Online Advertising Redux

In my early, early post I talked about ways to make money online. This was a few years ago (wow! so fast huh?). Today I can say that I’ve seen and learned several other ways to make money online. There are certain requirements such as having a PR of 2 or higher while some are actually detrimental to your PR by forcing google to “kill” the site. 

Thanks to several co-bloggers I’ve discovered Blogvertise, its a service that allows both bloggers and advertisers to find each other in the wide expanse (perhaps infinite) of the Internet. Sure there are others out there but that might just kill the blog that you worked so hard on. In any case I hope to write more about internet services such as this one so I can at least share with you some of the things I have learned on the internet.

As I said in my a great adventure post the internet is now a great train station. I’d like to find out where the trains take me to. 

So who pays?

When you get a free meal who pays for it? Like when the delivery people (not the rider per se but the entire series of events and people linked to order taking, production and delivery) screw up? Go and read what happened to me just today around 3-4pm with a pizza chain. It really worries me to no end. I’ll post on fides quarens intellectum the philosophical and moral aspect and here the queries on who pays.

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Screaming and me

I really like huge displays of power or wealth. I like blowout victories. Though the excitement of a dagger during the last few seconds (or tenths of a second) is unimaginable, the sheer satisfaction of a blowout is still my preferred poison. I like big, ostentatious things. Huge and imposing structures appeal to me the most. I may be a megalomaniac. 

Every time that I visit my province in Iloilo I always joke about what I’ll do when I get rich. I’ll pump large amounts of money into the province and run it like my own empire. I’ll even build a statue of myself along the hills or down on the valleys reaching into the skies saluting like the Romans. And at the bottom brandishing the words “Uswag _____” a phrase I owe much to Mayor Treñas of Iloilo City.  I like the screaming of slogans and mottos.

Case in point, North Korea. The North Koreans practically worship their version of Great Leader. That’s basically what I want but with a little more prosperity.

Gordon Gekko!

The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind. And greed, you mark my words, will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA. Thank you very much.

Yes, that was an actual speech delivered by Gordon Gekko, in a movie. haha Entitled Wall Street. I believe that this is still true today. Unfortunately, greed as a liberator or clarifier or simplifier should be harnessed and focused. It should not run riot in the systems of profit and loss currently available to man. It should be guided, nay, wielded with much care and aptitude. Greed is good, but too much of it can be catastrophic. I’ll post this here, and in my other blog.

Albeit with different thrusts of course. 

Here I’ll discuss greed as a tool for economics in the other I’ll try to take it on as a way of thinking. 

As Mr. Gekko said, greed is good. From a business standpoint its great! Too many consumers, too addicted to what I have. This equals humongous profits, which in turn creates a trickle down effect (hopefully) to those who have no capacity to own capital but are employed by the firm or the enterprise. 

Normally an enterprise will operate with a combination of capital and labor. What I’m driving at here is that the owners will benefit the most and through the employment of human workers we can all support each other. The more money a company makes, the better for its employees! It is a sure fire way of getting everyone out of a slump! 

Evert’s desserts on i.ph!

Hello! I’d like to announce evert’s desserts (formerly on multiply) is now on i.ph! A very clean looking blog with good photos of food. What else would be there but food? Just follow the ordering instructions if you’d like to get some. I guaran-damn-tee its good or else I’m not a domesticatedman

In any case here’s the link evertsdesserts.i.ph

Just goes to show that i.ph blogs have much potential and flexibility! Kudos to the person who made it! And kudos to the baker! In any case go and get some! Its nearing valentine’s so I know I’ll go and grab one for me and mine! hahaha

Grades and Employment

Now we’ll know how far grades will take you to be employed! Tomorrow I’ll be applying to government offices for my summer internship! I hope all goes well. I could also apply for private firms but for me government is the way to go! 

Aegis 07

I’m still waiting for my copy! I got my copy of Blue Book for 2003 already. Where’s my aegis 2007? Please refer to my good friend Ray Español’s quest to get his copy. 

I’m not for character assasination or anything. In fact I don’t mind getting my copy in the next few years. But I want my copy! I paid for it! 

There should be reforms in the way we do the year book. Probably assign paid goons to do it or something. Just don’t expect students who are graduating to do the year book on time.  

SWATTING

What is SWATTING? 

Swatting is the act of sending a swat team to a residence or location with the intent of harrasing the people found therein. It is usually done through a fraudulent 911 phone call. As you can read from the above link several victims have been hurt and thousands of dollars wasted because of pranksters’ continued fake calls. This is normally done through internet voice calls, making it hard to trace for the 911 contact centers.

This is a new method of abusing the powers of the internet and one more reason for governments to crack down the one true democratic institution in the world. The hackers derive their power over the chaos of the net so maybe if the net would be more ordered then they’d find it hard to fool around. Plus if they’re found, they can be beaten up and their fingers broken so no more hacking

Death

I think what the Philippines needs is not a new beginning but an end. An end to all the corruption and greed and misconceptions on freedom and market economy that we have. We should be willing first to die before we can be truly reborn. We never had a chance to fully develop into a democratic nation. We were rushed into democracy by the Americans after 300 or so years of colonial rule. That’s just too much too fast and today is the result of yesterday’s mistakes.