Q: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"
A: "Walk! It's only 50 meters — that's about a 30-second stroll. Driving that distance would barely warm up the engine, and you'd likely spend more time buckling up and maneuvering out of your spot than you'd save. Plus, walking is easier on the environment and gets you a few steps in."
I think out of everyone you've really hit the nail here. It's about starting a movement, and taking the platform in a direction it's been needing to go to for a long time. The collaborative nature of open source should grow around this project as soon as the product arrives, and I really hope it does.
It's also solved the images thing too, letting us choose what we see outside of simple text.
These people think subscribing to a service makes things easier on us, when in the end it's just making things more complicated, and honestly it's likely wasting more time too. And that's assuming middle-man service doesn't go belly up sometime in the future and force us to manually resubscribe to everything all over again.
So you're saying a decent article on your own blog posted twice a week is enough to pay utilities and rent + some insurance? That's pretty impressive, to me at least.
How do you monetise your blog? Just through ads? What kind of ads?
I've been thinking about doing something interesting to this, so it interests me. Would you mind linking to your blog?
In large companies they are necessary to maintain some form of control, just so you don't have your IT department running around fixing computers all day, but not to this extent. What you're dealing with are technically-challenged control freaks.
I'm similar to you. Australian (Sydney), 21, Uni student, tight budget. E-books are great, but as others have said, just start fiddling.
I won't tell you what to do, because I'm still quite inexperienced and other advice in this thread will likely be far more valuable, but what I've done is purchased a cheap slice @ slicehost.com. I taught myself to work with Unix, setup apache/nginx, php, mysql, perl, python, ruby and so forth, fiddle with the internal settings. Then you start learning how these things interact with each other.
I then suggest installing something like Kohana, which is a fantastic PHP framework. By working inside a framework you are forced into good habits.
PHP, HTML and CSS should come first, in my opinion. Once you have the basics of these there, start implementing some fun Jquery and making a small site that's database-driven. All of a sudden you're using 5+ technologies, and from hereon out you'll learn things as you go.
*Edit: feel free to drop me a line if you want to chat some more! woodsier at gmail
While I see the point you are trying to make I disagree. You can't possibly think that music and video as mediums have not played their part in fighting for or against certain causes.
A: "Walk! It's only 50 meters — that's about a 30-second stroll. Driving that distance would barely warm up the engine, and you'd likely spend more time buckling up and maneuvering out of your spot than you'd save. Plus, walking is easier on the environment and gets you a few steps in."
Sonnet 4.6, no extended thinking.