Posted on | August 27, 2008 | 3 Comments
It is not often that I get to read something that makes me stop. Seriously the last time I did this was about 6 - 8 months ago when I was forced to write one of my most read blogs at the time. I am not going to write a blog here because I have no words.
Sheena said it all.
Six years down the line she’s outside the local shebeen leaning up against the tree pressing out her hips with her legs slightly parted showing off as much skin as possible. Her breasts haven’t come into full blossom yet, but she knows it’s the way to most African men’s heart. For R5 she will allow the drunk patrons to do what that other man did to her all those years ago, except now she’s older it isn’t very painful anymore. She is only 11 years old but no one cares that what she is doing is wrong, its the norm.
Ouch!!
Posted on | August 27, 2008 | 1 Comment
The key to a long life could be as simple as getting a second wife.
Research suggests that men from polygamist cultures live 12 per cent longer than those who limit their affections to one woman at a time.
It is thought men benefit from having a fuss made over them by a gaggle of women.
They may also better care of themselves into old age when they have a large family to feed, this week’s New Scientist reports.
DailyMail UK
Its pretty damned obvious that this research was done by single men hoping for threesomes and such.
Posted on | August 27, 2008 | No Comments
Do you really need one? The thing is I would suggest many companies waste money on their websites. Most waste money having email because they don’t see these tools as communication tools. Email is for writing letters and the website is an advert.
Email as a communication tool.
Life without a website is possible, I grant you, [
read the full article]
Posted on | August 27, 2008 | No Comments
Mandy DeWaal rated Bolton as a person with more influence than many real South African Bloggers. I think Mandy has a skewed perception of influence. Just because someone appears in the news often does not make them influential, It purely means they are oft written about.
Mugabe is influential in Zimbabwe but oft written about because he is a mad man. Mandela was influential and was written about often. He is now retired and suffers a sever lack of influence.
I think Mandy needs to first define influence or is she talking about popularity?
Here is my take. How big is the pond you wish to define influence for? What are you defining as influence?
In my own way I am influential in my Pond. I pretty much stay in my pond so my influence is limited to my pond. I don’t attend all the meetings in Cape Town, Johannesburg and such like, not being much of a socialite so thus do not get into the news much.
According to her ratings I don’t mean much, but to my clients that are getting the results I am a huge influence even if I don’t get talked about in the media much.
Bolton DeVenter was a much maligned invention of an anonymous blogger, He was written about often. In fact Bolton was a satirical spoof based on me the way I understood it. So Boltons press coverage was high but what actual influence did Bolton bring. What changes were made to the Web because of Boltons influence? Did Bolton make anyone famous?
The Clique that continuously mutually masturbate one anothers egos has not change one jot or one tittle. The fact is that the clique give each other the means to say, Look how influential I am? They preen, They make a little money but do they actually change anything.
Just look at Rafiqs fiasco just recently. Is that influence or just written about?
Posted on | August 27, 2008 | 2 Comments
I’ve kept his secret too long. I’ve known this from almost day one.
Sorry for not busting him sooner.
People are still being duped by McLaren, so it’s time to out him.
He was also the Shirtless Blogger. And a couple of other identities who never became famous.
McLaren is an Internet chameleon, prepared to do anything for a bit of fame.
It’s quite sad really. Poor little guy.
If I told you the lengths he is prepared to go to for fame, you probably would not believe me.
Cape Town News
Sadly I am not Bolton Deventer, or the shirtless blogger. That takes imagination which sadly I never had enough of for that type of prank. I was Lance Rumgee but never actually found the time to put that character in play.
But watch this space I may have a surprise drama for you sooner rather than later. Don’t say you were not warned.
Posted on | August 27, 2008 | No Comments
Yahoo Buzz comments from
ReadWriteWeb
- Yahoo! Buzz is not a social experience. The process of being featured on Yahoo! Buzz is socially driven (based on votes, shares, and search patterns), but if you consider the site's place in the overall structure of Yahoo's strategy, the experience isn't social. Yahoo! Buzz is the picking ground for the content that ultimately gets featured on the Yahoo! main page, which means it is social in the exact same way Slashdot Firehose is social. Your votes may get a story to the main page of Yahoo! Buzz but after that it's up to an editor's judgment whether a story gets featured on the Yahoo! main page or not. So the final result, or the process of getting featured on Yahoo's main page is not entirely social. Furthermore, there Yahoo! has turned off the comments so there are no conversations, and because there is no networking aspect to the site, there are also no relationships.
- Your votes don't mean much. Number of votes is one of the metrics used to determine content popularity. Even then, I've learned that the impact of votes is arbitrary. I know people whose content was featured on the Yahoo! main page with 0 votes, and people whose content didn't even get to the Yahoo! Buzz main page after 75 votes. The other metrics are the number of times content is shared via email and on other social sites, as well as search volume.
- Exposure is very limited, inequitably distributed. The Yahoo! Buzz main page presently is less significant than even the upcoming/most page on Digg. Although being on the page may increase your odds of catching an editor's eye, you don't get any exposure unless you are featured on the Yahoo! main page. Furthermore, such an insignificant number of stories cross from Yahoo! Buzz to the Yahoo! main page that for the average person, participation in the quest for exposure is an act in futility.
To summarize, Yahoo! Buzz is social insofar as a community of users gets to submit content, and vote/share it. Anything more than that, Yahoo! Buzz doesn't do.
That said, the site also doesn't pretend to be anything more than what it is. It doesn't consider itself to be a competitor to other social news and networking sites, in fact it allows you to and even recommends you to share Buzzed stories on other social sites and then counts 'shares' as another metric to measure content popularity. As the popularity of Yahoo! Buzz grows and more people start frequenting the Yahoo! Buzz main page to read and at some future point discuss stories, that will all change. Until then, that page is just a stepping stone to the Yahoo! main page, which is the end goal.
Posted on | August 27, 2008 | No Comments
I may visit your website and if I find it interesting enough I will get your feed and add it to my watch list. If you publish good stuff I may paraphrase and quote here with links back, clean links.
If you comment here you will be graded. If I like you and you become a regular contributor I will give you followed links to your comments.
Posted on | August 26, 2008 | No Comments
Jeremy Nell said this and some more on that excuse for a cartoon blog site of his. OK Ditwits rules but the biggish five is a little dissapointing. I think Jeremey needs to bring back trash. Laaitie was far more entertaining than ellie.
Recently, across various mediums, I’ve noticed a lot of talk surrounding the idea of free speech and what it really means to be uncensored. According to Wikipedia, “[f]reedom of speech is being able to speak freely without censorship”.
No exceptions. No additions. Period.
I have been told on many occasions that hate speech is not free speech. Now I tend to side with jeremy on this. My only concern is when people disagree with me, because I am right dammit.
Lets get realistic, I don’t want to hear about baby Jesus and the holy spook. I don’t want to hear about Allahs maginficence or Buddhas wisdom but I will never deny you the right to make your point, except that I will be yawning and telling you about how Jesus lied to you.
You see If you can tell me about your fairytales, surely my fairytale also deserves some airtime. I know that the Faeries that watch over my Wiccan friends are no less real than the angels that watch over baby Jesus’ flock.
But heres the thing if you want a website to tell people about your fairytales I will build them and not make fun of your beliefs even if I strongly disagree.
Check out Marius at Koevoet 4 Christ or how about Oom Andries at Grand Finale if you don’t believe me.
Posted on | August 26, 2008 | No Comments
Seeing as I made the other site about business stuff I need a personal space and yertiz. I don’t want whining and bitching because I say Fuck and shit and other stuff. I won’t say Cunt because Melanie doesn’t like it.
This is myspace, It for me to rant, bitch and moan. It is for me to share my occassional bit of wisdom. It is for me to test shit and discover stuff. I will place the pics here that I can’t place on the sites that I advertise for business.
If you found this because you were looking for me for business reasons just follow one of the links to my business sites and don’t hold this site against me for professionalism and stuff. Because this is my space to let off steam, talk kak and get wasted.
I guess I better talk about that six pack before you accuse me of false advertising. I will even find the picture again. I have a six pack, Its just hidden under layers of fat. It is may aim to find it again.
Oh I might even draw a few more cartoons. and add them to the site. The dark ages will be an irregular cartoon that I will draw when I am in the mood. If someone wants to pay me to be in the mood more often, feel free to contact me.
Posted on | August 26, 2008 | No Comments
I am going to transfer all my stuff from guymclaren.co.za here and redirect that here as well. The aim is to consolidate my stuff to a degree. I am going to have only 5 site networks, photography, web design, web traffic, personal and my marketing sites.
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