Internet success has become the next gold rush. Everyone is trying to set up their own little booth on the web and hoping for a big payday and lots of praise and adoration. A few have certainly managed to strike it rich, although most of these people are programmers and developers who have created platforms like Facebook or Twitter.

Still, some people are making remarkable amounts of money on sites like YouTube, which allow anyone with a camera access to the largest audience of all time. The success of those few who manage to break into the big time is easy to explain in a few general rules. If you want to be rich or famous through YouTube, you need to follow these simple steps:

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Ray and I were talking the other day about the death of the art of politcal speech writing.  It seems that when we were young in times long ago Presidents used to sound “presidential.”  It now seems that the present generation doesn’t have much to hold on to; to tell their grandkids, “I remember when he gave that speech, we knew then that we were living in an important time.”  Regardless of how any of us feel about our elected officials, it is their words, that in many ways, define our generation. (more…)