Good Thursday Morning!

[Greenguy]

Morning!

Woke up at 4:30 wide awake & ready to go!!

I just hope it lasts

No outside of the house plans for today, so assuming I'm able to stay awake for the majority of the day, I'll be here

[Cleo]

Didn't go to sleep until the AM so I have no idea why I'm awake so early other than two spoiled cats and very loud storms.

Going to do some work and then possibly go for a bike ride if the weather clears up before doing more work.

[Useless]

I was cupping my testes this morning and they felt much smaller than usual. I hope it's the result of the cool morning, and that no one is slipping estrogen in my coffee.

Have a splendid day.

[Cleo]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

I was cupping my testes this morning and they felt much smaller than usual. I hope it's the result of the cool morning, and that no one is slipping estrogen in my coffee.

Quick... stuff a tampon in your mouse.

[JustRobert]

Good Morning
Same old work all day stuff happening here though the movie RUSH should arrive today so I may take a break and watch that today instead of tomorrow night.

Wife just agreed to a 3 week extension out of state and so our trip to the northeast has been canceled/postponed

[HowlingWulf]

Trying to increase my web 2.0 presence... but who the hell wants to see my stupid flickr photos? Weird.

[Simon]

Wow...an actual morning thread!

Up early as usual here. Only one spoiled cat here, but that's all it really takes to wake a human.

Watching most of the storms that Cleo mentioned go everywhere around us without getting any rain on us here.

Update: Forgot to post the above before deciding to go put some gas in my '86 Jeep. Usually that be a 15 minute errand if that's all I was doing. And it was supposed to be. But that was a few hours ago, and I just got back.

My local station was out of regular and mid-grade fuel, so I had to run down to one of the nearby islands to get it. There are other stations nearby, but it's near the end of the month when the gas points I get from food shopping expire, and only certain stations accept that program.

On the way there things were fine, but on the way back I couldn't get it to drop down into normal idle speed when I got to our one traffic light. Usually if an idle set screw on a old Jeep gets loose the opposite would happen, but when I got home I opened the hood and started to see if that was the problem.

Nope, it was the hooked end of one of the external springs that had just snapped off due to age. There was plenty of spring still there to heat and make a new hook if I was out in the woods and had to do it to get home, but since I was home I just set the idle low and drove over to Napa to get a new spring.

Napa...where they laugh when you ask for an exterior spring for a carburetor. Sure, they can order a kit that contains several springs, or order another part of the carb which comes with a spring "that might be the spring you need, but there's no picture."

Finally I got them to cross-reference and search other vehicles from around that year that used the same Carter carburetor and soon was on my way home with a couple of new springs of the correct length and strength.

I still need to fine-tune the idle speed later, but it's hot out there and the garage isn't air-conditioned, so that's a small project for later.

Time to make more coffee and restart the day.




P.S. When I tried to post this message the board said my token had expired and I should go back and reload the page. When I went back the message field was empty. Good thing I've learned to always copy before posting. Would have been a real shame if you hadn't gotten to read all this. 'Cause I sure as fuck wasn't going to type it twice.

Good day so far.

[Greenguy]

Originally Posted by JustRobert

Wife just agreed to a 3 week extension out of state and so our trip to the northeast has been canceled/postponed

And THIS is how I find out?!

Originally Posted by Simon

Wow...an actual morning thread!
<snip>
...the board said my token had expired and I should go back and reload the page. When I went back the message field was empty...

1 - Bite Me!
B - That's the board's script telling you that your story is boring

[Fonz]

Good evening,

Since it's a holiday over here (and probably at lots of other places in the world) there was no offline work today. So yesterday evening the gf and I went to a Spa/Sauna and after that she gave a little party for her Birthday at the bar one of our friends owns. I got way too drunk. So today was a quiet day

Simon. That had to be the longest story about a spring I ever read

Have a good one all!

[Simon]

Originally Posted by Simon

Wow...an actual morning thread!
<snip>
...the board said my token had expired and I should go back and reload the page. When I went back the message field was empty...

Originally Posted by Greenguy

1 - Bite Me!
B - That's the board's script telling you that your story is boring

Oh yeah, well in answer to your B here's an
A). Now you know why I always copy first. *
and for your B, here's a number
2]. That's the board's member telling you that we need a fucking morning thread. |overturnedcouch|

* Must remember not to be boring. Must write more about strange growths, wounds, trips to the doctors, inability to fall the fuck asleep, forgetting how to fucking breath, coming up with words for taking a day the fuck off, and more stuff like that if I want to enfuckingrapture the readers. Yeah, that's the ticket!


I'll never get out of here his way!

[Useless]

Originally Posted by Simon

* Must remember not to be boring. Must write more about strange growths, wounds, trips to the doctors, inability to fall the fuck asleep, forgetting how to fucking breath, coming up with words for taking a day the fuck off, and more stuff like that if I want to enfuckingrapture the readers. Yeah, that's the ticket!

Don't forget the testes!

[JustRobert]

Originally Posted by Greenguy

And THIS is how I find out?!

Well I have mentioned the possibility in other threads but, ya, bad on me

* Must remember not to be boring. Must write more about strange growths, wounds, trips to the doctors, inability to fall the fuck asleep, forgetting how to fucking breath, coming up with words for taking a day the fuck off, and more stuff like that if I want to enfuckingrapture the readers. Yeah, that's the ticket!

[Simon]

Originally Posted by Fonz

Simon. That had to be the longest story about a spring I ever read

Yeah, I felt exactly that way trying to buy that little fucker.

[ecchi]

Originally Posted by HowlingWulf

Trying to increase my web 2.0 presence....

Sorry to be ignorant, but what the fuck is Web 2.0?

[Simon]

@ecchi - think of MySpace and other mostly static websites, which may have had framesets and blink / marquee tags plus lots of animated gifs. That was the start of Web 1.0 which had what you could think of as many, many version updates (guestbooks, mailto forms, etc) that were mostly still static pages. They were also mostly created by the individual webmaster or site owner.

Today's various social networks are good(?) examples of what Web 2.0 means. Most pages are not static, but instead database-driven. And most of the content is not created by the site owners, but instead is driven by the users' contributions. Blogs with open comments, and lots of readers commenting also fit, along with video sharing sites like YouTube (and some of the adult versions). The loyalty component is important here, with visitors returning to see new comments and content added by others, plus seeing how their own comments, posts, videos, etc. were received by the interactive/collaborative audience of these sites.

--Bonus content below for those who don't bore easily--

Unfortunately for most affiliates who market other people's sites or programs and who don't have suitable products of their own, the advancements of Web 2.0+(Web 3.0) will mean that almost everything now seen on computer screens will come to the television screen. There will still be some small market slivers that savvy IMs will be able to profit from, but a lot of the online revenues will be flowing directly from customer to seller.

The adoption of tablets and smartphones require websites and email campaigns to be redesigned in order to best profit from that market segment, but most affiliate marketers don't bother doing that. Instead sending that valuable traffic away via mobile redirect scripts that mostly lead to different domains (btw, the Big G doesn't like that).

The same thing is about to happen as more and more of the audience with the most disposable income moves to Internet television. How many affiliates will have sites ready to be viewed on large flat screen televisions? I don't mean just able to be opened like plugging your computer's video out port into a television. I mean a site which is designed to look great on a television-based browser in full screen mode on a 60 inch display. And ready to be navigated using gestures or voice control.

The point is, once consumers get used to being able to talk to and gesture at their big screen TVs to read their emails, get text messages, have video conversations, and enjoy their favorite cat videos on YouTube while checking their friends' Facebook status and ordering from Amazon, it's going to be a whole new world for the traditional middlemen who used to depend on surfers visiting their online sites first in order to be credited for sales, signups, etc.

Adult affiliates who think it's bad now, with so much of the traffic going directly to the big tube sites, are going to be absolutely devastated if they don't adapt to the coming convergence of media delivery methods.

Here's something fun to do. Try asking "how do you set a cookie on a television" and see how many internet marketers know what you're talking about. Then see how many good answers you get.

:-|

[ecchi]

Thanks for the explanation.

As to your "Bonus content for those who don't bore easily": I am still digesting and thinking about this, but I am guessing that the problem is the age old problem: The Internet is like the Borg "always changing always adapting", whereas webmasters are mostly like rocks "never changing, always the same". (A colon within a colon, is that grammatically acceptable?) Most webmasters still believe that "what worked in the 1990's will still work today", where in truth, what worked just yesterday does not still work today.

In the case of the affiliates you mention, let me give you my experience of talking to adult webmasters: On most of my adult websites you will find five types of adverts.

1) Those for adult websites/AEBN type movie sellers/cam sites/chat rooms, etc.... (I.E. the traditional stuff).
2) Adverts for spell books.
3) Adverts for my sci-fi detective book.
4) Adverts for other non-adult stuff.
5) Adverts for my porn eBooks.

Now because most of my sites have been around for years and hark back to the days when I only had the first type of ad, and have added the others when I have the time, over 50% of the adverts on my site are for adult membership sites. However this is the smallest revenue generator on my adult sites. On a porn site, well over half the profits come from spell books. The next best is my sci-fi detective book. After that comes the "other non-adult" stuff. My porn eBooks come next, making up almost a big a profit as the "other non-adult" stuff. And "adult websites/AEBN type movie sellers/cam sites/chat rooms, etc" bring up the rear, making less than 10% of my profits.

I used to mention this constantly on web boards and in conversations with other webmasters. I have even paid for adverts stating this (I run affiliate programs for the spell books, sci-fi detective book, porn eBooks, and some of the other non adult stuff I sell). But the answer I constantly get is "No thanks, only porn sells on porn sites."

The adult eBooks aff prog is managed by A1 adult eBooks and a few years ago Stuart was going to end this side of his business. He decided not to, largely because I was about to do a big push for the affiliate program. At that point I had only just started the spell book business, so it was not very big, and my ads were mostly my porn eBooks and adult sites, with the sales percentages roughly 75% eBooks, 20% adult sites, 5% non adult.

I advertised heavily across the adult webmaster business, spent a lot of money on this and honestly stated my sales percentages. Stuart later told me that he got practically no sign ups from that push and regretted not ending the affiliate side when he had intended to do so. In other words, nearly everyone who looked at my adverts thought "Oooh look I can make almost four times as much from those eBooks as I am currently making from selling websites, and if I added those to my sites I would be making almost five times as much money as I am now. But, fuck it, that would mean change, and change is scary, so I'll just remain poor, and eventually give up this webmaster lark to work for Starbucks or McDonalds at minimum wage."

However, I am not upset at this. I am currently reorganising and expanding my spell books, other non-adult eBooks, and adult eBooks programmes. It should be ready to launch in a new form next fall (northern hemisphere fall). Since not a lot of other non-adult companies allow advertising on adult sites then the majority of the "sensible" webmasters will sign up. Sadly this means that very few webmasters will sign up. No problem, I am also an adult webmaster, and I'll happily make all the money they don't make through my sites, and I'll just as happily take over their surfers when they leave webmastering to take up that career in the fast food business. Either way I genuinely intend to move into movie production in 2015 or 2016, if I am still alive, and that is how I intend to finance my productions. So (assuming I'm not dead) I'll be happy. Sorry for those who refused to listen to me over the years, but thanks for all the customers you left for me!

/rant

[javbucks]

Just got back from las vegas

[ecchi]

Originally Posted by javbucks

Just got back from las vegas

Got any money left?