December 30, 2005

Unfortunate ad placement on Bend.com...

Is it just me, or does this particular ad placement on the Bend.com article pictured below seem really... I don't know, juvenile? Not to mention, wrong.

Thumbnail of Bend.com's unfortunate ad placement
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It just hasn't been the same since Barney left.

Posted by jon at 2:42 PM


March 8, 2005

New Bend.com

I've noticed over the past few days that Bend.com finally has that new design Barney was talking about back around the end of the year. Overall, I think it looks 1000% better than before, albeit not quite perfect (the RSS feed appears to be broken, no user comments at the bottom of the articles...).

However. Since Barney left, I think they are in serious need of an editor; I did a screen grab of the Press Release headlines, because something went horribly awry:

Innapropriate press release headline found on Bend.com

There is just so much wrong with that headline, it's not even funny.

Well, it's a little funny. :)

Posted by jon at 2:58 PM


April 1, 2004

Bend.com RSS

Just in case anyone missed it (and unless you're an avid reader of comments to my blog, you probably missed it :) ), Bend.com now has an RSS feed. Gentlemen, start your aggregators!

Posted by jon at 11:33 PM


March 26, 2004

Bend.com Needs RSS

Okay, Bend.com seriously needs an RSS feed. I'm seriously considering writing a script to scrape their archive page for headlines and producing one myself.

Posted by jon at 11:30 AM