I browse a lot of forums and aggregators on a wide range of topics. One site that I visit, and enjoy less and less is conferencingnews.com. The site is arguably the largest aggregator of news articles about web conferencing and video conferencing services, but lately the site has just gone to shit.

Aside from being riddled with ads and profile pictures of those most retarded looking people, the site does this very annoying auto-refresh about every 10 seconds. I’m not sure if this is just to reload their little box that features the retarded people, or if it’s also to reload other ads, but it’s annoying as hell. i can’t make it half way down the page before i have to wait for the inefficient site to reload and then find my place again. Pretty much everything I hate about the site probably makes them money, but there’s a line you need to manage where you’re monetizing your site and still providing a pleasant browsing experience. I also noticed the site dropped from a page rank 5 to 4 in the last Google shuffle, so I assume other people feel the same way.

Maybe I should start up my own conferencing news aggregator…

I think it was sometime back in February that I hurt my shoulder while bench pressing around 200lbs, which was really good weight for me at the time. Around that same time, I moved up to the South Bay and started going to the gym with Eric 2-3x a week. While for the longest time, I wasn’t able to lift much weight at all, it all kind of worked out, because I was able to help Eric get into a good routine and he’s made some good progress. But after seeing those recent wakeboarding pics and how much muscle mass i’d lost over the last few months, I realized i needed to step back up, and on Monday, I was finally able to do heavy weight without any pain in my shoulder at all. I pulled out 6×185, 7×185 and 8×185 on the flat bench press, and I’m sure i could’ve done more weight. So i’m pscyhed to be back in the gym and doing it up right.

Now that i’m not working against any injuries and excited about the gym again, I thought i’d start another fitness blog. I killed getbig.kentomatic.com, because aside from me being injured and not lifting heavy weight, it was only about me and my routine, and i can’t imagine that many people were interested in following it. It did have a page rank of 2, but that might just have been from the kentomatic.com link alone.

The new fitness blog is going to be a general blog about fitness, probably focused on weight lifting, but cover all areas of exercise. It’s not just going to be about me and what i’m doing, although most of the articles will be from my experience and perspective. The problem is, I need a name for it and am looking for suggestions, so comment or email me anything you can think of.

Here are some that have been mentioned to me or that i’ve come up with that i’m thinking about:
onemoremile.com
fullrep.com
perfectrep.com
lookatmymuscles.com

gimme your input!

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