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the weekend report from fall land
Sep. 27th, 2010 01:04 pmAnd fall is here, the weather's cooled off and the leaves are starting to turn and it's kind of a relief after the record breaking temperatures we had here on Friday. Saturday we made an epic journey around Lake Simcoe. Not really for any reason, just I'd never done it and it looked interesting on the map. We stopped in an antique shop in Beaverton and picked up a bunch of old girls annuals for $2 each and some other neat stuff, including a vintage plastic Yashica camera company mascot. There are some other shops in the area that we didn't get a chance to hit, so we'll have to get back up there at some point. Really pretty through there, especially at this time of year.
Sunday I was supposed to work but it turned out I didn't. So we got to get some errands run, have lunch, get lost around the Weston/Islington/Jane neighborhood. I got this week's ZERO FIGHTER finished and we watched a lot of bad TV. Got some cleaning done, too; there are several ongoing declutter projects that I finally have the time to work on a little, and they are beginning to show dividends.
Speaking of projects, Mr Kitty has, or had, a page on the ComicSpace site. ComicSpace was an attempt to build a social networking site around comics creators, sort of a FaceBook or MySpace. We used it to post news and short comics that for whatever reason we didn't want to put up on the Mr Kitty site. A lot of people joined in the initial rollout. As it happens, most online comics people already have their own FaceBooks and MySpaces, so ComicSpace didn't become the vital Web 2.0 destination that it could have been. So recently I went back to check on it and the entire site had been completely destroyed and put back together again, this time as a WordPress-based kind of thing. It now seems to be a vast agglomeration of blogs. Everybody's personal ComicSpace spaces were changed over to blogs, their archived comics went into some hard-to-find, hard-to-navigate gallery, their user icons and links and everything were wiped clean.
At the moment the "featured blogs" on ComicSpace are all spam, spam for clothing and books and other spammy goodness. It seems like the owners ditched a clunky but workable system that was generating advertising revenue (there were ads on the front page of ComicSpace) in favor of a vastly more inconvenient system that generates revenue for spammers.
We had already questioned the value of spending any time on ComicSpace - even when it worked, it wasn't generating a lot of traffic - and now, any benefits that might have come from ComicSpace have been completely eliminated. Why should we jump through the ComicSpace hoops, merely to set up a blog? I can set up blogs on my own perfectly well, thank you. There are plenty of free webcomic hosting sites, plenty of free blogging sites, plenty of everything ComicSpace does, but with less nonsense. Way to not do it, fellas.
Sunday I was supposed to work but it turned out I didn't. So we got to get some errands run, have lunch, get lost around the Weston/Islington/Jane neighborhood. I got this week's ZERO FIGHTER finished and we watched a lot of bad TV. Got some cleaning done, too; there are several ongoing declutter projects that I finally have the time to work on a little, and they are beginning to show dividends.
Speaking of projects, Mr Kitty has, or had, a page on the ComicSpace site. ComicSpace was an attempt to build a social networking site around comics creators, sort of a FaceBook or MySpace. We used it to post news and short comics that for whatever reason we didn't want to put up on the Mr Kitty site. A lot of people joined in the initial rollout. As it happens, most online comics people already have their own FaceBooks and MySpaces, so ComicSpace didn't become the vital Web 2.0 destination that it could have been. So recently I went back to check on it and the entire site had been completely destroyed and put back together again, this time as a WordPress-based kind of thing. It now seems to be a vast agglomeration of blogs. Everybody's personal ComicSpace spaces were changed over to blogs, their archived comics went into some hard-to-find, hard-to-navigate gallery, their user icons and links and everything were wiped clean.
At the moment the "featured blogs" on ComicSpace are all spam, spam for clothing and books and other spammy goodness. It seems like the owners ditched a clunky but workable system that was generating advertising revenue (there were ads on the front page of ComicSpace) in favor of a vastly more inconvenient system that generates revenue for spammers.
We had already questioned the value of spending any time on ComicSpace - even when it worked, it wasn't generating a lot of traffic - and now, any benefits that might have come from ComicSpace have been completely eliminated. Why should we jump through the ComicSpace hoops, merely to set up a blog? I can set up blogs on my own perfectly well, thank you. There are plenty of free webcomic hosting sites, plenty of free blogging sites, plenty of everything ComicSpace does, but with less nonsense. Way to not do it, fellas.
