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On the African Plain there is a Meta Predator and her nameis Leo. Panthera leo to be exact.The internet is the greatest collection of wealth or fodder,depending upon your info-perspective the world has everseen. With such a cacophony of directories filled withvideo, text, imagery, sound, fury, Hot Flash and ColdFusion, what's an information cheetah to do in order to makesense of it all and take it to another level of the Game?Simple. Use the expertise of your fellow experts to reachescape velocity. Take yourself to the Meta level withsomething that is free, easy to use and will make yoursearch for mission critical information a cruise.Deja News: (http://deja.com/usenet). The archive of Usenet.A Meta Expert takes advantage of other experts in the waythat a meta search engine takes advantage of smaller searchengines, the way that a lion takes advantage of smallerpredators such as the Cheetah. No, I don't work for Deja, or have any affiliation with themwhatsoever. I'm simply the writer, athlete, producer,graphic designer, videographer Company Computer Guy,Marketer, PR man, CEO, CIO, CTO, chief dog walker and allaround Mass Media Information SuperStar at large ofdogtv.com networks (The SuperDog Station) http://dogtv.comI'm a corporation of one and I know I'm not alone out there.I became an expert on dogs via my own inherent brilliance,passion and background in writing and biology, with a bighelping hand from Usenet (newsgroups). By reading postsfrom experts across the country, I quickly discerned theexistence of, and in fact coined the phrases to describethree major camps in the Dog Game: A. Koehler Nazis (a choke chain is their best friend)B. Control Freaks (a cage is their best friend)C. Psychologists (Prozac is their only friend)and I came out swinging with my own site, media, personalityand "DOG GAME" philosophy which treats dog training as agame, the way dogs treat it and which views (correctly) dogsas the athletes and hunters that they are, and not"problems" to be fixed or solved with punishment, cages orexpensive drugs. As a usenet pro, I quickly learned to spot experts in othergroups, including Digital Video, Computer Hardware,Software, Web Developing, and everything else I needed tolearn YESTERDAY in order to create my own televisionpresence on almost no budget.Newsgroups are communities anyone can join, where experts intheir fields, everything from motherboards for AthlonProcessors, Danish Gardening, Bicycle Mechanics andquestionable sexual habits get together to fight, laugh,educate, commiserate and battle for the soul of the digitaldemographic and deja.com is the Grand Central Station ofinformation.A newbie who needs info will go to a search engine. I evencut my teeth working at a very successful search enginesite, 4anything.com (http://4anything.com). These sightsare great, especially for newbies. But what about experts?An expert who needs critical info (Which anti virus programwon't take over my computer and be worse than an actualinfection? Will this video card be compatible with mymotherboard? Linux or Windows 2000 Professional, pleasehelp?) might do is to bypass the hit and mostly miss searchengines and go directly to the newsgroups, and ask theirquestion and hold their breath waiting for an answer (whichmight take minutes or days, depending on whether the busyexperts feel like answering it). But here's what a "Meta" Expert would do. He/She would goto deja.com, click on the usenet link and type their query,such as the name of their video card and the name of theirmotherboard, and chances are (very good, actually) that someother desperate soul--who has suffered a thousand crashesand cursed a thousand Gates--has already asked the samequestion, and several "experts" have already come to theiraid with relevant answers. All you have to do is find athread which looks good, click on the "view thread" link andbingo, you've struck an information mother lode where youcan peruse a whole thread (crosslinked history of adiscussion), filled with tips from stone cold experts inthat particular field. People who LIVE for motherboards. Believe me, they're out there. You're at the top of the Food Chain now, Baby!Two years ago, I was afraid to open up my computer andinstall an internal Zip Drive. Now, I'm a bios flashing,hard drive partitioning, motherboard overclocking hoodlumwith three entirely home built, networked systems, strappedwith 200 gigabytes of storage space, processing and pumpingout dogumentary dogudrama video for the masses. Broadcast.com, eat my shorts. I take that back, maybe wecan be partners some day? C'mon, gimmie a break here, I'mjust trying to sell an article? Go Mavs! Now I even have Hollywood sites like LOADTV(http://loadtv.com) contacting me, thinking I'm a bigcompany, asking me to provide content for them. I couldn't have become such an info SuperStar alone. Sure,being talented and born for it helps, but I still could nothave done it without the help of experts around the world,at my beck and call, free for the consulting, 24 hrs. a day,on Deja News. Instead of sifting through the infoglut, riseabove it and study the people at the precipice of theedifice, yes those who have already been there, done that,and distilled it for you. The Experts. 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