For the past two weeks of the five part series about defining yourself as an expert with the Internet, we have looked at web sites and blogs. Both of these tools are great, and if a reader of these posts wants information from you and he or she is therefore more likely to be in a buying mood The goal of an email is a bit different because email is something that comes when you send it and the reader chooses when to read it not when to receive it.

I got to use an OLPC! OLPC or One Laptop Per-Child is a plan to put low cost, low energy using, highly durable laptops in the hands of children all over the world. The OLPC machines are made to be incredibly durable and can use a crank rather than outlet power to run.

The FCC ruling that Comcast was blocking Internet content to sites that were not favorable to Comcast is a big step forward to clear net neutrality legislation. Net neutrality is the concept that all data on the Internet should be allowed and should not be altered by Internet Service Providers. Comcast was acussed of limiting the connection speed to some sites that were not favorable to it. This is important because what is to stop Comcast from not letting me go to directtv.com to reseach their competitor or giving better access to people who use Comcast services.

One of the many things I have learned this week is about the challenges with shippable ecommerce. I live in Denver and if I sell something to someone else online in Denver they pay state, city, county, and RTD taxes. What happens when I sell something to someone in Aurora? This is when it get tricky. What is even trickery is when you have small amounts of cities in diffrent special tax zones like the RTD tax or that just touch the county from which you are selling. Just one more thing to think about when considering the challanges of our Internet world.