Do you want to be come an online entrepreneur, a small independent and sustainable publisher on the topic(s) that reflect your true interests and passions?

Flemming Funch's Escape Velocity is a new blog out there that has just started laying out the right questions, the possible routes and shortcomings that the road to true intellectual and physical independence may bear.

I have been a fan and supporter of Flemming noble free spirit and an affectionate reader of his other projects and initiatives. Flemming is a declared supporter of freedom of ideas, and of the necessity to let information flow freely on the net. On his flagship newslog he has long adhered to Andrius Kulikauskas' "Primarily Public Domain" initiative.

When I first started my blog I looked up at him as one of those people I wanted to use as a model/reference of what I wanted to become by using the net. He was among the first few to show up on my Sharewood Tidings blogroll and to this day he holds a comfortable slot in it with the following description popping-up when on my home page you hover your mouse on his name:

"The reality director. 360° vision. Radical. Futurist. Interconnected. Involved in designing a better world. Great writer. Great name too."

But today our positions have reversed. Flemming has had a tough and challenging trail to follow in the last year and a half, has relocated half-way across from where he used to live, and has stretched his flexibility and dignity to bring peace of mind to himself and his family by investing his energies in a job that, like most of those out there in the marketplace, enriches someone else while making your creative talent a indistinguishable wheel within a monolithic money making factory.

Nonetheless the above, Flemming has not stopped writing or sharing his thoughts. His Ming.tv newslog has kept running great essays and stories, which range from insightful political commentary to the perception and creation of "realities" around us.

And so, it was with major surprise when this morning, as I went through the seventeen articles appearing on his new blog Escape Velocity (without knowing who was the author) I recognized the ideal, perfected model of someone who I would have really wanted to help. As I was reading, it just didn't seem to be true. There I was reading about someone (again I didn't yet the name of the writer as I read those articles), who had much of my same ideals and goals. The author appeared to had finally decided to leverage the Internet not to just fire-off his views and personal ideas, but to actually build a sustainable personal publishing business with the goal of bringing financial independence to himself while fully sharing the lessons learned along this journey with all of his readers.

I recognized myself in him and felt at once a compelling desire to reach out and say: "Hey, I have done a great deal of the research and experimentation you are embarking on and you need not make the same errors and spend the same amount of time to get where I am now.

I am willing to share, synergize, reveal and partner. Your growth is mine and your independence is my reward.

Can I help you?"

And so, as I reached the last of his articles, the first one he had posted not more than two weeks ago in this new blog, I posted a comment to him (and to all of you who are in one way or another like Flemming) offering my sincere help in getting him to become a truly financially independent online publisher.

I don't know how Flemming will react and what will come out of this, but fact is that I am indeed here with the openly declared goal of transforming (supporting and helping) those who want bring about change and personal independence to their lives because they either have:

a) something important to say,

b) a desire to influence and change what they see around them,

by actually showing them the way and the means of doing it.

(Thank you Bala for this inspiration)

Escape Velocity is therefore a positive sign of the times as it represents even more than my own effort, a focused desire to become independent and sustainable online writer by researching and sharing everything that is learned along the way.

This by itself is a major emerging trait of the new content economics taking force on the Internet. It is a force countering, with increasingly tangible results, the apparently untouchable staples of old traditional media interests and business philosophy now camouflaged under new media technologies-enhanced paid content publishing ventures.

I bow to Flemming new blog and if you are on a road paralleling mine, I invite you to follow it close, much closer than the (nonetheless great) Paidcontent.orgs of this world. Escape Velocity may not have the disgrace of being cluttered by an orgy of apparently high-paid ad banners and sponsors but it surely does not track or serve the interest of the big media content companies.

Because it is there again that the transparent, invisible, all-permeating veil of getting people to work for a salary while serving goals and deadlines that have no meaning to those who realize them (outside of getting another big fat check) gets to be perpetrated.

We want new media, but we want to be authors of the new content in it.

Not paid content designed to serve, promote and distribute vested interests agendas and money-making-only agendas. We want Real content. We really want to know what is going on.

And by that we mean content that helps us understand better what is happening in this world, that allows us to become more critical and wise in the choices we make, and that facilitates us to become independent, respected and listened-to voices in the society we are all changing, one post at a time.