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WebPageAdvisor.com is a venture of JBS Partners founder Jim Spencer. Jim built his career in web design and Internet consulting. You can find Jim on twitter most hours of the day dispensing sage advice and pithy insight on social media.

I have worked with Jim in many capacities, both as an advisor and advised. What really rocked me was our conversation this week on Word press and plug ins. Jim helped me crystallize a salient Internet solution to a problem that has been nagging at me for months now.

After modifying a script and noodling with the plug-in for a couple of hours I hit the jackpot. I am not talking about saving hours of work here. We are looking at weeks and weeks of work boiled down to a few hours. The espresso of page building. Tight, compact, elegant and a totally migration ready solution.

So it is with this post that I laud Jim and heap as much good karma towards him as possible. As I mentioned you can find him on twitter @fairminder and his site WebPageAdvisor.com is worthwhile checking out as is Jims advice. Jim has always understood the old axiom that we rise or fall together and has made teamwork with others job number one.

I could continue on with more glowing accounts of Jim Spencer, but will instead simply say that I really do think the world of him and respect him greatly.

Every Google executive is a PR person, still trying to get us all to believe that their search results are pure and sacred. It has been proven that their Algo’s favor websites that run Adsense Ads. The Church sued Google on sites against the church and Google removed the offending sites. I am not suggesting the Kosher industry sue Google over running pork ads on clearly Jewish keywords. The Internet is a wild place, you roll the dice when you click that mouse and that’s the price you pay for having a nearly infinite supply of information.

Why you would want to run an ad on bacon with kosher as a trigger is beyond me but hey….this is what is circled in red

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THE BACON TREE

Back in the cowboy days, a westbound wagon train was lost and low on food. No other people had been seen for days. Unexpectedly, they saw an old Jewish man sitting beneath a tree. The leader rushed up to him and said, “We’re lost. Is there someplace ahead where we can get food?”

“Vell,” the old Jewish man said, “I vould definitely NOT go up dat hill und down other side. Somevun told me you’ll run into a big bacon tree.”

“A bacon tree?” asked the wagon train leader.

“Yah, yah, ah bacon tree. Trust me. For nutting vud I lie.”

The leader goes back and tells his people that, if nothing else, they might be able to find food on the other side of the next ridge. “So why did he say not to go there?” some pioneers asked. “Oh, you know the Jewish folks - they don’t eat bacon.”

So the wagon train goes up the hill and down the other side. Suddenly Indians attack and massacre every one except the leader. He manages to escape back to where the old Jewish man is sitting and enjoying his drink. The near-dead man starts shouting, “You fool! You sent us to our deaths! We followed your instructions, but there was no bacon tree. Just hundreds of Indians. They killed everyone but me.”

The Jewish man holds up his hand and says, “Oy, vait a minute, vait a minute.” He gets out an English-Yiddish dictionary and begins thumbing through it. “Gevalt, I made myself ah big mistake. It vuz not a bacon tree. It vuz a ham bush!”

In an effort to get more media integrated into some sites I am developing for a company I decided to go with video and enlisted the help of a great artist Andy Crosby in MA.

Andy has a lot of experience in customer service and making sure the job gets done correctly. He has done plenty of freelance video work and editing, and is proficient in Final Cut Studio. He’s currently learning Avid and Smoke and soaking in all kinds of techniques from the experienced editors he works with.

Hi goals are to be able to switch between Final Cut Pro, Avid and Smoke easily and become a proficient editor for any kind of job. Compositing is quickly becoming a favorite aspect of the job. Want to reach Andy to help you with your projects. ping him Crosby.Andy[at]Gmail[dot]com. Glad I did!!