Changing Gears for Now

Seeing as how my internet connection comes and goes and I have to reboot the entire machine and recycle the modem to get it back up when it does, I've been working on the site.

Someone surreptitiously admonished me yesterday for advertising; one of these gamer/Web -types who "doesn't believe" in advertising online, nor HTML advancements I'll add (by his own admission; that's not a criticism). Of course, he didn't specifically call me out - just in case you didn't know, I can handle my own, so it's not extremely wise to do so - but he just made the point. I'm about to make a whole slew of points in a guest-spot over to Pligg.com next week about that sort of outlook, and much more.

Just so you know, the difference between my way of thinking and others' is simple:

I create content, not just index it, scrape it, or point to it. There's no reason in the world - that I can think of or have ever heard - that I should not be compensated for my work. What really bugs me about hardline flat-earthers such as this (well, his opinion is one of a hardline flat-earther's, he may well be a progressive, intelligent man... just not on this issue) is that they don't seem to think the same way about large corporations and the like. Why is it okay for Google to index my information and show ads and sponsored posts and garner hits and so on - basically, make money off my content - but it's somehow "selling-out" or "polluting the Web" for me to do the same? I'm not sure any of these flat-earthers ever really thought it that far through, because the best answer I've ever gotten is the limp, "Well, they're a corporation" - as in, we "expect that" of a corporation - as in, I (as the individual) should have more integrity than to desire compensation and should just let "The Corporation" do whatever they want with my work and make money they don't really deserve.

Like I say, I'll be really getting into it next week over to Pligg.com, but I've spent all day working on a single picture, which is only one component of the larger design of a single page within a department on the website. And I hope to be compensated for that work and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that.

But I still can't get online steadily and may not be back to business as usual until Monday.

© C Harris Lynn, 2009