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To Tweet or not Twitter?

Filed under Info :: Posted on July 30 2009

As I wrote in the news section on the main page yesterday, I’ve set up a Twitter account, made the first several posts and spent some time trying to wrap my head around how this social networking thing works.
So far it seems to confirm my previously entirely irrational hatred towards “social networking” site and “community” features (hey, I’m just not a very social guy by nature, online or off). It looks like most people – barring those who have fame or other types of name recognition to rely on – mainly gain “followers” by following loads of other Twitters and thus making their presence known, inspiring others to follow them in the hopes that the favor will be returned. And so on an so forth in an endless stream of returned favors to people you may have absolutely no interest in aside from getting their much valued seal of approval, an extra number added to your followers.

Just about everyone with a web site or a Twitter/Facebook/MySpace/whatever page obviously wants as big an audience as possible – I certainly do – but I would really prefer the vast majority of that audience to visit my site because they think they might find something of interest, rather than just to trade their click for one in return.

Mike’s Porn Site Reviews gets around 800 visitors a day. My web site statistics show that many of you stick around for a while and visit several or many pages – and that’s obviously my entire reason for spending so many hours working on them – but very few pay any attention to the social bookmarking and feed links on the main site or here on the blog, just as I virtually never do myself on the many sites I visit on a regular basis. There just seems to be little to no reason to do so when my web browser has perfectly fine bookmarking and session saving features.
For the same reasons I’m not really expecting the Twitter links I’ve put up to attract much interest, but I’ll be damned if I’ll resort to playing that anonymous Twitter trading game. Or maybe I will – I’ll give it a few days now and see what happens, but right now I’m sort of expecting I’ll drop it again and perhaps start using the blog here for more than just pornstar profiles again.

I try to keep the main review sections relatively unbiased and not unfairly favor certain sites over others (well, obviously I’ll always spend more times on updating reviews of great sites than those of mediocre ones), but I guess a blog is just the right place for giving my favourite sites just as much attention as I feel they deserve and as I typically pay them on an everyday basis.

Pornstar Profiles – An Update

Filed under Info :: Posted on May 29 2009

As you may have noticed I “rebooted” the pornstar profile part of the blog around a month ago, and while experience has taught me (ehh… ought to have taught me then?) that I shouldn’t make too many promises about the future, it looks like this section could continue to grow relatively quickly and steadily, despite my still very limited schedule.

While calling the new streamlined format “profiles” might be a bit of a stretch, my intention should be clear enough, to suggest some pornstars I almost always enjoy myself and those of their movies I personally consider a notch above the rest – although these suggestions will obviously tend to be heavily based on my own interests, which often boil down to either intimate and fairly slow lesbian scenes or hardcore anal/DP gonzo scenes.
All the sites I link to make it very easy to check out any additional scenes with the pornstars in question though, and there are often way more than the perhaps 6-10 scenes I mention in my profiles.

I’ve also added an alphabetically sorted pornstar profile index, which should probably come in handy at some point.

Hold the blogging!

Filed under Info :: Posted on July 5 2008

Considering the limited free time I have these days to even manage more than a few reviews and review updates a month (actually, time isn’t quite the only factor – a medical condition is keeping me from getting as much work done as I really wish I could), it was probably a bit too ambitious of me to take on this blog project – or at least expect to write posts on a regular basis, which was sort of my original intention.
(Ironically enough I’ve also just started tentatively working on a new, slightly more streamlined review site project – let’s see if that will end up going anywhere, or come to a grinding halt as well. I guess you never really know until you’ve tried.)

If or when I feel I have something relevant to say – like my previous posts about HD porn for instance – I’ll write about it here. But I am going to put the intended regular feature, the pornstar profiles, on hold, as the time required to watch or rewatch video content for those is probably better spent on DVD and site reviews instead.

Welcome

Filed under Info :: Posted on February 29 2008

Welcome to the latest addition to Mike’s Porn Site Reviews, the blog.
If you’ve visited MPSR before within recent months you may have noticed the message in the news section on the front page, explaining the slowdown in review pace that started around a year ago and really hasn’t changed much since.

Well, I still don’t have the time to get back to the original 10-15 new reviews a month I added in 2006, but my schedule has freed up a bit. Rather than trying to use that time to up the review pace again – the reasons for which will be the topic of my next post – I’ll try to improve and expand the site in other ways.

First, I’m putting in an effort to make sure all the highest rated (or otherwise interesting) reviews are regularly updated with not only current numbers, but also additional comments and opinions on changes or just the basic content progression.

Second, I’ve regularly contemplated adding additional sections to the site, the first of which was DVD reviews back in the spring last year – something I quickly decided not to continue (partly due to my time constraints), but it’s a section I might start working on again this year.
Another feature I’ve considered has been some sort of pornstar list or profile section, but I wasn’t quite sure how to implement it. Obviously it’s also something I would have little hope of ever building into an extensive and comprehensive list. There are quite a lot of pornstars out there afterall, and while I could find out which DVD movies they’ve appeared in, tracking down their performances on porn sites would in most cases be damn near impossible.
So for something like this to work it would probably be best to choose a more informal style based on eg. personal favourites or hot new names.

And that’s where this blog comes in – a format that’s well suited for something like that. So expect pornstar profiles here, not hundreds of them and not detailed and accurate down to birth mark and piercing information and ten minute performances on obscure porn sites few have ever heard of. But information that might point you in the direction of notable pornbabes and entertaining porn.

Now, setting up a blog on a review site just for informal pornstar profiles seems a bit like overkill, but fortunately the format is also just what I need for comments and observations on assorted porn and review related topics, so expect to see occasional random ramblings on more or less interesting subjects.

So once again, welcome to the new blog.
If you would really just prefer to settle for the usual stuff, click here to head back to the porn site reviews.