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On Sun, 16 Apr 1995, Andrew Ballard wrote:

> Hi Rex!

> I come across you in the online news list a bit and I'm curious about your
> surname. It is, as you'll notice, the same as mine!
Which means we ARE related (we actually may have to go all the way back 
to Jon Rexford Ballard (The KingMaker), but if your father went bald buy 
the time he was mid-30s it's the family curse.  My grandfather told me 
the ancients' stories.

> Are there many Ballards in your part (whichever that is) of the US and many
> in media?
There are actually many Ballards in the U.S.  We came over in 1812, 
smuggled to Ireland, then to the U.S.  We're supposedly all related.  
Cromwell had tried to exterminate the "KingMakers" to make sure that we 
didn't train another king of England.  We also have an assortment of 
alchoholics and Civil War Deserters as well. :-).

> My forebears came to Australia about the turn of the century from Kent,
> England. How about yours?  If you have time, I'd be interested to know,
> both a little about your family and yourself.
As for myself, I'm an internet "pioneer", and at the leading edge of 
electronic journalism.

> I noticed you signed yourself as an online distributor. I'm very interested
> in WWW publishing and am looking for some pointers on how I can make a
> living from it.
At the moment, I am working for standard and poor's, after leaving Dow 
Jones.  Stock brokers make a great deal of money by being the "first to 
Know anything".  For a feed which can give them infnnformation 
worth $3 million an hour, they don't seem to mind paying $300/month.  
Even a delayed feed (15 minutes) is worth $30/month)



> I've had 23 years' experience in newspaper journalism, much of it in the
> editing/pre-press areas. I have experience as a book editor and publishing
> services provider. I had a part-time DTP business for a few years and left
> my full-time job (as a newspaper's Macintosh publishing systems manager) a
> year ago to try my hand at my own DTP business full-time. I've been doing
> gloss color real estate brochures, some calendars, dairies and a bio on a
> Australian footballer, but have become much more interested in moving to
> on-line services.
You actually have the right idea.  You can set up a web server for your 
realtor friends and put their listings on the web, along with information 
from the Chamber of commerce, townships, and town boards.  By "Fluffing" 
your server with non-commercial information relevant to your primary 
product (Real Estate), you becom a "primary source.  You can invite other 
web servers to request links (for wich you receive a cut.
> Any advice on this, especially in the area of how to find clients who want
> Web publishing done for them? Business/marketing/sales are pretty low on my
> list of skills. Do you think there's any chance of being the Australian
> connection for any US Web publishers?
> 
> I'd be interested in any advice/help you may have ... as well as any
> details about your name/family!
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Andrew Ballard, Noosa Heads, Qld, Australia.
> apbaus@netspace.net.au
> 
> 
> 

From rballard@cnj.digex.net Tue Apr 18 17:32:13 1995
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