would buy it. It but have been small at first but as time passed it may be more convenient than going to the supermarket. More people work these days (out of necessity) and may not have the time. Fresh food delivered to your house regularly may be the way to go.
People are more tuned to their computers and the Internet than ever before. Using the Internet as a tool to sell your services seems to be smarter than ever before.
There were ideas for web businesses that in no way could fly off the ground. One of the main problems with some of the ideas were that they weren’t cost effective. Sending couches and kitty litter through the mail is very expensive.
A friend of mine has an e-biz. Basically he buys web space from a server and sells it to other people. He has different packages and services available, and he doesn‘t charge very much for them. The company started out small with just a handful of customers, but now the number is over 50. He doesn’t really advertise and gets most of his business from word of mouth. He also works at a supermarket but he tells me that it is his main source of income.
I would think that companies such as UPS are doing very well. More and more people are buying items over the Internet and it creates more work for postal workers. Many websites have associations with UPS or FedEx and are always sending out packages through them. I would really like to know if e-commerce has effected them greatly, what sort of impact has the Internet made on them?
I see more and more trucks for Pea Pod every day. Originally I thought it was a bad idea and either they would be flooded with requests and not have the man power to fill the orders or no one would buy it. It but have been small at first but as time passed it may be more convenient than going to the supermarket. More people work these days (out of necessity) and may not have the time. Fresh food delivered to your house regularly may be the way to go.
People are more tuned to their computers and the Internet than ever before. Using the Internet as a tool to sell your services seems to be smarter than ever before.
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