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  1. the media is the message by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on The World of Blogebrities

    since everyone bitches about how they have no content, let's see how many present their content, or rather: how many are black text on white background...

    EVIL

    * underlined+bold
    * drop shadow
    * cream background, not much of an improvement. some of the header text is glossy (shiney / embossed / see above one / other various "auto-artistic" trash ).
    * the tiny images illustrating each entry, are dithered (i guess with a "web palette" [making it look even more horrible], which people stopped doing 5+ years ago) then jpg'd.
    * cyan background (the name of 100% green + 100% blue)
    * purple text, orange links. no, that's not better.
    * yes i really want to be tortured with your family album pics
    * half of the people leave directly (or die) with the header
    * light yellow (piss-water yellow?) background.
    * "I.Mter-
    views" ?
    i don't get it. dashes in headlines are satan.
    * scary vector portrait
    * horrible. evil. tasteless.
    * scarier than the sixapart girl.
    * yellow background.

    GOOD

    * pear/white background. title with first letter biggie, first line in different font from rest.
    * greenish tasty tone over everything ...which i didn't follow. great. thanks. as for the equally bad link-colours being that horrible default-blue/purple, it was only around 10%. this was checking 70% of the a-list. methinks those popular people should hire someone to design their site

    good design = pyros, don't remember any other. and yeah, it's not a blog.
    says intersting things = ms g33k. who i'm not sure is a good thing to link, i won't link myself.

  2. Who said he wanted Slashdot covereage by monk · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Blog Content Based Solely on High Paying Keywords

    It's amazing how Slashdotters regularly jump to the conclusion that sites seek or even want a Slashdotting. This guy posted an idea to his blog, and tried the idea out on another. Whole Lotta Nothing blogged the blogger, and then Cory Doctorow noticed the post and mentioned it on boingboing Doug Nelson noticed this someplace and posted the story to Slashdot, where Cowboy Neal thought it was interesting and shared it with the rest of us. Now Buffington will enjoy a surprise visit by hordes of razorbacked monkeys clicking links and eeeeking their outrage at the crass comercialism of people who do not live in their parent's basement.
    When Google and the advertisers notice the flood of dry clicks-throughs, Buffington will probably loose his account and get to pay a nice bandwidth charge besides. Where does anyone see the motivation to "pay for the Slashdot link" as one poster implied?

  3. Re:Timewarp? by Oncogene · · Score: 0 · on Megway - New Competition For The Segway

    It's actually about 3 years old.

  4. Gmail will be a success! by JohnMajor · · Score: 4, Interesting · on Gmail Commentary and Responses
    Their will be only a small few that won't try Gmail due to their fear of misuse or privacy concerns. Google has become a household name for people that use computers and even to those that barely ever touch a computer. I really don't see a need to currently extend or create new laws as the terms of service are clearly laid out and it is an optional free service. Gmail is destined for success already as there has been a large amount of media coverage and many people are not worried about the privacy issues. From the screenshots and some reviews currently out the interface seems to be very nice and the search features sound great. I will be definitely getting an account to at least try it, the 1 GB of space definitely is a plus too.

    Here are a few reviews that I was reading :

  5. There are better reviews by prostoalex · · Score: 4, Informative · on Forbes Reviews Google's Gmail [updated]

    It's hardly a good review. It's descriptive of the features, but the author makes it a point to emphasize apparent facts. He dedicates one paragraph just defending the fact that 1 GB is good for you, as if there was strong opposition and people lined up with posters "Give me back my Hotmail 2 MB!" outside of Google's offices.

    Then in two paragraphs he explains what "clear text" means, providing gratuitous analogies of your ISP techs potentially reading your e-mail.

    Here're some more interesting first-hand experiences:

    GMail review, about spam filters and all

    Another review with screenshots

    Review from a current user with pictures and information on ads

    Mark Pilgrim, complaining GMail's JavaScript broke his Firefox shortcuts.

  6. There are better reviews by prostoalex · · Score: 4, Informative · on Forbes Reviews Google's Gmail [updated]

    It's hardly a good review. It's descriptive of the features, but the author makes it a point to emphasize apparent facts. He dedicates one paragraph just defending the fact that 1 GB is good for you, as if there was strong opposition and people lined up with posters "Give me back my Hotmail 2 MB!" outside of Google's offices.

    Then in two paragraphs he explains what "clear text" means, providing gratuitous analogies of your ISP techs potentially reading your e-mail.

    Here're some more interesting first-hand experiences:

    GMail review, about spam filters and all

    Another review with screenshots

    Review from a current user with pictures and information on ads

    Mark Pilgrim, complaining GMail's JavaScript broke his Firefox shortcuts.

  7. Re:News and Micropayments by mparaz · · Score: 1 · on More Online Publishers Inching Toward Paid Content

    Google Ads as Micropayments. My reactions here and here.

  8. SirCamExchange.com? by TOTKChief · · Score: 3 · on Confidentiality on Virus Sent Docs?

    Well, it would appear that Matthew Haughey of MetaFilter has considered building SirCamExchange.com [according to betterwhois, it's still available...]. He compares it to FilePile, but I find the idea rather...inane. Oh well.