More local collaboration

What's this? My Sunday paper had a blurb about YouHub.com, a community-based website. They call it "citizen journalism" in the paper, and mention it's an experiment. See, real web 2.0 companies call it blogging and beta, but whatever. You won't hear Bill Gates saying podcast either.

I'm going to try out YourHub and report back with my opinion. The News-Sentinel has been doing some cool stuff, although they still need to can the registration (Engadget still doesn't do this guys and they get hundreds of thousands of hits a day), and offer a lower-bandwidth edition. While all that multimedia is great and all, you're kind've going overboard. "More" doesn't mean "better." More better is better though.

In other news, I've set up a MySpace account. There are a LOT of Knoxville folk on there. I don't know why exactly MySpace is so popular, because the interface is atrocious, and the pages are prone to very uh, questionable design choices... Plus, it's the most non-standard, Windows-centric site I've been to in years. Microsoft doesn't even do the kind've things they do. And if the KNNS was heavy on the multimedia, wait 'till you see MySpace pages with videos, gifs, music, and flash items. Yeah! But maybe I'm just aesthetically challenged. I mean, I think Apple's website looks good. Go figure. You can find me on there if you look really hard ;)

More to come!