When the Bark of a Big Boy Bites A Ball and Jacks Up Far Too Many Keyword Pyramids In Too Short A Time

I actually am one of those individuals ancient enough to remember not always the happiest of days playing jacks by myself on the cement part of the playground by my home…but that was primarily due to my inability to even come close to mastering the game.  It was typically a cool game to play with others and despite an elongated losing streak (I never did keep close count of that stuff…I just cared about the opportunity to hang out and do something other than watch television or read a book!).

The whole point of the game was to challenge the players to display more and more precise combinations of hand-eye coordinated actions, with speed and timing being the key that could lead to victory…or in my case, defeat.   For what its worth, it turns out that such practicing actually was valuable to me in the setting of a tennis match, particularly the process of serving.

Whereas with jacks, you toss a rubber ball into the air and then try to scrape up a set number of metal objects while planning on catching the ball before it is allowed to bounce a second time, the process of tossing a tennis ball in front of myself was a similar timing situation in which I not only controlled the release of the ball, I got first smack at it as well.  And just as with the game of jacks, I was able to take my biology only a certain distance before it spoke up, sat me down and siad simply, “Bite me.  You ain’t gettin’ no better no matter how are you try and a lot of that has to do with previous injuries being aggravated far too often.  Perhaps there is another path to travel?  Hey!  How ’bout becoming a receptionist?”

So with more and more banks falling down and out while having other institutions waiting to scrape up the remnants, many patched together with bailout bucks and other promissory notations, the rise and fall of the keyword market still continues to operate far too soundly and also virtually soundlessly to anyone to believe any one person or one group of people could possibility be super-sculpting million and billion page burps in the search engines…and yet even on New Year’s Eve this year, Google’s search engine was burping, sneezing and coughing up multi-million page keyword count results since mathematics itself cannot take a holiday or vacation…unless its programmed into the mathematical progression, I guess.  I leave that one to the mathematicians.

But even the slurping up of the Anheuser-Busch/Budweiser keyword pyramids by InBev without real question or challenge to the issue of the timing of the $400,000 worth of computer equipment making it off the property in St. Louis and into the E-Bay marketplace by a externally provided contract consultant remains but one of many marketplace signals beeping and blipping with greater waves of  individualized implications such as the rise and fall of fraudulent bank sites designed to siphon search engine traffic into a scenario that eventually leads to the fractioning of someone’s identity and how those can be lifted in the high-value keyword realms with a couple of automated blasts into the right combination of sites…

I have often wondered if these companies, especially the CEO’s and other top dogs have contemplated the value of their keyword count at the time of potential sale and/or merger.  Google a while back put up a snapshot of their 2001 index and Budweiser as a keyword had a count of approximately 163,000 entries as of January 2001.  By October of 2008, that count was close to 7.5 million entries.  This is but one of many of the 1+1=2 and 2+2=4 effects of registering the use of a keyword by clicking some sort of “publish to Internet” let alone the breakaways from such a formula when faced with viral opportunities such as with social networking sites, blog carnivals and the availability of products such as “Project Black Mask” and “Google Assassin” let alone the implications involved with stock market fraud schemes still running far below the SEC’s radar, let alone the “In Your Face” slaps to the digital record-keeping systems through the distribution of penny-stock emails as but one of many options in the toolbox of those who play this way.

So as of today, September 13, 2009, the keyword Budweiser in one of the Top 3 Search Engines seems to be relatively settled into a count of almost half of what was listed last year, which would be in line with previous predictions and subsequent complaints of artificially inflated propaganda distribution during this demand upon our Department of Justice to get out of the way to allow a group of people who came together in 2004 to create the paper pyramid layer to be known as “InBev” and the subsequent owner of a quite impressive roster of spirits and hops to wipe out the entire Anheuser-Busch board and start anew.

Now I didn’t know anyone on the board personally, but that still seems just a little too wacky of a business call, especially given the sense of urgency that was being generated by those individuals behind the InBev efforts demanding immediate attention to their assertion their rights to our nation’s alcohol marketplace was somehow being grossly violated.   It still leaves me to wonder what the A-B board could have possibly done to deserve victory being delivered to the InBev distribution network out of Belgium, but one thing is for sure.  Yet another American icon falling victim to loss of final jurisdictional ownership being outside of the pen-drawn boundaries establishing the United States of America, thereby adding yet another layer of multi-jurisdictional complications should any of the A-B’ers step out of line at any level in the organization.

Basically, it almost feels like a group of guys barked some orders at the DOJ and due to undisclosed knowledge to any of us, they quickly agreed to toss them a special rubber ball complete with an influential roster of branding efforts born and bred on American soil…perhaps for safe keeping…?…versus how much of a bounce the theft of some of their computers contributed to the illusion that the entire board deserved to be wiped out with a claim that it is due to their failures to successfully implement some sort of Blue Ocean Business Strategy…or something like that.

Doubt if you must, but after a certain point, the people attached to the data they have and/or are generating no longer matters.  Sure the word copyright looks real pretty, but those who seek to harmfully clog the networks care none about such a claim and will use such data for whatever menu selection they choose to make.   The takeover of the responsibility to continue crafting the Anheuser-Busch legacy is but one of many examples of the legal surgery continuously being performed on a multitude of databases by individuals who can walk away with large quantities of intellectual capital without having to steal $400,000 worth of computer equipment and then offer it up on an auction site simply because their job title comes with an acronym such as CEO, CIO, CFO, VP, EVP, EIO, etc. etc.  and they end up simply memorizing a lot of the data since its their job to manage over the data and make decisions accordingly.

So with more and more corporate take-overs causing more and more merging of legacies on top of legacies until it reminds me of the bass fish in Lake Mead fighting for a few pieces of popcorn so fiercely, the group from below actually forces those towards the top to actually be frequently lifted out of the water entirely.  Keyword burps and pops aside, the pay-per-click schematics that continue to contribute so significantly to the hyper-commercialization of the various elements available via the Internet betrays the idea that even Chicago Crain’s Business had to shut its doors for a 3-week period when this is their time to shine a light on some of the roots of these outgrowths and ingrowths to our economy because “advertisers” are not trusting paper copies to deliver their message to…enough people?  Enough purchasers?

I still believe the Internet and print media not only can and should co-exist, the continued roll towards the side of the charts that promise the potential for almost total and complete removal of paper versions of locally witnessed events available for public and private use is definitely disturbing.  Crain’s Business closed for three weeks a little while ago???

Wow!

The Internet must be already providing such an overwhelming abundance of news stories relating to issues  surrounding the 2005 release of a report by Illinois Auditor General William Holland and the subsequent dismissal of threads such as contracts with Accenture LLP, Bearingpoint Inc., Mesirow Stein Real Estate (a division of Mesirow Financial Inc.), Team Services, LLC, and even the Electronic Knowledge Interchange juxtiposed with the dire 2009 financial circumstances the State is currently facing with not only its budget deficit, but these threats of even greater political scheming being revealed through a variety of existing media outlets is small since somehow Crain’s was led to believe their services would not be needed during that time period and that a break would do them good somehow.

Again.  Wow.  Now that would be an interesting chart and/or graph…putting those companies together…keyword to keyword…

So with people claiming to want to produce for “official record-keeping purposes” (myself included), lest it never be forgotten that Madoff made off with a major chunk of faith in a system reliant on facts and faith constantly intermingling and intermixing with one anotheras a whole as well as the other names continuing to be churned forward through the various news cycles about how many banks continue to collapse.

There are at least a few more like him out there running similar kinds of ballsy schemes that sure…on the surface certainly seem sophisticated in nature, but ultimately it comes down to how someone uses the common knowledge set we call “mathematics” and everything that science comes with it.

Part of why high-ranking employees tend to be given large compensation packages is simply due to the idea that it represents an insurance policy basically, which pretty much amounts to graymail.  “Should you ever leave this organization, you have received ample compensation for your efforts and will be subsequently expected to not just flip everything over to a competing organization the next week” is the spirit of the severance package and sometimes a leader can truly be worthy of earn largess after all other reasonable accountabilities are answered for.  Congrats!  Way to go!  Good luck on your next venture…? You just started a new business using your old Rolodex?  That’s how you found me?  How interesting…

Playing jacks for me took a conscious effort to try to hide my need to go really slow with my math and yet I’m told that music is all mathematics.  Go figure!

I even watched and learned some of the mathematics of my tennis playing through measurements and statistics such as the speed and consistency rate of my serve, let alone my reputation for having a stronger backhand than forehand.  I was constantly being told this was an advantage simply because it was not a common trait, but knowing the math and putting it into action are two entirely different issues and I just couldn’t convert entirely to a tennis mind-set.

But I do know that “business deals” happen not only on golf courses…they happen on tennis courts as well.

I also know that simple conversations between two friends also tend to transpire in such settings.  A laugh because a lob went over the fence and the momentary growl because the ball rolled underneath a hole in the fencing…ahhh…the memories of not having to try to constantly bite off far more than what I knew I could ever hope to handle when it came to the the sport of tennis…

Ping-pong anyone?