People prefer dating to reading magazines?

Condé Nast US closes another four magazines, and Condé UK launches dating site. These are interesting times people. Called trulymadlydating.com, it professes to be a site where GQ boys can meet Glamour girls, or vice versa. Shut up.

So I ventured over there to do some research for you, and can report back telling you that finding a date or dates with people you may hate or hates will cost you money. I trawled (or do I mean trolled) through some of the fine specimens on offer, and no I'm not getting a particularly GQ vibe from those guys. I can also tell you that no-one wants to date a divorced smoker. People are too demanding, that's why they're single.

However, they are currently running a 7 day free trial, so I say give a go for a week. If you don't have anything else to do, or anyone to do it with. trulymadlydating.com. Report back please.

The Internet is a mess, and needs a damn good tidy up.

The internet really is a mess, full of irrelavent rubbish from 1857 and a great source of unreliable sources. There are no caretakers or superintendents of the internet to clear out the rubbish or police the superhighways. It does make me wonder why none of the encyclopedia or dictionary companies haven't taken control. Hell, why don't the publishing companies take it over, they have no magazines left. What about Bill Gates, he doesn't have a proper job anymore, it would be a philanthropic endeavour. But I for one, am tired of turning to a source that provides me with a hella lot of misinformation. I am a huge fan of libraries.

There was an article in last week's New York Times about the clutter on The Cloud, but in the internet minute I had I couldn't find. So please, will somebody go and find it for me and post it in the comments. HELLO BABIES this is Web 2.0, consume and produce at the same time, I'm not here to do everything for you. You will be rewarded with my unconditional love and thanks for as long as this page is current. What can I tell you, that's how the world works these days. I didn't say I was a fan.

Random Rubbish - Free Hand Cream

Much as I generally detest women's magazines and their generally crap give aways, the odd good'un occasionally slips through the net. The November issue of Instyle (UK) has a free giveaway of L'Occitane hand cream, which is generally quite pricey. I'm buying it for the tube, which reminds me of gouache paints. I will throw the magazine away without even bothering to read it, and pretend I bought expensive hand cream instead.

About This Blog Part Deux

I'm probably going to move it to onsugar because blogger et al have such mahoosive limitations. And I don't  have the time, money or inclination to be messing around with websites right now.

Also I need to whack up some 'whatever' content to get this site listed and sort adsense out.  So roll with the intermediary nonsense.

About Sonia Magazine

At this moment in time I have little to no idea what this b**g will turn into. I also, like Anna Wintour, detest the word b**g, and so until I come up with a new term I'm going back to the old school concept of magazine. Except this isn't going to be like an old school magazine, because magazines have had their day, been ripped apart and thrown on the fire. Good riddance to bad rubbish, I don't think The Internet Inc is solely to blame for the demise of magazines, there are many factors none of which I am about to go into right now BECAUSE writing on the internet is about speed. It's about publishing quickly, reporting and commenting on the lastest news as it happens, not working three months in advance. Although I may do that if I choose.

This post will change. It will probably change more than once. For ladies and gentlemen of the webosphere alike, and general media analysts, I present to you the concept of write, edit, re-edit, and RE-EDIT RECURRING. Write it, post it, think about it and perfect it later. Ad infinitum. It's a bit like all those times you've gone, "God I wish I hadn't done/said that." Those things you can't change. This you can.