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RSS: An Introduction!
Source: www.cozyfrog.com
Blogs are nothing new. As you already know, a 'blog' is an online digital journal. The word 'blog' is a compound of the two words ‘web' and 'log'. Journals have been in existence since language has been in existence. What was once remembered, written and dated in long hand is now typed and saved and converted to web-ready format. Writers wrote before blogs. Writers write on blogs now. Who knows? In twenty years, writers might appear in holograms, projected from networked chips, implanted in our brains.
The point is, at this moment...blogs are hot. Everybody loves blogs. News reporters love blogs. Advertisers love blogs. Surfers love blogs. Search engines love blogs. Adult webmasters love blogs.
The concept of articles and stories, distributed to the masses is not unique. The concept of distributing articles and stories online is not unique. Promoting those articles and stories to the online audience has been done. What makes blog software so appealing is that it compiles all the pages and images, automatically updates, re- paginates, archives and links accordingly and then the software generates an XML document, suitable for pinging to RSS directories and aggregators. Blogs are hot because they're tiny network broadcast stations and because blog software is RSS friendly. Blogs are cool because blogs love RSS.
In this article I will try to give you an understanding of RSS and it's complimentary format, XML.
RSS is a format that works comparable to how browser software works - when it communicates simultaneously to web server and home PC in order to read an HTML page. RSS is kind of like HTTP protocol except RSS isn't a protocol. Whatever.
When you create a page and save it as .xml as opposed to .html, .asp or .php; RSS can scan that XML page for new content, collate and create a link for a headline and distribute that headline on an RSS feed/channel. RSS reads the pages in your web directory and finds the .xml documents. RSS can also take your XML pages and feed them into the reader software of a rapidly growing audience, cellphone users.
That's right. Surprised you, didn't I? Do you realize that at least a billion people will purchase a new cell phone this coming quarter? While cellphones may not replace personal computers completely, more and more users are opting to access the Internet via their wireless phones. Newer cell phones can check email, run IM messaging and even browse web pages. Today's cellphones can also do what they've been able to do for a while, read and display XML pages. Cellphones love RSS feeds.
RSS stands for a few things. RSS is an acronym for the standards: "Really Simple Syndication"; Rich Site Summary' and 'RDF Site Summary'. RSS comes from earlier technology, trained to cull metadata from websites. The language structure of an RSS/XML document resembles HTML only with alternate brackets and tags. If you are familiar with HTML, XML/RSS will not look like Greek.
As web browser software can download and display an HTML page, RSS reader software can download and display an XML page. Better yet, RSS users can download the 'headlines' off of as many individual RSS feeds as they subscribe to. With RSS site syndication, you have the ability to transmit your freshest news and updates, automatically, to potentially millions of people, for free. RSS is transmission and traffic generation beyond search engines and link sites.
How would An adult webmaster use RSS? The answer is limitless. You can use RSS to disburse news about your most recent paysite. You can use it to keep members up to date on popular content. You might dispense erotic stories. You could keep adult classified users in touch with RSS feeds. If you run an adult blog or message board you can notify fans of new entries, comments and posts. The potential is limitless because creative minds have but scratched the surface of RSS syndication.
And you thought porn conventions were bad
Source: www.eyeonadult.com
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Many people think that porn conventions are the craziest, sex-charged events on the planet. If you ever read my work here on EyeOnAdult.com, you'll know that's not really the case. In fact, sometimes they're downright boring and depressing.
I just came back from a convention called Frolicon. This was not a porn convention in the sense that most of us know porn conventions. However, I think it's safe to say that there was more kinky sex going on at this thing than any porn convention on the face of the planet. To make things sound even more bizarre, Frolicon is a science-fiction convention of sorts, at least on the surface.
Now, I know some of you are hip to the sci-fi, gaming, fantasy, convention scene, but I know most of you aren't. With this in mind, I'll explain the seedy underbelly of these things. I think you'll be surprised.
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Most people think of sci-fi conventions (known in the scene as cons) are exclusively attended by various types of nerds, geeks, and dorks that live in their parents' basements and have scarcely so much as gotten to second base, much less gotten laid. This is only half true. Most of these people are indeed some manner of social retard and are often times out of shape, unless that shape is round. However, these people do get laid… by each other.
Essentially, after the sun goes down and the alcohol begins to flow, these conventions turn into dens of nerd sex that can only be compared to the movie Caligula or something. Room parties have often become drunken orgies, some hotel rooms become makeshift dungeons full of skimpy leather outfits, bondage crosses, and bodies all writhing in rhythm to the cracking whip. Costumes are common as well. It's not and odd thing to see Chun-Li from Street Fighter getting porked by some guy dressed up like Darth freakin' Maul or some such shit.
Now imagine a con, as it were, where all of these same people had no Star Trek discussion forums, no funerals for Harry Potter characters, and no Dungeons and Dragons marathons and you have Frolicon in Atlanta, GA. Essentially, you get 3 days of sweat, spooge, cooze, and blood. When there aren't how-to classes on such subjects as needle play, puppy play, and pole dancing, the parties were raging until dawn, particularly on the 4th floor of the Atlanta Hilton Northeast. To top things off, there was also an open playroom where anything goes so long as a barrier such as a condom is used.
At any given moment, I could never quite determine if I was proud of these folks repulsed, or just not interested. On one hand, I used to actually be just like them. I went to cons with hopes of cheap sex and free booze. Granted, during the period of time I commonly went to cons, I was amazingly immature, insecure, and desperate. I was looking for some sort of validation that I couldn't get otherwise and I saw a lot of that this weekend. Frankly it's enough to make you puke. At the same time, I know that many of these people are reasonably successful, happy people who are just kinky and always looking for a safe, accepting environment to express themselves. In this sense, I just can't help but feel a little proud of them. After all, I don't have the guts to get out in front of everyone and show off my goods, even if I am phenomenally good looking and these folks can accept just about anything. But in the end, I just didn't see anything going on during the course of the entire weekend that really stirred much of anything in me at all. In fact, I tried to make my own fun by going down to the puppy play room in a bunny costume just to see if the little bastards would chase me down the hallway. Unfortunately, by the time I made it to their little kennel located in one of the conference rooms of the hotel had been vacated. I did have some fun by more or less satirizing the con by walking around in the 7 deadly sins parties in the same bunny suit. I guess the problem is that by satirizing it, I actually kind of got into the spirit of things and had a little more fun. Hell, I even saw some old friends and got hit on by a cute, kind of dykey looking broad.
I guess things like this, as sad as they might seem on the surface, can be a little bit of fun if you don't take them too seriously. In fact, I think that's where most people miss out. It seems like we all take ourselves too seriously these days, and that's kinda sad. Then again, there are probably better ways to get over yourself and have fun than to pile into a hotel bed with a bunch of con freaks.
Ya know, like playing Scategories or something.
Joe Francis Gets Arrested
Source: www.thesuperficial.com
Everybody's favorite douche bag, Girls Gone Wild creator Joe Francis, was arrested today at a Florida airport on a warrant for criminal comtempt of court. He was supposed to turn himself in after a judge ordered his arrest for changing the terms of a 2003 lawsuit settlement, but Francis missed the deadline and was picked up at the airport.
Nice mugshot, dude. This looks like it was taken on the set of Charles in Charge. If you zoomed out you'd see he was wearing a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles shirt and holding a My Little Pony lunch box.
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