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Writer of Penny and Aggie, Fans (also called Faans), Rip & Teri, Search Engine Funnies and A History of Webcomics. Experienced webcomics editor, currently seeking full-time work and working on strange and interesting new things...Thursday, June 23, 2005
Search Is, Like, The OPPOSITE Of Boring.
When the comic formerly known as Search and now known as Search Engine Funnies launched, a lot of people came close to telling me I was crazy, and I wondered if they were right. Search engines, after all, are like the Web's librarians, and everybody knows that all librarians are 84-year-old old maids with severe expressions who say "Sh." That metaphor went further than it needed to. Point is...
"Search engines are dull," said they.
'Bout one week in, we've had a religious controversy and reported an obscene attack on freedom of speech, and that's not even the stuff we're making up.
Among upcoming highlights: a message for the child pornographers that just got shut out of Yahoo Chat, the reason MSN Local Search fills me with quiet terror, and a subscription service so bad it actually gets us to do a joke at subscriptions' expense. Oh, and the one thing about micropayments that no webcartoonist seems to have thought of.
Still not making any of this up. The made-up stuff is bonus.
Come back around, every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. We'll put on a show.
"Search engines are dull," said they.
'Bout one week in, we've had a religious controversy and reported an obscene attack on freedom of speech, and that's not even the stuff we're making up.
Among upcoming highlights: a message for the child pornographers that just got shut out of Yahoo Chat, the reason MSN Local Search fills me with quiet terror, and a subscription service so bad it actually gets us to do a joke at subscriptions' expense. Oh, and the one thing about micropayments that no webcartoonist seems to have thought of.
Still not making any of this up. The made-up stuff is bonus.
Come back around, every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. We'll put on a show.
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Re: MSN's censorship of Chinese blogspace.
FWIW, use of phonetic substitution characters to escape censorship has a long and grand history in China. I'm sure that modern bloggers can put it to good use.
FWIW, use of phonetic substitution characters to escape censorship has a long and grand history in China. I'm sure that modern bloggers can put it to good use.
It's informative, too. I hadn't heard about Yahoo Mindset before.
You should mention the Monday-Wednesday-Friday schedule on the main page.
You should mention the Monday-Wednesday-Friday schedule on the main page.
Possible problem with the www.search-comics.com site: it's using a frameset, so you can't easily bookmark or link to individual strips in the archive. That could be a pity as I can easily imagine people wanting to quote topical strips like the MSN censorship one.
...but for some reason I find the interface terribly confusing. When I was looking for the MacherSearch comic, I had a hard time finding it, and I really have to dig to find the strips.
Maybe an archive page giving the topic of the strips. And it might help to have navigation buttons above the strips as well as below, to save scrolling to the bottom of the big-page episodes.
Naw, and I don't think we've convinced EVERYone yet. Buzz is just starting to build.
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The archive problem is now fixed. Thanks to Joey Manley. I'll add arrows to the big-sized comics by Monday.
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TELL YOUR FRIENDS!!!
The archive problem is now fixed. Thanks to Joey Manley. I'll add arrows to the big-sized comics by Monday.
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