In yet another attempt to bring order and usefulness to the comments section of a high traffic news site,
Gawker has implemented a new comment system. They are borrowing the basic concept from Slashdot that most comments will never be seen, and thus the focus is to find the interesting conversations that do occur under the article, and promote them with no regard for chronological order . The system shows some promise, although it clearly has a ways to go as a recent article failed to highlight replies in the comments from the subject of the article.
Also of note, the photo of Nick Denton used in the article is by MeFi's own
mathowie.
posted by COD
on Jun 24, 2012 -
56 comments
In a strange and incestuous twist of the space-web-time continuum, a fascinating
comment about the mechanism by which The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (
previOusly.) records every bit of daily news appeared inside a
post on
PVRBlog, the red-headed stepchild blog of our selfless benefactor,
user 1.
posted by jckll
on Aug 19, 2008 -
26 comments
You've laughed at them in the supermarket checkout line, now
dirt Magazine lets you create your own tabloid headlines and spread vile gossip about your friends and enemies with a few keystrokes and a simple click of the mouse!
posted by MrBaliHai
on Oct 7, 2003 -
11 comments
Ticketstubs goes live! Every ticket has a story, and there are already some superb posts. A round of applause for mathowie's latest endeavor. (The Empire Continues!)
posted by RunsWithBandageScissors
on Jan 1, 2003 -
28 comments
The inimitable Glassdog gives us yet another epehemeral prose masterpiece this time about our very own
mathowie. I'm not sure how either of the aforementioned would like it if we archived the entire piece here (there's no archive link), so check it out soon (like now).
posted by pheideaux
on Dec 8, 2001 -
13 comments
Matt's back, and so is Metafilter! Just in time too, because I was about to get a big promotion for all the work I've finished in the last two weeks. What did you do on
your MeFi vacation?
posted by waxpancake
on Aug 20, 2001 -
97 comments
o/~ Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday
mathowie.
Happy birthday to you! o/~
This has certainly been the week of celebration at the Haughey household. Best wishes.
posted by chrish
on Oct 10, 2000 -
2 comments
Creator of MetaFiler: Wedding Bliss, As Matt's Brother, I can report to all here at MetaFilter, the Wedding went as picture perfect as they imagined!
No rain, Everybody was in time for the ceremony, Lucky no Television Reporters crashing or blocking streets, No helicopters hovering above.
It was a beautiful, simple gathering of friends and family
Here are the Exclusive Photo's only for the Metafilter Community:
Exchanging of Vows
and
The Big Kiss!
Best of luck to Matt & Kay!!!
posted by Max's Daddy
on Oct 7, 2000 -
26 comments
peterme's bathroom There's a story...
About a man name Haughey...
Who attended a party...
(sing this to the brady bunch theme song)
posted by efader
on Jun 5, 2000 -
19 comments
I have a question for Matt. I notice on the
Zeldman comment that someone also has the same username as me. I am
jay. There is also another
jay. I don't think anyone would want to impersonate me, but for some people on this list, this might be a problem. We could all become
mathowies, I even created my own
mathowie account to see if this really works and
it does.
posted by jay
on May 19, 2000 -
10 comments
Keeping up with the breakneck pace of life at a San Francisco startup isn't as easy as
it looks.
posted by jjg
on Apr 3, 2000 -
8 comments
Personal rant time: I wrote
my own resume a while ago, and have been building onto it for a couple years now. To me, it is copyrighted material, just as anything else I write. So why is it showing up in all sorts of resume databases? I'm getting calls from recruiters saying they got it from
Aquent,
Passport Access, and various other resume sites. These sites seem to be sucking down resumes, putting them on their site, and making money off them. I can't see my own resume, since I haven't paid to look at it. I find PassportAccess to be especially annoying: they offer
an opt-out page. What the hell? Why should I even have to do this? It's my resume, not theirs!
posted by mathowie
on Feb 7, 2000 -
13 comments
A group of folks from the
evolt.org mailing list decided to do something to protest etoys's recent actions. One person purchased a domain, another setup web space, a couple people wrote some articles and
I designed the site. Keep that boycott going.
posted by mathowie
on Dec 9, 1999 -
0 comments
