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October 17th, 2008 — internets
I’ve tried to get into friendfeed over the past year and it doesn’t quite seem to work for me. Maybe because I don’t have 1000s of e-friends or because i’m addicted to twitter. Friendfeed has had too much noise to for me to deal with.
But now friendfeed added a live feed of the site.
Because of it I use the site a little more than I used. Only time will tell if I am a active participant.
Add me if you are so inclined.
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October 15th, 2008 — dating, internets, lulz, serious business
A few months ago, I joined OKcupid. For those who don’t know its a free dating site that uses tests to weed out most of the spammers, scammers and other undesirables that plauge dating sites. There is no bullshit like paying $30 a month to contact people or policies to keep out gay and transgendered people like one site allegedly does.
Even my cynical self managed to get at least two dates within a month’s span on that site. Of course nothing happened with anyone of them (aside from one shameful hookup), but I still think that getting a date is a success to me. I wasn’t expecting a HB10 model anyway. The way I things, as long as you get dating experience I consider it a success. Getting a date PERIOD is cause for celebration knowing my lack of experience.
However many men of all ages seem to get frustrated at this. Often they will get whine about at not getting any responses to their form letters or they will get upset after they send a girl pictures of their penis.
Right now I am sitting on the sidelines because I have better things to worry about. In the meantime I amuse and educate myself by looking at many profiles….of other guys. Now I’m not gay, but looking at another guy’s profile teaches what to do and what not to do on OKcupid.
Let me say this before I go any further: I AM NOT A DATING EXPERT. In fact I am the worst person when it comes to dating help. So take my advice with a large grain of salt.
Now let me rattle of a list of the wrong things I CONTINUE to see on profiles.
If you are potentially meeting a new dating partner you need to sell your self. Stating that you hate yourself, sleep with stuffed animals or the fact that you proudly man the grill at McDonalds is very bad. You need to make yourself look GOOD.
I do see some make an attempt to improve their profiles by getting their profiles reviewed by others on the okcupid forums. It is entertainment in itself because they will reject advice like “get a haircut” or “’stop putting your suicidal thoughts” on your profile and continue to whine about people not caring.
I also see guy bitch about not getting messages from girls. After a while guys have to realize that any marginally attractive woman on the internet WILL get bombarded with messages and or harassment from horny men daily. Men rarely get any attention on dating sites (unless they say they are a millionaire). It sucks, but that is how things are. Type a normal and sincere message instead of a boring form letter (like “hi, how r u”) and maybe you will get a message back.
Also stop being super specific. Don’t restrict yourself to liberal,white, atheist, non smokers. Just be open to as many girls as possible. You never know if you’ll find a conservative, Asian, taoist who smokes who might be compatible.
Of course your mileage may vary, so whatever I say may be different for you. I am NO dating expert.
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October 12th, 2008 — indie music, internets, personal BAWWWWW, serious business
Cnet’s webaware recently had a post speculating about 11 companies that may go tits up due to the current economy.
Among the 11, were myspace and Twitter.
Personally, I won’t shed a tear if myspace goes. It is a cancer of the Internet. Unfortunately FOX is making too much cash by exploiting their idiot masses.
Twitter, whether you love it or hate, is the darling of our internets. Once used by social media mavens with unwarranted self importance, it is now exploited by Jet Blue and CNN!
Could this happen to twitter??
I initially written off the site. I joined a year ago and tweeted this:
Just reserving my name here, this site is useless.
I pretty much dismissed the site and just registered it as placeholder. Then my brother continued to bug the hell out of me to use it and of course I’m really hooked. The site makes it easy to connect to friends and the API makes it adaptable for use on numerous platforms. In my case, I use twitteriffic on my Mac and iphone. With that ease of use I was able to connect to existing friends and made new ones.
The first thing many notice is that twitter does not have any ads running (except for the Japanese version) I often say to myself how can a company continue to run with out a visible business plan or any advertising. I think I may not be alone with these thoughts.
As the economy continues to worsen, venture capital funding is going to be difficult to acquire. The staff at twitter MUST find a way to monetize while keeping their user base happy. There should be subtle advertising before or after some tweets. Maybe they can sell ad space directly to twitterers wanted to promote blogs or their business. To satisfy the twitter addicts maybe there should be a Twitter “Pro” option with guaranteed uptime and special features.
The company should not wait for a sugar daddy in the valley to buy them out. They should focus on making money NOW before its too late.
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October 11th, 2008 — FRIST POST, internets, personal BAWWWWW, serious business
Rest in peace.
Some have asked me why did I change my name? Well I felt it was more natural that people call me Justin and not Leon (even though its my middle name). After diving deep into reading the blogosphere, I noticed a lot of people don’t use fake internet screen names. They either use their real name or an alias that sounds real.
Leon Westbrook sounded to me more like a “porn name” more than anything. I don’t think people can take a person who used a combo of his middle name and the name of a deceased pet. Another reason why I decided to leave this moniker behind is because its strong association with You Tube, a site I wish not to be a part of anymore.
Because of that the site’s name is now JustinLeon.com. At the same time I’m going to straighten this’s blog’s focus. I want to live up to my tag line “Because web 2.0 is a crock” (Yeah I know it sucks). Aside from some personal stuff every now and then. I want to become the Keith Olberman/Bill O of the internets.
Everyone (including myself) have what we call unwarranted self importance. Some have small and realistic amounts of it. Others have amounts that lead to delusion. A new goal of this blog is put those with large egos back down to earth…one good argument at a time.
So welcome everyone. You can just call me Justin.
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