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John Chow dot Com

January 13th, 2007

This is a truly interesting man. Firstly, he smiles out proudly from his blog and that’s rare. He showed us a picture of his baby– rarer yet. I often wonder why I see flashy cars at the top of his blog, but then I like looking at flashy cars, so boh!

What does John Chow do? He tries to teach people how to use the internet to make a living or just some extra dough. Why is that good? Because there are innumerable people using the internet to drive us crazy or destroy things. If even half the spammers and virus designers could be redirected to using the internet in a reasonable or polite way we’d live in a safer world.

How does he do that? He writes about how it can be done in a way that we who are a bit behind the technological curve of the world can understand, or else he directs us to other sites that explain what you can do. He compares the various options and recommends the ones he thinks work best. More than anything else, I find him an incomparable resource for information and maps to the areas of possible internet commerce that you, yourself, can decide fit within your ethic or do not. If you think that SUVs are a blot on the environmental scene, then you shouldn’t do any of the possible and possibly profitable things that could earn you money from the sale of more SUVs, right?

There is a universe of territory between promoting what you find valuable and linking to porn or cheap prescription drug sellers. John Chow thinks there is nothing wrong with tucking yourself into the ethical parts of internet commerce. I agree with him, and I wish more of the people who try to seduce me into dating services and penny stocks would listen up. Does anyone actually buy anything from these spammers? Why?

John Chow has a more or less non-profit take when it comes to his own blog, but if he used it to make a ton of money, it would be OK with me. He’s offering something very interesting and worthwhile. I am a capitalist. I do not find business dirty, I just find dirty business disgusting. Mr. Chow seems on the side of the decent.

I do not find him, as one other blogger said, “Godly” but I do like his hair. If it were red, it would almost be mine.

Now all of the above words were written before Mr. Chow started blogging from the CES at Las Vegas. Now I have a slightly different attitude about his character. He’s very dazzled by the nouveau riche and splashy Vegas trimmings and maybe a tad too pleased with how well he has positioned himself in his milieu. That hand on the rear end of a passing girl, the lined up busty waitresses, the multiplicity of gang photos — to me they aren’t very cool. Tech heads, however, have their own definitions of cool, and he may very well be the acme of that genre.
What is cool is what he knows how to do and his ease in explaining it so that someone in a far country who has never thought about the subject can understand most of it. I hope all the spammers and virus writers have John Chow’s taste in entertainment and girls and are inspired to try out his methods of using the internet positively.

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