The web is new and fragmented enough that my knowledge can make my opinion of just about any subject in the world be found by many eyes. That may sound arrogent, but that is not the goal of the statement. In my statement simply I am saying that search engines are not extremely sophisticated and my job is to manipulate their search results.

The words I write to express my opinions can be completely out to lunch. I can be completely full of shit (just like big media companies often are) and get my perspective broadly distributed. Really there is not much value in that other than the feedback you can get from other people.

That is where the real value in the web is. Free realtime feedback on anything you are interested in.

I am not sure that what I am currently doing is what I am interested in, but it sure is better than the navy...

What sparked this thread? today I traded my a copy of my ebook for dietary suppliments from people who are creating candy to improve neurochemistry.

it costs me nothing to give away my ebook and makes for a great bargaining chip.

everybody who likes to read and write should write at least one book or ebook