I am not sure, where the websites go from here (2003 and after). Business side of it? Maybe. I thought about "business" more when I had one hundred visitors a day. Now I am about to have close one million a year. I never dreamed it's possible, the business of making money of the internet is not on my mind anymore. How to move it further, yes. (I made a directory for that purpose, read the lessons page). But the work involved unlikely to pay off. The only valuable commercial option I see is to continue writing and go for the print-on-demand (POD) publishing of my texts. Looks like it's easy and the copyright stays with you. It's cheap (a fee from $150 and up, depending how much work you want them to do). How close am I to doing it with my textbooks?
I don't know...
[ Where is the guestbook? Never mind! ]
Sister-pages: Notes at WEB Directory with Sellassie WWW.
Build a portal for ALL web-related pages at BUSINESS Sellassie! (I dropped this project).
I know, my webpages have a lot of problems. The biggest one is that I am not real webmaster. I do it by default. I got myself into something, which is not my business. Again, at first I did it for myself, without much of a plan or even a thought that the pages will be read by the others. Too late now, I'm too deep into it...
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It's hard to be smart, when you are a webmaster. I say, impossible!
2005
Summary
Webmaster, your work never ends...
"...let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident." Jefferson, Thomas. [1791] 1984. Thomas Jefferson to Ebenezer Hazard, Philadelphia, February 18, 1791. In Thomas Jefferson: Writings: Autobiography, Notes on the State of Virginia, Public and Private Papers, Addresses, Letters, edited by Merrill D. Peterson. New York: Library of America
Notes
Oh, how I wish I could this -- the PS pages in each directory! To know that I am done, that I can move on other projects...
3.29.06. I do not think I can monitor the traffic anymore. What do I get from knowing the paths, keywords, trends? I have my own logic of working or not working on specific pages. My own interests and needs.
2005: I have to double and triple the traffic, if I want to make a few hundreds/month. They say it has to be in thousands/day, the "visitors" (I want to see them as readers). There is only one recipe -- content! Keep going back to the strating point of your webpages -- the texts.
5K/day? Can be done. Fall 2004. 10k/day -- possible -- Spring (Fall?) 2005...
8.25.06. Every summer I think: This is the last time I do it...
No need to list the new things (they are on my pages).
Until next summer?
...
Did you read PS in the Diary of a Webman? Did you see Intro or the title page? You don't know about the webBook "Diary of a Webman"? How did you get to PS page?
PS -- something like a summary (see the footnotes -- right table). In short, don't let webmaster in you to take over your pages. Nothing but the content matters. [Did you notice that I make my pages more simple as ever?] Do not become one of many, who recycling the same data. Go after what you and only you know. Everything else is secondary. Learn what you need to learn and go back to YOUR mission. What is that? Okay, call it a "product"...
Why did I get into webbing in the first place? Because I write. And that is what I should stick to. Web is only an extention of what you are. Yes, find your style, your web-identity, but web does it give it -- only expresses it.
Be aware of the web power. Don't let it suck you in and forget why you do it. Trust me, I know what I am talking about. A sucker is born every day, the Internet gives birth to millions of them every day. 2001 was the best expression of it, when the whole world paid for the new bubble. No, I don't contradict myself; I am still believe that the electronic revolution of the end of the century was one of the biggest historical events in human history. Yes, the future belogs to the Internet and Web, but the issue is what do YOU with it? Be smart, street smart.
I don't have time to work on the Webman's Diary (not on the top of the list), so I write it here. Yes, it's business (even if you do it for fun and pleasure). It's easy to start... but it gets more complicated while you learn about the business side of it. Think, the technology makes it so simple that a ten-year-old could step in! Anybody. Imagine the poll of your competitors! All again all, indeed.
.... Old pages (above), why do I keep them?
Oh, what does it matter!? I might say it here as well.
Survival, my friends, nothing more. The environment keeps changing -- and I have to adapt. I went through no less radical transformation before. I was Russian for thirty years. It's bigger than a sex change.
Not that long ago losing one's homeland was considered to be a great catastrophy, a big human tragedy. Do it yourself, said America. Enjoy it!
This is a simple secret of the American success story. Betray the past! So, I do. My new motherland is the cyber space!
I had to remove all the Russian software and install the American programs in me. I have to go through through changes if I don't want to left left behind... I am the technology.
I better treat myself as such. I better do it myself on myself before it wiil be done by the others!
For those who indeed read my writings, the difference between the old Anatoly and "Anatoly48" (@ Spree) is rather simple. The young one belived that the Soviet System is just a system in the Soviet Union. Not the Final Solution. That Others are not my enemies. That is what all children think.
Webman? Big deal! I went through so many changes already that even my death is not so shocking anymore; just another program to download.
No, there is Anatoly 2002! He knows more, he is older, wiser!
Really?
Go to my professional pages, friends. Go to writing directory! Go, go!
Good night.
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.... Old pages (above), why do I keep them?
