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Satellite News Upgraded! Hmmmm

Posted by DexterBG on 11/30/2007, 12:49 am

At about the same time I was uploading my DOA:#103". The MST3k Satellite News decided to launch their website upgrade. I've been too busy with many pre-winter chores to even visit the site, until now. And my old Bookmark for it failed, because they also switch from HTML to PHP. But now I see that the site has adopted a "news blog" format, in order to appear more in step with today's web. IOW, less retro or less old school. Frankly, I was fine with the old look and function. But I guess some people are such fashion slaves, that they scorn anything that doesn't keep up with the current webpage trends. Trendies!

So for the sake of keeping the other 95% of the web surfers from dissing Satellite News on sight. Us old schoolers now have to put up with a blog style page layout. I'll bet their advertizers also complained about the aging format. So now there are bandwidth eating vid frames, and lots of other gingerbread there, that wasn't there before.

Eventually, we'll all have to get broadband connections, just to read sites like this. And yet the dumb politicians blame Youtube and MySpace for overloading the web. Not the pressure being put on practically every website to run vid ads, and vid links, and other bandwidth eaters that you activate just be visiting the page.

Yesterday, I visited Lowes' website, to look into some fences. And after being there a couple of minutes, some audio announcement started playing, that I couldn't turn off (or down), that I hadn't requested. Ever try to read a few paragraphs of text, while somebody blasts your ears about some product or service?

Here's a thought. Instead of going after the no cost sites, like YouTube and MySpace. The Gov't should instead Tax the advertisers who book space on these sites with video ads, and are the ones getting a free ride via the public internet. Then use the revenue to improve the bandwidth of the web for all. And the spammers should get taxed too. They're all fronting for Viagra sales and such. It's not a "free speech" issue when they're making money off it.

Anyway. I guess we'll have to tolerate the "improvements" to MST3k info websites. Some will no doubt like them. But it often makes capturing some text from these sites, much more difficult. That's why some sites have a "printer friendly" option, that strips out all the extra page formating code. Hopefully this message board will resist going "blog style" for quite some time.
-Dex-