Archive for September 16th, 2007
Crysis
While most people are awaiting the release of Halo 3 for the 360. I’m not one of them screw Halo3 I want to play the Crysis demo that comes out the same day. FPS games on the PC are better cause of the mouse and keyboard over a controller for playing. Crysis from the makers of Farcry is one of the best looking FPS games on the PC with support for Direct X1o and multicore processor enhancements that are supposed to make it perform more fluidly on a 64bit OS. The teasers for the game are awesome with huge maps interactive scenery and hard AI that are difficult to kill. The demo is supposed to have a fully playable first level and a special surprise from the developers.
BlogRush Madness!
The past 3 days have been brutal as far as my subscribed RSS feeds are concerned, nearly all 37 of my ‘tech related’ feeds had a post in about BlogRush. This service requires you to put a widget (using javascript) somewhere on your blog. This widget displays posts from another BlogRush member’s blog. Every time that widget is loaded, you gain a ‘credit’. This credit entitles one of your posts to be displayed on somebody else’s site (within the widget).
What makes this appealing (aside from the hideously ugly widget and inability to customize it) is that they claim to display your links on blogs with similar content as well as they’ll only display similar content to your blog in your widget (like AdSense). If this works, it would be a great way to get more readers that might actually be interested in the content that I’m publishing.
The only thing I can see being a problem is repeating links. For example: Every time I go back and edit a blog post, I reload the page to make sure it looks OK (formatting-wise). I’ve had the BlogRush on my site for over 24 hours and have seen 4 of the links over 7 times already, all from the same source. That said, this is either being abused on a high scale but some users or there are next to no users at all in the “Computers and Internet” category. I’m going to go with the first answer.
I’m also noticing that there are posts about buying TVs, which would be technology, not Computers and Internet. Though this program is still in Beta, I don’t think it’s nearly qualified to have been launched to the public if they’re going to streamline everything through without checking. I do understand that they can’t manually check every site that signs up, but it would be better if they at least checked some. Or simply had a “report” feature which I’m not finding either.
I think I’m going to leave it there for two weeks or so to see how it works out. If it increases my traffic, wonderful. If not, well then I’m going to remove it. I’ll let you know two weeks from now if it’s really worth keeping or not.