Comiqs

Out of the Web 2.0 awards list, I decided to play with the website Comiqs. It was ranked third place in the "Fun Stuff" category.

At first I was incredibly enamored by this website. I love places where I can play with pictures, and the idea of being able to make an awesome webcomic *easily* is very exciting to me. Unfortunately, the more I've played with it, the less user-friendly it becomes. I was able to make one or two strips, but the menus are not very intuitive. In places where you'd expect the site to just go to a new page, it would inexplicably open in a new window, which cluttered up my screen and made me angry. (I'm a tabs person, anyway.)

If the navigation would become a little more intuitive, and if there would be less screen popping up, and if directions were a little more clear, it would be an awesome site. I can see why it got third place. The concept is awesome, but the execution is lacking as is.

Twittering away

http://www.twitter.com/hhcmeg

Half of the libraries are closed today because of the power outages. The other half are open, and I know that here, at least, none of us are very happy about being here. But what do you do?

I was trying to get Twitter to consecutively post with, say, Blogger or my Livejournal, but it wasn't working. As far as I could figure out, you can only have it download tweets in lump sums at a set time during the day from LoudTwitter. Not really what I wanted. But I'm pretty sure some of my flist can get it to work on LJ, so I'm not sure what I'm missing. I'm sure I'll keep playing around with it and will probably figure it out, but that on top of my terrible horrible no good very bad day already today, I'm not very positively inclined towards Twitter right now.