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I think it is time to go in a completely different direction with this blog. Starting now, I am not going to talk about ANY of the topics previously covered.

This blog is henceforth going to focus on the ridicule of the fashion choices of random people that I find on the internet. Come back daily. You may see some familiar faces. This guy gets off easy because he is first. I don’t think his scarf goes well with the rest of his outfit.

I doubt that there is
anyone reading this
who has not
witnessed long term
relationships that
were begun and/or
ended as the result
of social activities on
the Internet.

Early adopters of
social media are
not representative
of the general population, but there have been many waves of adopters recently. I think it is time for someone to start a serious study to determine whether social media and online dating have been beneficial or detrimental overall.

My wife and I were aghast when we found out that a certain blogger had left his wife for another blogger after a few months of mostly online flirtation. Wait, we were not aghast at that point. It was more mild disappointment and guilty bemusement. The man had left his wife and driven 11 hours or something to be with his new lady who had just recently left her spouse. The two started playing house in a new place. It was blogged about. The ‘aghast’ part came when he returned to his wife after only a few weeks. Oh, and he stopped blogging (yeah, right.)

Successful online matchups are not as apparent. I know of at least one personally. I just heard about a self help book for single women that deals extensively with online dating.

Edit:

I removed this post because I wasn’t happy with my first attempt at creating a screen cast.

In it’s place, I am going to have a reminder.

Archive.org is very useful for reviewing the content that was on a website in the recent, or less recent past. Being banned from accessing the URL of the current website does not impact your ability to look at content that has been archived by third parties, including Google.

I was just checking out one of many online businesses that claim to operate on Christian principles. I am skeptical but respectful of this practice. Basically, I consider it a branding decision and the degree to which it is ethical is entirely dependent on how well they follow through with that promise. Actual churches don’t always measure up, so it is highly probable that many ‘Christian’ businesses register fairly high on the hypocrisy meter.

This particular Christian business seemed okay and what caught my eye was that they felt it was necessary to have a front page disclaimer related to advertising. The most prominent advertising was coming from Google.

Many webmasters and bloggers put contextual ads on their sites and take a buyer beware approach. These ads are so ubiquitous that we tend to feel zero responsibility for their content. Maybe we are wrong.

Actually, I don’t have one for this blog. I just noticed that the site is down because of an electrical fire where its server are housed.

Yesterday, I was helping to hook the printer up to my son’s PC because he had a big project to print off. I had just started the BBQ 10 minutes before that and my son chose the exact right moment to say that he smelled something burning.

I get a trickle of traffic coming to this blog based on searches for lingerie. I have done a handful of reviews on online stores that sell the stuff. I do not pretend to be an expert on lingerie and I may have even misspelled it at some point, which accounts for the search engine traffic that I get from people who are looking for pictures of lingeri.

Observant readers of my blog probably noticed that I was riding the PayPerPost bubble for the last year. It seems that the gravy boat has sailed as far as paid reviews go. I am still checking out the marketplace and on rare occasions making posts for truly compelling websites, but not nearly as often.

Today I am biting the hand that feeds me a little bit by panning a weight loss procedure that an advertiser is promoting on SocialSpark.

My gut reaction to online sales of Lipotropic Injections was very negative. When I went to check it out on Google, I saw that the Internet is littered with people selling this stuff. That is why the advertiser is looking for outside the box SEO strategies, he wants to be on top of the heap.

I had to dig pretty deep to find any non-shilling info. All that needs to be said is that there is no conclusive data suggesting that these injections are effective and that self injection without prior in person instruction from a healthcare professional is a very BAD idea.

I should mention that, as of now, no bloggers who are part of SocialSpark have written a paid review for the Lipotropic Injections selling site.

Seth Godin has at least one book that is basically a hardcover printed copy of dozens of blog posts. I may or may not have one of these. You see, I thought it would be a great idea to have it with me while I was in a long lineup at the bank. I accidentally left it there. While the information in the book was just like a blog, the hardcopy medium enabled me to leave it somewhere. Two things happened, this information is no longer accessible to me AND the information is sitting in the bank being readily accessible to its employees and customers. This is not how blogs work.

I occasionally see text on websites that is so badly written that I want to reach out to those responsible. I have decided to start quoting the offending text and getting on with my life instead of pondering the best correction and considering a correspondence with the webmaster. If any of my readers want to correct this passage in my comments section, feel free. If you wish to correct my less than perfect spelling and grammar at any time, please be my guest. Without further ado, here is today’s example:

Broken Chair is a group of film makers based in Michigan whom love making, watching and staring in films of there own. It was these people who formed Broken Chair Productions.

I gave a brief review of the new blog ranking system from IZEARanks.com back when it was brand spanking new. Now that it is becoming widely used I am going to expend some more of my invaluable intellect on the subject. IZEA is the umbrella… ella… ella under which PAYPERPOST lounges with it’s spawn, such as the Blogger’s Choice Awards. The ranking system is being marketed beyond the tens of thousands of bloggers who use PAYPERPOST as a source of paid blogging opportunities in much the same way as the awards. Big names like Rosie O’Donnell took notice when they began receiving votes on that site. Will Wheaton was a bit perturbed and negative about his nomination.

IZEA Rank is a consensual opt in. If you don’t add a snippet of code to your template, you don’t get ranked. Will Wheaton doesn’t have any rank. He is not in the running for the $1,000 that IZEA is giving out every week this month to the top ranking blog. I have a remote chance of getting that money. Today there are only about 400 blogs standing between me and that money. Oh, I almost forgot, you have to be a US resident to be eligible for the prize. I have gotten used to that kind of thing.

Anyway, ohgizmo.com has been ranking at number one fairly consistently. I don’t think that blog is part of the PAYPERPOST community. I have read ohgizmo.com several times after noticing it at the top of this new ranking system. I had heard of the blog before and probably visited it on one or two occasions before IZEARank existed. My regular review of IZEA Rank has lead me on outgoing link journeys to a handful of interesting blogs that I had never read before.

I absolutely love the graphic design of IZEA. The colors make me happy.