Good luck with that, guys

April 26th, 2011

Some of you daters have probably already heard — Match.com is going to start checking its members names against a list of sex offenders, says CNN. For the record, I don’t expect this to go well. Why’s that? Because there’s no foolproofing online dating — or any kind of dating, for that matter. Dating anyone [...]

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83 and in love all over again

September 18th, 2009

Man, I have been MIA! Wanna know why? A: Because EVERYONE is getting married this year. Seriously, I think my fiancé and I are headed to my seventh (his eighth) wedding of the season next week. Yowza! We’ve barely had a second to do any planning of our own wedding, let alone consulting or blogging [...]

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The Craig behind Craigslist speaks out!

May 21st, 2009

Craig Newmark of Craiglist rarely goes über-public — sure, he’s been known to speak up on behalf of his company, but he (like his chosen user interface) is fairly no-frills.  So I found this WSJ article kind of interesting, in light of the recent decision to close the erotic services category.

Craig states that participating [...]

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