Well, I ditched my old stat counter, in favor of something better. Now I have search engine stats.
Interestingly enough, I found that the only reason anyone stumbles upon my blog is to find out more information on La Promesa Corporation, and InternetRichLife.com.
It got me thinking about the way I personally read blogs- they are a means to an end, not the end in itself… Someone wants information about a certain subject, and if it can be found on a blog, great. If not, he or she will click on the next link. To be able to be considered an authority on a certain subject, you’d either have to already have something to do with the field (a hacker that starts up a hacker blog, for example), or have a good amount of entries relating to the subject.
two pointed examples:
1) Engadget – Started in March 2004, Engadget updates several times a day with articles gadgets and tech-news. It also posts popular rumors about the technological world.
People are always looking for info on tech news and rumors– they needed somone to turn to, and engadget was there.
2)Boingboing.net – Boing Boing started as a zine in 1988 by Mark Frauenfelder and Carla Sinclair. Issues were subtitled “The World’s Greatest Neurozine“. Boing Boing became a website in 1995 and later relaunched as a weblog on January 21, 2000, described as a “directory of wonderful things.”
“A Directory of wonderful things” — What a great idea! A hub for bored people looking for something cool on the internet, and backed by the authority of a long-running magazine. Stumbleupon, digg, del.ici.ous, and countless other websites are also fulfilling the function of entertaining the bored masses.
(thanks to Wikipedia for the info.)
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“Human Beings naturally save for their retirements. The savings go into bank accounts, stocks, corporate bonds and other assets. These assets are the source of money used by businesses to build factories, office buildings and other places of work
Saving creates jobs.
So, by saving and investing, people automatically create both retirement income for themselves and job opportunities for their children.
It’s a beautiful system. The old help lift the young into the middle class by creating good jobs for them, and the young help the old by generating dividends and interest for them to live on.
But what does Social Security do?
It does not invest in factories or office buildings. It just takes money from one person and gives it to another. It doesn’t produce income, it only transfers it.
Studies have shown that individuals covered pension plans (and other forms of automatic retirement plans, like SS), reduce other forms of saving and the rate of trade-off was about 68 cents on the dollar of pension wealth. When people in the past saved less because they believed Social Security would be there, the slack was not picked up by anyone. Unlike private investments, instead of creating factories and jobs, Social Security erases a lot of the job opportunities for the young. It’s part of the reason the young find it so hard to get ahead.
In other words, when someone today spends Social Security money, he is consuming not only his children’s tax money but their jobs, too.”
-Richard Maybury
Social Security is a government backed ponzi scheme that’s inefficient, harmful to the economy, and it’s about to collapse.
Some figures:
Total number of beneficiaries (2005) (People receiving money from SS): 45,417,000
Disabled workers: $787
Widows/ers: $710
Social Security 2006: Total Expenditures: $555,421,000,000
Total Benefits: $546,238,000,000
Administrative Expenses: $5,337,000,000
Amount of money Americans gave to charity in 2006: $295,000,000,000 (usinfo.gov)
We’ve got over a half of a trillion dollars coming OUT of the economy, and not being invested in job-creating ways, therefore we have more poor than we should. Americans are the most generous people in the world, and if we were to put ONE FOURTH of the charitable donations made to helping the poor, we’d be able to give EVERY HOUSEHOLD $9,631. Of course, we must take into account the fact that with more jobs, there’d be more jobs, and less poor.
(Statistics gathered from “The Statistical Abstract of the United States”)
God bless the United States of America. We’re a nation of dreamers, optimists and sometimes, hopeless suckers. Some of the greatest get-rich-quick schemers have been able to get a foothold here in the States. Through the internet, we now have a glut of ways for any average joe to become a millionaire “right from the comfort of his home!”
Sure, there are ways to get wealthy online, but there is no legitimate way to start banking thousands in less than a month with “little to now experience. Hey guys, it seems like you ACTUALLY do have to know what you’re doing!
There are basically three elements that are needed to accumulate wealth. they are:
1) Hard, hard work
2) Education/experience
3) chance
The ratios can vary, but those are the basic elements. A neurosurgeon working from 9-5 will make much, much more money than a vacuum cleaner salesman, because of his level of expertise. Lottery winners are the scourge of the universe- they made it with 100 percent chance.
King Solomon once wrote something that still rings true: “there is nothing new under the sun”.
There will never be a “brand new method” to make money, or something that allows you to “beat the system”. Notwithstanding, thousands of people fall for schemes that promise that very thing.
Let’s take a look at some examples:
internetrichlife.com It screams “hoax” from the beginning. What’s wrong with this phrase?
Special System, you can Make
AT LEAST $240/ DAY GUARANTEED
Starting Immediately & at the End of
TODAY you Will have put $240 in your
Bank Account?…All This with
NO Experience and ONLY a Home
Computer?
New special System? No experience? See things through the eyes of the person that’s pitching this “incredible” deal: why would I want to guarantee some inexperienced slob 240 dollars a day? If this were true, it would mean a collapse of the entire American workforce- Blue-collar workers would be able to log into their public library’s computers and have a GUARANTEED 240 dollars by the END OF TODAY! Thank God for bloggers. Disturbed Penguin has wrote (in somewhat colorful language) his experience with internetrichlife.com.
2) La Promesa Corporation
At the start, it looks promising: A telecommunications company that is going to open next year, and cater to hispanic christians living in the US. They are currently looking for division managers, regional managers, and the like, with salaries ranging from 20,000 to 100,000 dollars. For some levels they offer a car, life insurance and other bonuses. But then comes the question: What’s the catch? For starters, there is a space to put 5 “referrals” on the application. Without the referrals your app will be rejected. Plus, there are “dues” to pay. Take a look at the last page of this application for district managers. Apparently the dues will be debited automatically from your account. That’s a scary thought. A company that recruits on craigslist is going to be taking money from my account… Sounds fishy to me. A google search on La Promesa yields interesting results.
So for all you dreamers out there– the next time you find a spectacular opportunity, stop and think:
Why would this person/company/recruiter want to pay me money?
Will it be because i’m going to work really hard, or because I have education or expertise in that particular field?
What do I have to do to get started? Will there be a cost or a start-up fee involved?
Am I being treated like a producer (someone scrutinizes my skills, asks for a resume), or a consumer (everything is easy, just sign on the dotted line)?
Is there a bigger emphasis on recruiting other people to work than on the product itself?
With these red flags in mind, you’ll be able to differentiate a scam from a legitimate business opportunity.
Has you ever seen something totally amazing, and thought to yourself “I should have thought of that!” This happens to me all the time. Lately, i’ve been thinking about Alex Tew, and his Million Dollar Homepage. He is the epitome of what it means to be a capitalist bum. To raise money for college, the guy basically made a 1000×1000 pixel “e-billboard”, and waited for word of mouth to spread the news of his website. His site did so well, that he ditched college, and has other similar billboard-type websites. In six months, he had filled up the page with tacky advertising and obscure website links. He made $1,037,100 in total.
Do nothing, and get paid lots of money. That’s the life. That’s what a capitalist bum is all about.
His success was due to the fact that he was the first to try this. You can’t pull this off twice. He was original, and it paid off. This sucks- now I have to look for something else to do.
What is one to do if he wants to get noticed in this wide world of blogging? First, I’ve gotta research.
First, I checked out the most popular blog in the world. A tech news blog… It’s been done. I can’t copy that, and with my level of “insiderness”, i’d most likely be stealing from other blogs, anyway.
Next, I Stumbled around blogger.com, to see what other bloggers were doing. Here’s what I discovered:
Most semi-popular bloggers are artists. This guy, this guy and this guy are either artists or photographers. I think I have to adapt to the competition.
So I’m going to start a photography project: the Eyebrow project.
Eyebrows are beautiful. They convey emotion and show… emotion. Without eyebrows, we could not furl our brows, or raise them. That’s why eyebrows are important. Here are a collection of eyebrow pictures.
Here we see the cool, calmness of the “above the rim” look
The “Oh, you’re taking my picture!” look. Very candid.
The beautiful furrowed brow. Such powerful emotions are conveyed in this brow!
Maybe finally I’ll get street cred in the artsy blogosphere.
An amazing thing happened the other day! An unknown stranger from ibuyadomain.com quoted me, and raised my authority to 1. I’m living in the limelight of fame, ranking at #4,476,976. My blog-value calculator shot up to 564 dollars and change. With that kind of money, I’ll toss this domain name, and start over on communistbum.com, or something.
I could also hold out, waiting for advertisers to flock to me, begging to put their flashy ads on my site. Advertisers, it’s a first-come-first-serve basis, so be quick about it. Drop me a line at antar37 (at) gmail.com.
Now that I finished setting up the site, what else do I blog about? I’ll take a look at the most successful blogging tactics in my next entry…