Alan Gutierrez

What is the issue with Google Ads really. When I look at what John T. Unger is doing for Six Apart with this TypePad Hacks blog, when I think of how he’s helping a community of users, why should he not be compensated for his time?

AdSense is a way to pay his wage, that’s all.

Drucker gave us Knowledge Workers, I give you Google Workers.

In this economy, we need to simply pull up a blog, put out our banners and skyscrapers, and get to work, conversing, facilitating, making the connections, making the world a better place.

The notion that advertising makes the speech commercial to the point of untrustworthy is for those who are comfortably attached to some corporate or government teat. They don’t have to shill, what with the division of labor and all.

The rest of us are out here in the wilderness, getting smacked around by that invisible hand.

Since I’ve arrived in New Orleans, my interactions with the city have lead me astray from the Java and XML programming I was so engrosed with during my Ann Arbor sabattical.

An opportunity has consistently presented itself, the opportunity to put something interesting about New Orleans online.

When I tell people that I am a “Computer Programmer”, “Software Developer”, or “Computer Systems Analyst” in New Orleans, they invariably ask if I “do web sites”. Initially I demured, but now I can see that if it’s what people want, I may as well give it to them.

One of the points that I’m driving home when I talk about web sites is that people don’t want to watch Flash cartoons, they want information. It’s an easy point to make when you talk about how people find information through search. It’s not as great a leap as one would expect, but people who don’t use the web regularly are not too aware of this.

While stressing the importance of content, I’m going to offer customers solutions for the development of content. I’m not going to focus on design as much as copywriting, blogging, photoblogging, and Podcasting. The emphisis will be on content generation.