Thursday, September 30, 2010
Trending: The Pets channel: http://ping.fm/YNKJ0 Special Dog and Cats channels too for those who like one and not the other LOL
The English Grammar channel: http://ping.fm/sAVRd Lessons, What to do and what not to do. English FAIL
The Atlanta Falcons NFL Football channel: http://ping.fm/21q4A Just one of our 32 NFL team channels.
The Las Vegas channel: http://ping.fm/v5VUt Vacation Gambling and Conferences... "Classic VW Car Show". Oh. and Fun, LOL
The Social Gaming channel: http://ping.fm/7lOEn The current wave, the next wave, and the wave after that... LOL
The PC Hardware News channel: http://ping.fm/6j79G and PC Hardware Reviews channel: http://ping.fm/NUauo
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
The Gadgets channel: http://ping.fm/ghzaU collecting 100s of stories from most continents daily. Geek Love
The OpenSource channel: http://ping.fm/algmb "Gitifier: Growl Alerts For Any Git Repo Including GitHub And Gitorious"
The Los Angeles Foodie channel: http://ping.fm/e49eN LA Restaurants reviewed... reviewered and skewered (sometimes)
The Japan Business channel: http://ping.fm/S2BU5 What is happening there and how you can be a part of it
The Paper Crafts channel: http://ping.fm/L7vHm Some of the most beautiful cards and creations you have ever seen
The Yoga channel: http://ping.fm/0QIaq both basic and advanced poses with 'I did it!' stories and how-to articles, many by instructors
The Android channel: http://ping.fm/wNY6R Google's phone takes on apple's iPhone. The stakes? Everything.
The photography tips and tutorials channel http://ping.fm/hP7vK Pretty clear what this channel is about, huh? Whew!
The Photography channel: http://ping.fm/7iykF Lots of photos by talented and/or professional photographers
Baseball, Basketball. Football and Hockey SportsCards channels http://ping.fm/F5Row Mostly baseball cards tho
The Home Improvement Remodeling channel: http://ping.fm/yNYqi One of the most fundamental human endeavors...
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
The Celebrity Fashion http://ping.fm/sTpHa and Celebrity Babies http://ping.fm/1hPBh channels - happy, happy Hollywood stories
The Celebrity Gossip channel: http://ping.fm/mqCT1 3rd most popular at Mattters, Hollywood stories and photos
The Tattoos channel: http://ping.fm/htmlt Once again our most popular channel with awesome photos and advice
Popular Mattters: http://mattters.com/ Featuring the best stories - today and yesterday [wow. what a wonderful Fall day!]
Always trending: The Data Visualization channel: http://ping.fm/8Qtpc DataVis shows us what numbers can't
Trending: The Sports Fitness channel: http://ping.fm/tLc37 For Athletes and everyone who wants to perform to their peak best
G'morning. Eyes barely open? Time for some Heavy Metal Music news and downloads http://ping.fm/ajfhs - wake up sleeeeepy brain cells!
Monday, September 27, 2010
The Horror http://ping.fm/mWZmp Halloween http://ping.fm/esOMa Horror Movies http://ping.fm/RklA6 and Vampires http://ping.fm/8JzyU channels
Trending... The NASCAR channel: http://ping.fm/SAK6D cars racing other autos at very, very high speed
Chicago Bears
The Chicago Bears channel is on of the NFL Football team channels here at Mattters. They are playing the Green Bay Packers tonight - but if you want to hear Da Bears side of the game, the Bear channel is the way to go ...
4 seconds left to the game...
4 seconds left to the game...
Green Bay Packers
The Green Bay Packers channel is one of our NFL Football channels dedicated to each team. They just played the Chicago Bears and if you want the Packers side of the game, then the Green Bay Packers channel is the place to do it. :-)
I keep asking the wife if Bart Starr is still playing for the Packers. Just a little husband annoying the wife kind of humor. A Bart Starr book was one of the first chapter-books I read and a youngster. Made an impression.
I keep asking the wife if Bart Starr is still playing for the Packers. Just a little husband annoying the wife kind of humor. A Bart Starr book was one of the first chapter-books I read and a youngster. Made an impression.
Click to help your fave less popular topics to reach Top 40 Food & Drink, Business, Crafts, Art, Green, Learning http://mattters.com/ <3
Currently popular topics are related to Fashion, Entertainment/#Celebrities, Music and Autos, + a little Tech http://mattters.com/
The London Restaurants channel: http://ping.fm/TMc5B TONS of Reviews and Tastings. London = Foodie heaven? Maybe so.
The IceCream channel: http://ping.fm/6XMGm Morning, Noon, Night - Ice Cream is so soothing with a little scoop here, a little there...
The JavaScript channel: http://ping.fm/HNufc - stories from top tweeps and blogs for all your .js news and gossip needs. HTML5 baby!
The Surfing channel: http://ping.fm/Bp7Xz New and improved LOL. Its the photos that get me. Whoohoo!
Sunday, September 26, 2010
The MartialArts channel: http://ping.fm/mND9N KungFu BJJ Judo MMA Forging mind and body into a powerful centered you.
The iPad channel: http://ping.fm/RgNs7 "Using Manage to Get Things Done on iPad" and 100s more stories
The SciFi channel: http://ping.fm/s3gjQ ScienceFiction SpeculativeFiction outrageous photos and weird tales...
The Apple channel: http://ping.fm/gdlPS iPad channel: http://ping.fm/5Ajd3 and iPhone channel: http://ping.fm/EuKkZ MacAttack
The Halloween channel: http://ping.fm/1DgWl the Spooky Scary Sinister channel from the beyond (view at own risk :-) )
NFL Football The Dallas Cowboys http://ping.fm/8LLEv at Houston Texans http://ping.fm/ezdUX Tex v. Tex. Lv it
NFL Football Sunday: SanFrancisco 49ers http://ping.fm/p38CD at KansasCity Chiefs http://ping.fm/WQyPW
NFL Football Sunday! Cincinnati Bengals http://cincinnati-bengals.mattters.com/ at Carolina Panthers http://ping.fm/Fqi4L
NFL Football Sunday! Tennessee Titans http://tennessee-titans.mattters.com/ at NY Giants http://new-york-giants.mattters.com/
Happy Sunday! The Android http://ping.fm/wxzxE and Android Development channels http://ping.fm/glneN - always popular on Mattters
Saturday, September 25, 2010
The popular Rap channel: http://ping.fm/Ulhz6 still reverberating from the Kanye West news deluge LOL
The Celebrity Babies (and parents too) channel http://ping.fm/XTmcG - nice photos and nice things to say about celebs sweet
Fantasy Football News
The Fantasy Football channel has news and commentary, stats and injury reports and scuttlebutt, photos and stories from almost 100 different sources updated several times per hour.
OK. So that is great, right?
Then there is the individual team channels: one for each team in the NFL. From the Arizona Cardinals to the Washington Redskins.
These channels have stories and opinion from news sources covering the local scenes - often fans who know more about the teams than the teams do [well, maybe not]. This allows you to perform some in-depth sentiment analysis as well as perhaps some valuable little insider info once in a while.
And we keep adding more features - one of our team is a total fantasy football fanatic. She is always happy to let us know if we are slacking in some area or another. Yep. Always she's happy to do that :-)
OK. So that is great, right?
Then there is the individual team channels: one for each team in the NFL. From the Arizona Cardinals to the Washington Redskins.
These channels have stories and opinion from news sources covering the local scenes - often fans who know more about the teams than the teams do [well, maybe not]. This allows you to perform some in-depth sentiment analysis as well as perhaps some valuable little insider info once in a while.
And we keep adding more features - one of our team is a total fantasy football fanatic. She is always happy to let us know if we are slacking in some area or another. Yep. Always she's happy to do that :-)
Social Media and Social Gaming
The Social Media and Social Gaming channels are some of our more popular, and reinvigorating, channels.
Why reinvigorating?
Because it is all still such a new field, it catalyzes people to actually think and come up with new ideas. Often WILD new ideas. Often new perspectives on old ideas. This is all quite invigorating and stimulating.
This kind of brainstorming will wither and die a horrible death as things settle into 1 to 3 major players doing all the thinking - and making all the money - for us. These major players are then invested in the status quo, so any thinking they do after that is about how to keep things as they are. I.E. it all becomes quite boring.
An example, and examples are numerous, for software people reading this was the Object-Orientation revolution. The number of ideas coming out of conferences like late 80s, early 90s OOPSLA were just staggering and wonderful. Then C++ captured the majority of the market and then Java in 96 [the much better C++], and well, that was that. We don't even have an OO channel.
So who will capture the social landscape? Can it be dominated by a player. Are we going to see serial domination? FreindFinder to MySpace to FaceBook to...? [I think yes].
Gaming does not seem to have a single player dominating the field - not since maybe Atari. Does Social Gaming care what platform it is on? If it does will the next big social network DESIGNED to support social gaming from the get-go going to be the next Big Social Thing? [Could well be]
Why reinvigorating?
Because it is all still such a new field, it catalyzes people to actually think and come up with new ideas. Often WILD new ideas. Often new perspectives on old ideas. This is all quite invigorating and stimulating.
This kind of brainstorming will wither and die a horrible death as things settle into 1 to 3 major players doing all the thinking - and making all the money - for us. These major players are then invested in the status quo, so any thinking they do after that is about how to keep things as they are. I.E. it all becomes quite boring.
An example, and examples are numerous, for software people reading this was the Object-Orientation revolution. The number of ideas coming out of conferences like late 80s, early 90s OOPSLA were just staggering and wonderful. Then C++ captured the majority of the market and then Java in 96 [the much better C++], and well, that was that. We don't even have an OO channel.
So who will capture the social landscape? Can it be dominated by a player. Are we going to see serial domination? FreindFinder to MySpace to FaceBook to...? [I think yes].
Gaming does not seem to have a single player dominating the field - not since maybe Atari. Does Social Gaming care what platform it is on? If it does will the next big social network DESIGNED to support social gaming from the get-go going to be the next Big Social Thing? [Could well be]
The Animated Stories channel: http://ping.fm/6Ybmy Several channels here will merge into new giant Animation channel
The Soccer channel: http://ping.fm/5k8sL the World Cup is history, but the game must go on. Lots of games in actual fact LOL
The NASCAR channel http://ping.fm/jbTtb for all your 'going way too fast' needs. News, views on drivers, races & machines Cars Autos
The Microsoft Windows channel http://ping.fm/4szFk Development news and product announcements and strategic analysis
The yummy Recipes channel: http://ping.fm/3Rw0l A large selection of what people are cooking for meals today
The Grateful Dead channel: http://ping.fm/7e15U No, didn't play Fire, Fire on the Mtn during the fourmilefire.
The New York Jets channel: http://ping.fm/DLuHc - in depth coverage by dozens of kicka** sources NFL Football NYC
The Archeology channel: http://ping.fm/DjJfO The perfect metaphor trying to find my brain cells this Saturday morning
Friday, September 24, 2010
KANYE WEST FEAT RZA, JAY-Z, PUSHA T, SWIZZ BEATZ & CYPHI THE PRYNCE ... Hits the net *hard* http://ping.fm/LkQiG
The Games channel: http://ping.fm/OIgNR collects stories from game channels: Billiards Chess Gaming Pinball Poker Sudoku
Ah Paris in the Springti... uh... Fall: The new and improved Paris Channel: http://ping.fm/WqWq7 France
The Pop Culture channel: http://ping.fm/AGu72 The Guide to the Internet focusing on the New Weird Bizarre Amazing stuff out there
The Geek channel: http://ping.fm/vKVbc closely related to the Toys channel Superman Nintendo AMD Escher Facebook
The Crafts channel: http://ping.fm/5OY0E The gateway channel to Dolls, Scrapbooking, Cricut, Jewelry making, Tutorials...
The Australian Life channel: http://ping.fm/ZLP3f Just what is Down Under like, huh? What's life like in Australia?
The Pop(!) Music News channel: http://ping.fm/kk3WG also Britney Spears Justin Bieber Lady Gaga Madonna MichaelJackson channels
The Programming Tips channel: http://ping.fm/uUWVr Tricks and Tidbits that can be extremely useful someday maybe today Software
The Web Development channel: http://ping.fm/z5fRS Tools and Techniques to build an Optimal Internet Presence FrontEnd
The Hiking channel: http://ping.fm/ChyFb Walking is one of the best exercises & easiest on the body & most people can do it Health
The Programming Craft channel: http://ping.fm/jooUL How to be a better coder != walking encyclopedia
Thursday, September 23, 2010
The Technology News channel: http://ping.fm/njTKC Steve Jobs 6+ $B! Blockbuster chap 11. Facebook crashes. ++
The Bread channel: http://ping.fm/306dS making and baking the best bread ever. Photos, news and how-to articles
Don't grow your own (joke based on prev post): the Weed channel: http://ping.fm/92ccN Marijuana Pot THC
Commemorating yr most important moments w/ a Scrapbook? The Scrapbooking channel http://ping.fm/OrHcr photos & how-to from 100s of sources
News and photos from dozens of sources about each NFL Football team: The Buffalo Bills channel: http://ping.fm/AbG7S
Added new channels for Italy. One is the Italy Life channel: http://ping.fm/Wk3si - what life is like, day to day, sights and tastes
The Architecture channel: http://ping.fm/G0iuV Such beautiful buildings to live and work in and look at
The Lady Gaga channel: http://ping.fm/4JBpV We need more photos, for sure. She is absolutely so photogenic
The Purses and Bags channel: http://ping.fm/u7Fje photos and reviews and sales all about ladies handbags
The Media News channel http://ping.fm/In894 tracks the (r)evolution of media from print to pixels, offline to online
The Business Analysis channel: http://ping.fm/4PXer Opinion and commentary about the economy and business outlook
The Entrepreneur channel http://ping.fm/1QyMt Many people are entrepreneurs and don't know it Business
Beer channel
Even though the beer channel is one of our largest... it has been expanded to include a whole network of new sources (blogs and tweeps, both). There is some home brew information on this channel as well as lots on the main topic of beer reviews and craft beer tastings, and general beer-related shenanigans.
The more we all champion the good tasting beers, the less bad tasting swill [looked up the definition of swill... just to be sure what it meant...and although it does mean what I thought it meant, it means a lot of other stuff too. Ugh.] we will see on the market - and the better the next generation will have it. At least, one might hope so, anyway.
The more we all champion the good tasting beers, the less bad tasting swill [looked up the definition of swill... just to be sure what it meant...and although it does mean what I thought it meant, it means a lot of other stuff too. Ugh.] we will see on the market - and the better the next generation will have it. At least, one might hope so, anyway.
Woodworking channel
Sure, I thought woodworking, or wood craft, furniture building, wood carving, all this was really cool. My Dad is of the generation that did a lot of this, and I always wanted to have the time... (and the tools are so awesome - I just want to pick them up and start DOING something with them. Wish it were this easy...).
But I did not realize how darn popular it is. A large section at Barnes & Noble, a ton of magazines, and a ton of blogs. How cool is that? Hopefully the woodworking channel will inspire people to ...uh... find the time... to try their hand at building their own one of these days :-)
But I did not realize how darn popular it is. A large section at Barnes & Noble, a ton of magazines, and a ton of blogs. How cool is that? Hopefully the woodworking channel will inspire people to ...uh... find the time... to try their hand at building their own one of these days :-)
Not many people realize that the Mattters home page has the most popular stories from the WHOLE site: http://mattters.com/ Bieber China
The Green Technology channel: http://ping.fm/xf35q Reducing our carbon footprint and growing the economy. What;s not to love?
The San Francisco channel: http://ping.fm/CsT5L What's happening in SF from the people's point of view BayArea
The Classical Music channel: http://ping.fm/hslIn News and views, new and historic performances Symphony Orchestra
The Android Development channel: http://ping.fm/tPGp2 "1 in 4 Americans would use an Android tablet"
A lot of the Haunting decorations for the Halloween channel come from the Doll Making channel: http://ping.fm/QThXv Crafts Art
Speaking of... Boo! The Halloween channel http://ping.fm/3Cx5z has added a few more scary and spooky sources. Send us more!
Boo! Winter is coming to the Northern latitudes and Golfing in snow just ain't so much fun. The Golf channel http://ping.fm/6b1uX
The Skateboarding channel http://ping.fm/OJeqw looks like so much freaking fun - esp. with the technology they use today...
The Space and Astronomy channel: http://ping.fm/zvCaa Sure helps gets mind off all the infighting on this little pebble: Earth
I want to be a gourmet in my next life: The Gourmet channel: http://ping.fm/x4v4E Sampling the best of everything Wine Food
Oops, that was the link to comic books channel, THIS is the link to the comicbook ARTISTS channel: http://ping.fm/uENnd
The Comic book Art channel http://ping.fm/EbVrU is all about Comicbook artists. Wonderful examples and how-tos of artwork
The Design channel: http://ping.fm/j6aY2 with focus on Graphic and Interior design as well as just plain OMG-looking stuff
The Motorsports channel: http://ping.fm/HlaEf with channels for F1 Formula 1, Nascar, Motorcycles. The Need for Speed.
Have to talk about our new Woodworking channel: http://ping.fm/xWPT5 ...so MANY WW blogs out there! crafts handmade
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Added new channel: Woodworking http://ping.fm/Q0iMo ...going to be one of our larger channels Crafts
Mercedes-benz http://ping.fm/bArcM and BMW http://ping.fm/WgGSJ channels -always popular tho no free car giveaways (LOL)
The American Idol channel keeps hanging near top of our most popular channels lists: http://ping.fm/ekJhF ...already miss Ellen
The Funny Pictures http://ping.fm/bh2TM and Humor http://ping.fm/MiphB channels also in the top 40 today
The Art Culture channel is trending: http://ping.fm/adafM the intellectual analysis and appreciation of Art
The China Technology channel is trending: http://ping.fm/6OIfY "China Unicom Beijing Boasts Largest WCDMA" net in world
The Japan News channel is trending: http://ping.fm/OshUX "#Fullmetal Alchemist Postage Stamp Giveaway!"
The Blogging News channel is trending http://ping.fm/dedJX "How To Recover From A Mistake" OMG I need this 10 times/day LOL
The Data Visualization channel: http://ping.fm/1lQ6I Awesome graphs and charts for eyes and brain DataVis
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
The Sports Fitness channel: http://ping.fm/eTWa3 Lots of KettleBells etc. and even cross training...
From sports car channel: "Official: 2011 Aston Martin One-77 to make 750-hp (w/ video)" Holy I Want It Batman! http://ping.fm/EWPqC
The Sports Car channel http://ping.fm/H3vCX kicks butt - its very popular and the photos are oh so lust worthy SportsCar
The Ruby channel: http://ping.fm/GLc6Z Rails needs to support 1.9 or a large corp sponsor (not Oracle) or...?
Jumping around today, I know... Flash on the iPad means it will be here awhile (despite HTML5) the Flash channel: http://ping.fm/HOStg
Concerned about the Global Business scene? The China Economy http://ping.fm/tq5pu and Technology http://ping.fm/kJHvG channels
Concerned about the Global Business scene? the India Business and Technology channel: http://ping.fm/FKKOd
Off to the iPad channel: http://ping.fm/HyK5h Looks like iPadLot changed to @iPadNewsUpdates. We'll fix that...!
In the world of Tech, the Gaming channel: http://ping.fm/NC1Wr with a review of yet another Seagate FreeAgent?
For some of us, it is not about Healthy living so much as not feeling sick all the time: the Gluten-Free channel http://ping.fm/yaTmC
The heck with starting your life off right today... the Burger channel: http://ping.fm/5weUt Food FastFood
Start the rest of your life off right... OK maybe after a good cup of coffee? The Coffee channel http://ping.fm/7PmDz
Start the rest of your life off right? the Raw Food channel: http://ping.fm/PEyoj RawFood Diet Health
Monday, September 20, 2010
The Tattoos channel: http://ping.fm/3SIni our most popular channel with the Men's channel in 2nd and Body Art in 3rd.
The Men's channel: http://ping.fm/s74DA for men who like women, sports, and other manly man stuff that men like to like.
The Fashion Addict channel: http://ping.fm/d5gtC When you absolutely positively need a new outfit... just 'because'
The New Orleans Saints channel... http://ping.fm/M4TuP ... will they shellac the 49ers? NFL Football
Heavy Metal
Heavy Metal is one of our more bold music channels.
Sometimes I think we should link channels like Halloween and Heavy Metal together. Or less seriously, Justin Bieber and Heavy Metal.
I think we already link Weed to Pizza, and Pizza to Beer and Beer to Cigars and... that is as far as it went. And wine to cheese of course.
But, back to Heavy Metal... I have knowledgeable friends [yes, really. but not so knowledgeable or they would dump me, huh?] who say that heavy metal is the only music that is talking about the state of world politics today [I would add rap music]. Some of it [and rap] is just shock rock but some of it has a message [and the apathy we see today... people need terribly terrific shocks just to wake them up for a few seconds. Am I right? Well, I would bet heavy metal musicians think so].
** Strider!!! ***
Sometimes I think we should link channels like Halloween and Heavy Metal together. Or less seriously, Justin Bieber and Heavy Metal.
I think we already link Weed to Pizza, and Pizza to Beer and Beer to Cigars and... that is as far as it went. And wine to cheese of course.
But, back to Heavy Metal... I have knowledgeable friends [yes, really. but not so knowledgeable or they would dump me, huh?] who say that heavy metal is the only music that is talking about the state of world politics today [I would add rap music]. Some of it [and rap] is just shock rock but some of it has a message [and the apathy we see today... people need terribly terrific shocks just to wake them up for a few seconds. Am I right? Well, I would bet heavy metal musicians think so].
** Strider!!! ***
Saints at the 49ers: NFL Monday Night Football
Tonight the New Orleans Saints play the San Francisco 49ers, and the behind the scenes and fan perspectives can both found on the New Orleans Saints channel and the, yep, you know it, the San Francisco 49ers channel.
Stories are collected from dozens of news sources, updated several times per hour. Do you dare to indulge that ever-lovin out-of-all-semblance-of-control NFL football-followin' habit?
Seriously, though, it is SO cool....
Stories are collected from dozens of news sources, updated several times per hour. Do you dare to indulge that ever-lovin out-of-all-semblance-of-control NFL football-followin' habit?
Seriously, though, it is SO cool....
The Marketing channel: one of the most extensive collections of continuously updated articles on Social Marketing http://ping.fm/Yc3NC
The Pakistan channel: http://ping.fm/pf9ss real life, beyond the floods, the culture and hopes and dreams
The China channel: http://ping.fm/V1KMS What life in China is like and the business opportunities there.
The Japan channel: http://ping.fm/mqKBe - what life is like, what business like, what being Japanese is like
Into a little Fantasy Football are we? The Fantasy Football channel http://ping.fm/Z5Vz7 for all your stats and analysis needs
It is still 80 degrees F here but... never too soon to think about Snowboarding: the Snowboarding channel http://ping.fm/cpUQD
The Personal Finance channel: http://ping.fm/mkXzi What to do with that trickle of income to make it a more bigger trickle
The Startups channel: http://ping.fm/w6APO For those who wish they were or are glad they aren't. LOL.
Mobile Marketing anyone? Think it might just payoff someday? LOL. The Mobile Marketing channel: http://ping.fm/5WG88
The SEO channel http://ping.fm/r865b - one of our first channels and the most exhaustive collection of constantly updated SEO tidbits
End of the season here in the northern latitudes, but the Gardening channel http://ping.fm/YvVaj photos will help us get through Winter
End of the season here in the northern latitudes, but the Gardening channel http://ping.fm/YvVaj photos will help us get through Winter
The Frugal Living channel: http://ping.fm/HfBdv which most of us can't help needing to be good at. Ugh.
The Asian Food channel: "Foodie Tour Of Old Delhi" http://ping.fm/la6Gu for those who like boatloads of spices and yummy veggies and...
The Pizza channel: http://ping.fm/fXZCx for those who love pizza - hot delicious pizza overflowing with cheese and yummies LOL
The Vegan channel http://ping.fm/fnQVW for those who appreciate animals, health, and a good Broccoli Bean Bake
Shoes are pop! The sneakers http://ping.fm/Fc41g Shoes http://ping.fm/kQFJL & Celebrity Shoes channels: http://ping.fm/myGKa
Sunday, September 19, 2010
The Thailand channels http://ping.fm/hyCFh are also very popular on Mattters - even now that things have calmed down (Hurray!)
The London Restaurants channel http://ping.fm/KfbST is quite popular, I say, with people from England and us tourist types too
Speaking of expensive: the Luxury channel http://ping.fm/WkFXP is VERY popular. Don't have to worry if I can afford it. The answer: no. LOL
The Fashion channels http://ping.fm/iwvZ7 are currently our most popular channels. They sure are fun... but wee bit expensive?
The Rap Music channel http://ping.fm/4UQXt pops on and off our top 40 list like popcorn. What is up with that? LOL
Our Social Gaming channel is always at top 40 channel: http://ping.fm/sC7cJ IMHO THIS is what will replace TV
The android http://ping.fm/HepOw and android development http://ping.fm/IVVr3 channels are always in the top 24
We are continuing to expand the new scrapbooking channel http://ping.fm/Am0Iu crafts handmade stamps
The Crafts channel http://ping.fm/xpCbg is in our top 40 for the first time... we have been working on it a lot lately.
The very popular top 40 Pro Cycling channel http://ping.fm/yZBWx just makes me want to get out and do some biking while it is warm out
Wish the Home Remodeling channel http://ping.fm/ypv1b was around when we did ours: OMG did we need some *good* advice
The HipHop Music channels have been popular on Mattters since Day One http://ping.fm/0Hc0W http://ping.fm/kTZDZ Love those guys
The Justin Bieber channel http://ping.fm/wnCOB popped back on to the top 40 yesterday...but... is he losing his popularity??!
The Funny Pictures channel has been on our top 40 list for over a week now http://ping.fm/o46kQ LOL!
It was wonderful to see the Grateful Dead channel in our most popular top 40 channels yesterday... http://ping.fm/9vjFw Furthur
The Indianapolis Colts, another NFL Football team channel on Mattters
Tonight the New York Giants play the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday Night Football. So we thought it might be a good time to let everybody know...
... because you may not know (since we just added it very, very recently for the 2011 Football season) we have a channel for each NFL Football team. Each channel has 100s of stories and photos collected from everywhere and updated several times an hour.
May the better team win, and may the better team be the better team each game they play, whether away or at home, and may the weather be suitable and may the fans be encouraging and may the refs get a good nights sleep before the game and...
... because you may not know (since we just added it very, very recently for the 2011 Football season) we have a channel for each NFL Football team. Each channel has 100s of stories and photos collected from everywhere and updated several times an hour.
May the better team win, and may the better team be the better team each game they play, whether away or at home, and may the weather be suitable and may the fans be encouraging and may the refs get a good nights sleep before the game and...
New York Giants NFL Football channel
Tonight the New York Giants play the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday Night Football. So we thought it might be a good time to let everybody know...
... because you may not know, since we just added it very, very recently for the 2011 Football season, we have a channel for each NFL Football team. Each channel has 100s of stories and photos collected from everywhere and updated several times an hour.
... because you may not know, since we just added it very, very recently for the 2011 Football season, we have a channel for each NFL Football team. Each channel has 100s of stories and photos collected from everywhere and updated several times an hour.
Indianapolis Colts channel: http://ping.fm/3GtC0 vrs. the New York Giants channel http://ping.fm/Eghtp NFL Football
Jewelry Making
Added a new channel to Crafts called Jewelry Making. This includes some beading (but we have a new channel for that also) but mostly wire work and more 'formal' kinds of jewelry.
Jewelry making, although one of the oldest art forms, even today relies on the individual artisan practicing their craft. Not only that, but the artisan is personally known and acknowledged for their work. For example, we (well, my wife) knows who made our wedding rings. I guess this is what distinguishes art and crafts from engineering, say - because architects by-and-large get credit for their work, but programmers by-and-large do not (even though programming is very much a craft, despite rumors to the contrary).
Enjoy!
Jewelry making, although one of the oldest art forms, even today relies on the individual artisan practicing their craft. Not only that, but the artisan is personally known and acknowledged for their work. For example, we (well, my wife) knows who made our wedding rings. I guess this is what distinguishes art and crafts from engineering, say - because architects by-and-large get credit for their work, but programmers by-and-large do not (even though programming is very much a craft, despite rumors to the contrary).
Enjoy!
Scrapbooking - Digital Stamps and Card Making
We added a new channel to Crafts called the Scrapbooking channel.
This channels includes both the traditional Michaels Store kind of real world scrapbooks [which I only bring up because my daughter worked at Michaels for several years during college, so it comes immediately to mind, as it were, on this lazy Sunday morning when my mind seems insistent on keeping my mind more or less absolutely positively blank] as well as the new digital scrapbook craze. They are both very popular and both tell stories about special events and landmark dates in a families life.
Enjoy!
This channels includes both the traditional Michaels Store kind of real world scrapbooks [which I only bring up because my daughter worked at Michaels for several years during college, so it comes immediately to mind, as it were, on this lazy Sunday morning when my mind seems insistent on keeping my mind more or less absolutely positively blank] as well as the new digital scrapbook craze. They are both very popular and both tell stories about special events and landmark dates in a families life.
Enjoy!
Saturday, September 18, 2010
The Doll Making channel is one of our more popular Crafts channels: http://ping.fm/85KUU art handmade
We welcome everybody with a spooky and haunting sense of the macabre to the popular Halloween channel: http://ping.fm/S71PE
Halloween ... the spooky channel for you gruesome ghoulish ghostly types out there
We added the Halloween channel last week.
It is really fun and a little scary at the same time.
It is a mystery how such nice people come up with such horrific figures and nightmarish scenes... :-)
Of course, this is done all in fun [and quite different from today's modern movies, which focus so much on realism] and like all good representational art, it is more about telling a story than trying to scare the dickens out of you.
Boo!
Ha! got ya... :-)
Enjoy!
It is really fun and a little scary at the same time.
It is a mystery how such nice people come up with such horrific figures and nightmarish scenes... :-)
Of course, this is done all in fun [and quite different from today's modern movies, which focus so much on realism] and like all good representational art, it is more about telling a story than trying to scare the dickens out of you.
Boo!
Ha! got ya... :-)
Enjoy!
All NFL Football Team channels now present and accounted for
We have a channel for each Pro NFL Football Team.
We will do a separate blog post for each team, eventually, to help people find these channels, but for now, we will link to the presumed super bowl contenders [according to my crystal ball, which is only guaranteed to be right 50% of the time]...
Each of our football team channels has commentary by local blogs and newspapers about their team... and sometimes commentary by displaced fans [those who are not fortunate enough to live in the same city, or even same state, as their favorite team]. We also feature commentary by small media outfits who specialize in coveting specific football teams.
We think this offers the avid football fan the most concentrated dose ever of news and analysis of their team [and their players, great for each weeks fantasy football play-or-not-play decision making time].
The San Francisco 49ers channel.
The New Orleans Saints channel.
Hardly going out on a limb with these two, eh?
And the Denver Broncos.... (just seeing if you are paying attention :-))
Enjoy!
We will do a separate blog post for each team, eventually, to help people find these channels, but for now, we will link to the presumed super bowl contenders [according to my crystal ball, which is only guaranteed to be right 50% of the time]...
Each of our football team channels has commentary by local blogs and newspapers about their team... and sometimes commentary by displaced fans [those who are not fortunate enough to live in the same city, or even same state, as their favorite team]. We also feature commentary by small media outfits who specialize in coveting specific football teams.
We think this offers the avid football fan the most concentrated dose ever of news and analysis of their team [and their players, great for each weeks fantasy football play-or-not-play decision making time].
The San Francisco 49ers channel.
The New Orleans Saints channel.
Hardly going out on a limb with these two, eh?
And the Denver Broncos.... (just seeing if you are paying attention :-))
Enjoy!
Thursday, September 16, 2010
The Fashion channels are 25% of the top 40 channels, including the main Fashion channel at no. 6 *http://fashion.mattters.com/
The urban lifestyle channel is often in the top 40: http://ping.fm/6AJ0V loving life in the big city: music, fashion, stuff
Oh! and the iPhone channel is now on the top 40 http://ping.fm/9JgW1 [the Android has been there for months]
We welcome the Television channel to the Top 40 most popular channels: http://ping.fm/agjSh [yes, its Idol subchannel helps]
The 33rd most popular channel [this is the last celeb channel in top 40], the Celebrity Shoes channel http://ping.fm/g9Csy
The 11th most popular channel on Mattters [out of over 700 channels]... the... Celebrities channel http://celebrities.mattters.com/
The 7th most popular channel on Mattters: Celebrity Babies: http://ping.fm/5Oiy4 Detecting a pattern here, are we?
The 5th most popular channel on Mattters: The Celebrity Gossip channel: http://celebrity-gossip.mattters.com/
Many of our top channels are celebrity and fashion channels and we see at no. 3 the Celebrity Fashion channel http://ping.fm/ZMUl0
Pittsburgh Steelers channel: NFL Football
We are adding a lot of channels these last few weeks - football channels.
We are adding one for every NFL football team.
The Pittsburgh Steelers seemed to be one of the favorites [or not :-)]. We have already added others too: the Oakland Raiders for example.
It is funny... most of the teams do not do all that well. I mean, 32 teams, only 2 get to the super bowl, and one of them loses even that. But most of the fans are kind of good natured about it all. Yeah, they often hate / despise / ridicule / laugh-out-load at their coaches, and sometimes particular players - but it is not like they expect the team to ever do well. They are kind of used to the idea that their team just doesn't do all that well for the most part.
Hey, I live outside Denver [the Broncos, in case you have forgotten. I wish we could. ;-)], and my wife is an Raiders fan. So there is absolutely no hope for our future either. :-)
We are adding one for every NFL football team.
The Pittsburgh Steelers seemed to be one of the favorites [or not :-)]. We have already added others too: the Oakland Raiders for example.
It is funny... most of the teams do not do all that well. I mean, 32 teams, only 2 get to the super bowl, and one of them loses even that. But most of the fans are kind of good natured about it all. Yeah, they often hate / despise / ridicule / laugh-out-load at their coaches, and sometimes particular players - but it is not like they expect the team to ever do well. They are kind of used to the idea that their team just doesn't do all that well for the most part.
Hey, I live outside Denver [the Broncos, in case you have forgotten. I wish we could. ;-)], and my wife is an Raiders fan. So there is absolutely no hope for our future either. :-)
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Added many Sports channels... almost ready to add the rest - one for each and every NFL Football team: http://football.mattters.com/
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
For football fans - adding a channel for each team. 1st was the Oakland Raiders channel http://ping.fm/0VGNx [wife's favorite team]
For all you ghosts and goblins, zombies and gruesome web surfers: The Halloween channel: http://ping.fm/kkTST
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Congrats to the Sports Cars channel for making it to the Top 40: http://ping.fm/b48Cj Sportscars autos
New channel... just in time for the spooky season... the Halloween Channel: http://ping.fm/DcOnG scary boo
The Techno Music channel has made it to the Top 40 http://ping.fm/TvQFQ For about a decade I listened to nothing but. Electronica
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Back from the great Boulder Fire Evacuation
finally back - and we've got full power, cap'n!
Being away from the day-to-day was great to allow us time to gain some perspective - when we weren't worried about losing our house and home [Twitter #boulderfire was great, as well as some private neighborhood board].
Have to get some sleep - but I'll be dreaming about why oh why is Justin Bieber no longer in the Top 40 Channels? Mysteries upon Mysteries.
Being away from the day-to-day was great to allow us time to gain some perspective - when we weren't worried about losing our house and home [Twitter #boulderfire was great, as well as some private neighborhood board].
Have to get some sleep - but I'll be dreaming about why oh why is Justin Bieber no longer in the Top 40 Channels? Mysteries upon Mysteries.
Monday, September 6, 2010
The Technology channel has it all: from gadgets to highendaudio to PC hardware, iPad, Cameras and VideoGames http://ping.fm/9cCC5
The software channel has sub-channels on linux & opensource & every programming language people write about http://ping.fm/lba16
Our top level internet channel has subchannels on SEO, Social Media, Blogging, Facebook ...the web is BIG, man http://ping.fm/XtlFm
The Men's channel is the 4th most popular channel with Sports Women Humor and manly man tips http://ping.fm/2LrES
The Humor channel is solidly in the Top 40 channels on Mattters. Love it. Or laugh at it. http://ping.fm/kMoko
We are 3 miles downwind from the Boulder Fire (sucks). Some coverage on our Boulder Channel http://ping.fm/3kZ8A but Twitter rocks
The Justin Bieber channel continues to climb the Top 40 charts here at Mattters http://ping.fm/Kvj4j Currently it is in 15th place
Cycling channel is a Top 40 today. Cycling is very popular in Boulder tho a little smoky *cough* from the fire http://ping.fm/niRLE
Sunday, September 5, 2010
New York City... and Brooklyn, NY
Expanding our coverage of New York City and added a new channel: Brooklyn.
Now, we will probably have coverage of every single one of the best NYC blogs in, oh, about, say, 100,000 years?
That's what it feels like, anyway :-)
We'll do our best - and already the New York City channel is in our Top 100 channels... so at the very least it should be a fun channel to visit! Always a good channel to visit.
Now, we will probably have coverage of every single one of the best NYC blogs in, oh, about, say, 100,000 years?
That's what it feels like, anyway :-)
We'll do our best - and already the New York City channel is in our Top 100 channels... so at the very least it should be a fun channel to visit! Always a good channel to visit.
Heavy Metal Music
This is about the second time this week that the Heavy Metal channel has made it into the Top 40. Congratulations to all the heavy metal fans who visited today. That makes 9 out of Top 40 channels are about music. There is hope for the human race after all!
Seriously, the success of any one of our channels, who we all love dearly and equally well, of course, indicates some glimmer of hope for the future of the world. As for heavy metal - many are of the opinion that it is the only genre currently expressing the younger generation's [and of the rest of us, but who's counting] frustration with the global political polarization - which is a fascinating perspective, in my opinion, and one I think about a lot when I hear new metal.
OK. Too much extemporizing. Enjoy!
Seriously, the success of any one of our channels, who we all love dearly and equally well, of course, indicates some glimmer of hope for the future of the world. As for heavy metal - many are of the opinion that it is the only genre currently expressing the younger generation's [and of the rest of us, but who's counting] frustration with the global political polarization - which is a fascinating perspective, in my opinion, and one I think about a lot when I hear new metal.
OK. Too much extemporizing. Enjoy!
Cycling : Racing, Professional and Recreational
Congratulations to the Pro Cycling channel as it is making its way up the Top 40 Channel chart.
The Pro Cycling channel is about the professionals, racing and training and general news. This channel is part of the Cycling channel - which is about recreational cycling [sometimes my legs tell me it is NOT very recreational... but moving on...] and about people's experiences, how to find good places to ride in the city, favorite bikes and general how-to advice.
Anyway, happy cycling!
The Pro Cycling channel is about the professionals, racing and training and general news. This channel is part of the Cycling channel - which is about recreational cycling [sometimes my legs tell me it is NOT very recreational... but moving on...] and about people's experiences, how to find good places to ride in the city, favorite bikes and general how-to advice.
Anyway, happy cycling!
Behind the scenes
We have some large pages here at Mattters [everyone comments on that] and they load pretty fast [they comment on that too] especially considering their size.
Well, we have just finished a 3-week project to speed up the largest pages [the old 'tribune' style] and now we are speeding up the old 'Gazette style' pages as well. We will be one of the fastest sites, with the mostest information, and requiring the fewest clicks to get to what you want to get to.
Or, that is the plan anyway. Let us know if you have any feedback!
And if not... well, never mind. Sorry to bother you. :-/
Oh, and we are starting our support for the new Official Twitter button. We love Bitly, and their ability to tell us what we needed to know on a story by story basis is absolutely required for a site like ours with 100s of tweetable things on a page - but we felt we needed to move forward to something more and more users are going to expect to see - the Twitter Tweet/Retweet screen - when they, you know, tweet or retweet something.
Well, we have just finished a 3-week project to speed up the largest pages [the old 'tribune' style] and now we are speeding up the old 'Gazette style' pages as well. We will be one of the fastest sites, with the mostest information, and requiring the fewest clicks to get to what you want to get to.
Or, that is the plan anyway. Let us know if you have any feedback!
And if not... well, never mind. Sorry to bother you. :-/
Oh, and we are starting our support for the new Official Twitter button. We love Bitly, and their ability to tell us what we needed to know on a story by story basis is absolutely required for a site like ours with 100s of tweetable things on a page - but we felt we needed to move forward to something more and more users are going to expect to see - the Twitter Tweet/Retweet screen - when they, you know, tweet or retweet something.
The Home Making channel, also rising steadily into the Top 100, is a combo of crafts and interior design. http://ping.fm/Hy76T
The Hardware News channel has also swept into the Top 100 channels: http://ping.fm/KbTmA This is primarily PC Hardware
A software channel, the 4th in the top 100, the Abobe Flex channel: http://ping.fm/Qa8MI We have a channel for every successful language
Wonderful diversity in the Top 90 channels at Mattters. e.g. the Sports http://ping.fm/fCLTA and Linux http://ping.fm/jtWVB channels
Another channel, might be no.1 someday, is the Shopping channel: http://ping.fm/H0K3L Under Lifestyle 'cause shopping *is* my life. *wish*
Similarly, another up-and-comer is the Science Fiction News channel: http://ping.fm/QMud1 sciencefiction
Up and coming: The Comic Book News channel: http://ping.fm/iJXHv We have several Comicbook channels. This one is in the Top 90.
Up and coming: We see the Weed Reviews http://ping.fm/MKF4f and Weed News channels: http://ping.fm/2t3yW in the Top 70 Marijuana
Up and coming, Top 70: the iPhone channel http://ping.fm/e3xBu ...News and rumors and accessories and app reviews.
Up and coming Top 70: the Python Django channel http://ping.fm/lbngZ is the 2nd most popular software channel (next to Android Development)
Up and coming: in the Top 70... the Art channel http://ping.fm/S99mR Sub-channels on everything from animation to interior design
Up and coming: in the Mattters Top 60... the Opera Music channel: http://ping.fm/PlTKz Exhaustive, global coverage of Opera news
Up and coming: The kungfu channel: http://ping.fm/g6Pyj a Top 60 channel... one of many MartialArts channels at Mattters.
Up and coming: The Crafts channel http://ping.fm/NHVZo is in the Top 60, as is the Craft Tutorials channel: http://ping.fm/2YBiH
Up and coming: The Japanese channel is also in the Top 60 http://ping.fm/Wl1F5 & just part of the larger Japan channel http://ping.fm/jNBmj
Up and coming... the India channel http://ping.fm/LUahe is currently in the Top 60 - and includes the large Bollywood channel http://ping.fm/gukNT
Up and coming: The Cameras channel, always solidly in the top 60 http://ping.fm/UeCAB News, Reviews and How-Tos
Up-and-coming channels in the Mattters Top 100: Australia http://ping.fm/q58hC and the Australian News channel: http://ping.fm/cYtCe
Up and coming... in the Top 60: Purses and Bags http://ping.fm/EKm8B Here at Mattters we love luxurious details!
Up and coming.. in the Top 60: Watches http://ping.fm/z1xqw The watches channel for all your cool luxury time-keeping needs
Up-and-coming... In the Top 50: The iPad Mattters channel http://ping.fm/FQNkF News about use and care of your iPad
Up-and-coming channels in the Mattters Top 100: Australia http://ping.fm/q58hC and the Australian News channel: http://ping.fm/cYtCe
At number 11, Celebrity Mattters - what celebrities have to say - In Their Own Words: http://ping.fm/GjBo0
Music Mattters - the most comprehensive coverage of music news in one place: opera to hiphop: http://music.mattters.com/
The Celebrity Babies channel, Number 8 on the Top Channels List - http://ping.fm/tFt7j ...what its like to have Fame AND Family
Fashion Mattters, number 6 on the Top Channels list. The next best thing to trying on the clothes yourself http://ping.fm/hvSJ3
The Celebrity Fashion channel, at number 5 on the Top Channels list - for all your "OMG I want that" needs. http://ping.fm/TP6yk
Men: http://men.mattters.com/ The Man's Channel, number 4 on our Top Channels list. Sports, Sex, and Humor.
The Celebrity Gossip channel http://ping.fm/YB5P3 ... snarky AND fun...number 3 on our Top Channels list
Social Gaming: One of our hottest channels
Social Gaming - just the words evoke visions of very large groups of people. And where there are large groups of people, you have other people writing about them. About what they are doing. About what they are going to do next.
I have read a lot of science fiction - but I do not think anyone predicted that 10s of millions of people would sit around playing a game with each other - especially a game like Farmville. Ender's Game predicted we'd be using games to kill one another - or kill aliens from outer space, supposedly a revolutionary idea at the time (to people over the age of 30, it may have been).
But what we have now is much better - and it has the potential to revolutionize everything from democracy to shopping. The Social Gaming channel talks about things like this as well as nuts and bolts business matters and who is positioned to be the next Very Influential Company.
I have read a lot of science fiction - but I do not think anyone predicted that 10s of millions of people would sit around playing a game with each other - especially a game like Farmville. Ender's Game predicted we'd be using games to kill one another - or kill aliens from outer space, supposedly a revolutionary idea at the time (to people over the age of 30, it may have been).
But what we have now is much better - and it has the potential to revolutionize everything from democracy to shopping. The Social Gaming channel talks about things like this as well as nuts and bolts business matters and who is positioned to be the next Very Influential Company.
Mattters' new channels on Facebook: Pizza and Music. Chocolate and Coffee, Green, Fashion and Celebrities http://ping.fm/Ia380
Did you know that Mattters is now on Facebook? We have a few dozen channels on Twitter and now 10 channels on FB http://ping.fm/XWw0d
Also finding and fixing our share of Stupid Things we did - which slowed things down below our goal: the speed of light http://mattters.com
Mattters http://mattters.com just got done with a 3-week process of speeding up the largest pages - now we are doing the medium sized pages
Mattters has large pages (just say NO to clicks!) w 100s of stories & tweets. People like our speed... now its even faster http://mattters.com
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Hip Hop, Hip Hop News and Hip Hop Music
All three Hip Hop channels have finally made it to the top 40, along with the Rap Music channel as well.
Hip Hop News has been on the list a long time. This channel focuses on new releases and what the musicians are up to [getting into trouble most likely :-) Well, somebody needs to be having fun so all the rest of us living incredibly and thoroughly boring lives know without a doubt just how boring our lives really are ;-)].
Hip Hop Music has several MP3 cuts off this or that mixtape or album, and maybe even somebody talking about what they think of the music and perhaps even the significance of the music in the context of other music - both historical and contemporary. Or maybe not.
Hip Hop News has been on the list a long time. This channel focuses on new releases and what the musicians are up to [getting into trouble most likely :-) Well, somebody needs to be having fun so all the rest of us living incredibly and thoroughly boring lives know without a doubt just how boring our lives really are ;-)].
Hip Hop Music has several MP3 cuts off this or that mixtape or album, and maybe even somebody talking about what they think of the music and perhaps even the significance of the music in the context of other music - both historical and contemporary. Or maybe not.
American Idol in Number 2 Position
Number Two on the Top 40, the American Idol channel is really doing well. I like this channel - it is so upbeat and fill of affection and admiration for these people. There are others that are like this too - but they are not at the 2nd position on the popular channels list :-)
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Tattoos and other Body Art
The Tattoos channel is once again the Top Channel here at Mattters. One of the fascinations with this channel, and all the photographs of the artwork, is that we can vicariously live through these people - and discover how WE would feel if we got this or that tattoo. Kind of a try before you buy kind of thing... :-)
The SEO / Search Engine Optimization Channel
Mattters has the most comprehensive news coverage of search engines and search engine optimization on the internet. If you don't read it here - it ain't happening. With nearly 100 blogs and prestigious Tweeps sharing the latest thinking on website and blog optimizations, as well as the latest developments and attention-focusing techniques in the social arena, this is Need To Know stuff for the practicing webmaster and internet strategists and tacticians.
Kind of too bad we all have to know this stuff - but it seems like we do. Or at least a little so we can realize, thoroughly, and with a topspin of error prone guesses and hints - that what we do to make a living is these days is just a whole lot of silly - just like All other the honorable professions, once you think about it.
Kind of too bad we all have to know this stuff - but it seems like we do. Or at least a little so we can realize, thoroughly, and with a topspin of error prone guesses and hints - that what we do to make a living is these days is just a whole lot of silly - just like All other the honorable professions, once you think about it.
Added Social 'Share' Buttons support for Internet Explorer and new Twitter buttons
We've always had buttons for people to share stories on Twitter, Digg, Facebook etc. but they were not displayed for visitors using the Internet Explorer. IE is slower than the other browsers, and we thought it's performance was slowed down too much by all these buttons.
But, after some rework, we think we've now made them unobtrusive enough, finally, for visitors using IE.
And speaking of unobtrusive... we switched from Bitly to Twitter's official rewtweet button AND... and... there is now a little delay before the buttons appear when the mouse is near a story. Some people thought it was a little ... disturbing ... to see the buttons rapidly appear and dissapear all the time as they moved the mouse across the page. Hope this works better... for Everybody!
You can see all this in action on any channel... even the Twitter channel :-)
But, after some rework, we think we've now made them unobtrusive enough, finally, for visitors using IE.
And speaking of unobtrusive... we switched from Bitly to Twitter's official rewtweet button AND... and... there is now a little delay before the buttons appear when the mouse is near a story. Some people thought it was a little ... disturbing ... to see the buttons rapidly appear and dissapear all the time as they moved the mouse across the page. Hope this works better... for Everybody!
You can see all this in action on any channel... even the Twitter channel :-)
Mattters http://mattters.com welcomes all the (now sadly defunct) DailyRadar bloggers looking for more fun, traffic and exposure.
Expanded the Sports channels, including the popular wild & crazy Sports Entertainment channel http://sports-entertainment.mattters.com/
A Presidential Bride [THE CHEAP CHICA'S GUIDE TO STYLE] A Top Story on the Fashion News Channel http://fashion-news.mattters.com/ Chelsea
FRACTAL ROCK "Falling Up The Well" from Fractals and Filigree (2010) [PROGARCHIVES: MP3S] A Top Story on the Rock Music Channel http://ping.fm/GQVAj
The 17 Sexiest Suicide Girls (PICS) [COED MAGAZINE] A Top Story on the Men's Channel http://ping.fm/KoWVg
Grinning Shadows - The New Curse (2010) [METAL STORM REVIEWS]. A Top Story from the Heavy Metal Channel http://ping.fm/h74ZB
The future? The present? Will there be any other kind? The Mobile Marketing channel: http://ping.fm/eiJaL
Its Labor Day - still hot enough for an cold beer? Or is everyday 'hot' enough? The Beer channel: http://beer.mattters.com/
The American Idol Channel - Where are they now?
The American Idol channel is covering where the winners and 'losers' are, what they are doing in the off season. Our sixth most popular channel out of over 700.
New and established stars like Adam Lambert, Kara Dioguardi, Kris Allen, Jennifer Lopez (!), Randy Jackson, Carrie Underwood, Katharine McPhee, and all the rest... stories and photos and sightings and all about just what is happening and going to happen to everybody in the American Idol family.
New and established stars like Adam Lambert, Kara Dioguardi, Kris Allen, Jennifer Lopez (!), Randy Jackson, Carrie Underwood, Katharine McPhee, and all the rest... stories and photos and sightings and all about just what is happening and going to happen to everybody in the American Idol family.
Friday, September 3, 2010
The Justin Bieber Channel - News and Photos
The Justin Bieber channel is updated several times per hour with the latest stories and photos (and soon: videos) from around the world. Fans, photographers, bloggers, tweeps, concert goers, and, of course, Justin himself all have their say.
It is one of our most visited and most well-loved channels.
Enjoy!
It is one of our most visited and most well-loved channels.
Enjoy!
The Justin Bieber channel is very popular and one of our top up-and-coming channels http://justin-bieber.mattters.com/
The Home Page (and Best Of pages) and their Top Story
OK.
Yes.
It was obnoxious.
Sometimes the same story would end up as the Top Story... day after day after day...
No longer.
One day. One day a month is all any story gets, no matter how 'good' it is.
Shoulda done this ages ago.
Personally, I love these pages. Popular Mattters on the home page and all the Best Of pages (see Best Of Music Mattters). Great stories are still great, usually, and do not deserve to be tossed into history's dustbin.
That's the way I see it, anyway.
Wow, a lot of Justin Bieber stories on that Best Of Music page. Best the Justin Bieber channels moves into the Top 40 channels list real, real soon now.
Yes.
It was obnoxious.
Sometimes the same story would end up as the Top Story... day after day after day...
No longer.
One day. One day a month is all any story gets, no matter how 'good' it is.
Shoulda done this ages ago.
Personally, I love these pages. Popular Mattters on the home page and all the Best Of pages (see Best Of Music Mattters). Great stories are still great, usually, and do not deserve to be tossed into history's dustbin.
That's the way I see it, anyway.
Wow, a lot of Justin Bieber stories on that Best Of Music page. Best the Justin Bieber channels moves into the Top 40 channels list real, real soon now.
The VOX Blog Hosting Site Closes
[A lot of sites closing these days, I know! What is up with that? Anyway...]
A number of blogs carried by Mattters are hosted on VOX. If you are one of these, please let us know where you move to so we can continue to carry your stories and people will be able to still find you.
A number of blogs carried by Mattters are hosted on VOX. If you are one of these, please let us know where you move to so we can continue to carry your stories and people will be able to still find you.
The Android Development channel http://android-development.mattters.com/ now handily beats the Android channel http://android.mattters.com/
Wow. The BMW http://bmw.mattters.com/ and Mercedes-Benz http://mercedes-benz.mattters.com/ channels keep swapping primacy on Top 40
We welcome the Anime and Manga channel as one of the Mattters Top 40 channels http://anime-and-manga.mattters.com/
The Social Gaming channel http://ping.fm/mB8fh is doing well on our Top 40 Channels list. Having fun rules!
The American Idol channel is at number 6 on our Top Channels lists: http://ping.fm/LlA4i Tthe off-season seem interminable to anyone else?
The Luxury channel is also in our Top 40 channels: http://ping.fm/T3Z6H Which is good; sometimes a person feels like shopping in a big way :-)
We also welcome the HomeTheater channel to the Top 40 list http://ping.fm/QUfwj Used to be #4 in our early months, glad to see it back)
We welcome the Eyewear channel http://eyewear.mattters.com/ to the top 40 channel list. Who knew glasses could be so cool?
We welcome the Celebrity Fashion channel as our new Top Channel (out of over 700!) http://celebrity-fashion.mattters.com/
Thursday, September 2, 2010
New Channel: Boxing
Added a new Sports channel: The Boxing channel. Stories and photos of boxing news and analysis and predictions.
This channel was a little late in coming, maybe? This was mostly due to the Martial Arts channels doing such a good job, perhaps.
In any case... Welcome, boxing fans!
This channel was a little late in coming, maybe? This was mostly due to the Martial Arts channels doing such a good job, perhaps.
In any case... Welcome, boxing fans!
DailyRadar fans and bloggers might be interested in the Mattters galaxy of 700+ channels http://mattters.com
Daily Radar Closes It Doors
One of the most esteemed aggregators, Daily Radar, is no more. I was showing my wife other aggregators somewhat like ours, and we were shocked to see that they no longer are receiving support from their parent company. Our condolences to all the people who worked there.
Like Mattters, Daily Radar had many channels, what they called 'Blips' - web pages that people could visit and learn what was happening.
Daily Radar had been around for a lot longer than Mattters, and had many avid visitors. Those people might be feeling a little lost right now - but hopefully they will find Mattters an interesting place to visit as well. We also welcome any bloggers who were carried by DailyRadar but which we, because we are still quite new and there are only so many hours in 8 months, do not yet carry here.
Some of the most popular Blips were the PCHardwareBlip, which we separate into Hardware News and Hardware Reviews
Another popular Blip was XboxBlips, which we call the Xbox channel which is under the most comprehensive Gaming channel.
The ElectronicBlips-like stories can be found in our Techno channel
Similarly, the MensFashionBlips people might want to check out our Mens Fashion channel.
As you can see, we should have a channel for everyone - and if not, we'll make one!
As always, we welcome any feedback...
Like Mattters, Daily Radar had many channels, what they called 'Blips' - web pages that people could visit and learn what was happening.
Daily Radar had been around for a lot longer than Mattters, and had many avid visitors. Those people might be feeling a little lost right now - but hopefully they will find Mattters an interesting place to visit as well. We also welcome any bloggers who were carried by DailyRadar but which we, because we are still quite new and there are only so many hours in 8 months, do not yet carry here.
Some of the most popular Blips were the PCHardwareBlip, which we separate into Hardware News and Hardware Reviews
Another popular Blip was XboxBlips, which we call the Xbox channel which is under the most comprehensive Gaming channel.
The ElectronicBlips-like stories can be found in our Techno channel
Similarly, the MensFashionBlips people might want to check out our Mens Fashion channel.
As you can see, we should have a channel for everyone - and if not, we'll make one!
As always, we welcome any feedback...
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