Category — websites

Some choice comments from YouTube:

its still better than the re-re-release of the starwars? trilogy on blu-ray.
moediggity28

I find? your lack of RAM disturbing…
tigahwood

Witness the power of this fully functional? floppy disk duo.
metroid62

While the Force will always be? with you, memory space may not.
CutieMarkCommentary

These are not the? disks you are looking for.
TehGingersaurus

240p…we meet again.?
rushnerd

details from MAKE

Two interesting articles about my favorite website (well, favorite pastime while in front of a computer. Website doesn’t quite convey my obsession)

David Weinberger: Reddit and community journalism

What Reddit says about the expanding idea of journalism

Crazy simple way to create online lists, and even share them (From Cameron Moll)

And, Google turns on public links for Google Docs. So, now you can make your Google Docs visible and accessible to everyone.

Google Docs make collecting information on your website, collaborating with a group and publishing charts generated from spreadsheets a snap.

Cute children’s book, interview worth the listen: Gravity and time. Gravity and time. … I didn’t take account of gravity and time.

AC/DC responsible for market crashes (scroll down)

We have a long way to go until most people understand climate change

And, MTV has a new video site that lets you embed videos

Continued our Twitter experiment at WKYC.com with two live “remotes” this week.

Tuesday, Web Reporter Kim Wendel posted 73 tweets at the Obama town hall / rally at BW. They are re-posted at the bottom of this story.

After increasing the number of people we follow from 51 on Monday to 530+ on Tuesday, we saw the number of people who were following us jump to over 100.

One Twitter user said we were spamming, but at least two users commented favorably on our efforts.

We’re still debating whether to have one “official” WKYC Twitter account, or just funnel multiple reporters’ Twitter feeds into one master one. For now, I think that having one account is easier for others to reach out to.

Besides this week’s experiments, we’ve been intermittently using Twitter to let web users know about live video streams. I think we’ll step up that effort this week. In fact, we added our Twitter feed to our live streaming page — so users could watch the event, chat with other viewers and get updates from Kim at the event.

Here’s the WKYC.com Twitter account: twitter.com/wkyc

LostRemote: Covering the news with Twitter

Postmodernism will destroy schools: War of the Worlds: The Human Side of Moore’s Law

McCain is tragically clueless: Clueless

In “no sh$t news,” another reason the game is stacked: Moral Hazard Redux

Eric Mansfield pumped out a quick look at 2007 homicides in Cleveland. more from Eric.

I had help from a bunch of WKYC’ers who turned Eric’s research into a clickable page powered by exhibit.

Thoughts? What data-driven stories would get you to visit a news web site?

Put all that high school SAT preparation to good use at freerice.com.

My vocab level is 40 (outta 50). Sheesh, I was smarter when I worried about exams.

And, once you’re done improving your grasp of obscure words, you can unlearn them by enjoying the alcohol-celebration awesomeness that is thesearepowerfulhours.com.

I’ve only enjoyed one beautiful power hour, and it ended about 45 minutes in with a trip to the porcelain god.

I found out about freerice from seth godin and the power hour site from fimoculous.com.

As reported around (for example), Nine Inch Nails has a new album coming out that they are promoting via a constellation of web sites and phone numbers. Each, apparently, spirals you deeper and deeper into the story line behind “Year Zero.”

Sadly, NIN, I have zero patience for clicking through un-usable websites to learn more about something that I don’t really care about.

The sites … 1, 2, 3 (there’s more in the first link above or here) all remind me of another band with a mixed-up sense of what a web site should be: radiohead.

I really don’t care much about NIN … so I’m not going to spend time figuring out a web site that’s purposely hard to use. I can’t muster the willpower to learn how to use radiohead’s site … and I love listening to them.

Here’s the odd thing for me, though.

A DJ told me to dial 216.333.1810 to hear another part of NIN’s marketing campaign. I did. And I cracked up as I listened to a recorded scene where a hysterical woman screams and shouts as she’s murdered.

Don’t tell me why I called, or laughed, but in this case, picking up the phone and listening for a minute was much easier than trying to figure out what to click on.

On December 10, I read a blog post titled Shattering The Eyeglasses Scam.

Being a big dork, I couldn’t get the story of how “Glassy eyes” got new glasses for $81 online.

The last pair I purchased cost about $500 before insurance from LensCrafters. After insurance, we were out about $250. (I can’t find the receipt — this was in 2004).

So, in early January, I headed over to LensCrafters for an exam. My carrot-eating regimen must have worked, because my prescription hadn’t changed. After being sure to get my “PD,” I spent about 30 minutes waiting for a ride home from my bro-in-law while looking through the LensCrafter offerings.

There was one pair that I really, really liked: The Donna Karan 3525.

Without the power of the internets, I would have gotten them on the spot. But, those frames (Just the frames) cost $200. After insurance, that would have put me back $70. And then the fun of being really blind and needing extra-thin lenses (think: money, money, money for LensCrafters) arrives and I end up spending a lot more than $70.

Back home, I started shopping for frames in earnest. After about an hour, I narrowed it down to two choices from Zenni Optical:

1. $29.95 pair
2. $8.95 pair

Ordered the frames Sunday, January 7th for $130 total (Again, I needed lens upgrades) and got the spectacles Saturday, January 20th.

The first pair is still in need of adjusting, but I’ve been wearing the second pair non-stop since having them slightly adjusted at Costco. (You can see the pair I’m wearing above. John Hodgman, look out. The other pair is on flickr)

Grand total so far? $10 co-pay for exam + $131.72 for glasses = $141.72.

If you want to save money on your next glasses purchase, here’s a brief review of online retailers: Eyeglass Retailer Reviews.