Where Else Do You Hang on the Web? And Why?

wxwax · July 24, 2006

Kinda curious where you spend your internet time, and whether you visit many other photography sites.

Dgrin is one of two places where I spend most of my browsing time. The other is Baldy's other site, www.advrider.com.

Both are forums, so I can interact with folks, and clearly that's their main appeal. That, and the fact that they're devoted to two of my hobbies, photography and motorcycles. Tho truth to tell, I spend vastly more time ponitificating about current events than I do motorcycles over on the other side.

The only other photography site I visit much is www.fredmiranda.com, and mostly I spend time in their Buy/Sell forum. Everytime I visit www.luminous-landscape.com I learn something new, but I only go there a couple of times a month. His product reviews are always interesting. I spend surprisingly little time at www.dpreview.com, a place from which we have so many refugees. I simply can't stand their forum software, not at all user friendly. And I don't really need their gear reviews.

www.news.yahoo.com gets a lot of my time, as does Google news. My local newspaper, the www.AJC.com, gets an almost daily look-see, usually the sports page. I go to www.weather.com and www.weathertap. com for weather and radar info. In the last week or so I've checked out www.mlb.com for baseball info, but the Tour De France site was hopeless, and www.olntv.com wasn't much better. ESPN is slow and darned hard to navigate.

Other than that, I follow links around. Lately, Youtube and Google video seem to be hot, lots of entertainment there.

I really don't care for blogs. And huge blocks of text aren't much fun to read on a computer screen, so I usually avoid them. But when I'm researching for the internet argument du jour on ADV, I'll wade thru some pretty dense stuff (and learn a lot in the process.) I know Wikipedia is flawed, by doggone it, it sure is user friendly.

So.... how about you? What other photo sites do you visit and why? Where else do you have on the web?

photodoug · July 24, 2006

www.wunderground.com for my weather looks
gada.be for searching news feeds

wxwax · July 24, 2006

photodoug wrote:

www.wunderground.com for my weather looks
gada.be for searching news feeds

Any other photo sites?

Stan · July 24, 2006

My other great money pit a stocks and shares site

cry:cry
I've gotta pay for the L glass somehow

Otherwise I lurk on other photog sites and I check out smugmug popular photos

Ooh and google silly words

Stan

Anson · July 24, 2006

this is quite funny, for just yesterday
I was about to post a similar thread, to DGRIN'rs...

I was going to post the question relating to non-photographic web sites
...there are so many gems (web sites) on the net that one would never find, if not for word of mouth!

here are my daily

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

http://www.intentblog.com/

http://www.alternet.org/

just recently discovered http://www.pbs.org/moyers/

& have you viewed the Oreo Cookie and the bb's... very short, yet powerful presentations?
http://www.truemajority.org/fun/

Awais Yaqub · July 24, 2006

only dgrin although i member of different forums but i am mostly on dgrin
i can only give one forum time

like before i was booted from dpreview i was not active here although i made new id there but still i wont spent much time there
rest of time i watch work of different photographers discuss different things with others

Awais Yaqub · July 24, 2006

Stan wrote:

Ooh and google silly words

Stan

i also do that i even search myself a lot fun

ian408 · July 24, 2006

I try to support my friends at TWC and visit weather.com for all the cool
stuff they have there. Then, I carry on debate (at least what passes for
that) over on www.advrider.com. There are a ton of really great photos
in the ride reports--not to mention the rides are ones I'll never get to but
love reading. And then there's jo mamma...ahhh Britney--thanks waxy!

Photo sites. Hmmm...lemme see. I've got dgrin (of course), fm and
www.photoworkshop.com (canon courses).

Thanks for axing waxy!

Mike Lane · July 24, 2006

Mostly I'm over on http://del.icio.us and its various pages. I generally start off with http://del.icio.us/popular and then go to /popular/css, /popular/osx, etc. I also frequent some blogs. My main two are http://atrios.blogspot.com/ and http://tbogg.blogspot.com/. I occassionally go to http://www.tomthedancingbug.com/ for a laugh. Other than that CNN and my site.

wxwax · July 24, 2006

ian408 wrote:

I try to support my friends at TWC and visit weather.com for all the cool
stuff they have there. Then, I carry on debate (at least what passes for
that) over on www.advrider.com. There are a ton of really great photos
in the ride reports--not to mention the rides are ones I'll never get to but
love reading. And then there's jo mamma...ahhh Britney--thanks waxy!

Photo sites. Hmmm...lemme see. I've got dgrin (of course), fm and
www.photoworkshop.com (canon courses).

Thanks for axing waxy!

Are the Photoworkshop Photoshop tutorials worth signing up for?

THE TOUCH · July 24, 2006

This will be cool to see where everyone goes!

My daily lookies are dgrin of coarse, the stats for my website and for my smugmug website, and somehow I'm still hooked on MySpace (my profile).

A few times a week I'll check out weather.com and I do all of my finances/bills online at Wells Fargo. But, I haven't been too happy with weather.com and I'm looking for an alternative. Lately I've been going to the national weather service web site but it's not very user friendly.

For photography - I'll pop into the Canon Learning Center occasionally, and when I'm getting ready to buy equipment I'll usually check out the-digital-picture.com which has some great reviews and tutorials. I'll do all my searching, pricing, and buying through adorama.com. I send them lots of money, and they send me really cool stuff - it's been a great relationship!:D

ian408 · July 25, 2006

wxwax wrote:

Are the Photoworkshop Photoshop tutorials worth signing up for?

That part, I don't know. But judging from the other content, I would guess
so.

Anson · July 25, 2006

Hi Mike
see what I mean......http://del.icio.us is a site that I may have never heard of or stumbled on if not for this thread
....looks like a site I shall frequent often...

regards to all,

dragon300zx · July 25, 2006

well if you want the list.

Fredmiranda.com (photography)
Live-evil.org (anime)
3wanime.org (anime)
animesuki.com (anime)
cnn.com (news)
4 email accounts
omp.com (photography related)
zcar.com (Cars of course)
and thats the main ones. other random sites pop up from time to time. Multi-tasking is a good thing.

StevenV · July 25, 2006

ian408 wrote:

I try to support my friends at TWC and visit weather.com for all the cool...

I'm a wx geek too :-) As a gamer I hang out with geezergamers.com and check xbox.com regularly, and there's a bunch of sites in my reader that get checked at least daily. I'm just digging into del.icio.us so I'll be following Mike over there to see what's what, and I try to remember to stop by digg at least once every few days.

TristanP · July 25, 2006

My home page is my customized Google page. It has various news, weather, word-of-the-day, etc links. I hit Audiworld daily - typically the B5 A4, Off Topic and Photography forums. My brother has some college buddies who started a forum that I read daily. They're a bit less polite (pretty crass and vulgar, really) and are damn funny. I read Fm occasionally, as well as the WERA motorcycle racing forums. Slickdeals gets a visit daily, and dpreview once or twice a week. As mentioned previously, the forum software over there is fairly annoying, as are many of the posters. I've lost a lot of interest in that place. B&H and Newegg get most of my web purchases, along with Amazon.

Mike Lane · July 25, 2006

Okay, you guys are liking delicious, that's cool

Here is my page: http://del.icio.us/lanemik
Here is Adobe's page: http://del.icio.us/adobe

You can go to either all the tag's page or the most popular sites with that tag. So if you go to http://del.icio.us/tag/css you'll get a whole bunch of sites that are tagged with "css". They may not be all that popular, but the benefit is that they may be very new which can be good. If you want only the sites that have been tagged with "css" the most, then go to http://del.icio.us/popular/css. The sites on the popular pages are always pretty good.

What is also neat is that Smugmug's keywords work just like delicious tags.

Seamus · July 25, 2006

I check advrider daily for the ride reports.

I also check the gps forum on ukgser and the irish section.

I really like the motorsports forum on canon digital photo.

and I lurk on
nikon cafe

I like the videos on sportsshooter

I don't go near dpreview.

saurora · July 25, 2006

I spend most of my time here on Dgrin, on my Smugmug site and viewing other people's photography. I view the news daily on my Yahoo homepage, and pay my bills online (bleahhhhh!).

For shopping....B&H, of course, Amazon.com and Overstock.com, oh and let's not forget Ebay!

I do subscribe to Shutterbug online which I enjoy. I like the way the magazine is layed out on-line...it's very user friendly and easy on the eyes......and free! I can read an article each day and come back later for another....and I never misplace my magazine! It has a page called website profiles I like to view each month....

http://www.shutterbug.com/web_profiles/

Art Scott · July 25, 2006

well here are a the places that keep me busy on the net.....

Peter Gowland . com - I use his site when I need to see a pose or other information dealing with portraiture.....poses and such....He was the photog behind all the Rigid Tool Calendars......

Dgrin- to learn what I can from whom I can about digital photgraphy (still find myself thinking about film and the differences I find between the 2 mediums.....) and customizing me site

Expats.cz - use it to keep up with things happening in Prgue and the rest of the czech republic..and also for some fun....

USA101 - another photosite i have a small gallery on....the epople there are really nice also...it is a free site also

Fred Miranda - use it for info from time to time

DP Review...again for info

Dyxum.com - info about / for Konica Minolta / Sony DSLR's

Photo . net ...again another info site I use...

Photo Friday ... like the challenges...

My Space - there are a few photoshop / digital photography groups I lurk on....

The Online Photographer - good info on various photogs...

The Cafe - Photoshop tutes....

SmugMug - various galleries.....to see what people are shooting and for inspiration when my own creative juices are backed up and not flowing....

Html center Help Forums

GSREsources---discussion and info on my 83 Suzuki GS850...

Tablet Pc Buzz --- still contemplating whether or not to go with a tablet type notebook or not...

Every site listed has at one time or another given me some vaery valuable information......

StevenV · July 25, 2006

Mike Lane wrote:

Okay, you guys are liking delicious, that's cool

sidenote: is there a way to see what the "right" tags are, so if I were to want to tag something I would use the same as others have? css is obvious, but some others might not be.

[edit] never mind - found a list on the side of http://del.icio.us/recent

Mike Lane · July 25, 2006

StevenV wrote:

sidenote: is there a way to see what the "right" tags are, so if I were to want to tag something I would use the same as others have? css is obvious, but some others might not be.

[edit] never mind - found a list on the side of http://del.icio.us/recent

If you get the delicious firefox extension or the delicious IE buttons you will get a listing of popular tags for a given page whenever you use them to post

wxwax · July 25, 2006

dragon300zx wrote:

omp.com (photography related)

Striking out on a search for this one, drago.

Is it this?

http://member.onemodelplace.com/model_list.cfm?ID

StevenV · July 25, 2006

Mike Lane wrote:

If you get the delicious firefox extension or the delicious IE buttons you will get a listing of popular tags for a given page whenever you use them to post

Ah, I see now. I was of course using the Firefox extension, just hadn't tagged (or looked when I was tagging) a page that it did that for. I see now though, thanks. http://del.icio.us/PirateT7

claudermilk · July 25, 2006

Besides the support fora for my various imaging apps, I spend most time at FM and here. I also hang out at GRM's board now & then to keep up on the trash-talk before the next event. I avoid DPReview like the plague, I hate the board software & it's so full of trolls.

ChrisJ · July 25, 2006

My most visited:

My Yahoo
Slashdot
ZDNet News
Google News
Dgrin (you're already here!)
Smugmug (and I'm sure you already have your own site bookmarked)
Kilauea Cam
Kilauea Updates

This is my only forum... I sometimes hit Miata.net still, but I've always been a lurker there for the most part.

babygareth.fam takes up most of my spare time.

tsk1979 · July 28, 2006

Interesting topic.
Well lets see.

http://www.tanveer.in/drupal, whenever I update my site(thats pretty infrequent), Livejournal(http://tsk1979.livejournal.com) thats my journal. Then there is this site about the India Car scene, to be more presise its the biggest India Car forum. I am a moderator there -> http://www.team-bhp.com.

Then among the news sites are http://digg.com and http://slashdot.org.

And then there are the regular news sites and who can forget Google!

Apart from this weather is my hobby, so I look at satellite images and such almost every day.

wxwax · July 28, 2006

Cool stuff, tsk.

I'm curious, why is the car forum in English? Is it US-based?

tsk1979 · July 28, 2006

wxwax wrote:

Cool stuff, tsk.

I'm curious, why is the car forum in English? Is it US-based?

In India, the primary language common among netizens are english. Native languages of people from different parts of the country are different, but English is one language which binds us all (As opposed to the National Language, Hindi).

Morover many people on the internet cant read or write Hindi(Its not spoken in their part of the country) but if you are literate enough to be on the internet, there is an almost 100% chance you will be able to read and write english

wxwax · July 28, 2006

tsk1979 wrote:

In India, the primary language common among netizens are english. Native languages of people from different parts of the country are different, but English is one language which binds us all (As opposed to the National Language, Hindi).

Morover many people on the internet cant read or write Hindi(Its not spoken in their part of the country) but if you are literate enough to be on the internet, there is an almost 100% chance you will be able to read and write english

Thank you.

That is a fascinating response. I learned something today!

tsk1979 · July 28, 2006

wxwax wrote:

Thank you.

That is a fascinating response. I learned something today!

Actually, you know what, in most commonwealth nations(Nations which were once under the british empire) and in many non-commonwealth non english speaking nations, the language of choice on the internet is english. Most countries which have migrated from english are either the far east ones, or the ones like Spain/Germany etc., where the language is different but the script is english like.

Where Else Do You Hang on the Web? And Why?

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