I had been working 24/7 on my offbeat cartoon project and living and sleeping in an abandoned aluminum warehouse in rural Mississippi. I believe I had 180 cartoons on the Internet. First of all, there are no Internet gurus, according to Dr. Cerf, who now heads the creative department at Google. I have since opened the world’s only online shoe store which contains shoes featuring famous love quotes called ShoesThatAmuse.com.
I have opened numerous stores containing my cartoon funny gifts such as Rick London Collection.
“If someone selling you on their moral superiority with regards to the Internet, run the other way. I had returned to college as an adult (aged 46) and with Business Information Management as a major, we focused a great deal on blogging, still big at the time, and the upcoming social networking.
I now had Dr. Cerf, and the top professors on the planet; many of whom worked at Google, Microsoft, Dell, HP, and other giants to teach me the “real Internet”. I told them I understood there is no “silent moral code” on the Internet. Most of them had a common thread in doing business on the Internet. What is moral in one country is a sin in another. Later, upon doing business through social networking, all the information they had purveyed rang true. If you want to find and celebrate differences in people, and do business with them anyway, using common business ethics which ring true in any country, state, or area, go for it. If you want to slug it out with a “moral leader of the Internet”, turn the other way; there are millions more who do it there way, and if it works for them, and yours works for you, it is bound to work for everyone (and everyone can prosper and celebrate the differences).
