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February 19th, 2010 by josephmcfadden1981

Welcome to The Next Web’s Weekly Recap. Make sure to check out The Next Web’s Podcast (iTunes or XML) where we analyze, rant and have fun with the weekly tech news. Also, make sure to check out The Next Web Conference 2010 (the dates – the vibe – buy tickets).

This week’s news was dominated by Google Buzz. Google’s latest product offering aggregates your activity across your social networks and brings the stream of activity inside Gmail.

The Next Web Weekly Podcast: Episode 8

On this week’s show Fawzi Rahal (Beirut), Kristin Marshall (Seattle), Matt Brian (Essex) and Michael Backes (Hamburg) discuss, analyze and rant about Google Buzz, Facebook email, social media trust and much more.

Listen, download and subscribe HERE.

Google Buzz

The week started with rumors that Google was introducing a Twitter or FriendFeed like service within Gmail. Dave Winer was quick to point out things that were needed if Google’s creation was to truly be a “Twitter killer”. On Tuesday, Google officially announced a new product called Google Buzz.

The announcement was followed by a flood of commentary on how Google’s entry into the social space was going to effect companies like Facebook and Twitter. Alex had a great post discussing these very issues. While the initial positive reaction is great news for Google, Martin explores the potential identity issue that Google Buzz faces. How do you feel about Google Buzz? Vote here.

After the initial excitement had passed, many quickly became concerned over more noise in one’s inbox. Google responded to these complaints noting that it would not be removing buzz from Gmail. Google has been quick to react to feedback however as they have already addressed a concern about Buzz regarding privacy issues.

Ready to get started on Buzz? First become a verified user and then check out our Unofficial Guide to Google Buzz.

Quick Hits

  • TheNextWeb Holiday Franchise Continues: Our Virtual Valentine’s Day Guide
  • MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta resigned this week.
  • Google purchased Q&A site Aardvark for estimated $50 million.
  • Google launched a Google Apps Developer blog.
  • Google announced that they’re planning to build and test ultra high-speed broadband networks.
  • Innovative mobile podcasting start-up AudioBoo has now added vanity URLs and profiles to its service.
  • Android has doubled its market share in 3 months while Palm dropped 25%.
  • Give and Get Reusable Stuff for Free with Yoink.
  • Google has new news UI in the works – screenshots leaked.
  • Opera for the iPhone is set to be unveiled on February 14th in Barcelona.
  • Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone as you’ve never seen him before (must watch video).
  • Style.com goes real-time and social by adding a new fashion feed.
  • Facebook is experimenting with a new photo slideshow feature.
  • Iran blocked Google’s Gmail this week.
  • Is Facebook going to launch its own version of AdSense? New rumors revealed.
  • A recent study revealed that only 25% of UK companies market their brand on Twitter.
  • Chrome for Mac Beta has released extension support.
  • Veoh entered the deadpool this week and filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy.
  • Apple rumored to replace Google with Bing as default iPhone search. Could bring lots of money to Apple.

After the coffee. Before figuring out why you still have that MySpace account.

Paramount delivers. How's this for a man-bites-dog story. Paramount Pictures, usually a drag on corporate parent Viacom's earnings, was a big driver in the media conglomerate's fourth quarter. Thanks to "Paranormal Activity" and strong DVD sales of "Transformers" and "Star Trek," the studio had its biggest profit in seven years. Viacom also said this morning that it is buying the DreamWorks SKG library from investor George Soros for $400 million. But it was not all good news for Viacom — its Rock-Band video game franchise continued to struggle. More on Viacom's earnings from the Los Angeles Times. 

NBC has space to lease. Retail giant Wal-Mart and consumer products manufacturer P&G are
teaming up to make a made-for-TV movie and are buying time from NBC to
run it on the Peacock network in prime time in April. The two companies are spending $4.5 million on the family-friendly film and will keep all the ad inventory, according to the Wall Street Journal. Such
a deal where a network would basically sell time to advertisers is
unusual but not completely unprecedented. Plus, who's going to say no
to P&G, one of the biggest advertisers on television? P&G and
Wal-Mart could have probably gotten the 10 p.m. hour thrown in for
pocket change.

MySpace mess. Another big corporate shakeup at MySpace, News Corp.'s social networking site that's been left in the dust by rival Facebook. Owen Van Natta, the former Facebook big shot who was brought in to try fix the struggling MySpace, is out after less than 10 months on the job. He apparently was clashing with Jon Miller, the News Corp. executive who oversees all the company's digital operations. MySpace, which was once seen as a crown jewel for Rupert Murdoch's media giant, has been struggling for several years. Details from the Los Angeles Times, PaidContent, USA Today, and Financial Times.  

Disney shrinks window. Walt Disney Co. is shortening the window from when a movie ends its theatrical run and pops up on DVD for "Alice" to 13 weeks from the usual 17 weeks, per Variety. The issue of windows is a contentious one between theater owners and studios. For more on the topic than you'll ever want to know, he's our story from last December on the battle.

Robert Evans is now a play. First he was a pretty boy, then an actor, then a studio chief, then a producer, then a, well, nevermind, and then a documentary and then a stroke victim. Now the Hollywood legend (somehow even that word seems too small for him) who's had more comebacks then Brett Favre, will be the subject of a play. The New York Times with the effort to bring Evans' story to Broadway play.

I'm still jealous. The Wrap takes a look at the paychecks of media moguls and finds that many took a pay cut last year. Yeah, but they all still made more than I'll ever see in a lifetime. But hey, it's what's inside that counts, right?

Inside the Los Angeles Times: NBC faces a big challenge making the Winter Olympics must-see TV. Ellen DeGeneres' daytime talk show will stay on the NBC stations into 2014. Anne Hathaway talking dirty is just one of the treats in "Valentine's Day."

– Joe Flint

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These days business owners across the country realize that veterans of our military make great employees. They tend to be more disciplined, organized and reliable than the general population. Many have received extensive personnel management and leadership experience and training and they generally have a very driven work ethic. As businesses look to expand their operations, they often turn to franchising, and more and more companies are directly targeting veterans for their franchise opportunities. Listed here are five of the best franchise opportunities for men and women who, having served in the armed forces, are now looking to take their talents to the private business world.

1. Lawn Doctor: The number one lawn care franchise in America offers an opportunity in one of the fastest growing businesses in the country. First started in 1967, Lawn Doctor is a nationally recognized name with locations in 40 states and Puerto Rico. You get a time-tested business model complete with training, one-on-one support, and a complete marketing program. With a low franchise fee of $25,000 and an initial investment of less than $100,000, you can secure your future with a Lawn Doctor franchise.

2. Pillar to Post: The number one professional home inspection franchise every year since 2003, Pillar to Post has come a long way since its inception in 1994. Independent franchise owners work flexible hours and meet new people every day while running their own business with the support of a national company. Pillar to Post offers a complete package with training, marketing and brand development.

3. ServiceMaster Clean: A Fortune 500 company with over 50 years of experience. Growing every year, ServiceMaster Clean is ranked number 12 in the Entrepreneur Top 500 Franchise listing with over 4,000 franchises worldwide. Three categories are available: commercial cleaning services, residential carpet and upholstery cleaning, and disaster restoration services. An extremely low initial investment of as low as $7,800 can help you own your own business with ServiceMaster Clean.

4. Molly Maid: A great franchise opportunity that doesn't require the franchisee to get dirty. Molly Maid is a business that cleans houses, but franchisees are taught to recruit, train, motivate and manage employees who do the cleaning for your business. Your initial investment gets you the people, technology and business system to run your own Molly Maid operation. Initial cash required is $30,000.

5. Wing Zone: First started as an alternative to delivery pizza, Wing Zone is now on Inc. Magazine's list of 500 fastest growing private companies in the country. With low start-up costs, Wing Zone offers a great opportunity to break into the franchise world as the owner of your own business. New franchisees get 12 days of training at the Wing Zone University in Atlanta plus 10 days of onsite training at your new restaurant. In addition, Wing Zone will help you with site selection and lease negotiation, helping to set you up for success before you are even ready to open the doors of your new business.

So if you've just left the armed forces, or are planning to leave military service, purchasing a franchise is a great way to secure your future by becoming an independent business owner. While these five represent some of the best franchise opportunities targeted directly at veterans, there are many potential business venues in the private sector. For more information, check out www.franchise.com.

Welcome to The Next Web’s Weekly Recap. Make sure to check out The Next Web’s Podcast (iTunes or XML) where we analyze, rant and have fun with the weekly tech news. Also, make sure to check out The Next Web Conference 2010 (the dates – the vibe – buy tickets).

This week’s news was dominated by Google Buzz. Google’s latest product offering aggregates your activity across your social networks and brings the stream of activity inside Gmail.

The Next Web Weekly Podcast: Episode 8

On this week’s show Fawzi Rahal (Beirut), Kristin Marshall (Seattle), Matt Brian (Essex) and Michael Backes (Hamburg) discuss, analyze and rant about Google Buzz, Facebook email, social media trust and much more.

Listen, download and subscribe HERE.

Google Buzz

The week started with rumors that Google was introducing a Twitter or FriendFeed like service within Gmail. Dave Winer was quick to point out things that were needed if Google’s creation was to truly be a “Twitter killer”. On Tuesday, Google officially announced a new product called Google Buzz.

The announcement was followed by a flood of commentary on how Google’s entry into the social space was going to effect companies like Facebook and Twitter. Alex had a great post discussing these very issues. While the initial positive reaction is great news for Google, Martin explores the potential identity issue that Google Buzz faces. How do you feel about Google Buzz? Vote here.

After the initial excitement had passed, many quickly became concerned over more noise in one’s inbox. Google responded to these complaints noting that it would not be removing buzz from Gmail. Google has been quick to react to feedback however as they have already addressed a concern about Buzz regarding privacy issues.

Ready to get started on Buzz? First become a verified user and then check out our Unofficial Guide to Google Buzz.

Quick Hits

  • TheNextWeb Holiday Franchise Continues: Our Virtual Valentine’s Day Guide
  • MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta resigned this week.
  • Google purchased Q&A site Aardvark for estimated $50 million.
  • Google launched a Google Apps Developer blog.
  • Google announced that they’re planning to build and test ultra high-speed broadband networks.
  • Innovative mobile podcasting start-up AudioBoo has now added vanity URLs and profiles to its service.
  • Android has doubled its market share in 3 months while Palm dropped 25%.
  • Give and Get Reusable Stuff for Free with Yoink.
  • Google has new news UI in the works – screenshots leaked.
  • Opera for the iPhone is set to be unveiled on February 14th in Barcelona.
  • Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone as you’ve never seen him before (must watch video).
  • Style.com goes real-time and social by adding a new fashion feed.
  • Facebook is experimenting with a new photo slideshow feature.
  • Iran blocked Google’s Gmail this week.
  • Is Facebook going to launch its own version of AdSense? New rumors revealed.
  • A recent study revealed that only 25% of UK companies market their brand on Twitter.
  • Chrome for Mac Beta has released extension support.
  • Veoh entered the deadpool this week and filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy.
  • Apple rumored to replace Google with Bing as default iPhone search. Could bring lots of money to Apple.

After the coffee. Before figuring out why you still have that MySpace account.

Paramount delivers. How's this for a man-bites-dog story. Paramount Pictures, usually a drag on corporate parent Viacom's earnings, was a big driver in the media conglomerate's fourth quarter. Thanks to "Paranormal Activity" and strong DVD sales of "Transformers" and "Star Trek," the studio had its biggest profit in seven years. Viacom also said this morning that it is buying the DreamWorks SKG library from investor George Soros for $400 million. But it was not all good news for Viacom — its Rock-Band video game franchise continued to struggle. More on Viacom's earnings from the Los Angeles Times. 

NBC has space to lease. Retail giant Wal-Mart and consumer products manufacturer P&G are
teaming up to make a made-for-TV movie and are buying time from NBC to
run it on the Peacock network in prime time in April. The two companies are spending $4.5 million on the family-friendly film and will keep all the ad inventory, according to the Wall Street Journal. Such
a deal where a network would basically sell time to advertisers is
unusual but not completely unprecedented. Plus, who's going to say no
to P&G, one of the biggest advertisers on television? P&G and
Wal-Mart could have probably gotten the 10 p.m. hour thrown in for
pocket change.

MySpace mess. Another big corporate shakeup at MySpace, News Corp.'s social networking site that's been left in the dust by rival Facebook. Owen Van Natta, the former Facebook big shot who was brought in to try fix the struggling MySpace, is out after less than 10 months on the job. He apparently was clashing with Jon Miller, the News Corp. executive who oversees all the company's digital operations. MySpace, which was once seen as a crown jewel for Rupert Murdoch's media giant, has been struggling for several years. Details from the Los Angeles Times, PaidContent, USA Today, and Financial Times.  

Disney shrinks window. Walt Disney Co. is shortening the window from when a movie ends its theatrical run and pops up on DVD for "Alice" to 13 weeks from the usual 17 weeks, per Variety. The issue of windows is a contentious one between theater owners and studios. For more on the topic than you'll ever want to know, he's our story from last December on the battle.

Robert Evans is now a play. First he was a pretty boy, then an actor, then a studio chief, then a producer, then a, well, nevermind, and then a documentary and then a stroke victim. Now the Hollywood legend (somehow even that word seems too small for him) who's had more comebacks then Brett Favre, will be the subject of a play. The New York Times with the effort to bring Evans' story to Broadway play.

I'm still jealous. The Wrap takes a look at the paychecks of media moguls and finds that many took a pay cut last year. Yeah, but they all still made more than I'll ever see in a lifetime. But hey, it's what's inside that counts, right?

Inside the Los Angeles Times: NBC faces a big challenge making the Winter Olympics must-see TV. Ellen DeGeneres' daytime talk show will stay on the NBC stations into 2014. Anne Hathaway talking dirty is just one of the treats in "Valentine's Day."

– Joe Flint

Follow me on Twitter.

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February 10th, 2010 by josephmcfadden1981

Because we are freelance writers we're self-employed, and this means we are responsible for paying our own taxes. In order to pay your taxes, the first thing you should learn is how to manage your finances and expenses. The information that follows is based on my research and personal experience only. Therefore, if you're unsure about something, check with the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) for more information.

When you earn income for your writing, make sure that you keep track of everything you earn. You can keep track with invoices that you send out to your clients. Once the invoice is paid, mark it as paid and record the date as well. If your client does not want an invoice, because they send their own, just make one for your own records. Then, when payment arrives from that client, you will have their invoice (save it too).

By now you should already have a filing cabinet for your important records and documents. In your filing cabinet, if you haven't already, you need to place a folder for all your invoices. The folder I currently have for my finances is labeled 2006 freelance payment records. When a new year begins, you'll want to add a new folder for that year's payment records. Having a folder for each year's records keeps you from having a bunch of years in one folder.

Other than keeping invoices, you will also want to keep track of your earnings by creating a table with your favorite word processing program. This table can then be printed out so you can keep it by your desk to add your earnings to. Or, you can save it and update it as needed. If you save the table on your hard drive, make sure to also create a back-up copy every time you update it. My table includes six columns: date (date I was paid), for (name of company I did the work for), description (what I wrote for them), paid (the total I was paid), Paypal fee (how much Paypal took out, if any), and total earnings (my earnings after the Paypal fees. Let me explain the Paypal fee: I don't know exactly how this works, however, since Paypal keeps a part of my earnings its not mine, and so I figure I shouldn't have to pay taxes on something that isn't mine. The reason given is why I deduct Paypal's fee from what I was paid. There are also times when some companies don't use Paypal, and in this case, they pay me by check or money order. If I'm not paid through Paypal, I just place N/A in the Paypal fee field on my table. You can always add more or fewer columns to your table (create yours to meet your needs). I also title my table freelance earnings for 2006.

Because we are self-employed this means we must take our own taxes out of what we earn. I went to a tax consultant in my hometown and asked her how much I should take out of my earnings, and she told me 15%. So, to be on the safe side, take 15% out of all your earnings and keep it back so that you don't spend it. The 15% that you put back will be used to pay your quarterly taxes when they come due. From what I've researched, I found out that you don't have to pay quarterly taxes until you've at least earned $1000. Once you've earned $1000, you'll want to begin paying quarterly taxes immediately to avoid any penalties from the IRS (Internal Revenue Service).

At the end of each year, when you are required to file your taxes, you will also be able to deduct for any expenses that you've spent on your writing business. There are many types of things you can claim on your taxes, and as long as the items you bought had to do with your writing business, you can claim them. Some of the things we writers can claim are: mileage for any travel we have done that related to a writing job, any equipment bought for writing (laptop, computer, printer, fax, digital camera, etc.), telephone expenses for interviews and etc., supplies (printer paper, ink cartridges, etc.), charitable contributions, writing related books we've bought, advertising expenses, insurance expenses, travel expenses, postage expenses and more; see the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) Web site for more information.

Now that you have an idea of the expenses you can claim, here are a few tips for managing those expenses:

1. Keep receipts of everything related to your writing business.

2. Keep a record of the cost of those expenses and what they were for. Again, like when you manage your finances, create a table to help you manage your expenses as well. Your table could include three columns: purchase date (date you made the purchase), amount spent (how much you paid), what (the name of what you bought) and for (what the item, service or etc. was bought for).

3. File all your receipts in a folder labeled writing expense receipts or something similar.

Now, go manage your finances and expenses so that you don't get into trouble with “Uncle Sam.”

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January 28th, 2010 by josephmcfadden1981

Article marketing is definitely the best way for any business to get massive amounts of exposure in the internet. By doing so you will start to understand why article marketing is the sure fire method of building a profitable business online.   Article marketing is one of the most powerful and targeted internet marketing strategies for driving traffic and gaining sales in your online home based business. Article marketing is a very effective tool in internet marketing.  Article marketing is your best method to get known as a specialist in your field.   The great thing about article marketing is that it will continue to bring traffic weather you continue to write articles or not.  Article marketing is a fantastic way to build an internet business and satisfy customers at the same time.  Article marketing is a great and easy way to break into internet marketing and to get you some very cheap exposure.     Article marketing is a long term approach to getting traffic and making money on the internet.  Article marketing is a website promotion and online marketing bargain!  Conversion to sales is through article marketing is still does this more effectively than other marketing methods.       Article marketing is much more suited to building that medium sized but loyal audience of repeat visitors and customers because of the ability to make a positive impression before readers visit your blog.  Article marketing is certainly the best ways to build back links and increase your site traffic, but if on one hand you can increase drastically your site traffic, on the other hand, submitting the same article to hundreds of directories you come across google as duplicate content.Article marketing is making the right use of the keywords in your content so that when one uses those keywords, he or she lands up directly at your article in the article directory.       Article submitter – top article marketing software for automated submission  by k singharticle marketing is a proven method to drive massive traffic to your website and make money online. Article marketing is a method of advertising which a lot of companies are writing short articles related to a specific niche.  Compared to ppc or pay per click advertising which can burn a hole in the pocket, article marketing is an equally effective means of advertising and a free one at that too.   In conclusion, you really can not do any better for promoting your business or website than you can by writing tantalizing article.

 Article marketing is unarguably, the cheapest and the best way to market your online business effectively. By doing so you will start to understand why article marketing is the sure fire method of building a profitable business online.

 

 The great thing about article marketing is – it’s free if you have the content, put the content of your website, business search engine optimization. Article marketing is a very effective tool in internet marketing.  I guess the most important thing about article marketing is that it works.

 

  The great thing about article marketing is that it will continue to bring traffic weather you continue to write articles or not.  Article marketing is a fantastic way to build an internet business and satisfy customers at the same time.  Business article marketing is extremely powerful because most of big companies don’t even know about it.

 

   Make article marketing easier with these tips: article marketing is an exceptionally powerful marketing strategy. Whether you are brand new to article marketing or you’ve been doing it for a while, one thing is for sure, article marketing is one of the most dynamic and ever-changing methods of website promotion on the internet today.  Article marketing is technique that allows you to drive  highly qualified visitors to  your affiliate links without having to shell out any money for advertising.

  

   Article marketing is much more suited to building that medium sized but loyal audience of repeat visitors and customers because of the ability to make a positive impression before readers visit your blog.  Article marketing is a cheap way to compete with big authority website.The principal function of article marketing is to build one way links back to your web site, grow traffic and conversions. 

  

  If you have no website but you want to promote your affiliate product, then seo for article marketing is important to you for your affiliate marketing. Article marketing is one of the best methods to create some true organic search engine listings. To understand why, you need to understand why article marketing is worth our time in the first place.

 

  In conclusion, you really can not do any better for promoting your business or website than you can by writing tantalizing article.

After creating an internet business, it is now time to share my knowledge and recommendations. I have been through a lot in the past year and you will benefit through my experience.

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January 7th, 2010 by josephmcfadden1981

Are you looking for ways to work from home with no investments? Let me show you a very effective way of how you can use the power of the Internet to start your own profitable online business with little or no investment at all.

There may have been several instances where you have been through different work at home opportunities that really sound promising, and many of them are. The only problem is, most of them require a sizable investment, which you may not have.

Some of them will have huge one-time fees and monthly membership fees but in our today’s economy, it’s difficult for most people to come up with some extra money. Important thing is not to get frustrated in looking for work at home opportunities because it’s not really that hard.

Beware of Scam Artists!

I like to think that I’ve never been scammed before although I bought some guides that were not geared towards beginners. I had a hard time understanding the methods and as a result I was off to buy another course. I also tried signing up for a membership site ($45 one-time fee) that offers online jobs like data entry and advertisement writing, but the information they had inside was really out of date.

In order to avoid scams and impulsively buying guides, you should educate yourself with the basics of how Internet marketing really works. I don’t really like data entry jobs because I find it really boring and repetitive. I don’t even know if you can build a real business from it even if I see many ads claiming you can earn thousands per week from data entry alone.

Work From Home With No Investments By Promoting Products

The truth is that there are only few opportunities online to work from home with no investments. The good news is that there are many ways that you can make money from home that are really easy, and anyone can follow.

One of the most effective ways of making money online is to promote products of other people and this is known as affiliate marketing. Everyday there are millions of people surfing the web who are ready to buy products that will solve their problems. Your job is to simply get in front of these people using tried and tested marketing methods.

2 Basic Marketing Methods

There are basically two methods (FREE and PAID) that you can use to drive traffic:

Article Marketing – This is one of the most effective ways of driving free traffic to your website. The idea is to write articles that relates to your products and have your articles appear in search engine listing for your keywords. Your articles will then funnel those readers back to your website because there will be a link in your resource box at the end of your article. When a reader decides to click your special link in your website and buys from the merchant, you will get a commission which typically ranges from 50%-75% of the product price.

That’s basically the process and if you want a more detailed explanation on article marketing, then you can just download my free article marketing guide. You don’t necessarily need to have your own website to start but I like to build my own websites.

Pay-Per-Click (PPC) – This is the most common form of paid advertising. These are the sponsored links on the side that you see when you search a certain keyword in search engines. Advertisers only pay when someone clicks on their ads. The cost for each click will depend on how much advertisers are bidding for a keyword.

My Recommendations

You can work from home with no investments but most of the information about making money online is totally misleading. You can also waste a lot of your time searching and jumping from one course to another trying to find what actually works.

If you need a complete Internet marketing training program, then I highly suggest that you check out the Wealthy Affiliate University. But if you don’t have the budget for their monthly fee, then the 4 Day Money Making Blueprint is the next best thing that you could get.

We live in a financial world where renters are looked down upon by their ‘superior’ house-owning friends.

They scoff, “You’re throwing your money away.”

They brag, “My house is worth $5,000 more than I paid for it.”

They exhort, “You really need to get into real estate.  That’s where the money is.”

Unfortunately, before long renters start to listen to the lies homeowners tell.

Two False Reasons People Say You Must Buy a House

1.  First Home-buyer tax credit of $8,000

Quick.  Time is running out.  Go buy a home and save $8,000.  While that might sound like a Real Estate commercial, it is actually a stimulus program currently offered by the US government.  While the $8,000 credit sounds appealing, you should only buy a house when the time it right.

How do you know the time is right?  Ask your checkbook.  If you make a preemptive move to buy a house before you are ready, you will pay more than $8,000 worth of regret, stress, and possibly even interest payments.

2.  Homes make a good investment

Truth. Homes are only a good investment when the value of the home increases.

Truth. Home values occasionally decrease.

Your solution – make your home a home and make your investments an investment.

The primary function of a home is a place to live.  If you make a profit when you sell your house that is great.  But, if your home provided you with a good place to live and you lost money when you sold it, that is fine because it gave you want you needed – a home.

Too many homeowners become real estate speculators instead of house shoppers.

The decision to buy a home involves more than a good online calculator

I’m skeptical of any generic online information.  Seriously, why do so many people entrust their lives to a few numbers that a calculator spits out?  The lie is that if it makes sense on paper – if the math adds up – then it must be the best decision for you.  This, however, is not true.  People who only follow the advice of others will continually make bad money choices.

While there are other big ticket items you might want to buy, it is not bad to rent a house or apartment.

My Personal Experience:

My wife and I purchased our first home more than six years after we were married.  In many ways we were in a unique situation because I was a youth minister so our housing was provided by the church.  For that I am extremely thankful.

Some will say that I should have been building equity by owning my own home.  However, having the parsonage for those those two years saved us from our own stupidity.  Who knows what crazy thing we would have done if we started looking for our own housing?

Looking back I have absolutely no regrets about waiting six years after marriage to buy my first home.  I love being a homeowner.  I do, on the other hand, know a lot of people who bought a home early because it ‘made sense’, but now they have serious regrets.

The decision about renting or buying needs to be about your situation in life, your preferences, your dreams, and yes, even the math.

There are advantages of renting a house or apartment instead of buying.

6 Advantages of Renting

  1. You budget is more predictable

    Homeownership lacks predictability.  You do not know when the hot water heater will break, when termites will infest your home, or when your foundation will crack.  Each of these emergencies require money to fix.  When you rent you pay a set dollar amount every month.  Regardless of the repairs needed you still pay the same amount.

  2. You have time to save up money for a down payment.

    You need to be disciplined in order to do this so perhaps every month you should set up an automatic deposit into a savings account.  In the long run this could provide some significant interest payment savings.

  3. Flexibility

    When you are first starting out your marriage it may be difficult to know where you will settle long term.  Renting offers the opportunity to move as needed and when needed.  You might not be planning to move, but as a renter that becomes a more viable option.

  4. Less Responsibility (apartment).

    This may only apply to apartments, but I miss the days when the lawn and the repairs were someone else’s responsibility.  I enjoyed just leaving town without needing to find someone to watch the house.

  5. Emotional Peace.

    I have debt allergies.  I love the debt-free lifestyle.  The idea of having a debt (yes, even a “good debt”) doesn’t sound appealing.  So many people have so much debt that they are upside down.  So many people complained and suffered when housing prices dropped.  These are all concerns that the renter avoids.  How do you put a price tag on emotional peace?

  6. Time to get smart.

    I made some dumb money decisions when I was first married.  Looking back now I’m actually amazed that I didn’t make worse choices.  Renting gives you time to grow a brain before you buy a house.  Renting allows couples to get a clear sense of what they want to own and how much they want to spend.  Some lessons can only be learned with time.

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Which do you think is better – homeownership or renting?  Do you think there is a standard right answer for everyone?

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January 5th, 2010 by josephmcfadden1981

Promotion not only includes the basic activities of writing and submitting content to your web site or other article directories because you can do more than just that. You need to learn how to make direct marketing via the Internet. You need to learn other new systems like automating some of your activities and running your business on auto pilot.

Don’t ever think that you already know what you ought to know about marketing online. Even senior internet marketers who have already literally been there and done that would want to keep themselves updated with the latest techniques and strategies to earn more money. It is only through staying updated with the most recent and improved ideas can they maintain their positions. Oftentimes, they would mix the latest strategies with the old ones to get the best results. If you want more money and you want to earn it the legitimate way, then don’t give up and don’t stop learning. An online Internet marketing course can provide you with the techniques, methods and tips required to increase how much you earn. It may be much higher than what you are currently earning. Whether it is a free course or a paid course that you have signed up to, you can definitely look forward to improving your marketing skills so you can apply them to your business later on.

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January 2nd, 2010 by josephmcfadden1981

This week the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, blamed America and Israel for the widespread anti-government protests around Sunday's holy mourning day of Ashura. He insisted that “Americans and Zionists are the sole audience of a play they have commissioned and sold out”.

These allegations echo earlier episodes when Ahmadinejad, his ministers and loyal clerics, have insisted that Britain, Israel and the US are responsible for fomenting the mass protests that have followed June's election-grabbing coup.

Iran has formally protested this alleged foreign interference, summoning ambassadors and crying foul. Relations with the west – already tense over the nuclear impasse – have been further strained by arrests of foreign nationals, harassment of embassy employees and the unsavoury record of Iranian involvement in Iraq. Just today this newspaper has published evidence showing that a British hostage captured in Iraq may in fact have been held in Iran by the Revolutionary Guard. This revelation will worsen already deeply strained relations.

At one level Ahmadinejad's remarks blaming the west for recent protests seem a crass political attempt to discredit the opposition and to play both on a certain Iranian tradition of xenophobia and on a widespread public memory of repeated foreign power interference historically in Iranian affairs. At another, and more worrying, level they are clearly indicative of an irrational conspiracy theory mentality that permeates Iranian society. An obsession with conspiracy theories is, unsurprisingly perhaps, particularly concentrated among the supporters of a regime now totally lacking legitimacy.

Iranian conspiracy theories are above all centred on the British, and an obsession with a pervasive, quasi-omnipotent British power, a siasat-e engelis, dates back at least to the start of the 20th century. This obsession reached the very highest levels: Reza Shah, Iran's first Pahlavi monarch, suspected his own son of working as a British agent. In turn, when that son Muhammad Reza became shah he blamed the British for virtually every international incident, according to the diaries of Asadollah Alam, his confidant and minister of court. Muhammad Reza was even convinced that Muhammad Mosaddeq, leader of the anti-British oil nationalisation movement, was a British employee.

Conspiracy theories persist under the republic: lift up Khomeini's beard – so the popular joke goes – and you'll find it stamped “Made in England”. Years back, a diplomatic friend told me of a meeting in Qom with senior clerics who appealed for Jack Straw to change some aspect or other of Iranian domestic policy, seemingly convinced – despite the diplomat's protestations – that Britain actually had this level of control over domestic Iranian affairs. Others have told me similar stories from ambassadors and other members of Iran's political elite, as well as from the regime's apparatchiks more generally.

Other conspiracy theories accuse variously the Americans, European powers, Zionists, Baha'is and freemasons. A ludicrous and nakedly antisemitic news item carried recently by Press TV (essentially a state mouthpiece) accused Israel of kidnapping 25,000 Ukrainian children and bringing them to the occupied territories to harvest their organs.

Another episode reinforcing this divorce from reality shared by the conspiracy theorists is the report of Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari's interrogation in Evin prison. The story is harrowing indeed but especially given the preposterous insistence (which might in other circumstances be comic) of his interrogator that the journalist was employed simultaneously by four intelligence agencies: the CIA, MI6, Mossad and Newsweek.

Of course there is a real and significant history of meddling and interference by foreign states in Iranian affairs. The British legation provided refuge to thousands of anti-government figures during the constitutional revolution, and in the Anglo-Russian convention of 1907 Iran was divided into zones of influence.

Later Britain backed the coup that brought Reza Khan to power, so establishing the Pahlavi dynasty, and in 1953 worked with the CIA to mastermind the overthrow of Mosaddeq, the then prime minister, in Operation Ajax, which restored the autocracy of the shah. There were other episodes of foreign interference: some self-serving and pernicious, others with perhaps nobler – albeit often misguided – intentions.

Popular memory and the historical narratives propagated by the republic emphasise this foreign involvement. In so doing they deny agency to Iranian society to control its own destiny. Take Operation Ajax. It is certainly true that M16 and the CIA conspired against Mosaddeq. However they were able to exploit a fear of Mosaddeq's reforms that was growing among the conservative mercantile and clerical classes, and to work with royalists already plotting against Mosaddeq. The opposition of several major clerics, notably Ayatollah Kashani, helped cement a wider opposition to Mosaddeq, utilised by American-paid agents provocateurs. Had large elements of the traditionalist middle class not turned against Mosaddeq it is unlikely that the coup would have been successful.

Conspiracy theories have been brought back to the foreground by the political crisis of recent months. This crisis should be conceived as a dual problem of deep schisms within the ruling religio-political elite coupled with a broad mass movement challenging the election-grabbing coup of last June alongside a multitude of other grievances.

Faced with a massive legitimacy crisis, the Iranian regime and its supporters have been quick to point the figure at foreign powers. While Whitehall and the White House were rightly initially wary of overtly supporting the Iranian opposition for fear of tainting the opposition as foreign lackeys, they were nonetheless branded as such. Many have been arrested, tried and even convicted of espionage and of working as foreign agents.

Washington and London have now taken a more critical line: directly challenging the brutal repression and violence used against protesters and opposition figures and their families. Mike Hammer of the White House's national security council stated recently that America stands behind those “who peacefully seek their universal rights”.

Ahmedinejad's insistence in blaming the unrest on foreign powers is not simply disingenuous; he may well genuinely believe his assertions. Many are convinced that a “British establishment” is working to overthrow Iran's political system and that it co-ordinates such varied organisations as varied as the BBC, the Guardian, the Palace of Westminster, the British Museum (with its Shah Abbas exhibition supposedly intended to reinforce Sunni/Shia divides), and the Queen's College at the University of Oxford (which established a scholarship in memory of Neda Agha-Soltan).

Iranian society is certainly not unique in favouring conspiracy theories. However, in Iran these ideas reach the highest level of the ruling classes with horrific consequences.

In engaging with Iran and its leadership the international community should be mindful of this conspiracy mentality. They must be transparent and candid in their dealings with Iran. They should be open in their opposition to Iran's violence against peaceful protest which patently contravenes treaties including the UN international covenant on civil and political rights of which Iran is a signatory.

Above all though, the international community must insist that the Iranian people alone have the ability and legitimacy to determine their political destiny, whatever they choose it to be.

This week the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, blamed America and Israel for the widespread anti-government protests around Sunday's holy mourning day of Ashura. He insisted that “Americans and Zionists are the sole audience of a play they have commissioned and sold out”.

These allegations echo earlier episodes when Ahmadinejad, his ministers and loyal clerics, have insisted that Britain, Israel and the US are responsible for fomenting the mass protests that have followed June's election-grabbing coup.

Iran has formally protested this alleged foreign interference, summoning ambassadors and crying foul. Relations with the west – already tense over the nuclear impasse – have been further strained by arrests of foreign nationals, harassment of embassy employees and the unsavoury record of Iranian involvement in Iraq. Just today this newspaper has published evidence showing that a British hostage captured in Iraq may in fact have been held in Iran by the Revolutionary Guard. This revelation will worsen already deeply strained relations.

At one level Ahmadinejad's remarks blaming the west for recent protests seem a crass political attempt to discredit the opposition and to play both on a certain Iranian tradition of xenophobia and on a widespread public memory of repeated foreign power interference historically in Iranian affairs. At another, and more worrying, level they are clearly indicative of an irrational conspiracy theory mentality that permeates Iranian society. An obsession with conspiracy theories is, unsurprisingly perhaps, particularly concentrated among the supporters of a regime now totally lacking legitimacy.

Iranian conspiracy theories are above all centred on the British, and an obsession with a pervasive, quasi-omnipotent British power, a siasat-e engelis, dates back at least to the start of the 20th century. This obsession reached the very highest levels: Reza Shah, Iran's first Pahlavi monarch, suspected his own son of working as a British agent. In turn, when that son Muhammad Reza became shah he blamed the British for virtually every international incident, according to the diaries of Asadollah Alam, his confidant and minister of court. Muhammad Reza was even convinced that Muhammad Mosaddeq, leader of the anti-British oil nationalisation movement, was a British employee.

Conspiracy theories persist under the republic: lift up Khomeini's beard – so the popular joke goes – and you'll find it stamped “Made in England”. Years back, a diplomatic friend told me of a meeting in Qom with senior clerics who appealed for Jack Straw to change some aspect or other of Iranian domestic policy, seemingly convinced – despite the diplomat's protestations – that Britain actually had this level of control over domestic Iranian affairs. Others have told me similar stories from ambassadors and other members of Iran's political elite, as well as from the regime's apparatchiks more generally.

Other conspiracy theories accuse variously the Americans, European powers, Zionists, Baha'is and freemasons. A ludicrous and nakedly antisemitic news item carried recently by Press TV (essentially a state mouthpiece) accused Israel of kidnapping 25,000 Ukrainian children and bringing them to the occupied territories to harvest their organs.

Another episode reinforcing this divorce from reality shared by the conspiracy theorists is the report of Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari's interrogation in Evin prison. The story is harrowing indeed but especially given the preposterous insistence (which might in other circumstances be comic) of his interrogator that the journalist was employed simultaneously by four intelligence agencies: the CIA, MI6, Mossad and Newsweek.

Of course there is a real and significant history of meddling and interference by foreign states in Iranian affairs. The British legation provided refuge to thousands of anti-government figures during the constitutional revolution, and in the Anglo-Russian convention of 1907 Iran was divided into zones of influence.

Later Britain backed the coup that brought Reza Khan to power, so establishing the Pahlavi dynasty, and in 1953 worked with the CIA to mastermind the overthrow of Mosaddeq, the then prime minister, in Operation Ajax, which restored the autocracy of the shah. There were other episodes of foreign interference: some self-serving and pernicious, others with perhaps nobler – albeit often misguided – intentions.

Popular memory and the historical narratives propagated by the republic emphasise this foreign involvement. In so doing they deny agency to Iranian society to control its own destiny. Take Operation Ajax. It is certainly true that M16 and the CIA conspired against Mosaddeq. However they were able to exploit a fear of Mosaddeq's reforms that was growing among the conservative mercantile and clerical classes, and to work with royalists already plotting against Mosaddeq. The opposition of several major clerics, notably Ayatollah Kashani, helped cement a wider opposition to Mosaddeq, utilised by American-paid agents provocateurs. Had large elements of the traditionalist middle class not turned against Mosaddeq it is unlikely that the coup would have been successful.

Conspiracy theories have been brought back to the foreground by the political crisis of recent months. This crisis should be conceived as a dual problem of deep schisms within the ruling religio-political elite coupled with a broad mass movement challenging the election-grabbing coup of last June alongside a multitude of other grievances.

Faced with a massive legitimacy crisis, the Iranian regime and its supporters have been quick to point the figure at foreign powers. While Whitehall and the White House were rightly initially wary of overtly supporting the Iranian opposition for fear of tainting the opposition as foreign lackeys, they were nonetheless branded as such. Many have been arrested, tried and even convicted of espionage and of working as foreign agents.

Washington and London have now taken a more critical line: directly challenging the brutal repression and violence used against protesters and opposition figures and their families. Mike Hammer of the White House's national security council stated recently that America stands behind those “who peacefully seek their universal rights”.

Ahmedinejad's insistence in blaming the unrest on foreign powers is not simply disingenuous; he may well genuinely believe his assertions. Many are convinced that a “British establishment” is working to overthrow Iran's political system and that it co-ordinates such varied organisations as varied as the BBC, the Guardian, the Palace of Westminster, the British Museum (with its Shah Abbas exhibition supposedly intended to reinforce Sunni/Shia divides), and the Queen's College at the University of Oxford (which established a scholarship in memory of Neda Agha-Soltan).

Iranian society is certainly not unique in favouring conspiracy theories. However, in Iran these ideas reach the highest level of the ruling classes with horrific consequences.

In engaging with Iran and its leadership the international community should be mindful of this conspiracy mentality. They must be transparent and candid in their dealings with Iran. They should be open in their opposition to Iran's violence against peaceful protest which patently contravenes treaties including the UN international covenant on civil and political rights of which Iran is a signatory.

Above all though, the international community must insist that the Iranian people alone have the ability and legitimacy to determine their political destiny, whatever they choose it to be.

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December 29th, 2009 by josephmcfadden1981

Remember when Head Coach Dick Jauron was fired and Bills owner Ralph Wilson pledged to spend $10 million per year to get an A-List coach and GM? Remember when Mr. Wilson interviewed Mike Shanahan and contacted Bill Cowher? It appeared he was determined to do whatever it took to get good football minds in the top positions of the franchise.

Do you remember, even barely? It was only a month ago, but seems like an eternity. Since word of the snub from Bill Cowher, nothing else has happened; unless it has been so far under the radar that even press rumor hounds haven't got the scent.

Meanwhile, Mike Holmgren has signed with Cleveland, and all the rumors point to Shanahan going to Washington. Today ESPN's pundits have Cowher playing Carolina and Tampa Bay against each other, with Ron Wolf (the brains behind the Favre era success at Green Bay) likely to reunite with Holmgren in Cleveland.

We have to wonder, did Wilson at least attempt to contact Holmgren or Wolf? Has he been doing anything to lure anyone of merit to Buffalo?

There was no mention whatsoever of Buffalo in any of the head coach or general manager speculation on the NFL pre-game shows this morning. Not even baseless rumors. 

Does this mean there is no activity on the part of ownership to fill these vacancies? Has Ralph Wilson decided to play musical chairs with the available top tier candidates and make an offer to the last one standing when all the other slots have been filled, hoping at least one of the big boys is still out in the cold?

Or is it something more ominous? Is all the talk about top money for top talent a bone to the fans; the overtures to Shanahan and Cowher, just bones to the fans? So that Wilson can say he made an effort but Buffalo just can't command that kind of talent, even with competitive money on the table?

Whether it's what Ralph is saying or not, that seems to be the general impression he is giving to the media and most Bills fans.

I reject that assumption. Cleveland is no garden spot. Buffalo is Cleveland on a slightly smaller scale. If Cleveland can catch Holmgren, then Buffalo could have had him. With the right price and the right amount of control, Holmgren could be sitting in a corner office at One Bills Drive right now.

As could Ron Wolf. And Bill Cowher, Mike Shanahan, or Brian Billick. Or any number of other former head coaches who have not only seen the promised land from the mountaintop but have been there and back. Any one of them could already be at work in Buffalo with the right combination of money, control, and compatible personnel.

In fact, most of the Super Bowl champions have come from less than A-list cities. Sure, Buffalo is no Boston; but Boston is no New York or Miami either. And other than the Patriots and the Giants, most of the recent Superbowl winners have hailed from the likes of Green Bay, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, and Indianapolis.

Call me naive, but I highly doubt any NFL coach worth having consults his glamour meter before he rules a particular city in or out of his career search. What decent coaches do consider is tradition, fan support, compensation, control, and what resources they will inherit when they arrive. Some have more of a stomach for rebuilding than others; but in a league where last-to-first transformations are more of a norm than an aberration, there are few teams that, with the right coaching and management, wouldn't have a shot at the Lombardi trophy in any given year.

So when the media ignores Buffalo as a potential destination for the big names, are they assuming that Ralph Wilson may be willing to part with the money but not with the reigns? Or are they simply dismissing the city in the way that Buffalo is so often treated in the minds and headlines of all places beyond its borders? I suspect it is the latter.

But what is even more frustrating for die-hard Buffalo fans is that many of our own people dismiss Buffalo in a similar way. There is the conscious or unconscous, spoken or unspoken assumption on the part of many that if Buffalo has a good run, it will be more by accident than design.

So how do we fight this perception? I call upon Jim Kelly to do for his former team what he was unable to do as a quarterback. Fill the leadership void, even if unofficially.

It was reported that only after Kelly and former teammate Thurman Thomas appealed to Wilson did Wilson proclaim his intention to seek top football talent for the front office and the sidelines. Whether or not that is true, it seems that Kelly could offer himself to Wilson as an emissary for potential general manager and head coach candidates.

We know Kelly is committed both to Buffalo and the Bills. He has made his home in Buffalo since retiring, and has been active in civic and community life, as well as a recent fixture on the Bills sidelines. He writes a column for the Bills website. He is considered a potential future owner (heading up a cartel of pooled resources). He has the respect and the ear of Ralph Wilson, and as a Hall of Famer, he has the respect of all in the football world.

Jim Kelly could approach a Bill Cowher, Brian Billick, or Ron Wolf and sell them on Buffalo. Kelly could sell Wilson on the terms needed to enlist one or more of these proven champions. If successful, Buffalo could finally, next year or the following, win its first Superbowl. I have no doubt Jim Kelly feels the weight of unfinished business of his efforts in uniform. I have no doubt he would jump at the opportunity to heal that wound for himself and a million plus Buffalo fans who still hope, more than they believe, that anything is still possible.

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December 24th, 2009 by josephmcfadden1981

                        

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Yes, things could be worse — for everyone

You could be using IBM's AS/400 servers to run your business, exhorting Big Blue to pursue the path to goodwill instead of profit.

In this holiday season I've stumbled upon a steaming pile of snark about your Transition. There's a shortage of goodwill in many places, but maybe nowhere as obvious as the Web site IT Jungle, where an editor in chief has called most of you stupid. He's even measured the folly of running a newsletter like ours, though he missed calling us out by name by one word.

Timothy Prickett-Morgan writes in The Four Hundred this week to exhort his readers, who love their AS/400s as much as you have adored your HP 3000, that things could be worse for his faithful. In almost 3,000 words of manifesto he chirps that no matter how dire the future looks for a return to IBM's hegemony of the 1980s, life under the ticking clock of AS/400 futures could be worse.

I think the first thing to realize is that things could be worse. Imagine if this newsletter was called The Three Thousand and all of us, seeing the incredible RISC technology that Hewlett-Packard had on deck for its future PA-RISC workstations and servers in the late 1980s, had banked our careers on the MPE operating system, with its own integrated database management system and COBOL applications.

None of us were that stupid, of course.

I can weather that schoolboy name-calling, because in an era of Photoshopped integrity, respect is in short supply. But only from the distance of a New York office could a man with a few decades of IT experience think your Transition arises from stupidity. You believed, like a lover or a disciple, to nurture your relationship. Now your life after the affair is different; your career may be better, perhaps worse.

While it was not Prickett-Morgan's main mission to hoot at your challenge, he did lead with this slapdash foolishness to start preaching to his choir. My aim is to represent your reality in about half as many words. The HP 3000 has been that kind of efficient — which is why so many of its customers' applications will live on other environments in the decades to come. Precious few will ever boot up under OS400, though.

There's a saying in the IT industry about storage devices, one that applies to all technology choices. There's only two kinds of disk drives: those that have failed, and those that will fail. Nothing outlasts change. But so long as your choice stays in front of change for the lifespan of your career — as well as the legacy of your decisions — your choice isn't stupid.

Not a single technology will escape the day of its demise. The signs of IBM's disregard for the AS/400 are right inside Prickett-Morgan's sermon. "The point is, the AS/400 used to lead in technology development, and in a lot of midrange accounts, IBM was not embarrassed or ashamed to lead with it. I haven't seen that IBM for a long, long time."

Nor will you again. Things have changed too much for technology companies like HP and IBM to need to revisit swaggering, innovative behavior that both delighted and imprisoned customers. You were an IBM refugee, some of you, while choosing the 3000. But the unique technology HP created also kept you inside Hewlett-Packard's campus. It was a collegial life when you knew your HP rep no matter how little you spent, when an HP VP like Marc Hoff would pass out business cards with his home number on the back — so you'd stay satisfied and not be tempted to live off-campus.

HP felt such nostalgia for those days that when the company absorbed Compaq and competing products, Carly Fiorina's team felt the desire to add the word "Invent" under a new logo. Eight years later, half of HP's invention budget has disappeared, making a migration from R&D to Mergers and Acquisitions. As former HP exec Chuck House notes in a new book The HP Phenomenon, it's hard to make acquired companies' inventions deliver like your own innovation.

OS400, MPE: These were tools created and honed in an era when HP couldn't be seen, like it is today, with its third generation logo in every Starbucks store. HP needed invention to thrive in the 1980s. By the 1990s it settled for a reseller market. By now, it just needs customers for things other companies build. So it buys 3Com, or any of the other billions of dollars worth of R&D magic created in companies too small to have a truckload of flyers in Starbucks.

But to that matter of stupidity in a career: The Four Hundred and Prickett-Morgan are deluding themselves in thinking their own day of dunce-dom can be averted by passionate sermons. I reported on the day the 3000 community members built a football-sized advocacy poster a few miles away from a computer conference where top HP execs could still be expected to attend. The poster paper was recycled, the conference no longer exists, along with the defunct user group that mounted it. The HP execs are still around — those who haven't taken retirement packages or migrated to companies where R&D is more essential than M&A. And those who remain are talking more, and listening less, especially to sermons. Forget about the home phone numbers.

It's an easier landscape to navigate while your vendor pretends to love your career choice. Once you're in  Transition terrain, the journey toward a secure future is littered with doubt and risk and courage and hubris. Alongside the rocky path, you sometimes see editors in chief and analysts and competitors saying that things could be worse. They could be you.

The truth is that they will be you someday. And once they're transported to Transition turf, they'll hope to have a map of how to land on their feet. They'll get to see what HP did poorly in its migration mantra, as well as how your community stepped up to fill in HP's gaping holes to plan for migration and homesteading. The AS/400 group already has an iManifest advocacy group, a canary perched in the mine shaft of IBM's futures.

Prickett-Morgan spends much time lecturing what IBM should do to revive AS/400 prospects. We have done as much here with the NewsWire, promoting the business choices that a $60-, then $70-, then $80-billion corporation should follow. Being prescient about the outcome of unheeded advice is easy enough. What is harder, and deserves more respect, is making a nourishing menu out of offal that your vendor serves you.

When your vendor's faith fails, like every disk drive, it might look like it did in the 3000 world — but more insidious, because unlike HP, IBM has not yet admitted how little ardor it feels for the AS/400. To quote facts from our editor in chief, when your platform's division vanishes like the AS/400's has; when you estimate that only 20 percent of your community is investing agressively in your platform; when your Unix division feasted on a lousy deal offered to your legacy customers, then it's "a stupid way to play the midrange game."

If there's stupidity here, it's in HP and IBM overlooking businesses that produce profits. I had a lunch with a 3000 software vendor last week where he said, "I can't figure it. There was still money in the 3000 business when HP walked away. It's not like it was costing them to keep it running." But the bill that came due for HP was a sweetheart's promise to dump a competing product during the Compaq merger. MPE and VMS couldn't coexist in HP's shortsighted vision. But we see many of the same signs in the OpenVMS world that appeared in MPE and OS400 communities. Their members are all the Worried Well, to use a healthcare term.

Here at the NewsWire we hope to be able, with your support and continued interest, to dispel the needless worries and keep your courage up with facts, ideals and honest appraisals. It's an adventure making a career of enterprise IT these days, not a lesson that dispenses dunce hats from editors who know better than to be so smug about things being worse elsewhere. Yes, comparing is the most human form of writing the stories of our lives. But things being worse in a Transition community don't make the AS/400's world look ripe for a resurgence. Thinking legacy shouldn't be an epithet, or services will fund price-cutting, or a unique database will take back Oracle wins, or that new hardware sold under an old brand name (odd, that one) — well, maybe all those ideas were just a wish for Father Christmas.

I wish Timothy Prickett-Morgan the best of luck in his upcoming business transition. I can be disappointed in this colleague's misstep, but you don't have to feel envious of not being an AS/400 customer. Everything in life is retiring someday, both systems and editors in chief. Until then I hope to spend very little time dancing on ground that I consider a graveyard, while I avert my eyes from my own plot nearby.

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