Here is some interesting reading that really details out all the ways to make a living off the web.

Its a good article from Stromdotcom that looks at Targeted Text ads, Image Ads, Untargeted Text Ads, Popunders, Affiliate Programs, email lists and charging.

My favorite statement is "First of all, let's not delude ourselves. Making money on the Internet is hard -- its just as hard, if not harder, as it was back when people were happily deluding themselves into thinking that the Internet was the foundation of the American economy. It wasn't then, and it isn't now, but at least today that statement is a little bit closer to the truth."

Check out the article. It's a good read and worth your time.

According to the Korea Times, the rollout presentation of the Origami unit Q1 was a huge challenge for the CEOs of Samsung, Microsoft  and Intel to handle.

I’ve received a few emails from family that say they read my blog but it does nothing to talk about my family and that my pictures are out of date.

You know what, your right…

Dena and I are so busy running Project A (www.ProjectA.com) that we forget to have fun.

Project A is doing quite well now and we feel like our plan to survive and thrive post dot com bubble burst has been working, but that’s not what you have been asking for, is it.

Well let’s start with Dena.

She has gotten herself involved in two boards this last year.

She is treasurer of the TrailDust Saddle Club. This is a group of families that meet at the Jackson County fairgrounds monthly to do horse competition events like barrel racing, pole bending and more.

She and Teague share their love for horses and their competitive spirit and they both are doing very well and Dena even won her first ever silver belt buckle. Picture coming soon.

The other board is called Hope Equestrian Center. It’s a group of people that use equine based therapy for mentally and physically handicapped people. They held their first fund raiser the other night and it went very well. We filled two tables with friends and we all had a great time. We feel this is such a great cause. I can’t figure out yet how to tell you the feeling you get when you see the change that occurs (one mother calls it a miracle) when an autistic child rides on a horse. Check out the website at www.HopeEquestrian.com

I’m very proud of her.

Teague has been playing volleyball, performing in plays, working hard to stay on honor roll (she wants that dang little dog) and does 4H horse during the fair as well as trail dust with her mother. She turns 13 next month, so we are bracing ourselves.

Quinn has started taking Hockey lessons. He works hard on trying to be a better reader and loves all his farm animals. He truly has a love for our chickens. (Chicken Posters in his room, yup, gets it from his mother ) He invents amazing worlds using Lego bricks and he draws constantly.

What about Me?

I continue to serve on the boards of

Southern Oregon University Foundation www.soufoundation.org

Rogue Valley Medical Center Foundation www.buildingonourpromise.org

Southern Oregon Telecommunications and Technology Council www.sottc.org

Because of term limits my involvement on the Ashland Chamber of Commerce board has ended, but I’m still very involved in the economic sustainability committee I founded and chaired for two years. www.ashlandchamber.com

I taught for a term at the University. I had a blast and found a fundamental passion for teaching in my soul. I hope to be able to do it more.

I ran for school board last year but lost. (By a wide margin)

So I got involved in the Ashland Independent Film Festival board. They just ended the festival and the results are in. They had their best year yet. www.AshlandFilm.org I was very proud to be apart of the festival this year. It was an amazing amount of work, but the result is world-class.

more to come soon...

I’ve been intrigued with Writely for a while. A cool word processor in the browser for blogging and collaboration.

Now Google has bought it.

Hopefully they will make it so we can use the word process in the browser. Any browser. Any site. So we can use it in SiB. ;)

http://www2.writely.com/info/WritelyOverflowFAQ.htm

http://writely.blogspot.com/

Again we all wonder what Google is up to...

Here's to the crazy ones.
The misfits.
The rebels.
The troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently.
They're not fond of rules
And they have no respect for the status quo.
You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them,
disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing that you can't do is ignore them.
Because they change things.
They invent.     They imagine.     They heal.
They explore.   They create.        They inspire.
They push the human race forward.
Maybe they have to be crazy.
How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art?
Or sit in silence and hear a song that's never been written?
Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels?
We make tools for these kinds of people.
While some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.
Because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can
change the world, are the ones who do.
--Apple Computer Inc.

People identified include:
Rosa Parks, Albert Einstein, Bob Dylan, Martin Luther King, Jr., Richard Branson, John Lennon, R. Buckminster Fuller, Thomas Edison, Muhammad Ali, Ted Turner, Maria Callas, Mahatma Gandhi, Amelia Earhart, Alfred Hitchcock, Martha Graham, Jim Henson, Frank Lloyd Wright and Picasso.

The first movie I saw at the festival this year was, The Real Dirt on Farmer John.

We were going to see Art School Confidential, because the preview spoke to me as the boy I am trapped in this old man's body of mine.

But it was sold out, so we gave up our tickets so that the festival could get them to people that waited in the rush line.

Dena and I don't get a chance to enjoy movies as much as we did before children.

Before meeting Dena, I worked very late most nights, and watched a different movie almost every night at midnight on the way home from work. Some huge theatre off the 405 but I'm getting too old to remember. South Coast Plaza. I saw Teenage Mutant Nija Turtles there, a gift from my soon to be wife, but that's another story.

Now we enjoy them via DVD, just like everyone else.

The Film Festival itself is amazing.

Some people I know in Ashland are Sundance Snobs.

But the majority truly enjoy that Ashland has such a well run, widely respected film festival.
Now in it's fifth year, it has proven itself and dare I say is better than last year.

Yes I'm on the board this year, and yes we worked insanely hard this year to deliver what was impossible, an online ticketing system that integrated into the schedule of films and a database of the films so that you don't have to 'publish'. They 'automagically' become part of the history.

What about our first movie, The real Dirt on Farmer John?

This movie was a 5 out of 5 in our minds.

It is a documentary that amazingly has real footage of a farmer from childhood to manhood.
The writing, the story telling, and the journey you go on together are the best I have witnessed in a long time.

I loved that it was not political. It had many opportunities to blame the president for the plight of the farmer, but never was this stepping into pile of typical 'documentary' that has plagued our theaters for years, just a bunch of bush bashing and rah rah building for one group of people.

I loved that it was about farming. Dena and I are not farmers, but we love living as much as we can off our 12 acres. We organically grow what we eat all summer, we sometimes organically raise our Meat and Eggs and We respect the bounty and our good fortune.  We loved the simplicity of watching how they grew up, and worked hard everyday and worked together as a community.

I loved that it spanned decades. In much the same way that Forest Gump told a love story through the use of footage from decades of reality, this movie showed us real footage of each moment in the amazing tale of Farmer John. Farmer John is a love story as well. A man's love of farming, art, his mother and his heritage.

I loved the story about his mother. This movie moved me. The mother was the foundation of everything this man lived and worked for and somehow as if on cue, during the filming of the movie, life just happens. I wept for what felt like hours.

Dena and I talked about this movie afterwards and even though we did not agree on some of the ideas I read into the film, we both agreed it was one of the finest documentaries on american life post world war two ever told.

Crap about Eating at McDonalds everyday and how bad it is for you, NO? really???... spoke to the audience in years past, where as a real documentary about a real life, This movie is not a "Jackass for Adults" slow train wreck that has destroyed and infected our movie theatres.

This film, this documentary is simple, heartwarming, scary and very, very deep.

We plan on buying DVD's for the home, family and friends and school when it comes out. It's a family friendly story that will make you appreciate so much about farming, living, art, love and the hero's journey we must all take in our lives.