Wednesday, February 12, 2003

Idea to pass along to the single women I know.  Who'd 've thunk... ================= Boyfriend Recommendation System. DOLLS! We all have charming male friends . . . smart, noble, successful, honest, good-looking guys who're between girlfriends . . . or who're just a tad shy . . . or who've had bad luck with women. Here's the open-hearted place where we women can write-up recommendations of these wonderful fellows, show their pictures and vouch for them. And here's the delicious part. If you want to FIND a great boyfriend, Darling, you have all these lovely men to choose from. [Smart Mobs] 6:52:39 PM     "Match" -- Wireless, Location-Based Dating Service. Match Mobile, a new service to be launched on Wednesday by Match.com and AT&T Wireless, provides dating and matching for AT&T Wireless customers via their mobile phones. "Wireless will be a hugely important technology for the future for our industry, which is to connect people for the purpose of dating," said Tim Sullivan, president of Match.com, a unit of USA Interactive and the biggest online dating site in the United States. Sullivan said one of the benefits of going mobile for Match is that the new service will have the ability to pair members based on location. Initially, matches will be made based on ZIP codes, but in coming months the service will be enhanced with technology so people can locate matches within an approximate geographical location by using their wireless phones. The search engine will never reveal actual physical locations, but simply allow customers to chat only with matches within a specified radius. [Smart Mobs] 6:40:54 PM     Both of these articles look interesting - take the time to look em up... Morning in America. How do they do it? The Morning News is the kind of web publication I've always wanted to produce. They publish new stories every day, their design is succinct and tasty, they drive it all with Movable Type, I don't see any typos, and I don't imagine anyone's getting paid. I could hate them but I don't. I love them. But I also forget to go there and read the newer stuff for long stretches at a time. I may be blinded by envy. Months ago I asked the founders if I could interview them about the probably-sort-of-boring details of how they use MT to produce their publication, but I keep forgetting or other stuff keeps getting pushed up higher on my to-do list. And it's not like email interviews are time-consuming or hard to do. I'll get around to it eventually. They deserve all the attention and respect they can get, even though I don't have that much to offer them myself, probably only a tiny blip in whatever their readership traffic is today. Today, I read Starfucker, by Sarah Hepola, an Austin writer. As usual, it's good. I'm noticing that a lot of their contributors are professional writers, but they get a chance to write outside of the constraints of the paying media. Hepola's article is indirectly about how magazines work, how celebrity works, how interviews are brokered, the currency of fame, the role of journalists as gatekeepers and brokers, the process of selling out, and wanting to be liked. I recommend it. [Radio Free Blogistan] 5:09:14 PM

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