My service from Total Choice Hosting has been awful for the past month or two, ever since they announced a server “upgrade.” Pssh. Also, they’ve been slowly stripping away features I found useful. So, I guess I’ll switch to Dreamhost or somewhere like that. I’m mulling some sort of format change (not necessarily a new domain or site title, since I’ve been told that would be jarring for some people). Mostly, I want it to be more reader- and topic-focused since I’m a boring guy for the most part. Thoughts?
Also, I’d like to know generally what you’ve thought has been missing from community web sites (blogs with lively comments sections, message boards, portals, etc.) you’ve used during your time surfing the Internets. Asked another way, what would you like to be able to do on a community site that you’ve never been able to do before?
Quit saying you’re a boring guy. Change the format all you want, but you better keep the domain AND the archives. Or you’ll hear from me.
Well Rusty you can never go wrong with more porn.
Allow for user submitted articles, subject to your approval and constructive/functional editing/criticism. (i.e. don’t edit content but form and grammar.)
I like to fuck hot chicks via a web site, but that’s just a pipe dream. I’m also married. I would almost like to create a theater of the mind kind of thing. Organize and create “happenings” Andy Kaufman wrastlin’ style or Orson Welles “War of the Worlds” style. Use the Internet as a almost theatrical medium to entertain. No one would ever know what is real and what isn’t though, except those involved.
I just like blogs.
And porn.
I’m with you on porn, but I assure you that this is the only blog that I frequent. That’s just because it’s a friend.
I suppose that a blog is Joe Everyman’s outlet, but he doesn’t necessarily need or deserve one. Everyone wants to give their life, experiences, and opinions a little more importance I suppose. That’s the beauty and ugliness of the web in my opinion as well.
I just want to the web to aim a little higher. I want it to be a legitimate form of art. Sure one can post writings, but modern literature is simply garbage that has been eaten by a professional student and then regurgitated onto paper. In this case we could replace the paper with a screen.
I want something creative, interactive, and intelligent. It doesn’t matter if it’s something that has been done in another medium. It would be a lot harder to pull off here. There’s no inflection in the voice. There’s no grimace on the face. There’s no soft music in the background. There’s no slow truck or zoom-in on the actor. There’s just words and interaction with the audience.
The Gentleman Jack has taken hold. I actually took myself serious for a second. I apologize sincerely.
Oh (bad grammar aside) I dislike that tone of this post. It’s little corporate surveyish to me.
Ramble ramble ramble ramble. I like to type. I like to read things that I have typed. If you were here right now, I would be dominating the conversation allowing you little room to interject.
Now that I am sober, let’s go back to the porn. I actually don’t like much of the porn that is out there.
You see, I need to be able to use porn as a visual aid for my imagination. In other words, I need to be able to make myself the male in the equation. That way I am not staring at some guy’s dick, which would be gay, but staring at my own dick instead.
The problem comes, well most often when he cums. They often pull the ol’ tube steak out of whichever orifice is handy at the time and jack-off all over the face. Now the money-shot should be my climax as well in the fantasy, but a fourth wall is broken for me. You see now, instead of watching a girl pleasure a man that represents me, I am watching a guy jack-off. That’s not cool! I’m retro and hetero, and I don’t like watching guys jack-off!
Dude … I wrote a nice long comment about how the next big progression will be adding actual content and forward motion to massive community sites like myspace and facebook so that they’re not just stagnant social networks. When I clicked ’submit’ your server coughed and hosed the whole thing.
Is that ironic or just sucky? Or both?
I know I’ve bitched about powweb before, but I really only have a notable problem with them about once a year. And you can’t beat their price/performance.
Both, for certain. What is this “forward motion” you speak of?
Lush:
Certainly, there is a lot of bad porn out there. I’m with you 100% on that. One really has to wade through all the bullshit to get to the good stuff. Of course, I am supremely lazy, so I rarely take the time to do that, which means (I am embarrassed to admit) that I own absolutely no porn myself. This fact was exposed one night at trivia when my teammates Garrett and Josh were having some sort of discussion like, “What’s the craziest porn you’ve ever seen?” or something that sounded equally like the lead-in to a bad joke.
My contribution - and this wasn’t really “crazy” porn, just bad porn, and an example of how I have a hard time suspending my disbelief in general - was recounting a scene set in medieval times… this woman is in the stocks or whatever you call it, and this knight (or whatever he was) is all pacing around her, giving her the once-over, and then he pulls up her dress and you can imagine where it goes from there. The problem, though, was that she had this really nice, shiny, pristine ass, and all I could think was, “If it were really the middle ages, they would not be that clean!! Those people didn’t fucking bathe!!”
Oh, and postscript - looking at another guy’s dick doesn’t make you gay. Gah.
No, looking at another man’s dick doesn’t make you gay. Watching another man jack-off is something entirely different though.
Especially if you are on the other side of a peep hole at a rest stop.
Touché.
I am with Amber, you aren’t boring. And I am also with everyone else; porn=good, bad porn=ewwwww. I say don’t put the porn on the main page though, because I do like to read your stuff at work, and that would make it so I couldn’t. Other than that… someone wise once told me to do whatever i wanted with my blog, since it was my blog, not a democracy. Enjoy! (also, let me know about dreamhost… I have thought of moving myself…)
Both you guys remember, if you go with Dreamhost, put me down as your referral. We both get some kind of deal that way! (I don’t know if it’s a free month or what, but I know they offer something.)
Just finish Cows already, goddamnit.
I was just thinking about that the other day. I would like to learn some crude flash skills. Then we could have a web site where we only host animated trailers for really bad fake movies. “Cows” would be the first.
I noticed one–maybe two–brief outages today, too. Since nothing was changed post-downtime, I assumed Total Crap was behind it.