The KID goes International!

This is a little bizzare to me but it is fun. This is a true story. I know I am not realy going "International", but it does prove certain points, about how the world has changed, about how the internet is changing it, and the irony is amazing!

I have 4 . mobi's, ahotbiz, acoolspot, sweetsite, and my personal favorite, coldwarkid. I mentioned that in an earlier blog, the same blog that caused me to write this one. It may help to know that the earlier blog was also printed as an ezine article. I was browsing through my sites, and tried to get to one of my mobi's, (they are just barely set up), and I noticed I couldn't get to it. I am not sure what the reason is, but it will work itself out.

While I was searching for coldwarkid, I thought I would check my dot com by that name, so I googled it. What I found was very interesting. There were a couple of my quotations, from ezine articles, a blurb from one of my websites, and a paragraph from one of my pieces- in Russian! This is how it reads in the English translation from the Russin translation of my original English version: (you may want to skip through some of this, but it is worth a look. By the way, I am not EVEN going to spell check this!)
You can find the original of this article by scrolling down.

Доменные имена и социальной мысли - 'холодной войны' и Kid 'холодной войны малышейSelf Writer.info / Domain names and social thought-'Cold War', and Kid 'Cold War kids Доменные имена и социальной мысли - 'холодной войны' и Kid 'холодной войны малышейDomain names and social thought-'Cold War', and Kid 'Cold War kids



Я домена, www.coldwarkid.com я также имею несколько вариантов одного и того же.I domain www.coldwarkid.com I also have several options for the same things. Информации.Information. Нетто, так далее.Net, among others. Я не сделал ничего с ними пока они на стоянку с объявлениями на данный момент.I did not do anything with them while they are parked in ads for the time being. Я даже не знаю, что банды детей холодной войны, очень популярен в диапазоне, еще не существовало, пока я на стоянку одной из страниц с компанией, брокеров, объявления, связанные с моих доменов название и один из показа на 2-й в 'холодной войны детей.I did not even know that gangs of children Cold War, a very popular band, did not exist, while I parked one of the pages with a company brokers ads related to my domain name and a preview on the 2nd in 'cold war-affected children. Я получил доменное имя, потому что хотел рода общее доменное имя, которые я мог бы использовать несколько целей, таких, как поощрение и расширение моих страничек о военных винтовок на www.milgun.info, сайт посвящен винтовок в ходе первой и второй мировых войн и 'холодной войны', или, ы рода низкие технологии памяти несколько страниц на создании простых веб-сайтов для Интернет dissposesed ж моего поколения.I got the domain name, because I wanted to sort of a common domain name, which I could use a few goals, such as promoting and expanding my pages of military rifles at www.milgun.info site with rifles at the first and second world wars and the cold war, 'or, s kind of low memory technology several pages on the creation of simple websites for the Internet dissposesed Well my generation. Мне понравилось название столько, что я даже купила Гасымова домена!I liked the name so much that I even bought Gasimov domain!

Я также хотел бы, чтобы название более эфирных Поэтому представляется дать определение lostness, и социального нервозность моего поколения.I also would like to see a more volatile Therefore, it seems to define the lostness, and the social unrest of my generation. Мы собрались вместе во второй половине века, что видел Великая депрессия, расположен между двух мировых войн, которые помогли определить поколения до нас как 'Великих поколения', и это они действительно являются.We have come together in the second half of the century that saw the Great Depression, is situated between two world wars that have helped define the generation before us as a 'Great Generation', and that they truly are. Мы обязаны огромным долгом признательности к предыдущему поколению за то, что он рассказал нам плоды своих 'кровь, пота, труда и слез '.We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the previous generation for bringing us the fruits of their "blood, sweat, work and tears'. Мое поколение Однако, не менее определения, но в настоящее время это определение в истории этапе.My generation, however, it is equally definition, but now that definition in the history of time. Мы действительно Вьетнаме, движения за гражданские права, космической программы, и много других социальных вопросов, однако.We Vietnam, of the civil rights movement, the space program and many other social issues, however. Кто бы мог подумать, что первое поколение о существенном мира, таких, как он, были бы столь неуправляемой?Who would have thought that the first generation of a significant world, such as he would have been so volatile? Возможно, это unruliness, является необходимым фактором для нашей демократии, перестройки, чтобы у нас была сбалансированная.Perhaps this unruliness is essential to our democracy, adjustment to keep us in balance. Только время действительно рассказать.Only time will really tell. В конечном счете, это означает, что оно означает.Ultimately, it means what it means.

Впрочем, найти холодной войны Детские объявление, мне кажется, вновь путь Я взглянул на домены, и направила меня в 'Google Me' режиме.However, a cold war's announcement, it seems to me, to the way I looked at domains, and sent me to 'Google Me' mode. Я googled сам, и большинство людей, которых я знал, и нашел много интересного материала.I googled myself, and the majority of the people that I knew, and found a lot of interesting material. Я могу говорить о том, что некоторые будущие статьи.I can say that some future article. Я слушал некоторые из их музыки, и пользовался он очень много.I listened to some of their music, and enjoyed it very much. От меня к поколению решений и прослушивания музыки и сегодня : развлекаться, и не позволил никому сообщить, что Вы можете не достичь Ваших целей.From me to the next and listening to music today : fun, and not let anyone tell you that you can not achieve your goals. Храните ваши мечты живы, и не сдавайтесь и 'урегулирование', есть много людей моего возраста, страдающие от сожалению, не идти по пути они выбрали, и теперь понимаю, было бы в рамках своей расширенной досягаемости для этого.Keep your dreams alive, and do not give up and 'solution', there are a lot of people my age who suffer from it is not to follow the path they chose, and the understanding that it would be within their extended reach to do so. Мы только что слушали по ошибке.We have just listened to the wrong people. Мы ж ---- d виду не веря в наших собственных инстинктов в меньшинстве ведь неизбежные неудачи того времени.We f ---- d mind not trusting our own instincts in the minority but inevitable setbacks at the time. Мне жаль, что мы не оставили мир в лучшем состоянии, для Вас, возможно, мы не создали шаблон для вас сделать некоторые усовершенствования.I am sorry that we have not left the world a better place for you, we may not have a template for you to make some improvements. Мы можем вести эту работу совместно.We can work on that together. Мы сделали то, что мы понимаем, сделать в то время, и она такова, какова она есть.We have done what we mean to do at the time, and it is what it is.

Для диапазона, Дети холодной войны, поддерживать хорошую работу ребята.The range Children cold war, support the good work of students. Музыка великолепно!Music great! Оберегайте его течению.Keep it current. Я желаю Вам удачи, и спасибо за прозрения.I wish you good luck, and thank you for the insights.

Well, that was strange. It was also kind of fun. It is also a little ironic. The order has definitley changed in the world. It wasn't to long ago that there was no free press in the now, former, Soviet Union, and now, even with the nickname Cold War Kid, I am being reprinted in Russian.

Parked Pages, Valet or Self Parking?

I am taking another trip down a side road on the super highway again today. I will get back onto the right road as soon as I get my GPS on line. Some of the bill boards stole my attention. I have as many questions as answers on this one, and am thinking out loud more than anything else.

Bare with me.

Self parking, or Valet parking?

I have been looking at domain parking, including cash parking. I had quite a few domains that I didn't have much of any ting planned for. I bought them while trying to fill out orders, and sometimes the lure of dollar .info's is like the lure of a cold one on a hot dusty Texas day after a hard day at work. Well, that's how I got them, now what to do with them?

I built the websites that I wanted, all that I could get to in my allotted time. And there they were, staring me in the face, each time I went to the control panel.

I realized, that just leaving them for someone else to collect money from posted ads, didn't make much sense, although my very gracious registrar, provides a multitude of great free services, free ad supported hosting, very good prices, and I am amazed by their quality of customer service, quick responsive, thorough, friendly and accurate. The best I have experienced!

Still, I wanted to do more. I looked at cash parking options. There was a wide, almost bewildering range in price, service, user control, percentage of return,etc.
Then there was the question of honesty, and there are some kinda shady lookin companies parked along that stretch of road!

My company offers cash parking for a fee, but most of my domains, won't attract much attention on their own.

It offers starter web pages, which might be useful in driving traffic to the other pages you have that they let you list, and gives you the option of selling the domain from that location. And a chance that if someone stumbles by, they might take interest, and build a little traffic.

It offers for sale pages, but you have no choice in how it is displayed, or the ads placed on it, and of course, the company collects any revenue while it is there.



Basically, it goes like this:

you can leave them parked with the registrar, where if any ad money is made, it is made by their parking attendants.

You can have them valet parked, but I never liked handing my keys over to one of those guys. Besides, you have limited control of the meta info.

You can park it yourself, if you have a parking lot or billboard (hosting)

You are not going to build any search engine traffic parked in one of those services. Even though most sites I see on the web, are little more than glorified bill boards or parked pages, a lot of ads and links, and a little text between them. I am not sure what the difference between a page full of ads, and a page full of links with a minimum of text means to search engines, but sometimes the lines are blurred, and the bots can't see.

The only way they get traffic on their own is if it is misdirected due to spelling errors,like my unfortunate attempt to get to an international relief organization that I really like. I misspelled "heifer" and almost never got away, then spelled it correctly, but left out the "International" and got stuck in the ditch again!

I think that parking pages is less like a parking lot and more like a billboard on the Internet super highway.

So, using that analogy, this is what I am doing:

I am building pages, fast and furious!

I am building pages, with all the content I can muster,

I am adding ads, as fast as I can click,

I am forwarding domains to the sites I have built. This is really a pretty good Idea. If you build a page, and forward 10 similar domains that might draw that type of traffic, then you have, in effect, 11 monitized pages, but there is still the issue of traffic, and whether that past traffic from a forwarded domain, will register when it comes time to build a site, or sell the name. Maybe some of you more experienced guys can tell me the answer to that.

I am linking pages, to get whatever traffic I can from my other pages,

I am switching material, which the search engines seem to like. There again, I wonder at the validity of search engines wanting new info, and wonder if the future of the Internet may be in the blogosphere. If change is what they want, then, that is the place to find it!

At least, if you park it yourself, you have the chance to get search engine traffic, which usually leads to some real traffic. You might build some brand name recognition, and you might get a few ads clicked on. You can also promote your other sites, as ads, or links. There is that question again!

The sad thing is, that a site could potentially get a very high page rank, and be of no use to anyone. As wittiness to this I call to the stand the "Lupine Glupe" experiment, I just googled it, and most of it is gone now, but there is one page that said, "you must be looking for...I deleted it because it was full of stupid content, and if you are looking for it, you must be stupid too! Don't feel to bad though...." It even had a fake 404 error page! Anyway, it is possible to say nothing of value, and still have a highly ranked, and possibly well traveled web page.

Search engines don't seem to like parked pages, but there again, I suppose a clever person could emulate the work of other clever webmasters, who seem to be adept at disguising the fact that they are parked by shifting a little content, offering a link index to related sites,(perhaps even their own) which appears to be helpful, although the same thing could be done with a group of disjointed words and sentences, while an Einstein quality theory went un noticed!


I'm not sure what the answer is, not really even sure what the question is, but I know that I need to make my domains as pleasing as possible, offer good content, even if it seems boring by contrast with some of the fakes, and let the things go where they will. All the while, hoping for some sanity.

From the Cold War Kid, to the Cold War Kids

I have a domain name, www.Coldwarkid.com, I also have several varients of the same, .info, .net, so on. I haven't realy done anything with them yet, they are parked with ads for the moment. I didn't even know that the band Cold War Kids even existed until I parked one of the pages with a company that brokers ads related to my domains title, and one of the ads was for a C.D. by the band Cold War Kids. I got the domain name because I wanted a sort of general domain name that I could use for several purposes, such as promoting and extending my pages on military rifles at www.milgun.info a website devoted to military rifles of the first and second world wars and the Cold War, or, as a sort of low tech sight for a few pages on building simple web sites for the internet dissposesed of my generation. I liked the name so much, that I even bought the mobi domain!

I also wanted the name for a more etherial reason, it seems to give some definition to the lostness, and social restlessnes of my generation. We came along in the last half of a century that saw The Great Deppresion, sandwiched between two World Wars, which helped to define the generation before us as "the Great Generation", and this, they truly are. We owe a tremendous debt of grattitude to the preceding generation for bringing us the benifits of their "blood, sweat, toil, and tears". My generation however, had less definition, but is now undergoing it's definition by history phase. We did have Vietnam, the Civil Rights Movement, the space program, and a lot of other social issues though. Who would have thought that the first generation to see substantial peace, such as it was, would have been so unruly? Perhaps this unruliness, was a necessary factor for our democracy, an adjustment to keep us in ballance. Only time will truly tell. In the end, it means whatever it means.

Anyway, finding the Cold War Kids ad, made me re think the way I looked at domains, and sent me into the "Google Me" mode. I googled myself, and most of the people I knew, and found a lot of interesting stuff. I may talk about that some in a future article. I listened to some of their music, and enjoyed it very much. From me to the generation making and listening to the music today: Have fun, and don't let anyone tell you that you can't accomplish your goals. Keep your dreams alive, and don't give up and "settle", there are a lot of people my age suffering from the regret of not having follow the path they would have chosen, and now understanding that it would have been within their extended grasp to do so. We just listened to the wrong people. We were mind f----d into not trusting our own instincts by a minority of nay sayers of the time. I am sorry that we didn't leave the world in better condition for you, perhaps we did set up a template for you to make some improvements. we can work on that together. We did what we understood to do at the time, and it is what it is.

To the band, Cold War Kids, keep up the good work guys. The music is great! Keep it flowing. I wish you the best of luck, and thanks for the reminder.

More From behind the Tech Curtain

Who could blame us if we seem to be a little paranoid about technology. We were trained that way. We spent much of our lives learning not to trust anyone, or anything having to do with it, all the time, embracing it with hope that it might just save the day. We are, to say the least, a bit confused. Most of us, human beings in general, have a common paranoia that the rest of the world, or at least a few powerful members of some clandestine, secretive organization, know something that we don't. This has lead to many of our modern day, ever increasing, conspiracy theories. In truth some of this is true, but most is just normal human paranoia. Yes, you don't have to ask, your neighbor and your spouse have it too!

A lot of people feel that they are not capable of understanding the difficult content of science, technology, or philosophy, so they leave it to the "experts", the specialists, giving them, the power of having and maintaining the knowledge base for the world.
The result is that most people spend their lives letting other people, more "qualified" people, tell them what and how to think. This, in turn, leads to another layer of separation between the scientists/technologists and the average person, which leads to another, and another, and another. "I know I could never understand Plato, so I read the commentary on the Republic"." I will let the Minister tell me what the Bible says." I have actually heard both of those. The truth is, that you CAN understand Plato and the Bible, you just have to get over the mental block, and the jargon! That is where we stopped the last time, with the Jargon.

Now It's time for something we hope you will really like! (email me the answer to who used that phrase, and I will make you a special offer)!!!!

LET"S BUILD A WEB PAGE!

HUH?
How much do you know about building a web site? Nothing? Well, then, how do you know that you can't build one? That is the approach I would like to instill in every person I know! How do you know until you try. You as an individual have a lot of information, and unique outlooks, that the world needs to know of. Build a web page, and share it!

I am just learning this for myself, and I have found that the best time to teach something is when you are learning it, conversely, the best way to learn something is to teach it. This is not my first attempt. I have a business web site, and have been playing with a few hobby sites, but they are in the early stages. For my first site, I used "html" that is, HYPERTEXT MARKUP LANGUAGE, it is a series of symbols that computers understand that tell everything on your page where to go. I knew nothing about it, and had to begin at the beginning, just like we had to do when we were learning to read. After I had built it, I bought a new computer which gave me the tools to use "wysiwyg". What is that? believe it or not, it stands for WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET! It is a text managing tool, that does the html for you.

I need to give a few definitions before I go any further. You will run across phrases like this all over the place: "Enter your URL here." So you look up URL, and the chance that what you find will be even more confusing is pretty high. Let me explain a little about this. Remember, this is just verbal shorthand.
URL means Uniform Resource Locator it is your home along the Internet highway, your address.
ISP means, Internet Service Provider, technically, that is you, or your computer. The Internet, is just a series of computers linked together by some form of communication line such as telephone or cable. YOU are the Internet! You share and transfer information, to others, who do the same.
SE This means Search Engine. A search engine is a tool to gather, store, and re direct information, it is like a library, and a traffic directer along the highway. It helps you to locate and access the information you need. That is enough for now. I just felt that it was important to clarify what the Internet is. It is you, and me and our computers.

Back to html. next time.

The Tech Curtain

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Why we don't understand:
I am a child of the cold war era, one who remembers communism, bomb shelters, Soviet aggressions in Eastern Europe, and the various curtains. The "bamboo curtain" in Southeast Asia, and the "iron curtain" in Europe, these were linguistic symbols of communist aggression throughout the world, and the good news is, that we won! Well mostly. People my age are facing another wall, not from communism, but technology. I thought I would be dramatic and call it the "Tech Curtain"

If you are an old guy like me, there is a lot that you don't understand out here in cyberspace, even here in the blogosphere, where things are a little easier, and all you have to do is pick a template, pick a topic, and peck away on your keyboard therapeutically until you have spoken your piece and appeased your frustrations on the subject at hand.

Now, this lack of understanding doesn't come from a lack of intelligence. There are a lot of highly intelligent, well educated, (the two are not always found together) people in the world who are confused and bewildered when it comes to the influx of new stuff on the tech market.

Is it a conspiracy?

Well, there have been notable times in history, when some men have withheld knowledge from others in order to get an upper hand. There are obvious instances, where it is legal and proper, such as trademarked recipes, and safety issues like the manufacturing process for nerve gas, but that is, at least, a little different from what we are talking about here.
The ancient Egyptians who were sharp enough to notice the changes in seasons and the attending changes in the floodwater levels of the Nile valley, were able to use this secret knowledge to propel themselves into leadership roles by keeping it secret. There have been many such cases, and they still happen today. No I don't think this is a case of the Technocrats of the world withholding knowledge to gain world domination at the expense of the poor bewildered peasantry, it is simply that most people my age just haven't really made an effort to keep up with the ever expanding technology. Science and technology have moved so rapidly, and we half expected or wished that it would turn around, but it hasn't and now we have to catch up or be left behind. It is not however, as bad as it may seem. Most of it has to do with Jargon.

Jargon.

If we don't understand html, it is in all likelihood because we don't know what it stands for. When someone in science or computers says something we don't understand it is confusing, because it sounds as though they are speaking another language. The truth? They are. They are speaking the language of jargon. We all use it, especially in the workplace, and much of it has made it's way into everyday language. It is a means of communicating using words to avoid describing the process or tools we use. It is much easier to say to someone: "Hand me that trowel". Than to say "would you hand me that thin, flat, rectangular piece of metal with a handle on the top that we use to smooth down this mixture of sand, gravel, and cement we use to build this flat area to put a house on." That's what jargon is, and that's what's eating our tech lunch. I will try to give definitions as we go along.

I am just learning most of this for myself, so why don't we learn together?