About.com Redesign
December 12th, 2007
It’s hard to believe I’ve had this gig since last century, but it says right there under my picture: Guide since 1999. After months of planning and frenzied behind-the-scenes work, About.com rolled out the new design for our site this morning.
I dig it — it’s much less cluttered and more web-2.0-y, with support for tags on all articles and a new row of tabs that’s supposed to let you access accumulated content more easily. A number of widgets in the sidebar highlight reviews, photo galleries, and our all-but-dead forums. In exchange for a new promo spot up top, they’ve pushed down the blog a little, but you can still subscribe to the feed or get nothing but the blog on a dedicated page. Vain as we are, we’re most concerned with our mugshots, which weren’t the ones we submitted and will hopefully change any moment now.
What do you think?
Download the Classics
October 15th, 2006
The Online Movies section on About needed a serious overhaul; I added a new list of classics for (legal) download, including Rashomon and Dr. Caligari. Next are YouTube links. I’d be grateful for suggestions–all I have so far is Rabbits, Who Killed the Electric Car? and Dark Side of the Rainbow….
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Shortbus
October 2nd, 2006
Shortbus opens on Wednesday, so here’s the review.
Shortbus has the potential to become one of the films that redefine audience expectations, a watershed that divides other movies with similar themes into before and after. It’s that good.
Shortbus. John Cameron Mitchell, 2006. *****
