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What they were thinking . . .
Recently the online dating blog eWooing.com posted an article discussing the question: “Why would PerfectMatch.com want the publicity generated by their placement in Must Love Dogs?”
From the article:
I understand the marketing and promotion idea behind getting your name out in a big screen flick with great actors like John Cusack and Diane Lane. Yet everybody [...]
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How Shall We Survive Together?
Yesterday morning on NPR there was a segment about American Apparel in relation to immigrant rights and fair labor practices. American Apparel, located in Los Angeles, is the largest garment manufacturer in the US, employing more than 2,000 workers, all legal, 75% of which are Mexican. On May 1st the factory will close as [...]
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Advertisement & Expectation
Any online dating site that purports to make dating easy is probably baloney. Now most dating sites wont say this outright, but it is clear that their actions reflect that desire, which is predatory in nature because it seeks to cash in on the vulnerability of its users. This is the same way [...]
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A Few Slow Years
Dave Evans, who blogs about the online dating industry, made a comment on Tuesday that I find most insightful and astute:
Not much happening in the dating world this week
humph. Indeed. It seems as though this has been the situation for the past few years. If we were to take a look at [...]
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If we were to take a moment to reflect upon the living of any life, several disparate words might arise: beautiful, difficult, short, long, suffering, ugly, unique, wonderful… depending on temporal circumstances, beliefs, or how others are living and feeling. The idea that conflicting terms equally describe humanity either points to a beautiful [...]
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Life with Alacrity: Collective Choice: Rating Systems is an article examining the mechanics, implementations, and ultimately failures of rating systems online. While I appreciate the effort towards education and improvement, for me the article created more questions than it answered (which of course, is the hallmark of a good article).In the article, eBay’s rating [...]
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