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2007-10-24, 6:26 PM #1
Can anyone recommend me some good internet blog/journal? I do have a myspace, but I don't like the blog functions they have. Xanga got pretty boring for me too. I was going to sign up for Livejournal but after I saw options with "Free or PREMIUM" that repelled me from the site.

Something simple with picture upload capabilities.

Haha, apparently the presidential candidates are starting to use blogs. Obama made an account at [url]www.asianave.com[/url]
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2007-10-24, 6:29 PM #2
Blogs are for square's. :tfti:
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2007-10-24, 6:30 PM #3
Blogs are for hipsters.
Seriously no-one wants to read what you want to say.
Get a journal.
2007-10-24, 6:34 PM #4
And I would have gotten away with it, too! If it wasn't for those meddling kids!
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2007-10-24, 6:37 PM #5
Originally posted by Tiberium_Empire:
Seriously no-one wants to read what you want to say.

This is why no one likes you and why everyone wants you to stop posting.
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2007-10-24, 7:03 PM #6
Originally posted by Tiberium_Empire:
Seriously no-one wants to read what you want to say.

IRONY.
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2007-10-24, 7:09 PM #7
I have a wordpress account for my flash projects. I doubt many people read it, but it's useful for me.
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2007-10-24, 7:13 PM #8
sir,

who would want to read your blog?
2007-10-24, 7:31 PM #9
blogger
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2007-10-24, 8:40 PM #10
I second Blogger. It has some really nice features. You can publish remotely via FTP, so what I do is use the blogger website, post, and it posts it to http://www.zaccohn.com, my website.

They also don't look godawful. Check out mine, link is in the signature.
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2007-10-24, 8:41 PM #11
Originally posted by Emon:
This is why no one likes you and why everyone wants you to stop posting.


I make comments like that all the time, but I could post altleast 6 or 7 pms that are only inches away from performing fellatio. :(
2007-10-24, 8:43 PM #12
Windows Live Spaces is also decent. I use it for my technical blog because it's so closely related to the content (mostly .NET related). I haven't used anything else, though.
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2007-10-24, 8:46 PM #13
Originally posted by phoenix_9286:
IRONY.


... hate to be a grammar nazi, considering the fact that I can't spell.
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2007-10-24, 8:50 PM #14
wordpress or blogger
2007-10-24, 8:50 PM #15
Originally posted by mb:
I have a wordpress account for my flash projects. I doubt many people read it, but it's useful for me.


Yeah, this is cool. Blogger is cool too.

And yeah this blog will mainly be for me and to have the ability to see what I wrote at different locations with internet access instead of carrying a journal around everywhere.
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2007-10-24, 9:03 PM #16
Meh, I just have a LiveJournal. It serves its purpose. Granted it gets very little love nowadays. XD
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2007-10-24, 9:14 PM #17
Originally posted by JediKirby:
... hate to be a grammar nazi, considering the fact that I can't spell.


It's ironic in a way that the first person who states "no-one wants to read what you want to say" is the same person who seriously doesn't understand that no one cares about what he posts.
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2007-10-24, 9:18 PM #18
Yeah, not irony.
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2007-10-24, 9:20 PM #19
It's irony if you are expecting someone else to state that which is easily possible in Massassi's often cynical context.
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2007-10-24, 9:26 PM #20
What? It's irony in the sense that TE is trying to post something of use when really he isn't. Irony just basically means failure to do something and in fact accomplishing the exact opposite of your intentions. Irony is actually pretty boring, and isn't the "haha, ironic" term that everyone thinks it is. In fact, people using irony when things are actually coincidences and hypocrisies is ironic in itself, which all together makes for a hilarious coincidence (often incorrectly considered double irony, which in itself is a coincidence) that they're enacting a situation of irony by claiming they know what irony is.
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2007-10-24, 9:27 PM #21
The only way anyone wants to read your journal is if they find it on your dead body under mysterious circumstances and you actually did interesting things and had an interesting life philosophy.
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2007-10-24, 9:28 PM #22
It's not irony at all because the response TE got is EXACTLY WHAT EVERY MASSASSIAN HAS COME TO EXPECT.
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2007-10-24, 9:31 PM #23
Or you're one of the 100s of people who are syndicated and read by millions of people on the planet, or you're a celebrity, or you're making a movie, or you're famous on youtube, or you're an attractive person who posts pictures often, or if you're friends with anyone who has too much time on the internet, or if you have a large family that cares about what you're doing.

And if you don't happen to be one of the above, you could just have a blog because you want to be able to force yourself to keep writing, and provide your own self with a log.

And last but not least, your one "rule" doesn't make much logical sense in this case since no one can know if they fit your rule until after they've died, at which point there's no way to write a journal.
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2007-10-24, 9:32 PM #24
Originally posted by JediKirby:
It's irony in the sense that TE is trying to post something of use when really he isn't.


No. It has nothing to do with him posting something useful.

Quote:
Irony just basically means failure to do something and in fact accomplishing the exact opposite of your intentions.


What?

Quote:
Irony is actually pretty boring, and isn't the "haha, ironic" term that everyone thinks it is. In fact, people using irony when things are actually coincidences and hypocrisies is ironic in itself, which all together makes for a hilarious coincidence (often incorrectly considered double irony, which in itself is a coincidence) that they're enacting a situation of irony by claiming they know what irony is.


Actually, after reading this paragraph trying explain what falls under being ironic, I find this statement a better depiction of irony:

Quote:
Irony just basically means failure to do something and in fact accomplishing the exact opposite of your intentions.
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2007-10-25, 7:55 AM #25
I am greatly confused by all the flying irony in here. I opt to back out, peacefully. Granted this is all entertaining.
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2007-10-25, 10:33 AM #26
Er... one of the many definitions of irony:

"Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs". You see a post that says "No one cares what you have to say." You might expect that creator of said post was Rob. You don't expect that to come from a person who is almost proverbial in not understanding the meaning of that sentence.

Other examples of irony:
-language that says one thing and means another. Sarcasm is a subset of this.
-situations in theater/film where the audience knows something that a character does not, changing the meaning of the scene. Eg. the song "I'll Make a Man Out of You" (or whatever) from Mulan, or pretty much all of Oedipus Rex

Irony is a broad concept.
2007-10-25, 12:49 PM #27
I like livejournal. It's simple, and I can upload pictures from time to time since it works together with photobucket.
2007-10-25, 1:50 PM #28
YOU'RE ALL WRONG!

What pheonix meant was TE's comment was Iron-like.
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2007-10-25, 1:52 PM #29
Originally posted by Baconfish:
YOU'RE ALL WRONG!

What pheonix meant was TE's comment was Iron-like.


Or did he mean it was full of iron? I guess that would make it iron-like though.
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2007-10-25, 1:54 PM #30
Well we've all definately had our Iron for the day.
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2007-10-25, 1:57 PM #31
I would probably make a blog, as I love to write down my life and keep a history of it, but I just don´t know where to start, who would read it, if its worth it? I know that on the other hand there is a lot of psychological benefits for writing down your life and relieving the stress and all, but I would only do this if I know I would get positive and serious feed back. Suggestions?
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2007-10-25, 2:00 PM #32
Whether it's public or not there are benefits. A year or so after writing an entry you'll read it and see yourself from an outsider's perspective because you'll have moved on from the frame-of-mind you had when you wrote it. It's a truly bizarre feeling and probably quite an important one.
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2007-10-25, 3:35 PM #33
if a person who commits gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then god is an iron.
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