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We live in an instant world, A world where everything must be here and now…

we live in an instant society, where all you have to do is to push a button and presto chango, something new has been created.

Can publishing really be as fast as pushing a button, short answer, yes you can.

There are many different methods of publishing with the push of a button.

This however brings up the question of quantity over quality.

Does quality make a difference It could be, however, there is really a missing ingredient, that is something that cannot be forgotten, these days you can hire out just about anything but to really create good content, for publishing, you need to have at least some talent for writing.

Can you get published electronically.

How does it effect your digital world?

Do you use marginal publishing or do you use dynamic publishing?

We live in an instant world, instant entertainment, instant, dinner, instant everything, and yes even instant pudding.

Perhaps you have heard the term instant publishing just add a few clicks and your done, we wanted to check that out and find out just what it takes to get published on some of these instant publishing networks, like amazon and lulu.

While it does seem to be easier than ever before it is not easy enough for the average person to do it, and if you want professional results you may have to hire someone to do it for you.

We looked at lulu which at first glance appears to be very friendly, and it is however, it still requires knowledge above and beyond that which most users possess, conveniently, you can outsource it.

While this may seem like a good thing at first it can run into money, certainly not as much as in the old days of self publishing, where you could easily end up spending five thousand dollars on getting published, perhaps that included 100 books.

The cost is still up there.

When compared to books in production on Amazon.com most people are just not going to pay the higher price for a lulu product.

For the time being we hope to find a good alternative to these powerhouse instant publishing houses, because for our money, its just not the way to go.

You might wonder just how is the best way to get your work published, well that is a good question one that we are actively investigating.

For some time now people have been predicting the death of the papers, and it now is beginning to look like this might actually start to happen soon.

Since so many people are getting their new online now, newspapers and the higher cost, is really starting to take its toll, it may be that newspapers will make the trip and transition to electronic form.

Looks like the verdict is in, folks adobe either did not want to go to court, or thought that spending all that money on lawyers, would be better spent, supporting, apples, competition.

If you think of it that way then you can see just how dumb apple was in this issue and how it continues to be dumb.

One thing that seems crazy is how apple is treating the very people that have supported them for years, in some cases driving people back into the arms of windows, I bet bill gates is laughing and laughing and laughing…

But when you think about it, you just have to wonder what is going on over at apple, yes, they have sold a lot of ipods, they sold a lot of iphone, (not as many as they could have sold, if they had not gone exclusive with att) but who knows, if you bought apple at 74 then right about now is a great time to dump it, and I mean dump it fast before it goes down…

Why? Well, when a company creates problems for itself, like what has happened to apple in the past month then disaster is on the way and you read it hear first. Apple is allegedly going down down down, unless a change is made and that may in fact include taking the AX to SJ, if in fact he is responsible for this fiasco, who ever did this should be fired, fired fired.

They made an alleged enemy of a giant competitor, and that is stupid stupid stupid…
Prepare for a huge dustup, or not, the lawyers, are set to begin a huge lawsuit, that many feel apple is destined, to loose, even if they win.

So what up, is stevie out of a job?

Will adobe sue apple, and will apple sue back, the world wants to know, but in reality, this school yard bully fight is really stupid, mostly from little Stevie, it is just crazy and actually what is needed is a vote of no confidence.

What, you did not hear that here, but really come on Stevie, you really cant expect to play this I am going to take my ball and go home game with the company, the customers, the developers, (which are really customers too) dont forget that, you chiseler,

Well as many have suggested, the rumor mills are in running full time, with the most recent blast, or blunder by apple, which allegedly prohibits an entire cottage industry that was blooming in the shade of the great apple tree, but now may be defunct.

So with one fell swoop, apple may have caused Millions in damages, (allegedly)

NO one seems to know for sure but it does appear that if the language that we see in the new terms and conditions, which may be a thinly veiled salvo between two super powers, with entire villages, becoming collateral damage. Many fear that perhaps apple may have allegedly bitten off more than it can chew, so in reality, what we are seeing here, is a huge rip in the fabric of developers lives.

So really until we see some additional information, what we are facing is Xcode which is not as bad as some may have been lead to belive it is, sure the documentation, is allegedly, hard to follow and full of nerdy fluff,

One of the biggest issues is that many seem to be under the mistaken impression that apple cares about the little guys out here trying to make a living in a world where the hourly wage, has hit bottom since 1998, so in reality, the only thing that you can really do is to subscribe to the notion, when in rome…

Oh one final thought I am now wondering if I should just return all the ipads we purchased for our development team?

If apple wants to play war, then fine, but I can buy a boat load of droids, and still save money…

As more people, begin to see ebay affiliate revenue drop and drop to nothing, it is starting to become evident that ebay has made a huge error in judgement…

Looks like the news is in for Ebay, and it may not be the news they allegedly wanted to hear, the new programs, seem to have not worked in the way they had hoped, this happens, most of the time when you hire people that may be very smart and have PHDs, but have little or no real knowledge about how the internet or even how computers work, We just have to say good luck with that…

We have to ask this question because it looks like in the changes that ebay has made to its affiliate program that it is no longer friendly to most websites, which if this is the case that most of the affiliates will move to other programs where they can make money without being dependent on a system that has no clear under pinning.  This is a huge problem, but apparently Ebay cares not.

After all it would appear that Ebay has made a series of trouble some mistakes in the area of both customer satisfaction and seller satisfaction.

AS a seller since 1999 I can testify that I have moved to other markets so instead of selling and buying more I sell almost nothing through ebay and tend to buy from other marketplaces this is because of all the policies that are in effect at ebay that tend to favor everyone but the buyer and seller.

I suspect that this new system that ebay has invested in will backfire in a really bad way, but we will have to see how it works out in the long run, for now it is yet another dissapointment in a long run of troublesome and disappointing situations at ebay.

I have had several request’s to publish the base came Donkeys, so that everyone would know who these people really are and to avoid them like the plague, Well I decided that if you want to know that you can PM me from the warrior forum, and I will tell you privately, or you can contact me here, If you know that out sourcing by the hour is bad, then you will never, have to worry about who these people are…

Because in reality these guys will do nothing but take your money and rip you off.

Now on to the topic at hand and this is a good topic and one that I can tell you from experience is full of danger for the developer because frankly the idea that you can trust a developer to do the right thing is almost non existent. What I mean here is the idea that an outsourced developer will work by the hour and will do the job for which they are being paid.

So this brings up the idea of working by the job as opposed to working by the hour.

Which is better?

Well for sure it is better to work by the job, why, well for one thing it is better for both the developer and the customer or client. Think about it say you are an experienced and a talented developer or designer, you know your job, you can do in one hour what it takes others four hours to do, you do it because you have done it so many time before that you could do it in your sleep. Working by the job makes sense to you, so why do platforms, like base camp, provide hourly services, well they do it for the money, and we dont say this to be mean to base camp, they are a good company, but beware of a developer that wants you to pay upfront, on an hourly project because, eventually you will find that they have no incentive to do anything but take your money and find as many reasons to bill you more by the hour.

Just like an attorney will bill you for the lunch they have with you, (working lunch) these guys are worse than an attorney.

Recently I hired a company on base camp, we had an agreement to fix a scripting problem, they wanted a deposit to begin the work, I said, ok, so I paid the deposit, three days later, they apologize that they have not been able to get around to working on the project, keep in mind that this is a maximum of 2 hours to fix this problem.

So, we go through two weeks of sending messages back and forth, and we come to the conclusion that it all needs to be re done because it just is no good, ( surprise surprise surprise ) now its going to be 20 plus hours to fix it, see what I mean, If I had gone to a pay by the job I could have had it fixed by now, and it would have only taken 2 hours to fix.

But these clowns, take three weeks, to tell me what I already knew, and then had the Balls, to ask for another deposit, so they could re do the entire project by the hour, let me tell you that they would never have finished the project, why?

Because they had no incentive to fix the project, because they are getting paid by the hour, there is not need to finish the project, they just keep billing and billing and billing, I can tell you from experience, never hire anyone to do anything by the hour because you are wasting your money.

Need you house painted, it will take them a month to paint it.

Hire them to paint it by the job, and they can get it done in a weekend.

Get the picture. I sure do, hope you can learn by my mistake, never hire a developer by the hour, because all you are doing is wasting you money. So let me tell you from my own experience never ever, hire a developer by the hour because they will never do what they say they will do, they will never perform, because they have no need to.

If no one sees it they will not come…

Imagine an ant hill, where all the ants did the same thing every day, they eat the same food every day, they listen to the same music every day, never a change, always a grey existence that never changes, that is what most websites are like these days, they just sit there withering away because no one is really visiting them, they are like that ant hill, full of ants, but for the most part no one in the entire world knows about those ants so they go about their lives, oblivious to the rest of the world.

That is what an Auto blog is like, an ant hill where everyone is busy busy busy, but no one knows about them…

Are you lazy?  If you are thats ok, lots of very successful are lazy, but there is one big difference.

They work smart, lazy but smart…

Chances are  you have seen these, ads that promise the moon for the auto blogging life style, the set it and forget it mind set.

But guess what, you already know, it does not work at all.

There are so many of these auto blogging platforms, from WordPress to literally more than you can imagine, each one claiming that they can give you what no one else can deliver.

The truth is that Auto Blogging does not work…

Perhaps that is not what you wanted to hear, but sadly it is the truth, I ran several blogs manually, posting every single day sometimes 10 to 12 times a day, sometimes more. I was able to achieve some success, I started getting some traffic, I started making a little from affiliate commissions, like ebay and amazon and yes even adsense.

But then I made a huge mistake, I got lazy…

I started looking for an easier way to do the same thing and get me here there is nothing wrong with that ok, but and here is where I went wrong, you have to know that what you are doing is the right thing to do.

My mistake, cost me several High PR website ratings.

I paid more than $150 for an auto blogging platform, which was reputed to be better than anything out there, it was touted to work when everything else failed to work, but after loosing my PR ratings where I used this auto-blogging platform, I finally realized what I had done wrong, I trusted what someone else told me, just so they could make a few bucks.

So actually I spent a lot of money trying out different systems, I even tried paying a Virtual Assistant to post for me so I could see if that would work, but sadly that too failed, because I found that you have to have at least some interest in what you are posting about.

If you have ever had a good PR ranking then you know how important it can be to building your level of success, because once you get one good ranking, you can use that to link to lower ranked blogs and in turn improve their rankings, it really is a building block to your success.

There may be a few that are successful with auto blogging, but so far I have not see the first one that can say they are successful for more than 30 to 60 days, because, I saw some good traffic in that period, but after that it all went bad, and then it went from bad to worse.

So why does auto blogging software fail to achieve what the people selling them claim?

One of the most important things you can do for your blog is to give it that human touch and that is not often easy to do with automated software, the reason for this is that every single one of these auto blogging software solutions, leaves behind a trail, usually it is something small, like the same type of formatting post after post.

It is this trail that alerts the search engines that something is not right about the blog you might wonder why it matters, all I can tell you is that it does matter and it matters a lot, because you can go from a great rank to no rank and you can go from great traffic to no traffic and that is definitely not what you want.

So the next time you see an auto blogging software special and you read about how you can just set it up once and just forget it, just remember that you read it here, it is a waste of your money and unless you plan on monitoring and baby sitting your blog, you will never see any measurable success.

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