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One the right column you'll now see a list of all the feed's I follow. Uhm, on nevtibes didn't look like there were so many.

http://news.quelsolaar.com/#post36

Can't agree more. It also amazes me how he managed to structure the post/article so well.

I hate when I see things like this:




Who is lying? The FWA or Alexa?

When my mr.doob site got featured I was quite proud, but since then, I started to take a look on which other sites got featured, and dude, a lot of the stuff that gets featured has nothing special at all (Here I tried not to say 'rotten crap').

Why non-special sites get featured? There may be 2 reasons... 1) Money. 2) Trying to have a SOTD every day, I'll bet it's the first... Either way, you have to think that, after all, this is just a guy earning money thanks to the design community, making them think that doing shitty web campaigns for coca cola will turn you in a better designer/developer, will get you featured.

This is why I always try to stay away of money/advertising on xplsv.tv, money distorts your criteria, which distorts your site, and distorts your users (the ones that doesn't leave).

Well, this is just my humble (randomly written) opinion anyway.

EDIT: After a bit more of thinking about the whole issue, I think it's just a matter of FWA (and most of design websites) not being able to follow the pace of internet users adoption. So both stats are likely to be true. But Alexa reflects more the reality of a site compared to the rest of the internet.

So, maybe it's time to improve FWA so it keep up with the pace of the internet, or maybe it's time to give up and sell ;)

I was meaning to write a post about this anime last month, but I found a guy on the internet that pretty much shared my thoughts about it. So I'll be lazy and save my fingers this time:

First thoughts
Man, this is the best episode by far!
Painful second half and conclusion

On top of that, I should mention the quality of the animation cos (comparing it now with GITS SAC) it's really fluid. And also I should empathise his Augmented reality point.

Here it's the torrent you need.

I think Facebook should be able to do (much) better than this...

If you're reading this, you're already on the v5.5 of my site, which, for you, won't be much of a change as the design is more or less the same, but I've re-coded the whole site and blog sytem. Although it has taken more time than I thought it would have been even longer if it wasn't thanks to sole's (great) php framework symple. A "simple system" we (she) have (has) been working on for escena.org v3 and xplsv.tv v2 during the past few months.

Once thing you may like to know is that the comment feature is back. I haven't really done anything different, but we'll see how Akismet is doing these days. I also have a better admin panel for handling the comments this time tho.

And, as the last thing, once you're inside a post (not on the post list) you'll see a navigation on the right. This is something I've been looking to implement in the site for years, which I think is a quite handy way for browsing between posts and, at the same time, something I miss in all the blogs out there.

Oh, yeah, and I've also changed the profile picture ;)

Damn! Why didn't he created this one last week when I bought some of his t-shirts? Hahaha!

So, as soon as I heard about the idea behind the whole platform some years ago I was quite excited about it. But unfortunately, they haven't find the way to keep the variety of music up to my needs.

Is it just me or when using their radio service the tunes are always the same? Also, they need to find a way to sort out the artist duplication. Every time I listen to 'similar artists to Little Bitchard' radio, there is this hiphop/rap artist Vic (which shares the name of another demoscener) that keeps poping up and trashing my flow. I can't listen to any demoscener radio anymore.

So, after this break, I'm back to style focused internet radio stations once again.

On top of that, for a project I'm working on at work, we had a meeting with them to see if we could collaborate. Basically we needed them to provide us with a stream of music based on the user's taste for our website, we would credit them for that and promote them as best as we could, but they started to rise a lot of legal problems and shit, but it was easy to spot that it was all being bullshit talking. The only way they were offering us for collaborating was to have a section on their site, or having a popup in our clients site, you know, like in 1998.

I guess that's what happens when you have money ;)

Sorry, but you lost an opportunity there, and a user.

Haha! Nicely done CBS!

Hopefully this post will be displayed properly some day... in some browser...

EDIT (Post firefox 3.5 release): Aparently if the file has the .ogv extension, it wont play on Firefox 3.5. Wasn't it that .ogg videos were going to be renamed to .ogv to avoid confusion? I just renamed the file to .ogg and... surprise! it works.