Yay for College!

Spring Semester for Raritan Valley started last week. It feels good to be in classes again, some times I wish the break wasn’t so long. I like all of my classes except for one. This class would be math. No surprise there really. But the professor I have has a very strong Russian accent so it’s really hard to understand her. It’s getting easier though and it looks like as long as I keep doing the labs, pay attention in class, and do the homework that I’ll pass. I’ve already made some friends in various classes.  Which is cool cause that really didn’t happen last year.  But overall I’m satisfied with this semester and it looks like it’s going to be a good one!  I already have work do for many of them, but thats expected in college. That’s all for now. I haven’t forgotten about my previous post. I’ll continue on with it some time midweek!

Welcome to Social News

Welcome everyone to my new blog. I used to use the blogger service but found the service very restricting. I am currently test driving wordpress at the moment to see if it suits my needs. In my entries I will be covering different topics such as Social Newsg Websites such as mixx and digg, Gaming, Game Development, Personal Life, and much more.

So for my first entry I’d like to talk about Social News. I mentioned mixx and digg above and they are actually what I am covering today. Currently digg is the top dog in Social News Networking. I was a big fan of a digg because of they way it so called revolutionized the way we view news. I loved how it was great place to come to for diverse Tech News, Gadgets, etc. But some where down the line they made a wrong turn. One for the worst, what once used to be a great service is now nothing but a slow loading web site, a broken comment system (which I’ll get into later), front page filled with spam, moderated submissions, etc.

I’m not the only one that misses the old digg. Many others do as well and have even voiced this. Last year digg encountered it’s revolt with the HD-DVD Key and now just recently they had another one due to the algorithm change. This is a slow sign that digg is just going to be getting worst. As I mentioned before the comment system is broken. Yes Mr. Kevin Rose released a statement on the digg blog saying they are releasing a faster and better version soon. The thing is though I don’t believe that it’s coming out soon. Everyone was promised a new comment system back in October and still nothing.

I have moved on from digg now to a much better Social News site called mixx. It reminds me of the digg everyone once new. It’s friendly, no one tries to compete, and there is a great community called The Mixxing Bowl which I’m currently designing it’s new forum layout. Which is to be released hopefully in a matter of weeks. All of the spam stories usually never make it to the front page and everyone does they’re part to keep it that way. On top of that the best thing to is, the creators of mixx are members of this forum and take feedback and feature requests from everyone. Something that the digg community doesn’t have and is an upper hand to mixx. I’ll blog on this more later. But I think as of right now you guys get where this is going.

Till then peace!