Archive for December, 2005

Marvel Revamps Their Online Comic Offerings

While doing some research for an upcoming GeekQuiz I caught wind of the fact that Marvel has revamped their website yet again in an attempt to make their content more accessible online. They’ve especially put a lot of work into making their comics readable in a web browser, and will reportedly be making a lot [ READ MORE ]

links for 2005-12-24

NYPL Digital Gallery | Home “free and open online access to hundreds of thousands of digital images” The New York public library has scanned a ton of it’s material and made it easy to search on their [ READ MORE ]

links for 2005-12-22

No Sweat — Union-Made Sweatshop-Free Casual Apparel I’m a big fan of sweatshop free labor – I would definitely pay a premium for clothing and goods that I knew were produced in humane conditions [ READ MORE ]

links for 2005-12-21

BlogExsplosion – Explode your blog (or podcast) traffic Trade ads with other blogs – earn points for the blogs you show, and spend those points to get featured on other blogs. Very cool. [ READ MORE ]

Transit Strike Podcast

Okay, I’ve set up a temporary podcast over at http://www.glitchnyc.com/TransitStrikePodcast to cover the news surrounding the strike and to collect interviews with union picketers, scabs, cabs, and others. “Making sense of a complicated situation, one conversation at a time” Feel free to send stories, rants, and audio feedback to TransitStrikePodcast@glitchnyc.com [ READ MORE ]

The Transit Strike is on

25 years ago, New York came to a halt for 11 days. Today, we begin the ritual again. Sources say the Transit Strike is on. Now, at 2AM, Announcements are expected any minute. Both NY1 and twuLocal100.org are having trouble loading pages, suffering from a Slashdot like “strikedotting” as everyone in NYC refreshes the page in hopes [ READ MORE ]

The changing face of GlitchNYC

Well, after about 3 years of blogging here, I’m starting to take a look at what this site is about and why I do it. Yes, it’s reached that time, I’m posting the inevitable blog about blogging… Many of you have probably noticed the new influx of “daily link” posts. I’ve decided to experiment with splicing in [ READ MORE ]

links for 2005-12-18

Full Story » Graphic Novel 15 online graphic novels (tags: comics graphic novel indie) [ READ MORE ]

links for 2005-12-17

Cute Overload! I think i just found Sara’s new favorite website! (tags: cute blog fun photos funny blogs photo) [ READ MORE ]

links for 2005-12-14

Song Lyrics: Disney Afternoon I don’t know how it happened, but Sara and I needed to know the lyrics to the Ducktales theme song.. (tags: lyrics music disney) [ READ MORE ]

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