Monday, May 31, 2010
The Architecture Channel: "City View Residence in Texas: Art, Sustainability and Quality Design" http://ping.fm/BcP8T
The Illustration Channel: "Scientific Analysis of Rembrandt’s Techniques for Guiding the Eye" http://ping.fm/CA380
The Gourmet Channel: "#4304 - Cajun Lemonade..." http://ping.fm/ryZUg Can you tell by these last posts I am quite hungry and very thirsty? :-)
The Desserts Channel: "Word On The Sweet: Street Treats, A New Mobile Bakery In Seattle" http://ping.fm/tUWx7
The American Idol Channel: "Eight Days a Week by Kristy Lee Cook Probably the best version..." http://ping.fm/XXUFU
The World Cub Channel: "New Adidas Ball For World Cup Not Getting Best Reviews" http://ping.fm/k8Wi9 WorldCup
The Android Development channel: "What does it take to develop some android applications, our experience" http://ping.fm/09DiJ
Music Channel: R.I.P.: "Ali “Ollie†Woodson Formerly Of The Temptations Passes Away" http://ping.fm/B2CIZ
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Advanced Sports Fitness: "Australia Is The Fattest Nation In The World Overtaking America" http://ping.fm/bKsL1
Today's most popular channels... at no. 3... Home-Theater http://ping.fm/8dsCn "Dear Sony: How To Get Your Go Back"
Today's most popular channels... at no. 4... India Culture http://ping.fm/3n8Lx (Sorry, one of the feeds spammed us. Happens. Removed)
Today's most popular channels... at no. 5... Music Downloads http://ping.fm/zEJlj Yukmouth Feat. Curren$y & Chop Black – “Smokin’ Treezâ€
Today's most popular channels... at no. 6... Celebrity Babies http://ping.fm/ke68k Ben Affleck & His Smiley Sweetheart
Today's most popular channels... at no. 7... Music http://ping.fm/IXyAk The First Winners Of The Greener Festival Award Announced
Today's most popular channels... at no. 8 Hip-Hop Music http://ping.fm/w3fwt Rajon Rondo’s House Tour
Today's most popular channels... at no. 9 Athletic Shoes under Fashion http://ping.fm/LGs5y Nike Elite Mercurial Superfly II Football Boots
Most popular channels today... at no. 10 American Idol http://ping.fm/2mJOw Top 10 Idols to Perform Inside a Giant M&M ...
Saturday, May 29, 2010
FantasyFootball: Fantasy Alert! Buster Is Busting Out! Giants Call Up Top Prospect Buster Posey http://ping.fm/Fkqds
Food and Drink: Word On The Sweet: Street Treats, A New Mobile Bakery In Seattle http://ping.fm/jI0tx
Sports Saturday: Top sports channels.. at no. 10: 'Pro Football News' http://ping.fm/Wj5ln ProFootball
Memorial Weekend: Started the BayArea Cooking channel: http://ping.fm/S1jQG Recipes SanFrancisco SiliconValley
Memorial Weekend: Started the BayArea Foodie channel: http://ping.fm/ubo81 SanFrancisco SiliconValley Cooking
Sports Saturday: Added the Hot Sauce channel: http://ping.fm/sbFEK (I know, but eating hot sauce SHOULD be a sport!)
Friday, May 28, 2010
Perhaps some imbibing this Memorial Weekend is called for? the Whiskey News Channel: http://ping.fm/6R2Kc
In case a little more potent celebratory imbibing is be called for... like some Cocktails and Spirits http://ping.fm/tUkhx
Perhaps some vino to toast this Memorial Day (and honor our Veterans).. the Wine channel: http://ping.fm/To9kb
Gonna be a wee bit thirsty this Memorial Day Weekend maybe? The Brewsky channel: http://ping.fm/gHpMc
Be kind to animals (and healthier!) this Memorial Day... the Vegan Food channel: http://ping.fm/fSGBg
Frightful, just Frightful! Friday: Vampires http://ping.fm/Kpsam Twilight Eclipse and all that yummy blood
Frightful Friday: Horror Reviews http://ping.fm/Xeb7k Ah, to be young again and get nightmares from Weird Tales Comics
Frightful Friday: Horror Movies http://ping.fm/woCHO The moon goes behind a cloud and your friends decide to split up
Frightful Friday...!... Cult Movies http://ping.fm/NIgDx OK, not so frightful. Sometimes [always?] outright hilarious. Fun scary.
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Today's most popular channels... at no. 1... '#India Culture' http://ping.fm/fp8mm About those things that make India special
Today's most popular channels... at no. 2 'Home Theater' HomeTheater http://ping.fm/DKxb9 Video DVD 5.1 Stereos
Today's most popular channels... at no. 3 'Body Art' http://ping.fm/qPYOO Tattoos and (soon) Piercings
Today's most popular channels, at no. 4: '#Tattoos' http://ping.fm/KE42n Stories and photos of the most artistic tattoos in the world
Today's most popular channels... no. 5 '#Music Downloads' http://ping.fm/WoQtS Stories about new and old albums - some with MP3 clips
Today's most popular channels... at no. 6 '#Gay Life' http://ping.fm/IH8ZS Articles by gay guys about their lives
Today's most popular channels... at no 7: '#Celebrity Babies' http://ping.fm/xk0UV You know... newborns, famous people
Today's most popular channels... at no. 8: 'Places' http://ping.fm/eB1t7 Travel England India Thailand Japan
Today's most popular channels, at number 9: Lifestyle: http://ping.fm/TQOvs Fashion Luxury Watches Cigars
May 27: An Update
Always expanding channels and creating new ones it seems.
Expanded our coverage for the iPhone SDK channel for developers of iPhone apps. It is called the iPhone SDK channel instead of the, for example, iPhone Development channel because most people seem to search for the SDK when they search for this type of information.
Ah, we are all slaves to the search engines.
Of course, researching the iPhone SDK permitted us to expand the main iPhone news channel, the Apple News channel and even the Android Developers channel.
You may notice that sometimes we link to the default, Gazette view of a channel and sometimes to the larger, Tribune view of a channel. Personally I am growing more fond each day of the Tribune version, but it is slower to load sometimes than the Gazette - so in fairness to people with a slower connection, we link to the Gazette version more often than not.
We added a Pakistan News channel recently. This is kind of an experiment... We get a lot of Pakistani visitors (hi!) but if the Pakistan government decides not to like our site because of our news channel, then they will end up getting LESS information than more, which is the whole point of adding the channel in the first place. We'll see.
We significantly expanded the GLBT channels. This includes the Gays, Lesbians, and LGBT channel. As with the men channel and the women channel, we want the channels to be no more risque than, say, your average cable TV channel. Just not a problem we see (yet!) with, say the Android Phone Development channel! [and why the Gay and Lesbian channels are plural and the Men and Women channels are not... couldn't tell ya. We'll probably change them to be one or the other... eventually.]
Expanded our coverage for the iPhone SDK channel for developers of iPhone apps. It is called the iPhone SDK channel instead of the, for example, iPhone Development channel because most people seem to search for the SDK when they search for this type of information.
Ah, we are all slaves to the search engines.
Of course, researching the iPhone SDK permitted us to expand the main iPhone news channel, the Apple News channel and even the Android Developers channel.
You may notice that sometimes we link to the default, Gazette view of a channel and sometimes to the larger, Tribune view of a channel. Personally I am growing more fond each day of the Tribune version, but it is slower to load sometimes than the Gazette - so in fairness to people with a slower connection, we link to the Gazette version more often than not.
We added a Pakistan News channel recently. This is kind of an experiment... We get a lot of Pakistani visitors (hi!) but if the Pakistan government decides not to like our site because of our news channel, then they will end up getting LESS information than more, which is the whole point of adding the channel in the first place. We'll see.
We significantly expanded the GLBT channels. This includes the Gays, Lesbians, and LGBT channel. As with the men channel and the women channel, we want the channels to be no more risque than, say, your average cable TV channel. Just not a problem we see (yet!) with, say the Android Phone Development channel! [and why the Gay and Lesbian channels are plural and the Men and Women channels are not... couldn't tell ya. We'll probably change them to be one or the other... eventually.]
Think Thursday: The Science News channel: http://ping.fm/pMeWD A flood of information about new discoveries being made every day
Think Thursday: The Physics channel: http://ping.fm/yNQGX Cool factoids about physics and how the world works
Think Thursday: The Space Science channel: http://ping.fm/QAPFK Cause of Black Hole Outbursts Determined
Think Thursday: The Space Professionals channel: http://ping.fm/bWlLl collecting posts and tweets of Astronauts and NASA
Think Thursday: The Astronomy Enthusiasts channel: http://ping.fm/9roLk expert amateurs who really love astronomy
Think Thursday: The Astronomy and Space channel: http://ping.fm/uzi7r Stories and tweets about space and astronomy
Think Thursday: The Teaching channel: http://ping.fm/tnzu3 Articles by teachers on, uh, teaching, learning, schools and students.
Think Thursday: The Advanced Math channel: http://ping.fm/C6UXc Articles by Mathematicians, computer science researchers etc.
Think Thursday: The Math channel: http://ping.fm/jDVYQ Intermediate math with a lot of brain teaser kind of articles
Thinking Thursday: The Ideas channel: http://ping.fm/UIZbJ interesting and sometimes challenging discussions about everything
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
AmericanIdol The American Idol channel http://ping.fm/IYUHZ "Lee DeWyze gets undeserved win over Crystal Bowersox"
American#Idol The American #Idol channel: http://ping.fm/rz0vx - Crystal with Joe Cocker, shades of Janis Joplin IMHO
AmericanIdol The American Idol channel: http://ping.fm/De55W "Paula Abdul Returns to Bid Simon Cowell Farewell"
AmericanIdol The American Idol Channel: http://ping.fm/OK44K And here I thought Joe Cocker was the sure winner.
AmericanIdol: The American Idol channel: http://ping.fm/Qnmhn Simon Cowell – Ryan Seacrest Interview
AmericanIdol: The American Idol channel: http://ping.fm/ijhKI Final night. Fun to watch whoever wins.
Mobile Mattters: The Startups channel: http://ping.fm/mjzI2 - "Whitepaper On The Ins And Outs Of Monetizing Mobile Apps"
Social Mattters: the Mobile Marking channel: http://ping.fm/JcZmZ Foursquare Talks Business At Startup2010
Social Mattters: SearchEngineOptimization / SEO is needed for people to find each other in order to 'socialize' http://ping.fm/0ebnH
Social Mattters: Internet and Online Marketing channel: http://ping.fm/57AyS Yahoo's Bartz Promises Movement on Ad Products and Revenue
Social Mattters: The Facebook channel: http://ping.fm/flipO and Facebook’s Privacy Changes Announcement
Health Matters: Finally, the Healthy Recipes channel http://ping.fm/KEJwi recipes for cooking everyday food in healthier ways.
Health Mattters: The Green Tea channel http://ping.fm/sFClz GreenTea is not the only Healthy tea covered, but it is a good starting place
Health Mattters: The Gluten-Free channel http://gluten-free.mattters.com/ Deep coverage of wheat-free diets in a wheat-dominated culture
Health Mattters: The Raw Food channel http://ping.fm/jQBRt Extensive coverage of how to eat to get ALL of the nutrients nature offers us
Health Mattters: The Vegan channel: http://ping.fm/6TK0B Extensive coverage of animal-product-free cooking and dining and life
Health Mattters: The Vegetarian channel: http://ping.fm/1UyWX veggies (like me!) may want to avoid this channel near mealtimes.
Health Mattters: Advanced Yoga http://ping.fm/ivRk1 for those who have practiced the basics and want to learn more
Health Mattters: The Basic Yoga channel: http://ping.fm/ZGZ6h for those just starting to try to improve their posture and range of motion
Health Mattters: Advanced and Sports Fitness: http://ping.fm/66S43 See and read about others getting into tip top condition.
Health Mattters: The Family Fitness channel: http://ping.fm/Kbyyw dieting and exercise topics to help make everyone more fit.
Health Mattters: The Weed channel http://ping.fm/In1md - about medical marijuana / cannabis for when all else fails
Health Mattters: The Advanced and Sports Nutrition channel http://ping.fm/Vz2vq optimize one's intake for the highest performance
Health Mattters: The Basic Nutrition channel http://ping.fm/r1wKI can help everyone be happier and healthier
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
A playful and superhero-driven Tuesday webs its way with the Spiderman channel: http://ping.fm/SGO8b
Playful Tuesday: The Poker channel: http://ping.fm/mDqvW (not so playful if it is for money, though!)
Tuesday Toys: (breakfast time, time to go!): The Social Gaming (SocialGaming) channel: http://ping.fm/j5OTE FarmVille and more...
Tuesday Toys: The Pinball Games channel http://ping.fm/1rFj4 Pacman, etc. when games were fun, addictive with only cartoon violence.
Tuesday Toys: The Chess channel: http://ping.fm/4LwOO One of the world's most easy-to-learn, hard-to-master games.
Tuesday Toys: The Gadgets channel: http://ping.fm/PSvzk The toys for geeks who are lousy (like me) at games.
Tuesday Toys: The High-End Audio (HighEndAudio) channel: http://ping.fm/f9dzg Some toys are meant to be played.
More for you intrepid coders on the forefront of mobile technology: The Google Android Development channel: http://ping.fm/c2joy
More for early morning (or late night!) coders: The iPhone SDK Programming channel http://ping.fm/cI8RL
Tech Tuesday? We'll see. But for early morning (or late night!) coders: The Programming channel http://ping.fm/ucbtZ
Monday, May 24, 2010
Fashion Monday: The Celebrity Shoes channel: http://ping.fm/fFfDt This is also a very popular channel.
Fashion Monday: wrapping up the 1st day of the week: the Men's Fashion channel: http://ping.fm/20NEf
Fashion Monday: Beautiful people. Beautiful clothing. Beautiful photography. Art. The Fashion Art channel: http://ping.fm/F0oJV
Fashion Monday: Bold. Making a statement. Or just need to be your own person. The Fashion Rebel channel: http://ping.fm/1J8kw
Fashion Monday: Comments about what other people are wearing FashionCritic: The Fashion Critique channel: http://ping.fm/Uqk4c
Fashion Monday: Real people, real fashion: StreetFashion, The Fashion Sightings channel: http://ping.fm/tEkqI
Fashion Monday: Where everybody shows everybody else what they just bought: The Fashion Share channel: http://ping.fm/KhyER
Fashion Monday: The Fashion Addict channel http://ping.fm/Ie4I3 one of the most popular - people not at all embarrassed about their passion
Fashion Monday: The Celebrity Fashion channel: http://ping.fm/iAEB5 What they are wearing and where they are wearing it.
Fashion Monday: The Shoe: http://ping.fm/MSOSu and Celebrity Shoe channels: http://ping.fm/5qRYy Both the strange and the beautiful...
Fashion Monday: The Purses and Bags channel: http://ping.fm/GmgYc a very intense trip thru purse and bag country. Enter at your own risk.
Now the fun stuff! Bollywood: http://ping.fm/tZLCV Indian Food http://ping.fm/IK0sH Music http://ping.fm/qsSpZ Cricket http://ping.fm/v7x5x
The India Business and Technology channel: http://ping.fm/fxyWW I guess it is pretty clear what that is :-)
The India Culture channel is about the special things about living in India - what it is like to live there: http://ping.fm/7hxRY
The Indians channel is stories and comments by Indians living both in and outside of India: http://ping.fm/76ZOL
The Thai are busy with their politics: The Thailand News channel http://ping.fm/s0f2z but other channels cover the wonderful Thailand
Business in Japan is important to many companies.. and the Japanese too! The Japan Business channel: http://ping.fm/ajrJF
Japan is another popular channel: http://ping.fm/pFeWk along with the being Japanese channel: http://ping.fm/RbLAR
Experts divulge information and advice about how to do Business in China on The China Economy channel: http://ping.fm/oDWwA
Mattters has extensive coverage of Asia. Today we'll start here: the China channel: http://ping.fm/0epM5
Sunday, May 23, 2010
I hate to mention this channel - in case you have not eaten your square meal yet... but we do have a dessert channel: http://ping.fm/ZYbDw
Long sunny day (hope yours was too) time for a Beer perhaps? The Beer channel: http://ping.fm/gSrrY Hmm... need a Fruititarian channel
Even the city looks beautiful this time of year: The Urban Forest channel: http://ping.fm/lf4Fr UrbanForest
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Added the Pro Tennis channel: http://ping.fm/mFodg Some people are very nervous about tomorrow's FrenchOpen
Added the Pro Wrestling channel: http://ping.fm/g52m1 SOME people are having WAY too much fun tonight...
Updates, Vampires, Wrestling and Tennis
Working on Sports Saturday... how typical.
Slowed down the popups for each channel at the top of the page... it was acting too much like those annoying ads everybody seems to have on the top of their pages these days. So now, you have to put the mouse on a channel, and leave it there, and THEN you get the popup and get to see all the sub-channels and their top stories.
OK, added to the Vampires channel, especially stories about Twilight...
Added a brand spanking new channel: the Pro Wrestling channel. Used to be a real fan, but have been very slack the last few years. Bad me.
Added another channel: the Pro Tennis channel. The French Open is happening NOW, and besides, it is so sunny out (finally!!!) perfect tennis weather.
OK, what should be next....? Suggestions? :-)
Slowed down the popups for each channel at the top of the page... it was acting too much like those annoying ads everybody seems to have on the top of their pages these days. So now, you have to put the mouse on a channel, and leave it there, and THEN you get the popup and get to see all the sub-channels and their top stories.
OK, added to the Vampires channel, especially stories about Twilight...
Added a brand spanking new channel: the Pro Wrestling channel. Used to be a real fan, but have been very slack the last few years. Bad me.
Added another channel: the Pro Tennis channel. The French Open is happening NOW, and besides, it is so sunny out (finally!!!) perfect tennis weather.
OK, what should be next....? Suggestions? :-)
Do to overwhelming consensus ;-) renamed the Social Web channel to Social Media http://ping.fm/eLBCI SocialMedia
Sports Saturday, winding down: The Skateboarding channel for your Extreme sports fix: http://ping.fm/zRHHu
Sports Saturday: Love to RockClimb? (we're in the rock climbing capital of the U.S.) The Climbing channel: http://ping.fm/3E6Yv
Sports Saturday: Love to Fish? The next best thing to being there: the Fishing channel http://ping.fm/4t50s
Sports Saturday: Love to Surf? (I love to look at all the photos): The Surfing channel: http://ping.fm/Cv818
Sports Saturday: Going for a Swim? That's what the spousal unit is doing while I slave away. The Swimming channel: http://ping.fm/pyfin
Sports Saturday: The Cricket channel: http://ping.fm/NEOCt India vrs England vrs Pakistan vrs... the World!
Sports Saturday: the Rugby channel http://ping.fm/7VEB2 - some of the toughest guys and gals on the planet
Sports Saturday: The Soccer channel: http://ping.fm/PmU82 & World Cup 2010 channel: http://ping.fm/lNT84
Sports Saturday: The Pro Cycling channel: http://ping.fm/ZaE35 all about Bicycle racing and (amazing!) endurance
Sports Saturday: The Baseball channel: http://ping.fm/cRlNk (a beautiful day for it, but a little windy(!))
Sports Saturday: The Motor Sports channel: http://ping.fm/kWW7p car racing, motorcycle racing, NASCAR, F1
Sports Saturday: The Pro Golf channel: http://ping.fm/SaD6I Yes, some TigerWoods stories, but mostly good old golfing
Sports Saturday: The Fantasy Football channel http://ping.fm/59WIg Finally, a way to keep track of the TONS of stories each day
Friday, May 21, 2010
Green Mattters: Homesteaders, people, often ex-urbanites, who live on a family-sized farm: The Tiny Farms channel: http://ping.fm/8m55p
Green Mattters: People writing about trying to live and be more green: The Green Living channel: http://ping.fm/MNMNJ
Green Mattters: The Flower Gardening channel: http://ping.fm/p99Sh Natures way of rewarding us for all our hard work.
Green Mattters: The Sustainable Living / Sustainability channel: http://ping.fm/z8MM8 Carbon footprint reduction techniques
Green Mattters: The ClimateChange, pollution - information and activism: the Green Environment channel http://ping.fm/UhetE
Green Mattters: Innovations that help the world be more green, less wasteful: The Green Technology channel: http://ping.fm/H8Q4B
Green Mattters: Be more independent, grow your own food. The UrbanFarming channel http://ping.fm/6lTTz
Green Mattters: Eat Local food, shop local, all about how to live locally: Localism http://ping.fm/if1T0
Green Mattters: Top level channel for everything green: http://ping.fm/lk2xj Be green, everybody. Make it so.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Media May: The Web Comics channel: http://ping.fm/hWu6m - art, drama, satire, humor...ya can't lose with a line up like that!
Media May: the Asian Cinema channel with movies from Japan and Thailand and HongKong: http://ping.fm/wWbGF I Love old wire-fu movies!
Media May: Marvel, DC, Darkhorse or GraphicNovel: the ComicBooks Channel http://ping.fm/RYBCc - which will be a movie next?
Its Media May(hem) and for people (like me!) who love books just because they are books: The Bibliophile channel http://ping.fm/Cjr1N
Media May: the Book channel http://ping.fm/cSsRD news and reviews of many genres of books (#sci-fi, crime, mystery, romance)
Media May: the Media News channel http://ping.fm/Jkauf on the evolution of traditional media into digital realms (like the iPad)
Media May: SocialMedia and the Social Media channel http://ping.fm/a8DD6 is always controversial (in a good way)
Media May (it can't be Thirsty Thursday every week, can it? can it?!) starting with AmericanIdol American Idol channel http://ping.fm/pmm3t
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
AmericanIdol keeps getting better! Is Elton really going to be a judge? The American Idol channel: http://ping.fm/JCcn4
World Wednesday: The world at your fingertips (literally with an iPad, huh? http://ping.fm/2hyFp): The Travel channel http://ping.fm/VcItQ
Bits and Pieces
We continue to add world class bloggers and tweeps to all of the 600 odd channels.
For example, the Pets channels
Like Cokie the Cat (Thanks Cokie!) Cat bloggers are always so nice, and so upbeat. If you are ever feeling down to start taking like too seriously, check out the cat channels: Cats, Kitties and Kitty Cats. (Oh, and I am sure that Cokie would want me to mention that she is an editor over at the Anipal Times blog as well).
Now, someone might think we are being a wee bit silly with having all these channels for cats. And we do not really look at each cat that is posting and decide, at some point, "Oh! this kitty is now a kitty cat, we better move them to the kitty cat channel". In fact, there is no difference between these channels: they cover the same topic - except that they contain completely different bloggers and tweeps and therefore completely different stories.
Does this make sense? Well, it did at 2:00am when we made them, but... what do you think? Should we collapse them into one channel - the Cats channel?
Let us know if you have an opinion, and also.
[you might notice we are linking to the Tribune view of the pages. People seem to like the Tribune as much as the Gazette views, and so we are trying to expose more people to the Tribune]
For example, the Pets channels
Like Cokie the Cat (Thanks Cokie!) Cat bloggers are always so nice, and so upbeat. If you are ever feeling down to start taking like too seriously, check out the cat channels: Cats, Kitties and Kitty Cats. (Oh, and I am sure that Cokie would want me to mention that she is an editor over at the Anipal Times blog as well).
Now, someone might think we are being a wee bit silly with having all these channels for cats. And we do not really look at each cat that is posting and decide, at some point, "Oh! this kitty is now a kitty cat, we better move them to the kitty cat channel". In fact, there is no difference between these channels: they cover the same topic - except that they contain completely different bloggers and tweeps and therefore completely different stories.
Does this make sense? Well, it did at 2:00am when we made them, but... what do you think? Should we collapse them into one channel - the Cats channel?
Let us know if you have an opinion, and also.
[you might notice we are linking to the Tribune view of the pages. People seem to like the Tribune as much as the Gazette views, and so we are trying to expose more people to the Tribune]
World Wednesday: experience some of the wonderful world of Japan on the Japan channel: http://ping.fm/VqfoE
World Wednesday: The most livable city: Vancouver Canada on the Vancouver channel: http://ping.fm/RMrTV
World Wednesday: India, Bollywood, life and times in India on the India channel http://ping.fm/GFULM
World Wednesday: the China channel http://ping.fm/bh2Wn business, technology, photos and stories by Chinese and Chinese expats
World Wednesday: And if we are talking about travel, what can be but next but the French and the France channel? http://ping.fm/QZCji
World Wednesday: And who doesn't want to travel and visit the jolly good English? The England channel: http://ping.fm/3lsFg
World Wednesday: Hopefully things calm down for the wonderful Thai people... the Thailand channel http://ping.fm/nrJEv
World Wednesday: In most places in the world one can find my fave food: as seen on the Indian Food channel: http://ping.fm/a1qPe
World Wednesday: As we click-travel around the world... listening to Indian Music: http://ping.fm/dUUUX
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
The ultimate American Idol News channel - for fans and the rest of us who don't admit it :-) http://ping.fm/XevZs
Tech Tuesday: The High-End Home Audio channel: for Audiophiles who feed their ears only the very best http://ping.fm/R7pLO
Tech Tuesday: The Audio / Video channel: http://ping.fm/pnKyN contains two of the best channels in consumer electronics...
Tech Tuesday: Love my digital Canon 5D, took 30K+ photos, but it is a MARK I *argh!*. The Cameras channel: http://ping.fm/SMrUk
Tech Tuesday: The don't know what it is for exactly but I WANT ONE: The Apple iPad channel: http://ping.fm/K521A
Tech Tuesday: In the other corner, the world chamPEEN!!! The Apple iPhone channel: http://ping.fm/lj8xx
Tech Tuesday: In this corner, the con-TEND-er!!! the Google Android and the Android channel: http://ping.fm/OwtaB
Tech Tuesday: Electronic Gaming, you know: the Xbox, Nintendo, PS3, aka Video Games. The Gaming Channel: http://ping.fm/x7u7o
Tech Tuesday: Apple, Microsoft, and the entire Technology Industry - The Business of Technology channel: http://ping.fm/r5pId
Tech Tuesday: The Computer Hardware Reviews channel: http://ping.fm/wzsos Be still my pounding heart...
Tech Tuesday: The Computer Hardware News channel http://ping.fm/8inMJ - doesn't get more techie than this!
Tech Tuesday: One of our favorites: The Blogging Channel: http://ping.fm/g4G1d Blogs still rule the world, don't ya know.
Tech Tuesday: w/ the startups channel - the business entrepreneur channel http://ping.fm/pLxYX entrepreneurship is next to godliness
Tech Tuesday: Tips and VC and advice for startups and TechStars info on the Startups Channel: http://ping.fm/r78Lx
Tech Tuesday: internet mavens and pundits + internet analysis = the Internet Culture channel: http://ping.fm/YbfYF
Tech Tuesday: Mobile Marketing - the next sink or swim skill for businesses: the Mobile Marketing channel http://ping.fm/fDO8E
Tech Tuesday: Internet Marketing is important for every website (*sigh*): The Online Marketing channel: http://ping.fm/2G5RA
Tech Tuesday: The root of all traffic on the internet, the search-engine-optimization SEO channel: http://ping.fm/jE371
Tech Tuesday: Let's start with the ultimate Gadgets channel http://ping.fm/ei61L ... a tsunami of gadgets it is
Monday, May 17, 2010
Music Monday: The Grateful Dead channel: http://ping.fm/i5yEY Jerry's gone, his legacy thousands of shows (hurry for the tapers!)
Music Monday... pro-audio, Added the Pro Audio channel: http://ping.fm/RPxpJ for studio musicians (and wouldliketobes like me)
Music Monday: The Disco http://ping.fm/wjUl2 and (kick ass) Disco House channels: http://ping.fm/dfr6d
Music Monday: Another favorite of the community at Mattters: the Classical Music channel: http://ping.fm/XjbdA Da da da Dom
Music Monday: the most popular of 632 channels the Music Downloads channel: http://ping.fm/Bfazq (its not just about downloads anymore)
Music Monday (finally awake - whoo hoo!) in true long tail fashion the opera music channel http://ping.fm/ROWJ7 is 1 of the most popular
Music Monday: OK, 5-second wishful thinking break: the Music Festival channel: http://ping.fm/dNTab Sunshine and music...
Music Monday: Added the Latin Music channel: http://ping.fm/Shv4W If you know someone posting/tweeting about this, plz let us know!
Music Monday: Added a new channel: The African music channel: http://ping.fm/nhr6y So real cool stuff here...
Android Apps Mattters: Expanded our coverage of developing software 4 the Google / HTC Android Phone: http://ping.fm/XsyUp
The Android Mattters: Expanded our coverage of the Google and HTC Android Phone quite a bit lately: http://ping.fm/NYwnf
Music Monday: Waaaaaaake Up! (groan, sunuva... ) The daddy of them all, the mainline feed, The Music Channel: http://ping.fm/kbUFZ
Music Monday: Hip-Hop story+photo blast for the internet prowler needing a jumpstart (oh yeah) on this morning: http://ping.fm/eyfvV
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Finally, on this Sunny Sunday, our best wishes to the Thai people - hope things in Thailand are peaceably resolved: http://ping.fm/gUUni
Sunny Sunday, running, cycling, swimming? Yes! It is the Triathlon channel: http://ping.fm/P5y8H for you ironmen men and women
Sunny Sunday and time for a run? The Running channel: http://ping.fm/yD0vH Can you see where this is going?
Sunny Sunday, and perhaps some extreme sports are what it is going to take: the skateboarding channel http://skateboarding.mattters.com/
Sunny Sunday, perhaps some golf? The golf channels: http://ping.fm/9qoUT (how to golf better) and http://ping.fm/wOrYk for pro golfing
Sunny Sunday and something to calm the nerves (unless you happen to be a fish): the Fishing channel: http://ping.fm/YxvYY
Sunny Sunday, and if its too hot (I wish) perhaps a swim is in order: the swimming channel: http://ping.fm/Qq40D for advice and spirit
Sunny Sunday, perhaps the thing most associate with hot weather is surfing: the (newly expanded) Surfing channel: http://ping.fm/tVsSt
Sunny Sunday, and gardening is one of those things that lets us really experience it: the Flowers channel: http://ping.fm/vrekE
Sunny Sunday, and speaking of gardens, a Vegetable garden channel can certainly be of use to all of us these days: http://ping.fm/V8Wzj
Sunny Sunday: and Springtime too! Time to do a little gardening. The garden channel: http://ping.fm/ew7wJ ... so wondrously green
Saturday, May 15, 2010
A few changes this week
As you may have noticed :-) we added a 'preview' menu when you put the mouse over and channel name at the top of the page. Hopefully these let you 'see ahead' to places where you might want to go. It's just another way to see all the channels without having to go back to the Mattters home page and scroll or search that page (which has all the channels listed).
A special preview menu is the 'popular' channel preview, which lists the most popular channels 'today', 'this week', 'this month' and 'for all times'. Here you can see that Celebrity Babies and Tattoos are rising rapidly in popularity.
We also changed the background color of the default 'Gazette' view to white, like the other channels. We thought that this was more 'modern' looking and even though it look s a lot more like the 'Tribune' view, the Tribune view still has over 6 times as many stories [for those who like their news in big gulps)
What do you think of the changes? Let us know if they suck, OK? Oh, yeah, if you like them you can let us know that too :-)
A special preview menu is the 'popular' channel preview, which lists the most popular channels 'today', 'this week', 'this month' and 'for all times'. Here you can see that Celebrity Babies and Tattoos are rising rapidly in popularity.
We also changed the background color of the default 'Gazette' view to white, like the other channels. We thought that this was more 'modern' looking and even though it look s a lot more like the 'Tribune' view, the Tribune view still has over 6 times as many stories [for those who like their news in big gulps)
What do you think of the changes? Let us know if they suck, OK? Oh, yeah, if you like them you can let us know that too :-)
On the (much) lighter side: The Humor channel: http://ping.fm/nZsV3 where you can find something funny on this sleepy Saturday
An important subject: Software Security: the Security Technology channel: http://ping.fm/c2hvx with news, updates and advice
Who's a Software Celebrity? The Computing Celebrities channel http://ping.fm/lFn1K Based on yr POV, we may not have em all/too many
Added the Country Music channel: http://ping.fm/ilcEZ Lots of room to grow (although... as long as we have Ole Willie...)
Friday, May 14, 2010
All those Foodie Friday posts, we should do a Fitness Friday next week to get us back into shape! The fitness channel: http://ping.fm/0o1Kz
Foodie Friday: Or maybe, just maybe, some wine channel http://wine.mattters.com/ and cheese channel http://cheese.mattters.com/ will do
Foodie Friday: starving yet? Then now is a bad time for the Indian Food channel: http://ping.fm/e1MFP
Foodie Friday: Getting hungry yet? (It's 12:20pm here! My poor tummy) the French Cuisine channel: http://ping.fm/33YOL
Foodie Friday: For special diets the Raw Food http://raw-food.mattters.com/ and Gluten-Free http://gluten-free.mattters.com/ channels
Foodie Friday: The ginormous vegetarian http://ping.fm/TWqs8 and vegan http://ping.fm/uNd10 food channels 4 the Healthy and Green you
Foodie Friday: The channel for people like me: the quick and easy recipes channel: http://quick-and-easy-recipes.mattters.com/
Foodie Friday: Not up for cooking today? Foodies from all over the world are on the restaurants channel: http://ping.fm/tZGu4
Foodie Friday: After exploring the recipes channels, its time to get cooking advice on the Cooking channel: http://ping.fm/RwW7O
Foodie Friday: We had dessert then pizza. Perhaps its time to explore the health recipes channel http://healthy-recipes.mattters.com/
Foodie Friday: We just had dessert, so now its time for... the Pizza channel! http://pizza.mattters.com/ The ultimate munchy killer
Its Foodie Friday! Let's start with The Desserts channel! http://desserts.mattters.com/ fudge, ice-cream, recipes to be happy happy
Want us to add a channel for your city next? We forgot to include someone on one of our channels? Please... let...us...know http://mattters.com
Added another channel for a small, yet famous city... SantaFe New Mexico http://santa-fe.mattters.com/ a place with culture and art
Adding channels for small well-known cities like.... Boulder Colorado http://boulder.mattters.com/ featured today in the NY Times
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Thirsty Thursday and love to party (parTAY), have fun, a blast, good times? :-) The boozing channel for you: http://boozing.mattters.com/
Thirsty Thursday and love mixing drinks? Its the Mixology channel for you http://mixology.mattters.com/ Not just for bartenders you know
Thirsty Thursday and you're an Oenophiliac? The Wine channel: http://wine.mattters.com/ One of our first and largest channels.
Thirsty Thursday & need something to quench that thirst? How about the Tea channel http://tea.mattters.com/? Tea Reviews, Green Teas,...
Thirty Thursday and you are at lunch or dinner? For us, there is the Cocktails and Spirits channel http://ping.fm/1YlWK Ahhh...
Still Thirsty Thursday! OK, how about the Beer channel: http://beer.mattters.com/. A little brew, a big smile. Thursday is looking up
Hurray! It is thirsty Thursday! The Whiskies channel http://whiskies.mattters.com/ Some might see going straight to Whiskey as ..uh... !
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Web Wednesday: The Social Web channel: http://social-web.mattters.com/ about how people are using the web to meet other people
Web Wednesday: The Web Comic channel: http://web-comics.mattters.com/ for those who have a sense of humor
Web Wednesday: The Web Business channel: http://ping.fm/tRWfz for those trying to make money online using the internet
Web Wednesday: The Web Design channel: http://ping.fm/QyfBa for those working on blog and website designs
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
And, finally, the 19th most popular, out of 613, is the tattoos channel: http://tattoos.mattters.com/ Incredibly innovative. Seriously.
20th most popular, out of 613 channels, is the iPad channel http://ipad.mattters.com/ - best iPad news site on the whole blamed internet
In 21st place, out of 613 channels: the Hip-Hop channel http://ping.fm/QK8MX Advice for artists to get on Mattters: http://ping.fm/ftKyq
22nd in popularity, out of 613 channels, is the guitar channel http://guitar.mattters.com/. For playing or just oooing and ahhhing at :-)
In 23rd out of mega 603 channels, is the wrist watches channel http://watches.mattters.com/ These timepieces are definitely drool-worthy!
24th in popularity, out of 613 awesome channels, is the Camera News channel http://ping.fm/1jDyb We all love taking photos
In 25th place, out of 613 channels, is the MP3 Music Downloads channel: http://ping.fm/O6sAD somada best blogs that often have downloads
In 26th place, out of a field of 613 channels, is the HeavyMetal music channel: http://ping.fm/gwADr Makes life worth living.
The 27th most popular channel (out of 613) is the BMW channel http://bmw.mattters.com/. If these cars / autos are good enough for 007...
The 28th most popular (out of 613) channel is the Autos channel: http://autos.mattters.com/ which is about cars(!) tips and motorcycles
The 29th most popular channel (out of 613), is the extreme passion for fashion Fashion Addict channel http://fashion-addict.mattters.com/
The 30th most popular channel (out of 613) is the Athletic Shoes channel: http://ping.fm/tJc9S in Mens Fashion http://ping.fm/VvaFq
Monday, May 10, 2010
Music and the Hip Hop and Rap Channels
The Hip Hop and Rap Channels are two of our most popular Music channels.
In fact, Hip Hop and Rap musicians, especially those just starting out, are some of our most avid supporters (thanks everybody!) and we try our best to support them as well.
We created a couple of special channels: the hip hop labels and artists channel and the rap labels and artists channel.
These channels are for musicians to talk about themselves, their own music, bands, etc. [as opposed to people who talk about Rap or Hip Hop music in general). We have snoopdogg and llcoolj, for example, on these channels.
So if you are new and struggling (and this applies to everybody out there, whether you make music, shoes or space shuttles) and want some exposure on our site, create a blog. Post about your music, your inspiration, your day at the studio, what software you use if you use software, what instruments you use, your hopes and dreams...
Post about everything - and post photos! - everyone from young musicians to music lovers want to know all this stuff. Post at least twice a month, and less than 5 times per day :-). Then send us a link to your blog. If you don't want us to accidentally put you blog in the wrong channel, let us know which channel you think people will most likely want to see you in.
And if you are more of a Tweep than a blogger - that's cool. We try not to post tweets that just chit-chatting with friends but we love tweets that are directed to the (your!) worldwide audience. And not tweets that say when you arrived at the studio but rather tweets that talk about how you all came up with a really cool riff but it took a long time to get there and you thought you were going to die before it got done. Or someone dropped a synth on a guitar and now they both sound a lot better.
And try to include a few photos using tweetphoto or twitpic. Everyone likes photos - don't really matter what it is a photo of.
We'll have a lot more options in the future, but for now, this should hopefully help you get the Word Out.
And thanks! We really appreciate all your support.
In fact, Hip Hop and Rap musicians, especially those just starting out, are some of our most avid supporters (thanks everybody!) and we try our best to support them as well.
We created a couple of special channels: the hip hop labels and artists channel and the rap labels and artists channel.
These channels are for musicians to talk about themselves, their own music, bands, etc. [as opposed to people who talk about Rap or Hip Hop music in general). We have snoopdogg and llcoolj, for example, on these channels.
So if you are new and struggling (and this applies to everybody out there, whether you make music, shoes or space shuttles) and want some exposure on our site, create a blog. Post about your music, your inspiration, your day at the studio, what software you use if you use software, what instruments you use, your hopes and dreams...
Post about everything - and post photos! - everyone from young musicians to music lovers want to know all this stuff. Post at least twice a month, and less than 5 times per day :-). Then send us a link to your blog. If you don't want us to accidentally put you blog in the wrong channel, let us know which channel you think people will most likely want to see you in.
And if you are more of a Tweep than a blogger - that's cool. We try not to post tweets that just chit-chatting with friends but we love tweets that are directed to the (your!) worldwide audience. And not tweets that say when you arrived at the studio but rather tweets that talk about how you all came up with a really cool riff but it took a long time to get there and you thought you were going to die before it got done. Or someone dropped a synth on a guitar and now they both sound a lot better.
And try to include a few photos using tweetphoto or twitpic. Everyone likes photos - don't really matter what it is a photo of.
We'll have a lot more options in the future, but for now, this should hopefully help you get the Word Out.
And thanks! We really appreciate all your support.
Saturday, May 8, 2010
The Family channel: Advice, information, shared experiences, kids, moms, dads, parenting, pets and fun: http://family.mattters.com/
Yes, ALL channels are more or less helping you shop, but this one is THE Shopping channel: http://shopping.mattters.com/
Friday, May 7, 2010
Added the Interior Design channel: http://interior-design.mattters.com/ for your household decorating and viewing pleasure
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Odds and Ends: Cricket, Football, iPad, Interior Design
Just a few notes.
Working on adding a channel preview feature. This should help get you to the channel of your dreams a mite quicker, as they say.
Added a bunch more blogs and tweeps to the Cricket channel... yesterday? The day before? I only mention this because we think Cricket fans will love this channel. Football fans tell us really love their Football channel - especially Fantasy Football fans who need to know everything about everybody.
We add new tweeps and blogs to the iPad channel all the time. This is one of those rare, rare times where the subject matter (aka iPad) and us (aka Mattters) get to grow together. The topics of other channels, like say Fashion, have been around a wee bit longer than we have :-)
Today we added the Interior Design channel as a first class channel. We have Freshome to thank for reminding us to get off our butts on this (speaking of lazy us, we also have IndiaVision to thank for reminding us to make Cricket a real channel). Thanks!
And thanks to all of you. Just let us know if we can make following your interests easier or even MORE fun!
Working on adding a channel preview feature. This should help get you to the channel of your dreams a mite quicker, as they say.
Added a bunch more blogs and tweeps to the Cricket channel... yesterday? The day before? I only mention this because we think Cricket fans will love this channel. Football fans tell us really love their Football channel - especially Fantasy Football fans who need to know everything about everybody.
We add new tweeps and blogs to the iPad channel all the time. This is one of those rare, rare times where the subject matter (aka iPad) and us (aka Mattters) get to grow together. The topics of other channels, like say Fashion, have been around a wee bit longer than we have :-)
Today we added the Interior Design channel as a first class channel. We have Freshome to thank for reminding us to get off our butts on this (speaking of lazy us, we also have IndiaVision to thank for reminding us to make Cricket a real channel). Thanks!
And thanks to all of you. Just let us know if we can make following your interests easier or even MORE fun!
Finally! Featured channel 10: football: http://ping.fm/cuGpe and Fantasy football: http://ping.fm/anxe8 channels. You'll know if you NEED them
Featured channel 9: The Web Comics channel http://ping.fm/elWAd Cartoons with Humor - makes the world Funny (even if it is not)
Featured channel 8: The Foodies channel: http://foodies.mattters.com/ ...people who eat at the finest restaurants in the finest cities...
Featured channel 7: The Animated Stories channel http://animated-stories.mattters.com/ All about animations and the animators who do them
Featured channel 6: The, you guessed it, iPad channel http://ipad.mattters.com/. This channel grows almost as fast as people buy the iPad
Featured channel 5: The extensive Media News channel: http://media-news.mattters.com/. A revolution for media from newspapers to iPad.
Featured channel #4: The Cricket channel: http://cricket.mattters.com/. 100s of nations compete and have a blast (when its not raining...)
Featured channel 3: The Weddings channel: http://weddings.mattters.com/. You never see people so HAPPY as when they are getting married.
Featured channel 2: The Gadgets channel: http://gadgets.mattters.com/. If you are any kind of guy or gal who goes for tech...
Featured channel 1: The Babies channel: http://ping.fm/YTMCx Sometimes there are lots of baby photos and you remember...
Some channels are so awesome (can't say 'dope', that would be the marijuana channel: http://ping.fm/7RKaQ) that we just HAVE to tweet them
Horror Movies and Scary Cinema
All the channels are so much fun to assemble, but few are hilarious and horrific at the same time. Especially considering how we stay away from politics for the most part.
But the Horror Movies channel was a blast.
First you have all the wonderfully GRUEsome photos.
Then there is the passion, most horror film bloggers post everyday.
Then you have the wonderful blog names:
IGLOO OF THE UNCANNY
Blog of Frankenstein!
And Now the Screaming Starts (had to go run and tell my spousal unit about this name)
The DRUNKEN SEVERED HEAD
and many more...
The Cult Movies channel wasn't too boring either.
Before we started doing Mattters, I had NO IDEA there were blogs like this [and yes, we do indeed need MORE horrific tweople to add to this channel. Anybody got any recommendations?].
Not sure these guys and gals will help any of us get a good nights sleep... but at least we will know what to do when Dracula comes knocking.
But the Horror Movies channel was a blast.
First you have all the wonderfully GRUEsome photos.
Then there is the passion, most horror film bloggers post everyday.
Then you have the wonderful blog names:
IGLOO OF THE UNCANNY
Blog of Frankenstein!
And Now the Screaming Starts (had to go run and tell my spousal unit about this name)
The DRUNKEN SEVERED HEAD
and many more...
The Cult Movies channel wasn't too boring either.
Before we started doing Mattters, I had NO IDEA there were blogs like this [and yes, we do indeed need MORE horrific tweople to add to this channel. Anybody got any recommendations?].
Not sure these guys and gals will help any of us get a good nights sleep... but at least we will know what to do when Dracula comes knocking.
Added the darts channel: http://darts.mattters.com/. About people whose dog has not (yet!) chewed up, nor siblings stepped on, their darts
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Lame Names: The Animation Frame 1, 2 and 3 channels. All under the awesome AWESOME Animated Stories channel: http://ping.fm/Ui3TA
Lame name (a lot of 'em huh?): The Space Professionals channel: http://ping.fm/CSowF This is mostly astronauts and NASA
Lame name? the Software Research channel: http://ping.fm/Aq1mW This is stuff that comes out of academia, ACM, IEEE etc.
Lame name? The Social Web channel: http://ping.fm/8GvEC Social net? Social media? Social internet? *All* are better names?
Lame name? The advanced and sports fitness channel: http://ping.fm/0gxIc A great channel, understandable, but loooong name
Lame? One of my fave channels: the ideas channel: http://ping.fm/6JSnI It is supposed to be intellectually stimulating == weird?
Lame? With the moms, mothers and mommies channels we got cats, kitties, and kitty cats channels: the pets channel http://ping.fm/qaKDS
Lame? With top level software, technology and internet channels, the geek channel http://ping.fm/cqn1v has to be oh so xtra GEEEEky.
Lame? So many mommy bloggers; we panicked and added moms, mommies and mothers channels under the parenting channel: http://ping.fm/TDs3S
Lame channel name no. 2, out of 600, is the internet culture channel: http://ping.fm/MqPtm - important posts about the internet
How about the boozing channel: http://ping.fm/iQZO1 It is about booze (duh), drinking, and that oh-how-sweet buzz
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Hey, it's time for American-Idol on the American Idol channel: http://ping.fm/Ljy5O Ellen is our fave.
And finally, in 11th place, out of a whopping 609 channels, is the Celebrity Babies channel: http://ping.fm/KkPuw Enjoy!
In 12th place, out of 609 channels, is the consumer electronics channel: http://ping.fm/bEk1X One of our earliest channels.
In 13th place, out of 609 channels, is the Ruby on Rails RoR channel: http://ping.fm/x7Jtq It was in top 10. We'll fix that.
In 14th place, out of 609 channels, is the Places channel http://ping.fm/CP42R travel to and living in various places in the world.
In 15th place, out of all the 609 channels, is... the Cameras channel: http://ping.fm/VBYvy Told ya they were popular :-)
In 16th place, out of 609 channels, is the Camera Reviews channel: http://ping.fm/U1WuZ All our camera channels are popular.
In 17th place, out of 609 channels, is the Japanese Comics Manga channel: http://ping.fm/DyVWV Not quite like Marvel or DC channels.
In 18th place, out of 609 channels, is the newly reinvigorated Japan channel: http://ping.fm/2Zx9Y with news, photos, business...
In 19th place, out of 609 channels, is the kickass apple iPad news channel: http://ping.fm/qHwVh For the fan or the just plain curious
In 20th place, out of 609 channels, we have the guitar channel: http://ping.fm/8INjt Ah, the guitar, the instrument I play 'best' *cough*.
Monday, May 3, 2010
Doubled the size of the Cricket channel AGAIN, now one of our largest channels: http://ping.fm/eFuUZ
The Windows Blogosphere and Tweetosphere is Very Different
Each community of writers and authors associated with a topic, a channel here at Mattters, has its own feel to it. Some have extensive blogrolls linking to each other... some have none. Some post once a week or so, some post everyday. They often use the same widgets and layouts, copying and imitating others in their community. Some tweet, others do not.
We will talk about our observations about all these things and more here, as we move away from just simple posts about new channels we have added.
While working on the Microsoft Windows news channels, they turned out to be one of the more strange communities yet. In no specific order, they:
They split into 2 sub-communities: Microsoft bloggers and the few 'Masters of some API' bloggers that the MSFT bloggers link to, and the other is the ordinary guys and gals in the trenches.
These bloggers are: few and far in-between, do not link much to each other, and sound bored (except for the Silverlight / WPF channels and the Sharepoint news channel).
We haven't done the corresponding channels: Java FX, Applets/Webstart and JSP not to mention Spring, Hibernate, etc channels. Maybe they are all bored as well.
But here is what I think. That Microsoft is moving towards being a senior member of the 'establishment'. More like the old big CRM players and IBM, with a finger or two in an exciting pie once in a while (XBox, Windows Phone) but by and large primarily targeting and working with large corporate entities. They were asleep at the switch when blogs came on the scene, never mind Twitter, and they just do not 'get' internet culture.
A potential solution would be to let some of those bazillions of people they hire right out of college do what they want if they have an idea for a project (yes, like IBM's Alphaworks). Spark up the company, make it look like it is still relevant to the internet generation, and maybe get a cool product or two out of it.
In the meantime, we hope our news channels provide some measure of entertainment for those in the day to day grind: ASP, Visual Studio and Visual Basic.
Yeah, the old grind. Hey, we've been there. Wait! We ARE there. :-)
We will talk about our observations about all these things and more here, as we move away from just simple posts about new channels we have added.
While working on the Microsoft Windows news channels, they turned out to be one of the more strange communities yet. In no specific order, they:
- Often have extensions on their RSS feeds very different from everyone else
- Often host on hosts that no one else seems to use
- Often post in a marketing-like manner as if they are unfamiliar with blogging (like some of us still do on Twitter)
- Have little or no presence on Twitter (you know it is bad when someone puts ASP in their name, posts twice, and gets 400 followers without having to follow a soul themselves)
They split into 2 sub-communities: Microsoft bloggers and the few 'Masters of some API' bloggers that the MSFT bloggers link to, and the other is the ordinary guys and gals in the trenches.
These bloggers are: few and far in-between, do not link much to each other, and sound bored (except for the Silverlight / WPF channels and the Sharepoint news channel).
We haven't done the corresponding channels: Java FX, Applets/Webstart and JSP not to mention Spring, Hibernate, etc channels. Maybe they are all bored as well.
But here is what I think. That Microsoft is moving towards being a senior member of the 'establishment'. More like the old big CRM players and IBM, with a finger or two in an exciting pie once in a while (XBox, Windows Phone) but by and large primarily targeting and working with large corporate entities. They were asleep at the switch when blogs came on the scene, never mind Twitter, and they just do not 'get' internet culture.
A potential solution would be to let some of those bazillions of people they hire right out of college do what they want if they have an idea for a project (yes, like IBM's Alphaworks). Spark up the company, make it look like it is still relevant to the internet generation, and maybe get a cool product or two out of it.
In the meantime, we hope our news channels provide some measure of entertainment for those in the day to day grind: ASP, Visual Studio and Visual Basic.
Yeah, the old grind. Hey, we've been there. Wait! We ARE there. :-)
More sports: The Basketball news channel: http://basketball.mattters.com/ and NBA Playoffs channel: http://ping.fm/dvsyZ
sports anyone? The Soccer News channel: http://soccer.mattters.com/ and the Cricket News channel: http://cricket.mattters.com/ and...
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Abandoning our shopping theme for a moment, but keeping to the leisure theme: The Cigar channel: http://ping.fm/DxChN
Saturday, May 1, 2010
There are a lot of people playing table-tennis / ping-pong at our gym. Looks like fun: The Table Tennis channel: http://ping.fm/OgLWB
Speaking of soccer, anybody ready for the world-cup? Well, we got some time. The World Cup 2010 channel: http://ping.fm/C898N
Significantly expanded the soccer / futball channel with lots of premier-League and MLS news: The Soccer channel: http://ping.fm/qOcIN
We start a new Canadian channel, starting with Vancouver: The Vancouver news channel: http://ping.fm/kmCSK
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