True Life Seek

I have said in the past to contact me through email or find me in #wotachat. However, getting IRC to work can sometimes be an issue. Therefore, I’ve added tiny chat box to TLS, which is located at the top right hand corner of the site. I hope that it is not intrusive or anything.

This will open a chat directly between you and me. If you want to tell me that I am an awful blogger without exposing yourself to anyone else, now is your chance!

So if I am online and you want to chat, this should be an incredibly easy way to do it. If you want to talk about TLS, blogging, Hello!Project, Perfume, how I am slowly falling into the Arashi trap or anything else, I’m game for it. The only thing I ask is that you introduce yourself in the first message. Something like “Hi broomhead, this is Al.” Otherwise, I will have no idea who is chatting with me.

But if you want to remain anonymous and tell me that I am awful blogger, you can do that too. If I find out who you are though, I will expose you to the Interwebs!

Posted on July 21st, 2008 by broomhead. Filed under State of the Blog.
Tags: blogging, Interwebs, wotachat

For the last week, I’ve been focused on Batman. It was an excellent movie, but there is the potential that Nolan & Co. made a tremendous mistake. If anyone wants to talk THE DARK KNIGHT (2008) with me, just email me.

Getting on track, this is an entry that I am going to have fun writing. TLS.com has been around for almost half a year now. I’ve had good entries in this time. However, there have been disasters. A blog that is active long enough is going to have some subpar entries. My blog has many of these.

So let’s look at the entries that didn’t live up to expectations. Entries that, in hindsight, I should not have posted. It’s time to expose these entries for the frauds that they are.

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Posted on July 20th, 2008 by broomhead. Filed under Articles.
Tags: Aika Mitsui, American Idol, blogging, Interwebs, Junjun, Koharu Kusumi, Linlin, March Madness, Perfume, Risa Niigaki

I take for granted that people will upload media to the Interwebs. Hello!Online and jpopsuki, amongst other places, have existed for a while now. I just assume that where one uploader fails to upload a piece of media, another one will step up.

When it comes to idoling!!!, I am making a mistake with that kind of assumption. That’s because nearly every single piece of idoling!!! media can seemingly be traced back to Silverbolt.

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Posted on July 2nd, 2008 by broomhead. Filed under Eyecandy, Links.
Tags: AKB48, Idoling!!!, Interwebs

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I am in full support of Hello!Online not wanting people to inline link their photos. I’m pretty sure I have TLS set up as such. I can even understand why they wouldn’t want someone to use a regular hyperlink directly to their photos, as it provides no benefit to H!O for someone to view a single image and not the rest of the site. I really wish they’d create some sort of image view within their layout, much like Kakko-ii had.

It’s not that I don’t want to use my own bandwidth and would rather use bandwidth. I’d rather link to the originating site so that they get credit. I look at it as linking other blogs. I wouldn’t repost an entire blog entry from another blog on TLS, just to save them traffic and bandwidth, I’m not radicalpatriot.

Same goes for Japanese uplaoders.

Posted on May 26th, 2008 by broomhead. Filed under Links.
Tags: Airi Suzuki, Interwebs

Stage6 is shutting down!

A great alternative to youtube/veoh/dailymotion, stage6 used the DIVX format for their streaming videos instead of the FLV. This meant higher quality. At a time, you could find every Hello! Morning episode on the site. Many videos have disappeared over the past few months though, so this isn’t as big of a blow as one may expect.

It’ll stay up until the 28th. That means everyone should download EVERYTHING. I’ve got Perfume, Aika Mitsui, Kanna Arihara and the brilliant green videos covered.

Posted on February 25th, 2008 by broomhead. Filed under Quickies, The Rest.
Tags: Aika Mitsui, Interwebs, Kanna Arihara, Perfume