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What is "My Two Bits?" My Two Bits is the official editorial page for the editor of Techtite.com. Techtite will accept reader submissions, for reviews as well as any editorials deemed well written and pertinent to this web site's audience. ----------------- A Sampling Of Past Editorials: ---DEATH to pop-up window commercials! ---PG-13: An Asset, or a Curse? ---Is Chrissy Snow in Charge of Disney...? ---This Editorial Can Be Closed By Clicking This TINY LITTLE DOT! ---100 Years to Live...? Poor You! ---Brad, Jen, Angelina, and those who give a flying... ---"Big Brother," Kaysar, and The Value of a Game... ---Paranoia, Box Office Destroy-a... ---"State of the Site" Address, 2006. ---Why Hollywood Needs Its "Stones" ---The X-box 360's "Three Red Lights of Doom" ---The Bizarro PSP/360 Switch! ---Is PSP Too "Good" For Its Own Good...? ---What Is Big Brother All Stars Minus "Six"? ------------------ Sidebar: -------------------- No sidebar comments for this review. Yet. |
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The latest My Two Bits editorial (January 2007) is titled : State Of The Site Address, 2007------------------------------------------------------------------- Another January means another annual "State of the Site" address. Let's first consider last year, as based on the last "address" editorial, and what we intend to do this next year. First of all, I admit, updates were once again slow in coming in 2006. Thanks to "My Space" and the like, it's really easy these days to post your thoughts online. The original idea to Techtite.com was to offer internet patrons a pop-up-free zone to read new entertainment reviews by not just us, though anyone who contributed. That offer still stands. If you want your own review posted online, without people having to "search" for it in a consumer review blog or user review message board, then by all means send us what you have. However, since the past year led to no user reviews submitted, we had to rely on staff reviews only, and well...you know the old saying "don't quit your day job"...? Well, let's just say our days are full, and this site suffered. We're hoping, through new feature articles and the like, to boost the popularity of this site back to what it used to be, before the MySpace-fad era. Now to what we intend to do this year. Well, last year saw the rise and fall of the "Blog" idea as a replacement to the regular News page. In case you wondered, sarcasm notwithstanding; yes, we do believe that the idea of a "blog" was first made while visiting the Men's room. The News page is not only back; it has its own department page, as you can see on the left column. Click there for the latest news, as collated all across the internet. Tech Talk was a better idea. We love questions. We love answering your questions. It's a simple Q&A column whose only shock is how long it took us, after our 1999 debut, to come up with such an obvious "column" idea. Techtite TV is still on hiatus. For those who don't know; it was like a week-end TV Guide with encapsulated reviews of every show our staff bothered to watch. It's clearly an intense piece of work to keep such a page afloat, however. Some may say such a page idea is worth its own web site, and well...we already have one. We would have to abandon every X-Box, Playstation, Nintendo, movie, DVD, and other review page to keep this one Techtite TV page afloat. What's more; new TV is slow in coming during the summer, so that's a whole season of web site limbo. However; for every episode of really good or utterly bad TV we see, we wonder how we could bring back Techtite TV and discuss it. Maybe a new column with a truncated version of "best and worst" TV of the week. We'll be thinking about it. The PSP Page is making the move to "full" page status. The original idea was to make the page PSP-screen friendly, so anyone could read the PSP reviews while actually on their PSP. The problems with this plan are obvious, for any of the other 99.9% of the world who do not view a web page on a small screen, let alone their Playstation Portable. To make matters worse: it was too much added difficulty to alter the format of every major Techtite.com feature story, editorial, and/or PSP review for the so-called "PSP Pages." In short; the idea sucks. We'll alter the original PSP pages with a link to the new pages, if just to keep any links other sites may have from going dead. For now, let's just say that every PSP game review will receive the same respect as any review here. That's good news. As for feature stories: many are planned. We've been Googling to see what feature stories on this site are most popular, even if no letters were received for it directly. I've noticed many message boards for cartoons and such discussing the animation-themed feature stories; the most popular one being The Top Ten WORST Characters That Ever Happened to Great Cartoons. Suffice to say I have a lot of great feature stories planned with the same entertainment and wit (knock wood) as that feature story had. We're all particularly hard at work for something special come May 19th, 2007; the 30th anniversary of the first Star Wars movie. The bad news: we're unable to attend the Star Wars Celebration this year, though if someone else is able to go, by all means, tell us all what happened. We will be in Disney World at around the same time, in order to attend a big bash for the next Pirates of the Caribbean movie (an event which, yes, will be reviewed by me on the Shows&Parks page). We're hoping that Disney World is smart enough to offer something special for May 19th, which falls on a Saturday: absolutely perfect for one of their now-infamous "Star Wars Weekends" events. In the end; we have something special planned in terms of feature stories with a Star Wars theme, throughout May. Check them out when May arrives. Most importantly; the letters page will be back online, if all goes well, by the time you read this. Why the delay? There is no kind way to say this, but some idiot kept using our letters column to try and sell us drugs. At least the drugs he tried to peddle were legal(!), though it's really annoying to look at "new mail" in your web page's e-mailbox and see 100 pieces of the exact same "please buy my total crap" junk mail. We considered using what's called a "CAPTCHA" system ---where you type in a random set of letters in a box before sending your letter--- although personally, I've found such "fill the code word into the box" forms utterly annoying. So we're trying to find a more reasonable way to counteract Mister D-List Product Peddler. Mind you; there's also the way some web sites ask you to "register" in order to send any letters. If you disobey the letters page's rules, you are dismissed; it's that simple. Yet once again; we find the idea of "registering" your name and e-mail in order to give your own opinion preposterous, even though many web sites are doing just that. For now, we're going to have all letters sent via an e-mail address which is changed weekly. If that doesn't work, well, let's just cross that CAPTCHA password bridge when we're forced to. That's it for the "State of the Site" this year. Let's hope that the good reviews keep coming in, which is to say, good movies, DVDs, and games are coming soon. That would be the best "state" this year could ever be in, really. As Always: I'm Techtite,
and these are My Two Bits...
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