http://www.thepomoblog.com/archive/local-media-needs-to-play-with-googles-new-app/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:00:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 http://www.thepomoblog.com/archive/local-media-needs-to-play-with-googles-new-app/#comment-176991 Fri, 16 May 2008 21:24:09 +0000 http://www.thepomoblog.com/archive/local-media-needs-to-play-with-googles-new-app/#comment-176991 I *really* wish that someone had a directory of local yard sales available. I'd smack that widget on my home page so fast! At the very least, an RSS feed. It frustrates me endlessly when friends tell me about the brick house a few blocks away that sold 400 books last Saturday. I'd have gotten up early and gone if I'd known about it. But as to local media using widgets for their purposes, please, God, let them elevate the intelligence level of their stories a bit. The next time I hear that ANYONE is "speaking out," or any overly cutesy, not-even-clever crap like "Before you slather on the barbeque sauce, make sure their health scores cut the mustard..." I am going to vomit. I don't own a TV, and just hearing this s*** on the radio drives me batty. Not to go off on a rant or anything......... I *really* wish that someone had a directory of local yard sales available. I’d smack that widget on my home page so fast! At the very least, an RSS feed. It frustrates me endlessly when friends tell me about the brick house a few blocks away that sold 400 books last Saturday. I’d have gotten up early and gone if I’d known about it. But as to local media using widgets for their purposes, please, God, let them elevate the intelligence level of their stories a bit. The next time I hear that ANYONE is “speaking out,” or any overly cutesy, not-even-clever crap like “Before you slather on the barbeque sauce, make sure their health scores cut the mustard…” I am going to vomit. I don’t own a TV, and just hearing this s*** on the radio drives me batty. Not to go off on a rant or anything………

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