Google shares the Wealth

It's a great business model. Make wealth, then create a platform for your users to create their own wealth. eBay is a great example of a site that has allowed its users to build viable businesses.

Now we turn the spotlight on Google whose AdSense program has allowed websites to earn money by displaying Google ads and get paid every time sometime clicks on those ads. How much can you really make from those clicks?

Meet Mr. Natural Handyman whose website earns him $120,000/year just from Google ads and meet Ms. Cooks Recipes whose site earns her $90,000/year mostly from Google ads. See their story below:

Gray Googlers strike gold

Photo Exhibits

There's a photography exhibit at the Columbia Art Center "Trick or Treat: A photography exhibition by the Baltmore chapter members of the American Society of Media Photographers". The reception is on Saturday, Oct. 27 from 6-8 pm. Refreshments will be served.

One of our local photographers (Denee Barr) recently sent me a note about her exhibit at the American City Building:
--- Stop by the Columbia Foundation in the American City Building 10am-5pm and see my photo-based mini-retrospective of Columbia/Howard County put together along with Howard County Artist Alice Webb in celebration of Columbia's 40th Birthday! I will be changing my photo based images every few months! Look through my scrapbook and sign my guestbook on display. Also on display is a book entitled "Dialogue With Photography" that I think you will interested in looking through as well.

And head down to DC where the Corcoran Gallery of Art is exhibiting the work of two great photographers: Annie Leibovitz (exhibit runs through January 13, 2008) and Ansel Adams (exhibit runs through January 27, 2008).

A Local Artist shares her craft in her own Blog

Barbara Nuss is an award-winning local artist who is not only talented in the arts, but also quite talented in technology. When I met her a few months ago, little did I know that this unassuming lady is also very tech savvy. She told me that she took a class to learn html, and using notepad she proceeded to build her website (barbaranuss.com). I helped her move away from notepad and use a web authoring tool, and her website has been transformed into another work of art.

Not only can you see pictures of her painting, you can also purchase some of her pieces like the high-resolution and high-fidelity computer generated fine-art print Giclees of her paintings. Barbara personally mounts the canvas prints onto archival board and apply a water-resistant and U-V protective varnish alleviating the need for glass. These Giclees are the same size as the original paintings and each print comes with a certifcate of authenticity.

Now Barbara has a blog (Artist's Point of View)! Many years ago she wrote a book titled 14 Formulas for Painting Fabulous Landscapes and now Barbara is sharing her technique in her blog. In the next many weeks, Barbara will be working on a new painting and every week she will share the progress of her painting on her blog. She is now on week 4.

Check it out ... it's quite fun to see the progress of her painting every week. Here are the links from the past 4 weeks --- Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, Week 4.