I dropped my Google taskbar last week, and explained to them that I refuse to use such a notoriously left wing propaganda tool. The Ask.com toolbar has no spell checker, so…

But you really need post preview. We can get by without it, but it’s difficult. Please, please, please add it.

Esthier, check the right sidebar, below the ads and above the “Hot Links”.

Ah, so I see now. Thank you.

Honestly, I would be proud if my posts displayed the American Flag.

Now, can we please have a “preview comment” button next to the “submit comment” button? Sometimes all that html linking really garbles up that tiny little comment square and, speaking for myself and a few others I think, I miss a lot of mistakes and typos.

Thanks again!

Consider that more people are buying PC/Macs with screen capable of showing HD-resolution video that are much larger than the 15″ LCD monitors that came with every new computer only a year ago. Top-shelf Apple Macs have 21″ screens and Windows XP Media Center Edition PCs are often sold with 42″ plasma screen TVs.

If you really want to differntiate yourselves from Tooble or GooTube or whatever it’s called, one unique way is to have a 720p HD video feed on HotAir.

To make this happen you’re gonna have to think like a Sillicon Valley San Fran lib here… you can’t be conservative and say: “It’ll never work! User’s won’t watch it! Our servers don’t have enough bandwidth to the user! The video compression we use won’t do HD! WAAAAAH WAAAAAH WAAAAAAH!”

Those two newly-minted zillionaires at YouTube said: “Any videos/any where/any time on a webpage: how do we make this work?” and then they did it.

Now it’s your turn.

If you want help making this work from your fans and users, you’ve got it. Just say the word.

We’d love to be able to tell our lefty know-it-all friends: “You kiddies can play in your GooTooble sandbox with your postage stamp-sized video but the adults will be over here with our HotAir HD. When you’re ready to grow up, we’ll be waiting.”

You guys rock!

Oh, one more thing.

Please get that picture of Teddy off of the front page.

BacaDog on October 23, 2006 at 1:32 PM

Ditto.

Great job on the improvements!! Thanks.

Please get that picture of Teddy off of the front page.

My vote…………number the posts

I agree.

Number the posts, and a preview button. Please.

My vote…………number the posts, have an “open thread” daily.

That is all.

I’m Bacadog and I endorse this message………….

I like more posts. Tell the hosts to post more. If there isn’t something newsworthy, then they should just make something up. It is the internet.

Also, we should be able to win free beer just for reading.

frankj on October 23, 2006 at 8:54 AM

I agree Frank. In addition, what this site needs is more monkeys. Many a time I have read a thought provoking essay here, and the first thing that pops into my mind is “yeah, this place is great, but what it really needs is more monkeys.”

Monkeys, Frank. Free range monkeys. Lots of them.

What I’d really, really like is a “twit-filter” button, to make certain comments from certain commentators disappear from my screen. No, not the ability to delete them from the blog, but just make them not visible on my session.

Since you opened up the blog last week, at least two of the newbies like to express opinions that I really do not care to read, especially when one who personally insults you, our host, and the other continually insults my intelligence through his trolling.

While these commentators may have worthy things to say from the point of view of others reading this blog, I could care less what their opinions are, but it is not for me to censor their opinions.

I certainly do not want to censor or stifle the opinions of others. I just don’t want to have to read what passes for “intelligent discourse” of ceratain people. And I daresay, there might be some who feel that way about me, as well. Ya think? Nah. ;^)

Unfortunately, as comments appear sequentially in the downloaded page, it is hard to simply ignore such posters and their blather. So, I would like a mechanism to make their comments simply not show up on my screen. Others would still have the “benefit” and joy of reading their words of wisdom, if they so choose.

I can think of several mechanisms to accomplish this. You have already a suggestion to number the comments individually. If you added a “bookmark” capability, perhaps using cookies, and a server-side filter or possibly DSS/DHTML based upon the the contents of said cookie, you could simply toss aside the comments of the selected commentators from the download to the screen.

Maybe you could include the “twitlist” in your registered user profile, or could simply save it as a stored cookie on the user’s computer.

No doubt there are other ways to do this, and your webmaster is extremely capable.

Thank you for your consideration.