Best Adult Awards 2004: The WinnersWritten by Greg Jones/2much Media
(Cyberspace) September 10, 2004 - The Best Adult Awards' Michel Plante deserves an award of his own for singlehandedly engineering a small but robust first tradeshow with Qwebec Expo, as well as very first adult award ceremony honoring websites and webmasters exclusively.Though not everyone showed to accept awards last Saturday, Sept 4th (the competition was, er, stiff and of course suffered from Internext post-coitus), sleek etched-glass trophies were amiably accepted by other attendees on behalf of their web-brethren. The slick production included a big video screen depicting on-stage action and nominee and winner video clips, as well as DJ Franco Fabi cuing mood and transition tunes, and live band Zone 51 jumping in when winners were announced. Presenters included Eric from GammaCash.com, Howard and Norton from MyVirtualCard.com, Platinum Adam from PlatinumBucks.com and MediaGuy from 2much.net, among many others. Plante reserved a "very personal" Hall of Fame award for photographer JFK of Fubar Webmasters Adventures for climax of show, while starting off with Best Single Amateur Site, awarded to TaylorLittle.com, from LightspeedCash, which had to contend against an incredible 35 nominees. In between were multiple award winners (PlatinumBucks in four categories, SunnyLeone.com in two), a fair selection of niche categories (winners include: ShesHuge.com, MILFsExposed.com, RealTrannies.com), and a pleasant surprise or two, such as a Best Free Site category (AdultDictionary.com from JaBooters) and Klixxx Publication being awarded Adult Company of Year.
| | What's a Blog Anyway?Written by Susan Dunn, MA, Marketing Coach
In case you don’t know what a blog is, it’s a shortened form of “weblog”. It’s like a personal journal, offering musings or information, but available to public on a website. Blogs are informal, and often provide new entries every day, or quite frequently. There’s nothing static about a blog. They’re intriguing because they give you an insight into person writing them, and because you know there will be new stuff daily. Many give you opportunity to make entries or comments yourself and become sort of dialogues or collaborations between writer, you, and others who contribute. Blogs sometimes have a theme , but in some, theme is simply person writing them – a sort of stream-of consciousness about what they’re thinking which includes what they’re worried about, mad about, concerned about, interested in, and so forth. Like everything else on Internet, it’s evolving and moving fast, so who knows what a blog might be tomorrow. Are they popular? Cooking for Engineers, www.cookingforengineers.com said he had to change his server because he was getting 12,000 hits an hour. Here are some uses for blogs: 1.Journal. As we all know, there’s something about writing things out that aids our well-being. 2.Connect. While you’re journaling for your own benefit, others benefit as well. If you allow comments, you’ll meet all sorts of people. 3.To impart information on a particular subject or range of subjects. For instance I have one on emotional intelligence – http://www.eqcoach.net/blogger.html . 4.Update on illness or hospitalization. Set up a blog to keep everyone informed on your progress. Concerned others can check daily. 5.Coordinating an event. Lets say you’re planning a huge family reunion and know it’s going to take weeks-to-moths to get it all together. Others can check daily and add their “yes” or “no” to plans, give suggestions, etc.
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