Reviews by kyriakideso

kyriakideso says "All The News That's Fit To Click" about Reddit

kyriakideso — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:28:40 GMT

Every morning I take my news with a side of bacon. That's right, bacon. And there is only one place where I can satiate my appetite for up-to-the-minute reports on the G20 while I ogle in horror and lust at recipes for bacon filled waffles. Where is this nefarious place you ask? On the inter-webs of course, at Reddit.com specifically. Reddit launched in 2005 as a social news site where user submissions dictate the ever-changing content. The brainchild of UVA grads, Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian quickly gained popularity for its broad range of shockingly current information; so much so that in 2006 Condé Nast acquired the domain for eight figures.

Still, the two young developers are the primary forces behind maintaining and improving the social news site. Its premise is simple. Reddit users (as in "I have read it") aggregate news stories from all over the net. They are presented in list form on the most simplistic but visually pleasing homepage I have ever seen. Imagine a Google search...

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kyriakideso says "A fun dose of superhero" about Iron Man

kyriakideso — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 02:21:22 GMT

Two things really turn me on to comic book action movies: ungodly amounts of money and flying. They are quite possibly the two most unattainable things in the world but the movies can make them down right palpable. They are also two of the most predicable comic plot lines, but in 2008, "Iron Man" offered a modern twist.
Lee's original Iron Man aka Tony Stark was based on real life industrialist Howard Hughes, who he called "one of the most colorful men of our time." Hughes was an "an inventor, an adventurer, a multi-billionaire, a ladies' man and finally a nutcase," according to Lee. He was also a pioneer of modern aviation and wore a mustache. Against these exaggerated criteria, Robert Downey Jr. as Mr. Stark gave a near flawless performance for a generation who has never heard of Howard Hughes.
Director Jon Favreau adapted Stan Lee's Vietnam Era strip into a politically charged blockbuster, introducing us to Tony Stark in the middle of Afghanistan. While sipping scotch in a humvee, Stark,......

kyriakideso says "Olbermann Belongs on Comedy Central" about Countdown with Keith Olbermann

kyriakideso — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:20:57 GMT

On April 2, 2007, MSNBC unveiled its new tagline: "A Fuller Spectrum of News." Perhaps this was in response to the broadening content of its most popular show, Countdown with Keith Olbermann. Just last week Olbermann spent 1 minute and 9 seconds reporting on a clip of a runaway Parisian police horse. It was a segment one might expect from Comedy Central's The Daily Show, but not from a network whose name ends in the letters N-B-C. Olbermann and the other talking heads of the Mainstream Media (MSM) damage their credibility by blurring the lines between news and entertainment.
On weeknights at eight o'clock, the MSM puts on a three-ring circus of "infotainment;" where Olbermann goes up against FOX News's Bill O'Reilly and CNN's Campbell Brown. As defined by the Dictionary of Mass Communication and Media Research, infotainment is "information-based media content or programming that also includes entertainment content in an effort to enhance popularity with audiences and consumers."
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