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October 2nd, 2006:

i’ve been looking so long at these pictures of you…

Oct 2nd, 2006
by Jim Reverend.
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So I’ve got a “new mobile phone”:http://revjim.net/2006/09/26/in-record-time/ and it does this really cool thing where it includes a picture of you every time you call, send me an text message, a picture message, or an email. Unfortunately, the only person I have a picture of in my phone, is Jess.

Sooo… *send me a picture of you*!! It can be plain, crazy, silly, dirty, or anything in between. It doesn’t even have to be of you, though I’d prefer it was. Anything, really, that I can see on my phone and say, “hey… that’s so and so”, or even better, “daaaaaaaaaaaamn, look at so and so”.

If you have a phone that can send a picture message and you have my mobile phone number, you can just send it straight to my phone. If you don’t have my mobile phone number, email me (jim AT revjim DOT net) or IM me and ask for it. If you don’t have a phone than can send pictures, then you can email the picture to my phone at (phone AT revjim DOT net).

If you’d like a picture of me in return, let me know and I’ll send one back.

Myschievia Tickets: hurry!

Oct 2nd, 2006
by Jim Reverend.
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Do you have your “Myschievia”:http://ntxb.org/ tickets yet? If not, you missed the $35 early admission price. But, lucky you, there are $45 tickets left. But not for long, there are *less than 37 hours left* to get your hands on these! Ticket sales end Midnight on Tuesday the 3rd. *What are you waiting for?!*

As if camping for 4 days in mid-80s weather in the East Texas Piney Woods wasn’t fun enough already, you’ll be doing so with me, a handful of other friends, and a whole group of new friends waiting to be made. On top of that, you’ll be participating in a temporary community, a gift economy, and enjoying a whole host of “Art and Theme camps”:http://ntxb.org/index.php?div_page=2006_art.camps (pay special attention to the 8th item in the Theme Camp list).

So go “get your tickets”:http://ntxb.org/index.php?div_page=tickets. Once you’ve done that, take a look at the groups you can “volunteer”:http://ntxb.org/index.php?div_page=participate to work with and if you see something you like join in. Or you can volunteer to help me as a fluffer, assistant, or personal slave at the “Myschievia Portrait Studio”:http://revjim.net/2006/09/15/myschievia-portrait-studio/.

Hurry!

LiveJournal: Sponsored Communities

Oct 2nd, 2006
by Jim Reverend.
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LiveJournal has added “Sponsored Communities”:http://community.livejournal.com/lj_biz/237534.html, and “some people aren’t happy about it”:http://insomnia.livejournal.com/706986.html. So let’s get this straight…

*Some* communities, created by advertisers in the first place, will now be *Sponsored*. By being Sponsored, the usericon for the community will be something different making it easy to detect, there will be advertisements on the page for the community, and some special features, funded by the sponsors, might be added to LiveJournal for their use. Additionally, some of these communities will be featured on the LiveJournal front page. Without Sponsored Communities, these advertisers could still create communities and customize them to their hearts content with ads and product propaganda. However, Sponsored Communities will make it easier to do so and offer special features to make it and even better advertising tool in exchange for cash in LiveJournal’s pocket, something most of its users are not willing to offer.

So, in other words, there may be lots of new communities created and, outside of those communities, nothing is changing except the LiveJournal front page, which I, personally, never see anyway. And, in exchange for this LiveJournal gets money from these sponsors which the majority of its users are unwilling to give them anyway. And this is bad, how?

Of course these is one more change. LiveJournal will be getting MORE features that its users want. And those pages with those features will indicate that the feature was sponsored and will indicate which company sponsored it with a link. Of course, if you’re adverse to the advertising then just don’t use the feature.

Some people say this will make LiveJournal more like MySpace. *GOOD*!! I, for one, think MySpace is a good *idea* that has been very very very very very very poorly implemented. I’d love to see more competent developers (like those that originally wrote LiveJournal) tackle the same set of issues and features making a more usable, featureful product that doesn’t leave me with a headache and a sick stomach every time I visit.

Am I missing something here?