MetaFilter posts tagged with websites

The First 100 Days

Cochise — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:39:39 -0800

Oh those vaunted "first 100 days," they are finally upon us. Roosevelt's legendary time period has long been applied to new administrations, but never so emphatically or with such hope as to the Obama administration. And now you can follow them! For commentary, there's The First 100 Days, for mainstream media there's Obama's First 100 Days, for a comparison between old and new there 100 Days: Starting the Job, From FDR to Obama, for new media there's Obama's First 100 Days, and finally, for a government perspective there's First 100 Days. I smell an idea for an ironic t-shirt...

I Don't Want to Be Exposed to Angus

wendell — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 17:01:12 -0800

If you enjoyed Supermarket 2.0, you'll love brgr, aka Burger 2.0! Yes, it's your basic "if your hamburger were like a website/web celebrity/software product/tech company/buzzword" schtick, but some of them are funny. My faves [inside].

The Inner Workings of Your Favorite Sites

IronLizard — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:04:09 -0800

Ever wonder what's powering your favorite websites? Builtwith promises to give you a clear picture of what software and technologies are behind almost any site. Unfortunately, it's not always very accurate.

Fate: 1 Internets: 0

zarq — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:03:43 -0800

Newsfilter: 30,000 customers in the San Francisco area lost power today at about 1:50pm PDT, in a series of power failures which knocked out a major datacenter hub: 365 Main. The hub controls servers for many social media sites, including Technorati, Netflix, Yelp, Craigslist and all Six Apart properties, including TypePad, LiveJournal and Vox. (6A's twitter stream has updates.) More here and here. Amusingly enough, 365 Main tempted fate and released a press release today patting themselves on the back for "two years of 100-percent uptime".

video profiles--from activists to huggers to outers to excons to the religious ....

amberglow — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 17:55:56 -0800

People of the Web --very well done short video profiles of interesting people online. Mike Rogers of blogactive is on the front page now. Links to previous profiles are on the right, including Kirk Cameron, Caleb Shikles, Sherman Austin, and Josh Wolf.

CRAYON!

divabat — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 03:28:07 -0800

Before RSS and personalized aggregators such as Personalized Google and NetVibes, there was CRAYON, a service that allowed you to "CReAte Your Own Newspaper" by providing a page with links to chosen sources. [mi]

Salt Peanuts, Salt Peanuts

spicynuts — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 06:49:47 -0800

Moderate this! Love food? Love kvetching about how moderators suck? Here's a look inside what it takes to moderate a hugely popular site (Chowhound.com) and to have to explain to people over and over that you are not in fact, evil.

Sploid 'Sploded

wendell — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 15:04:50 -0800

~~Alt~~ ~~Anti-~~ ~~Bizarro~~ NoNewsFilter

Google Spreadsheets is just the coolest

chorltonmeateater — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 05:40:52 -0800

The 50 coolest websites : according to Time Magazine, at least. Who cares if they changed the world or not: as long as they're cool, that's all that really matters! Unsurprisingly, Digg's in there, as is MySpace (!), but they somehow seem to have neglected Metafilter, deciding that Cute Overload is way more hip instead. And no, Flickr's not in this one either.

Take Back Metafilter

growabrain — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 20:44:27 -0800

Re: Take Back Mefi. Together for the very first time: 500 BC - First joke. 868 AD - First printed (dated) book. 1024 - First paper bank note. 1781 - First comic book. 1817 - First bike. 1840 - First stamp. 1876 - First novel ever written on a typewriter. 1880 - First Hello. 1895 - First X-ray. 1893 - First license plate. 1929 - First Oscar winners. 1936 - First true TV Dinner. 1946 - First Bikini. (More)

Look at all the .gov sites infected by

basilwhite — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 08:53:35 -0800

Look at all the .gov sites infected by the "0wn3d by NoPh0BiA" hack. Sad.

world-wide t-ball scores

stupidsexyFlanders — Mon, 13 Dec 2004 13:03:33 -0800

Backfence.com wants to see a thousand tiny websites bloom, created by neighbors, for neighbors, and supported by local advertising. The founders' assumption is that many little people creating content for free will put big dollars in their pockets. (WaPo link, reg. req.) Is there an information gap in your life that "hyperlocal" websites could fill?

Opening up government, because they're too slow to do it themselves

grahamspankee — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 08:24:08 -0800

Hacking open democracy. First came FaxYourMP, so technophobe MPs could be easily contacted by the 'net generation. Next were PublicWhip, DowningStreetSays and TheyWorkForYou (previously discussed here and here) to help voters keep tabs on what their elected representatives get up to in office. Coming soon are FaxYourRepresentative/WriteToThem, NotApathetic and YourConstituencyMailingList. (MI).

Another damn list

braun_richard — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 10:50:03 -0800

If you had to pick your 5 Favorite web sites... ...what would they be? Yeah, it's the end of the year and we're all list-happy! Professor Barnhardt's Journal asked writers like Joel Stein, Dan Radosh and Rob Walker and bloggers what their favorite sites are. Sadly, not one mention of Metafilter!

Your favorite band's website sucks

mathowie — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 09:58:32 -0800

Your favorite band's website sucks. I can't count the number of times I've wanted to share a band's great new tracks with friends over email and had to give them detailed instructions on how to navigate the flash popup (ok, first click on the band's launch panel, then look in the popup for something marked "sounds" then click that and click the stream button...what? you don't have the latest flash?), or if I love a band's music, I can't seem to find their tour dates even though I know they're on the road. Merlin drops the five golden rules for bands that do too good of a job keeping their fans from their music.

Guess I'll just have to vote Democratic!

zaelic — Wed, 27 Oct 2004 07:33:32 -0800

Georgebush.com site blocked to viewers outside the United States. Surfers outside the US have been unable to visit the official re-election site of President George W Bush. The blocking of browsers sited outside the US began in the early hours of Monday morning.

Beeb sites face 'public value test'

Stoatfarm — Mon, 05 Jul 2004 10:38:44 -0800

"BBC wields axe over websites" Some BBC websites are going to be going away soon due to a "public value test", discussed earlier here and here. This comes after the Graf Report and charges that they aren't different enough from commercial sites. Will you miss "Pure Soap," "Fantasy Football" and the others?

After the lunch hour, we'll help you relax a bit

crasspastor — Mon, 26 Jan 2004 03:01:43 -0800

After the lunch hour, we'll help you relax a bit. Mood lit, time of day sensitive programming comes to your favorite local newspaper web portal. Will something like this fly? Has it been done before? Is this being done elsewhere now?

All I want for Christmas...

sanitycheck — Mon, 24 Nov 2003 09:27:43 -0800

Want to create a Christmas list that's not limited to items available at Amazon? There are several universal wishlist websites at your disposal.

Excuses For Being Caught On The Web

MiguelCardoso — Sat, 25 Oct 2003 16:34:39 -0800

What's The Best Excuse When You're Caught Reading MetaFilter... when you're supposed to be working? (More inside.)

Hatred via weblog.

insomnia_lj — Thu, 16 Oct 2003 06:01:33 -0800

Hatred via weblog. The Jewish Internet Association, a tax-exempt, non-profit California corporation, considers the Internet a battleground, where "every channel must be utilized to resist and convert others to our defense and support." A whois showed they have the same mailing address as palestinefacts.org. However, examining their weblog reveals an agenda that is every bit as hateful as Hamas.

From a recent entry: "The Palestinian Arabs go through a pretense of having a government" .... "This must end. In the past the only way such murderous, bastard regimes have ended was through massive destruction of their people and lands." .... "The same process will be required to end the fraudulant "peace process" and come to the point where there can be a new start."

The JIA site links to a guide for shutting down offensive websites. Do you think the same techniques would work against them too?

Don Mueller, Single Guy!

VelvetHellvis — Fri, 15 Aug 2003 09:53:37 -0800

Don Mueller's interests include single women, video production and radio/TV announcing. The fifty-something Colorado bachelor is "secretly famous" and a member of Mensa. Don debates why he's not attracted to fat women, takes lessons in flirting and provides statistical proof as to why he's still single. Don even hits a first date home run with the help of Old School Hollywood royalty! In the days of well-designed and well-written weblogs, this is one of a disappearing breed of personal websites that will be missed (albeit in an ironic kinda way).

MichaelSavageFilter

kickingtheground — Thu, 26 Jun 2003 13:55:34 -0800

Hey everybody, it's Appropriate Michael Savage's name for your own purposes day! With contributions from Haypenny, über, Neal Pollack himself, and much, much, more, all in response to these threats.

nyc.gov revamped

liam — Mon, 05 May 2003 12:58:00 -0800

New York City's official website has been revamped. What are the good, and bad, models of a municipal site?

Sashimi! And Sushi Too!

MiguelCardoso — Sat, 19 Apr 2003 22:21:11 -0800

The Most Delicious Food That's Also Very Good For You - - in fact, to my mind, the best food in the world, including all the tastiest unhealthy ones, is sashimi. And sushi comes second. But sometimes it's late at night or too early in the morning; you're broke; the restaurants are closed; you're nowhere near Tokyo's Tsukiji Fish Market and all your sushi etiquette, memories and knowledge; your favourite sushi websites; your well-thumbed sushi books and your fishy wishlists...are of no darn use to you. Then you remember it's late or early enough to hit your local fish market... And it's then that this ideologically incorrect and Hawaii-leaning, California-dreaming, somewhat Englishly-challenged set of video tutorials comes into its own! Truth be told, for the price of one fresh mackerel, one sardine, a slice of salmon... and sashimi is yours! [But who am I kidding? It's just not the same. Oh well, Windows Media required for the vids.]