In a daze in the Cyber Jungle

Cyber space is really a jungle, full of traps for the unwary. One initially thinks of it as a vast landscape where one can write something indelible as on a granite tablet, to last longer than a lifetime. Surfing the Cyberspace steadily as I had done these past few weeks quickly brings that notion to an unceremonious halt when one is confronted with a 401 error message for a missng page or even an unlocatable server. Like shifting sands in the desert, the World Wide Web is as stable as the marketplace that makes it hum. Sure, there are perrenial signposts like Yahoo, MSN, or Google. However, quite a number have fallen by the wayside, or gobbled up by the giants and resurrected as something new just like a Phoenix rising from the ashes.

The World Wide Web has become my current dream and I live in it for most of the day, taking time out only to eat and sleep and maybe do an errand or two. It never ceases to amaze me. One day you think that you have a handle on it, the next day you find it was as real as a daydream when you find it to be so different from how it was dished out to you. I am talking of the dreams being peddle in the Internet. They all share a common theme and that is to bring the marketplace to you, or in Internet parlance: traffic.

What good is a well-designed, well-organized, well- thought out website if nobody knows it is there. I am informed that there are over 56 million websites and the number keeps on going. This is the kind of population explosion which is not so heavy on real estate. A small country like Western Samoa or Tokelau can be a presence in the World Wide Web if it has the infrastructure to connect to the Information Superhighly which Bill Clinton and Al Gore promoted. This bit of information I gleaned from suto-surfing the Web.

This is another new term I have learned from my forays into the Dreamland called the Internet. It is a kind of surfing on auto-pilot where you just watch the websites go whizzing by every thirty seconds or so; and, it anything catches your fancy you can just reach for the mouse and click on "pause" to get a closer view. Then you let it pass you by and wonder if you will find it again. It is sometimes pointless to bookmark as even your bookmarks starts to become a jungle too.

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My life and the Internet

My life nowadays revolves around the internet. I wake up early now to begin a new day of surfing the net, checking mails, updating blogs, figuring out a way to promote my blogs, checking out whatever is out there in the World Wide Web. It is truly amazing, the Internet is. Many people may use it for purposes which were never intended, like peddling porn or fomenting hate and advocating the destruction of other countries like the case of terrorist sites but, it is a medium for communicatomg with people you don't even know about, but one whose effectiveness is largely an unknown factor. You broadcast your message with the hope that someone will respond.

It is not so easy as it seems. Even if it is so easy to publish something without knowing any CSS or HTML, one still has to figure out a thousand other things to bring that web page to those that care to read it. It was a frustrating time at first but using the resources available in just a few keystrokes on a search bar, I easily locate thousands upon thousands of links that give me information about website promotion and what other people are doing to promote their websites.

Many websites are real eye-openers when it comes to style and design and what can be done to make a website easy on the eyes. Of course, there is the ever-important issue of content. What do you want to present to your audience? Authoritative people, writers who are experts on the Internet never fail to emphasize the necessity of providing relevant content. They say content is king and it is a bit confusing at first but, keepiing at it even in the midst of confusion somehow helps to clarify your mind about what it is you want to say. It would not do to just blurt out anything that makes no sense. One has to figure out the message that one wants to bring across.

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