A quick snippet here to give you a couple of different ways to follow my daily posts on RJsCorner. If you are a regular Facebook viewer you can now see my post there. Just click on the”Facebook Connect” block on the right edge of this post and hit the “Follow” button on the Facebook page.
If you use Feedly, another way to make it easier to read me is to put me on your Feedly list. It is a great app that I use daily. Just copy the URL here and then go to Feedly search box and paste it there and then click “Search” and then “Follow” on the subsequent page.
I must admit up front that I am probably like most of the people in that I get at least part of my news from Internet sources. I used to get agitated when I clicked on a news article only to have some words to the effect that I need to sign up with a paid prescription in order to view the article. I almost always mumbled, “you gotta be kidding…”
This snippet is for all my fellow bloggers out there, everyone else can just ignore it. I have been looking into my blog stats lately and have discovered some interesting things. I am on WordPress and the general consensus is that it gets less traffic than Blogger because the Google search engine gives priority to its own app. But, what I actually discovered is that Blogger includes all the spambot hits as well as search engines who roam through the blogsite as a visit count. Sometimes that leads to some rather gross inaccuracies. As it turns out I guess is that the Google search engine punishes Blogger blogs because it counts all the spammers and other bots that attack it as views, WordPress filters them out excluding them from your counts. And with Blogger even these inflated numbers can be easily faked by a readily available app.
Alexis de Tocqueville who wrote the now infamous book “Democracy In America” was a Frenchman who traveled our country in 1835 trying to understand what made America what it was. His book is a must-read for anyone serious about understanding our country. I only recently came across this quote and it kind of surprised me to see that so many let others think for them even in his time.
I am a car guy, a good part of my TV viewing is the Velocity Channel where they routinely make and auction $200,000 to up to $4,000,000 cars. It seems almost every time someone goes to my favorite car builder it is to “fill in their collection”. They have most of the 60’s Cameros but need another to fill a hole. Another show is where a guy runs around the country trying to find cars that his clients need for their collections. Car shows are no longer about the average guy rebuilding an old car in his garage, or at least the Velocity Channel version.
That got me to thinking about so many other cable shows where they are making stuff so rich people will spend their money. The last few years the rich seem to have tightened their purse strings for fear of this or that. Trying to get them to spend so of it so it will trickle down to the rest of us is the name of the game. Of course, that makes total sense if you really look at it since one percent of the U.S. population control about half of our total wealth and the rest of us are only manage to scrape up only an occasional dollar or two of discretionary income. Not nearly enough to buy the things they make for their wealthy clients.
Rich guys don’t usually want what other rich guys have so you just can’t mass market to them. They want the bragging rights to say “this is the only thing like this in the world”. When it comes to rich guys “the customer is always right” is the mantra so there is a lot of anatomy kissing going on in that world. 🙂