Category: Tech

iToons

andertoons

With the iPhone coming out tomorrow, and that big screen looking like a good place for cartoons, I thought I’d take a look at everyone’s favorite cartoon site through the eyes of Steve Jobs:

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Not too bad really, let’s look at the cartoon close up…

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Nice, actually. Sideways?

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Hmm… May have to do some resizing down the line…

Anyway, looking forward to seeing how/if this thing works!

(BTW, thanks to iPhoney for the preview!)

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Why… Is… Andertoons… So… Slow…

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Lately I’ve noticed everyone’s favorite cartoon website coming up a little slowly.

I was content to chalk it up to a lousy connection on my part, but I started hearing complaints from folks and I finally had my web guys look into it.

The culprit? The cartoon ratings system.

Apparently the feature has proved so popular that it’s slowing down the entire database, and thusly, the load time for the site.

Anyway, never fear, a fix is in the works and it should resolve itself in a few days. meanwhile, get yourself a coffee while the site loads, or bond with your children or something. Think of it as a little gift of quiet time from me.

Thanks to everyone who dropped me a line about it!

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That’s What I’m Talkin’ ‘Bout!

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Daryl Cagle launched 200 editorial cartoon RSS feeds.

WOW!

I’d like to elaborate, but that’ pretty much says it all.

Just for fun, I checked Comics.com for feeds. Nada. Zippo. Zilch.

GoComics.com? Kinda.

At first I was sort of excited with the RSS symbol in my URL bar:

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Clicking it and adding it to my feed reader, I was still hopeful:

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But then, bitter disappointment. The actual feed content (highlighted in orange) is just text. It’s not even a link as far as I could tell. I had to click the feed’s title (underlined in blue)…

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…to get to the cartoon in my browser:

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Sigh…

Let’s compare that with Cagle’s Clay Bennett feed:

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I clicked on the 6/1 cartoon and got:

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Yep, cartoon right in the feed. As it should be. And some nice stuff at the bottom of the feed to boot.

Even better, click the cartoon or the title and you get:

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Oh yeah, that’s the stuff.

Syndicates, you’re already way behind here. Time to take a chance and get some real RSS. Trust me, you’ll be happy you did.

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