After months of Neglect – Finally a new Post!

Ben — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:59:17 +0000

Well after months and months of no activity here on Tenacious Creations I thought I should write a post of what has been happening. As well as maybe a glimpse into the future of Tenacious Creations. First off I want to thank all of you who keep coming back to this site even though there has been no new updates. Surprisingly my traffic has not dropped off as much as I thought it would.

Secondly I want to apologize to all those whose blogs I used to regularly read and comment on. I just have not had the time to keep up with them. Although I have been able to rearrange my schedule a bit so I can start regularly reading a few blogs again. So look for my comments to start flowing once again.

So what has been happening around here. Well I was running a small tech company on the side and that was taking up a lot of my time. However I have scaled back operations with it which has allowed me free time to start taking care of this blog some more.

Here are some of the upcoming posts I am working on and which should be published soon, but not necessarily in this order:

The Experiment – Basically this is a post about building traffic back to your web site after you have let it die off. I will be trying different traffic building ideas, and hopefully I can get some of my fellow bloggers to participate in this experiment to see what works and what doesn’t.

Editing Audio with Audacity – Ever since the days when my friends and I were playing around with running an internet radio station I have been interested in Audio Editing. It just so happened that I had an opportunity to do some Audio editing for some pod casts for another site. I mostly started with a free open source cross platform audio editor called Audacity. I have since been involved with teaching a new person how to do the audio editing. So I thought what a great chance to make a tutorial series. Look for a few possible pod casts appearing here on Tenacious Creations.

Using the Evilness of Face book – Some of you may remember my post on leaving the evilness of Face Book. Well I re-enabled my account just using it to keep track of friends and not installing any of the applications. Well I have since installed a few of those evil applications in an effort to learn how to use Face Book for promotion and advertising. Social Network sites are here to stay, and I have learned a great deal how to use them for some good. In this series of posts I will show you what I learned and perhaps it can help you also.

So those are a few of things I will be posting articles on in the near future. Hopefully you, my readers, will find them interesting and useful. If you are worried about missing these posts I suggest you subscribe to my RSS feed. I hope to hear comments from you all, and if you are a new reader I hope you will keep coming back for more.

Till the next post!

Face Book is Pure EVIL!

Ben — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 11:02:30 +0000

Just about everyone on the web has heard of Face Book. Heck I thought it was a great idea when I first signed up. I mean I have moved around a lot and I thought it would be cool to catch up with long lost friends and such. But you know, I never felt quite right using Face Book. I mean I’d like to think that I have been around when it comes to the internet. When using Face Book I just never had that “warm fuzzy feeling” (this is how we describe things in bomb disposal when things are going right – if you don’t have it something is about to go wrong).

You see I just couldn’t figure out how Mark Zuckerberg and his investors from Face Book were making any money. Sure they had advertising on the site but who clicks those anyways? (Judging by my AdSense stats not many) However Face Book kept getting bigger and bigger and here I was getting more and more Zombie, Werewolf, Vampire, and who knows what else requests. It seemed odd to me that all these Face Book applications required access to your profile and such. Then it dawned on me – data mining. Face Book was one vast Data Mine!

What is data mining you ask? Well briefly it is extracting useful information from a large amount of information. Basically Face Book knows your age, your geographic location, your relationship status, your education, your profession, your mood (if you choose to update it) and a bunch more. Not only do they know this about you but they also know this about all your friends as well. This is valuable stuff if used in the right context. I mean this is marketers gold! Don’t kid yourself that they are not selling it either. Don’t believe me? Check out these videos.

I don’t know about you but having my information sold like that just makes me feel dirty. As of January 6 2007 I have deactivated my face Book account. When Face Book asked me why (a nice courtesy to keep you in their evil clutches). I wrote a them a nice note about how data mining ranks up there with spammers.

As always I want to hear what you think, good or bad.

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After months of Neglect – Finally a new Post!

Face Book is Pure EVIL!