I think that the internet DIY set reacted to making fun of a costume that fits their ethos perfectly. Last halloween, for example, one DIY dad became a YouTube hit when he posted an awesome homemade Iron Man costume he made for his kid. Is Target's message really that the kid would have been better off wearing a storebought version? If so, citizens of the internet (and makers in particular) are right to be a little ticked off.
As for the non-DIYers, I think that what made them upset was the way Target tried to manipulate kids by playing the dual role of the bully who makes fun of your costume and the cool parent who just wants to help you fit in, unlike your weird, lame, Iron-Man-suit-building mom.
That doesn't work, though, because the parents who will be paying for the costumes are the ones who teach their kids that bullying and peer pressure are wrong, and that creativity is good. The bigger, more popular kid who mocks your costume is the bad guy in every cartoon and after-school special. Why would any kid root for him? And why would parents root against their own nostalgia for (sometimes embarrassing) homemade Halloween outfits? (And if this ad was made to be seen by kids, it sure was shot poorly.)
That leads me to a distasteful theory about who Target was, well, targeting with this commercial. It's not aimed at internet geeks with the time, money and technical skills to make amazing Iron Man costumes for their kids. They aren't going to go to Target for a costume anyway. It's aimed at parents who don't have that time, money or expertise, and who don't want their kids to be singled out as weird or poor. Did Target pick a black family for the ad because they think African-American parents fit that profile? That would be the grossest type of marketing, but I think it's possible.
It doesn't matter if you can't make (or afford to make) your kid a costume, though: the ad still fails because the homemade costume it shows is cool. That mom did a great job with it, and clearly put in some time and effort, so there's nothing for her kid to be embarrassed about. If Target wanted to invoke shame and peer-pressure to make parents feel self-conscious about their income or costume-making skills, they should have at least shown a costume that was actually bad.
You’re a 16-year-old boy with devilish good looks and a penchant for goofing off. Your YouTube handle is JSKCranks, and you like to film yourself making prank calls. In one call you’re a mean Russian messing with the pizza guy. ("Do you have my money for the marijuana and cocaine I sold you? Cause I’ll cut you, bitch!") Perhaps you get bored with prank calls. So you decide to take your antics on the road, maybe score some cash in the process. You go on the "adult services" section of Craigslist, as you’ll later tell the police, and connect with “Smotherboy.” He’s a 47-year-old ABC radio journalist who’s willing to pay you $60 to come over and smother him — an ambiguous sexual fetish that involves asphyxiation and ... and then what?
At the man’s Carroll Gardens apartment, you’ll later claim, he gives you beer and a white substance that looks like coke.
Then, while bound in duct tape, you later say, Smotherboy pulls a knife. You grab it away and stab him some 50 times. Afterward, you search for money in Smotherboy’s pants, rifle through his lunchbox collection, and then wash yourself in the tub before putting on Smotherboy’s clothes and leaving. You take the G train back to Queens. But the conductor stops the subway when he sees your finger bleeding badly. You go to the hospital, are later arrested, charged with murder in the second degree, and now face a maximum sentence of 25 years to life.
You didn’t know New York law permits 16-year-olds to be tried as adults. But you think your chances of getting off are decent. Given the choice between feeling outraged over a brutal killing or disgusted by deviance, jurors might see the case in your lawyer’s terms: a child conscripted by a sexual predator to carry out ungodly acts.
And then the prosecutor walks in.
You were expecting someone mean or severe-looking. But she seems pretty nice: tall, blonde, athletic and lithe in that Icelandic way. The brown eyes, you notice, are slightly misty, and the head is cocked a little to one side as if empathy is hardwired into her brain. In the prosecutor’s demeanor there is something eminently trustworthy. She’s seven months pregnant and just beginning to show.
You look at your own lawyer, dressed in a loud pinstripe suit. What’s he thinking? Probably that in 36 homicide trials, this particular blonde has never had an acquittal.
Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi is the prosecutor in the high-profile murder trial of John Katehis, charged with killing George Weber, a freelance journalist for ABC News Radio. The trial began last week, with pretrial hearings and jury selection; opening statements are today.
"Only three kinds of prosecutors have her record," says Ken Taub, who heads the homicide unit of the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office where Nicolazzi works as a homicide bureau chief. "People who exaggerate their records, people who pick and choose their cases, and people like Anna-Sigga, who prepare everything and anticipate everything. Her style is totally professional, no phony flash or showmanship."
In one respect, she’s the embodiment of an archetype used in crime dramas — the attractive trial lawyer who lives and breathes homicides. Her personal history includes an older cousin who was raped and murdered, though she says that didn’t influence her career choice.
"Anna-Sigga has no ego," says Charles J. Hynes, the Brooklyn district attorney who taught Nicolazzi at Brooklyn Law School. "She comes across as a person you can believe in. And of course her looks don’t hurt, either." Could she run for office? "Absolutely, as long as she doesn’t run against me. I don’t want to deal with her in a race."
I first encountered Nicolazzi’s name in 2006 when I was a litigation associate reading about the trial of Troy Hendrix and Kayson Pearson, the men convicted in the bafflingly horrific torture, murder, and posthumous rape of Romona Moore, a 21-year-old student at Hunter College. The case brought new meaning to courtroom theatrics when, on the first day of trial, Hendrix and Pearson pulled out improvised knives, stabbed one of their own lawyers in the face, and then tried to snatch a court officer’s gun before their uprising was put down. When the trial resumed, the Times reported that Nicolazzi, having declined the judge’s offer to replace her, "sat alone at the prosecution table taking notes with an exaggerated overhand grip."
"After that they called me ‘lobster-claw’ around the office," says Nicolazzi, 40, who grew up on Long Island and has lived in Brooklyn since law school. "That episode stuck with me," she continued. "Now I’m more concerned with where the court officers are and where the defendants are, especially certain defendants."
Katehis, now 18, reportedly had a MySpace page advertising his interests in anarchy, sadomasochism, drinking, roof-hopping, hanging off trains, and "extreme" violence. In a pretrial hearing, Nicolazzi requested that Katehis remove his sneakers because they had satanic images drawn on them.
In court last Wednesday, the defense suffered an early setback when a Brooklyn judge ruled that a post-arrest, videotaped statement by Katehis — in which he tells authorities about meeting Weber on Craigslist, drinking beer and snorting cocaine that Weber had given him, and then stabbing him — could be presented to the jury. And according to sources familiar with the case, at least two aspects of Katehis’s story — that Weber posted the Craigslist ad; and that Weber gave Katehis cocaine, which Katehis claims caused him to react so violently — will be disputed at trial.
So if Katehis, rather than Weber, posted the ad, then who lured whom?
It doesn’t matter, says Jeff Schwartz, Katehis’s lawyer. "You can’t say anything was consensual because John was underage. He can’t consent. If John had been a 16-year-old girl he probably would never have even been arrested." As for Katehis’s claim that Weber gave him beer and drugs, Schwartz says tests taken at the hospital showed alcohol present in Katehis’s blood but not cocaine.
If Katehis has anything on his side, it might be public opinion. Coincidentally, in September, Craigslist closed the "adult services" section of its site — worth a reported $45 million per year in revenue — when negative publicity reached critical mass. Some believe Craigslist must bear a degree of responsibility for criminality facilitated by its site.
For Nicolazzi it all comes down to presenting the facts as they are. "If you don’t try to sugarcoat what actually happened, then you can set the morals aside and focus on the crime," she says. "The encounter was consensual. John Katehis made a decision to kill George Weber, and it was incredibly vicious. You may think Weber’s behavior was reprehensible, but he did nothing criminal. No sexual activity occurred. He didn’t deserve to die."
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So, why did this particular ad hit a nerve with the online audience, and what was Target really going for?
I think that the internet DIY set reacted to making fun of a costume that fits their ethos perfectly. Last halloween, for example, one DIY dad became a YouTube hit when he posted an awesome homemade Iron Man costume he made for his kid. Is Target's message really that the kid would have been better off wearing a storebought version? If so, citizens of the internet (and makers in particular) are right to be a little ticked off.
As for the non-DIYers, I think that what made them upset was the way Target tried to manipulate kids by playing the dual role of the bully who makes fun of your costume and the cool parent who just wants to help you fit in, unlike your weird, lame, Iron-Man-suit-building mom.
That doesn't work, though, because the parents who will be paying for the costumes are the ones who teach their kids that bullying and peer pressure are wrong, and that creativity is good. The bigger, more popular kid who mocks your costume is the bad guy in every cartoon and after-school special. Why would any kid root for him? And why would parents root against their own nostalgia for (sometimes embarrassing) homemade Halloween outfits? (And if this ad was made to be seen by kids, it sure was shot poorly.)
That leads me to a distasteful theory about who Target was, well, targeting with this commercial. It's not aimed at internet geeks with the time, money and technical skills to make amazing Iron Man costumes for their kids. They aren't going to go to Target for a costume anyway. It's aimed at parents who don't have that time, money or expertise, and who don't want their kids to be singled out as weird or poor. Did Target pick a black family for the ad because they think African-American parents fit that profile? That would be the grossest type of marketing, but I think it's possible.
It doesn't matter if you can't make (or afford to make) your kid a costume, though: the ad still fails because the homemade costume it shows is cool. That mom did a great job with it, and clearly put in some time and effort, so there's nothing for her kid to be embarrassed about. If Target wanted to invoke shame and peer-pressure to make parents feel self-conscious about their income or costume-making skills, they should have at least shown a costume that was actually bad.
You’re a 16-year-old boy with devilish good looks and a penchant for goofing off. Your YouTube handle is JSKCranks, and you like to film yourself making prank calls. In one call you’re a mean Russian messing with the pizza guy. ("Do you have my money for the marijuana and cocaine I sold you? Cause I’ll cut you, bitch!") Perhaps you get bored with prank calls. So you decide to take your antics on the road, maybe score some cash in the process. You go on the "adult services" section of Craigslist, as you’ll later tell the police, and connect with “Smotherboy.” He’s a 47-year-old ABC radio journalist who’s willing to pay you $60 to come over and smother him — an ambiguous sexual fetish that involves asphyxiation and ... and then what?
At the man’s Carroll Gardens apartment, you’ll later claim, he gives you beer and a white substance that looks like coke.
Then, while bound in duct tape, you later say, Smotherboy pulls a knife. You grab it away and stab him some 50 times. Afterward, you search for money in Smotherboy’s pants, rifle through his lunchbox collection, and then wash yourself in the tub before putting on Smotherboy’s clothes and leaving. You take the G train back to Queens. But the conductor stops the subway when he sees your finger bleeding badly. You go to the hospital, are later arrested, charged with murder in the second degree, and now face a maximum sentence of 25 years to life.
You didn’t know New York law permits 16-year-olds to be tried as adults. But you think your chances of getting off are decent. Given the choice between feeling outraged over a brutal killing or disgusted by deviance, jurors might see the case in your lawyer’s terms: a child conscripted by a sexual predator to carry out ungodly acts.
And then the prosecutor walks in.
You were expecting someone mean or severe-looking. But she seems pretty nice: tall, blonde, athletic and lithe in that Icelandic way. The brown eyes, you notice, are slightly misty, and the head is cocked a little to one side as if empathy is hardwired into her brain. In the prosecutor’s demeanor there is something eminently trustworthy. She’s seven months pregnant and just beginning to show.
You look at your own lawyer, dressed in a loud pinstripe suit. What’s he thinking? Probably that in 36 homicide trials, this particular blonde has never had an acquittal.
Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi is the prosecutor in the high-profile murder trial of John Katehis, charged with killing George Weber, a freelance journalist for ABC News Radio. The trial began last week, with pretrial hearings and jury selection; opening statements are today.
"Only three kinds of prosecutors have her record," says Ken Taub, who heads the homicide unit of the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office where Nicolazzi works as a homicide bureau chief. "People who exaggerate their records, people who pick and choose their cases, and people like Anna-Sigga, who prepare everything and anticipate everything. Her style is totally professional, no phony flash or showmanship."
In one respect, she’s the embodiment of an archetype used in crime dramas — the attractive trial lawyer who lives and breathes homicides. Her personal history includes an older cousin who was raped and murdered, though she says that didn’t influence her career choice.
"Anna-Sigga has no ego," says Charles J. Hynes, the Brooklyn district attorney who taught Nicolazzi at Brooklyn Law School. "She comes across as a person you can believe in. And of course her looks don’t hurt, either." Could she run for office? "Absolutely, as long as she doesn’t run against me. I don’t want to deal with her in a race."
I first encountered Nicolazzi’s name in 2006 when I was a litigation associate reading about the trial of Troy Hendrix and Kayson Pearson, the men convicted in the bafflingly horrific torture, murder, and posthumous rape of Romona Moore, a 21-year-old student at Hunter College. The case brought new meaning to courtroom theatrics when, on the first day of trial, Hendrix and Pearson pulled out improvised knives, stabbed one of their own lawyers in the face, and then tried to snatch a court officer’s gun before their uprising was put down. When the trial resumed, the Times reported that Nicolazzi, having declined the judge’s offer to replace her, "sat alone at the prosecution table taking notes with an exaggerated overhand grip."
"After that they called me ‘lobster-claw’ around the office," says Nicolazzi, 40, who grew up on Long Island and has lived in Brooklyn since law school. "That episode stuck with me," she continued. "Now I’m more concerned with where the court officers are and where the defendants are, especially certain defendants."
Katehis, now 18, reportedly had a MySpace page advertising his interests in anarchy, sadomasochism, drinking, roof-hopping, hanging off trains, and "extreme" violence. In a pretrial hearing, Nicolazzi requested that Katehis remove his sneakers because they had satanic images drawn on them.
In court last Wednesday, the defense suffered an early setback when a Brooklyn judge ruled that a post-arrest, videotaped statement by Katehis — in which he tells authorities about meeting Weber on Craigslist, drinking beer and snorting cocaine that Weber had given him, and then stabbing him — could be presented to the jury. And according to sources familiar with the case, at least two aspects of Katehis’s story — that Weber posted the Craigslist ad; and that Weber gave Katehis cocaine, which Katehis claims caused him to react so violently — will be disputed at trial.
So if Katehis, rather than Weber, posted the ad, then who lured whom?
It doesn’t matter, says Jeff Schwartz, Katehis’s lawyer. "You can’t say anything was consensual because John was underage. He can’t consent. If John had been a 16-year-old girl he probably would never have even been arrested." As for Katehis’s claim that Weber gave him beer and drugs, Schwartz says tests taken at the hospital showed alcohol present in Katehis’s blood but not cocaine.
If Katehis has anything on his side, it might be public opinion. Coincidentally, in September, Craigslist closed the "adult services" section of its site — worth a reported $45 million per year in revenue — when negative publicity reached critical mass. Some believe Craigslist must bear a degree of responsibility for criminality facilitated by its site.
For Nicolazzi it all comes down to presenting the facts as they are. "If you don’t try to sugarcoat what actually happened, then you can set the morals aside and focus on the crime," she says. "The encounter was consensual. John Katehis made a decision to kill George Weber, and it was incredibly vicious. You may think Weber’s behavior was reprehensible, but he did nothing criminal. No sexual activity occurred. He didn’t deserve to die."
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So, why did this particular ad hit a nerve with the online audience, and what was Target really going for?
I think that the internet DIY set reacted to making fun of a costume that fits their ethos perfectly. Last halloween, for example, one DIY dad became a YouTube hit when he posted an awesome homemade Iron Man costume he made for his kid. Is Target's message really that the kid would have been better off wearing a storebought version? If so, citizens of the internet (and makers in particular) are right to be a little ticked off.
As for the non-DIYers, I think that what made them upset was the way Target tried to manipulate kids by playing the dual role of the bully who makes fun of your costume and the cool parent who just wants to help you fit in, unlike your weird, lame, Iron-Man-suit-building mom.
That doesn't work, though, because the parents who will be paying for the costumes are the ones who teach their kids that bullying and peer pressure are wrong, and that creativity is good. The bigger, more popular kid who mocks your costume is the bad guy in every cartoon and after-school special. Why would any kid root for him? And why would parents root against their own nostalgia for (sometimes embarrassing) homemade Halloween outfits? (And if this ad was made to be seen by kids, it sure was shot poorly.)
That leads me to a distasteful theory about who Target was, well, targeting with this commercial. It's not aimed at internet geeks with the time, money and technical skills to make amazing Iron Man costumes for their kids. They aren't going to go to Target for a costume anyway. It's aimed at parents who don't have that time, money or expertise, and who don't want their kids to be singled out as weird or poor. Did Target pick a black family for the ad because they think African-American parents fit that profile? That would be the grossest type of marketing, but I think it's possible.
It doesn't matter if you can't make (or afford to make) your kid a costume, though: the ad still fails because the homemade costume it shows is cool. That mom did a great job with it, and clearly put in some time and effort, so there's nothing for her kid to be embarrassed about. If Target wanted to invoke shame and peer-pressure to make parents feel self-conscious about their income or costume-making skills, they should have at least shown a costume that was actually bad.
You’re a 16-year-old boy with devilish good looks and a penchant for goofing off. Your YouTube handle is JSKCranks, and you like to film yourself making prank calls. In one call you’re a mean Russian messing with the pizza guy. ("Do you have my money for the marijuana and cocaine I sold you? Cause I’ll cut you, bitch!") Perhaps you get bored with prank calls. So you decide to take your antics on the road, maybe score some cash in the process. You go on the "adult services" section of Craigslist, as you’ll later tell the police, and connect with “Smotherboy.” He’s a 47-year-old ABC radio journalist who’s willing to pay you $60 to come over and smother him — an ambiguous sexual fetish that involves asphyxiation and ... and then what?
At the man’s Carroll Gardens apartment, you’ll later claim, he gives you beer and a white substance that looks like coke.
Then, while bound in duct tape, you later say, Smotherboy pulls a knife. You grab it away and stab him some 50 times. Afterward, you search for money in Smotherboy’s pants, rifle through his lunchbox collection, and then wash yourself in the tub before putting on Smotherboy’s clothes and leaving. You take the G train back to Queens. But the conductor stops the subway when he sees your finger bleeding badly. You go to the hospital, are later arrested, charged with murder in the second degree, and now face a maximum sentence of 25 years to life.
You didn’t know New York law permits 16-year-olds to be tried as adults. But you think your chances of getting off are decent. Given the choice between feeling outraged over a brutal killing or disgusted by deviance, jurors might see the case in your lawyer’s terms: a child conscripted by a sexual predator to carry out ungodly acts.
And then the prosecutor walks in.
You were expecting someone mean or severe-looking. But she seems pretty nice: tall, blonde, athletic and lithe in that Icelandic way. The brown eyes, you notice, are slightly misty, and the head is cocked a little to one side as if empathy is hardwired into her brain. In the prosecutor’s demeanor there is something eminently trustworthy. She’s seven months pregnant and just beginning to show.
You look at your own lawyer, dressed in a loud pinstripe suit. What’s he thinking? Probably that in 36 homicide trials, this particular blonde has never had an acquittal.
Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi is the prosecutor in the high-profile murder trial of John Katehis, charged with killing George Weber, a freelance journalist for ABC News Radio. The trial began last week, with pretrial hearings and jury selection; opening statements are today.
"Only three kinds of prosecutors have her record," says Ken Taub, who heads the homicide unit of the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office where Nicolazzi works as a homicide bureau chief. "People who exaggerate their records, people who pick and choose their cases, and people like Anna-Sigga, who prepare everything and anticipate everything. Her style is totally professional, no phony flash or showmanship."
In one respect, she’s the embodiment of an archetype used in crime dramas — the attractive trial lawyer who lives and breathes homicides. Her personal history includes an older cousin who was raped and murdered, though she says that didn’t influence her career choice.
"Anna-Sigga has no ego," says Charles J. Hynes, the Brooklyn district attorney who taught Nicolazzi at Brooklyn Law School. "She comes across as a person you can believe in. And of course her looks don’t hurt, either." Could she run for office? "Absolutely, as long as she doesn’t run against me. I don’t want to deal with her in a race."
I first encountered Nicolazzi’s name in 2006 when I was a litigation associate reading about the trial of Troy Hendrix and Kayson Pearson, the men convicted in the bafflingly horrific torture, murder, and posthumous rape of Romona Moore, a 21-year-old student at Hunter College. The case brought new meaning to courtroom theatrics when, on the first day of trial, Hendrix and Pearson pulled out improvised knives, stabbed one of their own lawyers in the face, and then tried to snatch a court officer’s gun before their uprising was put down. When the trial resumed, the Times reported that Nicolazzi, having declined the judge’s offer to replace her, "sat alone at the prosecution table taking notes with an exaggerated overhand grip."
"After that they called me ‘lobster-claw’ around the office," says Nicolazzi, 40, who grew up on Long Island and has lived in Brooklyn since law school. "That episode stuck with me," she continued. "Now I’m more concerned with where the court officers are and where the defendants are, especially certain defendants."
Katehis, now 18, reportedly had a MySpace page advertising his interests in anarchy, sadomasochism, drinking, roof-hopping, hanging off trains, and "extreme" violence. In a pretrial hearing, Nicolazzi requested that Katehis remove his sneakers because they had satanic images drawn on them.
In court last Wednesday, the defense suffered an early setback when a Brooklyn judge ruled that a post-arrest, videotaped statement by Katehis — in which he tells authorities about meeting Weber on Craigslist, drinking beer and snorting cocaine that Weber had given him, and then stabbing him — could be presented to the jury. And according to sources familiar with the case, at least two aspects of Katehis’s story — that Weber posted the Craigslist ad; and that Weber gave Katehis cocaine, which Katehis claims caused him to react so violently — will be disputed at trial.
So if Katehis, rather than Weber, posted the ad, then who lured whom?
It doesn’t matter, says Jeff Schwartz, Katehis’s lawyer. "You can’t say anything was consensual because John was underage. He can’t consent. If John had been a 16-year-old girl he probably would never have even been arrested." As for Katehis’s claim that Weber gave him beer and drugs, Schwartz says tests taken at the hospital showed alcohol present in Katehis’s blood but not cocaine.
If Katehis has anything on his side, it might be public opinion. Coincidentally, in September, Craigslist closed the "adult services" section of its site — worth a reported $45 million per year in revenue — when negative publicity reached critical mass. Some believe Craigslist must bear a degree of responsibility for criminality facilitated by its site.
For Nicolazzi it all comes down to presenting the facts as they are. "If you don’t try to sugarcoat what actually happened, then you can set the morals aside and focus on the crime," she says. "The encounter was consensual. John Katehis made a decision to kill George Weber, and it was incredibly vicious. You may think Weber’s behavior was reprehensible, but he did nothing criminal. No sexual activity occurred. He didn’t deserve to die."
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When the Bush administration referred to the future state of global financial affairs I suppose it was politically correct to dub(ya?) it "troubling economic times", but how can the average Joe afford to be politically correct these days when two-ply toilet paper's a luxury item? So let's not sugar coat a sour pickle and just name our current situation for what it is: Suck-town, population: you.
Well, not just you, but me, our neighbors, Joe Sixpack (forced from Heineken to Brava), Joe the Plumber (selling copper pipes from abandoned homes), Dora the Explorer (downgrading to coach), and Bob the Builder (laid off due to the housing bust). And true to its namesake job opportunities are slim to none for residents of Suck-town, so as a man who takes pride in himself as a bread-winner for his family you may wonder what more you can do to help bring home some extra dough.
Allow me a moment to assume you've already read the articles listing low-stress/high paying careers, invested the time to tweak your resume, rumored the pore-opening benefits of sweating through interviews, and adequately glowered over the photos of recent Powerball winners. Now, have you ever considered the sickening amount of fame, fortune, and glory reserved just for you on the Internet? Happiness and whiter teeth are simply a click away, so what are you waiting for?
Of course I'm being sarcastic and I hope your common sense is tingling like mad because there are many, many, many cons in cyberspace (place your "well, duh!" here). Though politicians tried regulating the boundaries of the web like barbed wire once defined the properties of cattle ranchers, the Internet is still very much the Wild West. Don't be discouraged, however, because there are legitimate opportunities for making money if you know where to look. If you'd like to try your hand at panning for cyber gold, don't let online lawlessness dry gulch you with a quick spam, scam, thank you ma'am by visiting my list of money-making links below.
I should note that the opportunities mentioned in the following list are like real-world jobs in that they require creativity, ingenuity, perseverance, and organization to turn a profit, and only a select few people will ever strike it rich on the Net. For simplicity's sake I've organized this list based on niches, though some links may apply to multiple subjects (eBay, Etsy, and Elance for example).
For brevity's sake I've stopped writing cowboy clichés.
Affiliation
Vista Print
This site allows partners the opportunity to sell various Vista Print products for a percentage of the profit.
YouTube
As a partner of this famous video website, a videographer earns a percentage of the income from advertisements shown every time his or her video is watched.
Artwork
Deviant Art
This site allows artists the opportunity to post images of their works to be viewed, critiqued, and to sell.
Zazzle
This site gives creative people the opportunity to upload artwork, photographs, poems, etc. to be printed on gift items. The originators receive a percentage of the profits when these items sell.
Elance
Freelance workers of various fields contend for job opportunities on this site.
Starving Artists Gallery
Another great site providing artists the opportunity to sell their work online.
Crafts
Silk Fair
An online marketplace where people can sell their homemade items.
Etsy
A competative market for other websites which allows people to sell crafts and other items online.
Craft Originals Galore
Entrepeneurs must pay a monthly fee to post the items they wish to sell, but the sellers keep 100% of their profits.
Miscellany
eBay
Sell your items for a nominal fee on this famous site.
Craigs List
A great site for people who wish sell their items to customers within their communities.
Up Fuse
A site allowing people the opportunity to sell their items without any selling fees.
Photos
Zenfolio
A great site for photographers to premier and sell their photos.
Smug Mug
This site offers a safe and secure location for photographers to sell protographs.
Express Digital
Offers software and services for photographers wishing to sell their work.
iStock Photos
Site grants a percentage of the profits to photographers each time the photographer's photos are purchased.
Fotolia
Contributors of this site earn a percentage of the profits made from the sales of photographs.
Shutterstock
Like similar sites, Shutterstock shares the profits from photograph sales with the respective photographers.
Writing
Associated Content
This site pays writers upon acceptance of written articles as well as per an article's proven popularity.
Story Mash
Advertisement revenue is shared with writers on this website as contributors work and post collaborative fiction stories.
eHow
Contributors of How-To articles are paid to write articles meant to inform and educate the public.
Helium
A website which purchases informative articles from writers.
Constant Content
A site which shares the profits made from sold articles written by contributors.
Triond
Writers earn profits from published works as well as from their works' popularity.
Writers Market
For a nominal fee, writers have the opportunity to peruse lists of publishers wishing to purchase written works.
The trick to making money online or offline is to never quit until you've exhausted all options. Like any good adventure, the hidden treasures are always revealed in the end. Good luck with all that you do and chin up! Better days are ahead.
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