Mark Briggs.. Genius or Capitalist?

I would integrate those to words together and call him a geniulist! The most important part of inventing something is to find a need. Mark took that to the internet and saw what was happening all around us, and made a "new" product/idea. If I were to invest in someone's thought, I would have to imagine it would be someone like Mark. He gave us a nice 3 minute speech of what his company did and why, and I feel he got everything delivered. There is no doubt in my mind that News Papers will never be the same as they once were, and the internet is going to be here forever (opinion). So, what Mark is doing is playing the middle field with both of these things. He is not pushing the paper to the dirt, nor is he standing firmly behind his "internet news". I can see how this would give him plenty of room to expand and take his company to the "common" world. He has actually inspired me to start my own business and i look forward to incorporating some of his small techniques he talked about. Watch out world... there is a new thinker in town!

I would rather learn the French Language!

Can you think back about the first time you even saw HTML or another form of web design coding? It is like another language that only a small percentage of the world can understand. My first look at HTML, I didn't even know where to start. Unlike most, I hit the ground running and had to learn really fast. I created a website using "Invisionfree" forum hosting, and other forms of web hosting. I opened the "Admin" area and went to the "Style sheet" and BAM, there was this new language.

I went to the store immediately after this and bought HTML FOR DUMMIES, so I could get a better understanding of what was needed. After reading a few chapters of the book, I soon realised there was a pattern. I took what I knew and went to altering the coding. When I hit refresh, nothing but CHAOS was on my screen. Everything was gone, misplaced, or just odd. I could not get it back to the way it was originally and I did not save the first code (a mistake I never made again).

So, here I am years later with way more knowledge than I thought I would eve have on this subject. I can open most coding and know exactly how the page is suppose to look. There are some things I still have to look up or ask help on, but nothing like day one. The stress and chaos from that first web page are gone and now I can look at these things with confidence.

I have a few questions for you:

1. How was your first experience with this type of scenario?
2. Did you learn from your mistakes or give up?
3. Is it necc. to continue updating yourself on new coding?

This is just me being curious and ofcourse I would love to read stories about you pulling your head out, due to a notepad document gone wrong. Have a good day!

Extra Extra, Read all about it!

I can still remember the day when a paper showed up on my parents door every morning and my mom was eager to see what had happened over night. Now it seems that the news comes at us to fast. It is no surprise that there is little to no papers circulating in my area, especially with the rise of Internet Media. I was walking around at a festival one day and someone was trying to get people to subscribe to the local paper. Normally I would have just walked on without a thought about this sort of thing, but something stuck with me. What will happen to news papers if we stop buying them?

- Will there be no reporters?
- Will the popular news paper companies close?
- Will things cease to be personal?
- Will the news be reliable?

These are the questions I asked myself as I continued to walk around the festival. After that I began to look at the news papers and try and see what i could tell about their futures. All I saw were coupons, ads, and other useless junk at the beginning. The headlines were still there, but man were they trying to sell me some things! I remember when it was strictly news and important sporting info. I would gather that they had to try and change it up to get a new audience, but I am afraid they are fighting a losing battle. Once something even better comes along, I fear the end of news papers as we know it today.

Can you remember what it was like 15 years ago, when a paper boy came barreling down the side walk to throw you a paper for his 15 cents a paper? What are your views of today's "News Paper" issues and how can they be resolved?

Email -vs- Regular Mail

In today's society you see all types of different electronics and I can imagine that you probably do not spend one second wondering what is the result of the new technology. I am just old enough to know how different it was to only be able to write personal letters and have them sent from one house to another. This process would take days and even a week or so on rare occasions. When I first got wind of this "email" concept, i was truly blown away. All of a sudden I had something in my "inbox" from 4 states away! At that moment I did not ask myself the question, what will happen to regular mail? Now that technology is spinning out of control, I wonder each day what we will lose to this.

Email is indeed the better way to go, and this is for a number of reasons. Some examples are:
- Faster
- Can send to more than one person at a time
- Cheaper
- Can save the copy of the letter you wrote for later on

But, do these all come with their own price?

Regular mail is dying each year that Email gets more proficient and faster. There are a few things that Regular mail will always be able to hold on to. For example:
- Personal (someone has to sit down and write it by hand and there is only one)
- Goes directly to the house without having to worry on spelling name right (address first)
- Paper copy is sometimes better than digital copy (can't crash)
- Can send objects (limited to regular mail, for now.)

These are just a few things that separate EMAIL from REGULAR MAIL, but what is similar?

Well for starters, the concept of Email is based off of Regular Mail. It is designed to get information of a statement from one place to another without anyone else reading it along the way. Email has a "mailbox" and so does regular mail. These things are obvious, but did you know that there is a distribution center for EMAIL, just as there is for Regular Mail. Do not get wrapped up in email too much, as Regular mail is very important in our everyday life.

Email came from some place, so I urge you to try and keep some things "personal" between humans.

Have a Good day and may the battle continue!