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Egan Loo
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But… I just demonstrated how the news were not more serious or less targeted towards 15 year old geeks, exactly five and ten years ago. If anything, ANN is posting more of all kinds of news, both serious and trivial. A lot more.
Again, on a Sunday? |
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nicomorr
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Demonstrated? You mean as in QED? After that - you can have the last word - I'm closing this out at my end as this isn't going anywhere. BTW the posts on "deculture" were jolly interesting - makes me wish I was more motivated to learn Japanese & was a little younger to do it. Such snippets are what keep me here. NMM 
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Tempest
 I Run this place.ANN Publisher  Posts: 10425 Location: Do not message me for support. |
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Saying we reported it as "straight news" is a little incorrect. It was listed as a "not so daily LOTD."Our LOTD's have always been for items that aren't particularly newsworthy, but are interesting and/or amusing. BTW, you can always tell when Egan does an LOTD ersus when I do one. When I do them, they're just a link, and a brief front page intro. Egan gives them the full article treatment with a picture, background, etc... -t |
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Tempest
I Run this place. ANN Publisher Posts: 10425 Location: Do not message me for support. |
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So, nicomorr, if I understand your complaint correctly, you are annoyed that, from the RSS feed, you had no way of telling that this was the less serious, more trivial type,right ?
If you had been able to tell as much from the RSS feed, you would have simply not read the article, and you would have had no complaint. In otherwords, you wouldn't have felt that you were mislead into wasting your time. Do I have that correct ? Do you think it would correct the problem if we added "Not so Daily LOTD" to the article title itself ? I'm not offering to do this at this point, but I am offering to consider it. -t |
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nicomorr
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Yikes! Put on the spot - thinks furioso. In summary - YES. Spot on Mr Tempest - that is exactly what I'd like. At longer length: I realise it's an auto system (I think) but some indication of what department all the feed items originate from would indeed be useful as a part of the feed item subject line. I suppose, backing off a little, I would appreciate any way of finding items I enjoy more easily .... Egan Loo is correct in that there is a lot MORE news - both trivial & serious - that does mean I have to wade through more dross to find the gold. And it does seem as if there are a LOT of very committed and knowledgeable people reading & posting here, in addition to your staff, many of whom I know are serious lovers of Anime & Japanese culture. More news I suppose also shows how mainstream Anime has become - that is a good thing imho, but can make life more difficult for committed otakus like myself. How do you target two essentially different demographics from one site? The older serious people like myself & the younger 'let's just enjoy the entertainment' fanboys & girls. Actually - you're not doing badly at all. NMM 
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Tempest
I Run this place. ANN Publisher Posts: 10425 Location: Do not message me for support. |
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Which feed are you following ? animenewsnetwork.com/all/rss.xml animenewsnetwork.com/newsroom/rss.xml or animenewsnetwork.com/news/rss.xml ? Yes, the feeds are 100% automated... But changing the title would have nothing to do with the script automation. -t |
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nicomorr
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the top one: animenewsnetwork.com/all/rss.xml Anime News Network - Article ANN RSS feed Ahem - didn't realise there was more than one .... I now see there's loads animenewsnetwork.com/newsfeed/ pity one can't mashup one's own custom feed without using php. BTW: I use a Firefox feed reading extension called 'Brief' - it sits in the status bar & just works away - very simple & effective: http://brief.mozdev.org/index.html customisable I now see also. NMM 
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Sven Viking
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When I started reading this, I assumed they meant classes to help them un-learn investigation techniques picked up from popular culture (e.g. cop shows and mystery fiction) . I.e. 'de-culture' (verb): To reverse damage done by culture.
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PetrifiedJello
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Why? It's one person complaining. I really don't want another line of text to scroll past on my mobile while reading feeds. That would be more annoying, truthfully. Trying to read feeds on a WinMo postage stamp screen is bad enough. PLEASE don't alter the current system. If this reader is that upset, there are other sources of anime news he can access without being upset over what's news, and what's not. |
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nicomorr
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Good point - add rather than replace - there are enough ANN RSS feeds already, one or more more won't make much difference to the feeds page. Perhaps there should be a special series of 'mobiles' or 'twits' feed versions for those with limited reading capacity & an impatient frame of reference. NMM 
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bravetailor
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I never respect a director who doesn't use his real, full name.
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TokyoGetter
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Eh, I won't be mistaking any of the Star Trek films for Herzog or Fritz Lang anytime soon. Then again, I dropped ST like a hot rock after I watched Legend of the Galactic Heroes. If you haven't seen that series and you like epic sci-fi, please do yourself the favor of checking it out.
I don't get people's arguments against T4. I suspect that a lot of them wouldn't have liked the original. T3 was more of an inchoate waste than anything else, but T4 was 2 hours of ass-kicking fun. At the end of the day, it delivered. I wanted 2 hours of machines destroying things and watching buildings explode amongst mechanized death-marches, and I most certainly got it. I really enjoyed that aspect of it, as opposed to the exploration of "what it means to be human" issues which they'd exhausted in the previous films while only hinting at how much the future sucked it. The only beef I had was with Skynet's interior security, which seems to be running Vista on a poorly-made laptop. 
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jr240483
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It did?? Never knew that. Also was kinda susprised he liked SM.Was the main reason my sister and I got into anime. It's shame Toei never released the sequel to the Super S series for the US and never even gave an explaination Why they didn't released it in the US. Though I Was preety sure he would've said that Mamour Oshii's Ghost in the Shell was his main influence cause it's with every SciFi director. |
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