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Thank you, anonymous iPhone-wielding heroes!
July 23, 2008
One of the features of our new iPhone version that I'm most psyched about is the error reporting. While we'll put the quality of our database information up against anyone's, we know it will never be 100% accurate. Restaurants close (a lot lately), specials change, bands cancel gigs, etc.
We really count on our user community to let us know when things are wrong -- we get a steady stream of customer service emails and comments posted on the site giving us corrections.
But we know that people generally learn about mistakes in data when they're out and about -- say, at a place listed on our site. That's why we put that shiny red button on the mobile edition.
And I'm pleased to say it's working like a charm. We're getting 4-5 reports a day an growing. Keep 'em coming, and be as detailed as your touchtyping fingers will allow. We're checking 'em all out and correcting as fast as you can send. If you're a registered user and logged in, you'll even get a thank you email (and maybe even a prize, if you correct enough -- working on that.)
Work In Progress — Like being a fly on the wall at PegNews.com World HQ
May 21, 2008: Harvesting the power of poop
May 22, 2008
Chad is investigating the inner workings of Dean Foods' anaerobic digestor, a device that uses methane from manure to make electricity. McKinney Minnie this week profiles park and recreation director Lemuel Randolph. John is reviewing Errol Morris' new documentary Mister Lonely. Scott has wasted no time in his new post and will soon be interviewing Robbie Knievel.
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New video comment feature
May 6, 2008
Erin already covered this in the piece on the new Radiohead contest, but I thought I should also make an official announcement here:
One of our relatively unique features has been allowing users, albeit only verified users, to post snips of code in their comments on the site. This usually means photo links or video embeds from YouTube or similar.
We only allowed verified users to do so as a security measure to prevent anything that might goof up the site.
However, we've now made it so any user can post YouTube videos in comments. And you don't even need to do the whole embed code. All you have to post is the URL of the video and we take care of the rest.
So this:
...becomes this:
Easy as pie. Note that this only works with YouTube for now. If you want to geek out with any of the other myriad video providers, you'll have to become verified. (Otherwise, we'd have to do individual programming for every new provider.)
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