User:Htbwmedia



HTBWMedia was unofficially founded in 1997 as a tag, of sorts, for various blog posts in a Search Engine optimization experimentation project. The tongue in cheek meaning for HTBW is "Heinz The Blog Whore" an inside joke on how founder, Heinz Kreutz, felt about the current online Media environment and how the media seemed to pander to society's twisted need to almost revel in the pain and suffering of others, in particular, famous people. Playing around in that arena, Heinz felt like abit of a "Whore" to the twisted whims of the public.

After a year or so of "whoring" around the net, a disgruntled view of the seemingly twisted desires of some of the internet searching public, Heinz decided HTBW was due for a change to the better. It was this revelation, of sorts, which started HTBW on its transition away from news and current events to more information based blogs and websites. Wine making, Home Automation, Home improvement, business and other in need topics were created under the now re-labled HTBWMedia banner.

HTBWMedia then started to expand its reach into the Social networking arena by developing several niche online communities catering to the more underrepresented communities which needed a voice. This spawned the addition of Baron von Internet, to the HTBWMedia group of entities. While under the same management, Baron von Internet (BVI) focussed more on the altuistic communities as opposed to the information based properties under the HTBWMedia label.

After a MVA in October 2009, HTBWMedia / Baron von Internet was forced to take somewhat of a break from serious development activities as the physical pain resulting from the MVA and how it slowed down the primary business activities of the founder, in particular, a Vancouver based Security Alarm & Home Automation installation and service company. Domain names were still purchased, however, the development of these online properties slowed to a snails pace as Heinz worked on maintaining his primary business and supporting his clients.