Ham Toss - most useless site. On second thought, maybe not!

I spend massive amount of time on the Internet, partly due to my job. In that time, I have come across a wide array of websites. I have seen a lot of useless sites, but thanks to a recent mass mail email mistake by the insoshi.com project my email became available to a lot of people, and some of them turned out to be spammer. What a surprise there, right? Anyway, one of those assholes sent out this sites - hamtoss.com. Now I know I have seen the most useless site.

You know what? Thinking about it as I write this, this site is not useless. At least not for its creator(s). Its purpose is to collect emails for that spammer. It shows you, the casual surfer, a silly animation. You like, you think it is funny, and you fall in their trap - “wanna know when we toss something new?”. You read this, seemingly harmless, words and you provide your email address. Damn that’s genius.

I think I will use one of my SPAM trap emails to see how this turns out.

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I very much dislike scrapers!

I just spend 15 minutes blocking splogs and scraper IPs for jutiagroup.com. It is a pain in the rear. I have to spend time sorting through comments, that are marked as SPAM, to make sure there aren’t any good ones. Almost always they are bad, and 99% of the time they are trackbacks from scraper sites, that steal content and place it on their ads bloated sites. Do they really believe that having a trackback link makes it OK to steal the content?

Ahh, it is so annoying!!! That is the problem when you have a real site that allows commenting. You have to deal with this kind of crap. This doesn’t happen as often on this site, though. But I had one last week on my post about Alerth Thingy, now that douche doesn’t have a Google Adsense account any more. I hate this loozers.

By the way, I ended up blocking freehostia all together from being able to read content on Jutia Group. There were a lot of trackabcks from blogs hosted by them this time around. So more no longer!

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FOX News, you over dramatizing, panic spreading liars.

FOX News really needs to get new writers, because like always FOX is full of it.!. FOX News announcement of the earthquake in Illinois was “A powerful 5.2 magnitude earthquake in central Illinois sends skyscrapers swaying in Chicago.”. WTF FOX? I live 5 minutes from downtown, pretty much everyone in Chicago did NOT know that there was an earthquake until it was announced on the news this morning.

This bloated company needs to higher local reporters and get their drama lies straight. Oh wait, they did, that’s why they reported unrealistic events in Chicago.

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FON’s personnel must be high!

This post was delayed for some time, but that’s because I forgot about it. So, it remained as a draft. But, here it is…

FON, once again you show how pathetic you are. Yes, some of the views and practices of the FON’s underlinks can be silly.

FON’s new site “twitxr”.com (no link for you) is pronounced “twitcher” according to their newsletter. I have nothing left but to wonder - “FON … HOW THE FUCK DID YOU GET “CHE” out of X, pronounced “EKS” or “KS”.”. Hens the true pronunciation of the word – twitksr or twitkser. Yet, looking at it again, you might by trying to combine “tx”, but then it only ends up sounding like “teks”, which reminds me of Kotex. I am positive that a ladies product is not exactly what you are trying to convey to potential users.

Way to go FON!!

Of course, I could be wrong. FON is an international organization, and an example of the letter x or combination of the letters tx pronounced as che in another language would be appreciated. BUT, this site does target an English speaking audience, which is probably why we had to be told how to pronounce this tong tying confusion.

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ColonelTribune

ColonelTribune (ColonelTribune) is now following your updates on Twitter.

Check out ColonelTribune’s profile here:

http://twitter.com/ColonelTribune

I wonder why is the Chicago Tribune linking to so many twitterers! Is the newspaper tracking down locals on Twitter trying to gain back some of its readers, because the newspaper industry is dying and more and more readers/subscribers are lost to the web and up to the minute news reports? Or is it trying to gain new readers by showing that it is a newspaper that is “cool” and runs with the web crowd.

With today’s integration of Twitter into all possible CMSs, someone is spending a lot of time finding Chicagoans, and I think the Chicago Tribune is trying out to save itself from drowning by trying various methods and options. But, just like many others in the next few years it will either go close to 100% digital or die. If and when it goes completely digital it will have some serious competition from already established news sources with a long following by the web crowd.

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