Posts tagged #blogwatch

Wow, Obama chooses judge who knows stuff

This Wired article about new Spreme Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor is interesting, as it runs through her experience with cyberlaw. Looks like she knows more than this judge.

Our website, MelbinNoir, is coming along. I figured out how to utilise the Headline and Feature section, and the category browsing, so that's good. I'm a bit nervous about the pitch this afternoon, but it should be ok I suppose.

Looking at the other groups' sites, Chocrocks and UpUrAlley, and I'm pretty impressed. Its looking really good. I like the Chocrock graphic, and how the site seems to be all things chocolate, not just a directory. And I like how UpUrAlley have the 'new to the site' thing, which we've not figured out yet. I'm looking at some 'login-log out' plugins at the moment for Noir.

I was talking to my friend who is a jazz muso, and he didn't like the name of our site, he didn't get the MelbIN thing. I'm worried this might be a problem. Still getting the hang of the categories too, at this stage the front page menu is not discrete enough yet, there needs to be a better way of filtering the categories.

Posted on May 28, 2009 and filed under Computers, General musings.

Blogwatch - Go Fug Yourself

Today's edition of Blogwatch will be a simple one - I'm going to talk about one of my all-time favorite blogs from the US: Go Fug Yourself. For a little bit of background, here's the Wikipedia entry. You can buy their book spin-off (hello, horizontal marketing) here.

The 'Fug Girls,' Heather and Jessica, have found success, I think for two reasons. One is that they filled a niche. There are many celebrity gossip bloggers out there (most famously, Perez Hilton) but none who blog so consistently about one specific aspect of celebrity news, in this case fashion. The second reason is that they are hilarious and are providing a great online experience. In essence: the content is strong. The blog is simple and straight-forward - everything is where you'd expect it to be.

I think Go Fug Yourself is a perfect example to argue that online publications are really just like other traditional publications. Their success is based mostly on whether the product offers consumers anything different to what they already get, or just crap we're conditioned to believe we need, if you ask Chomsky.

Anyway, off to practice writing HTML, and work on the website idea (critique of FasterLouder.com.au, a competitor, coming soon)

Posted on March 22, 2009 and filed under Uni-related.