{"id":626,"date":"2008-05-13T13:06:07","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T19:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nerdflood.wordpress.com\/?p=626"},"modified":"2008-05-13T13:06:07","modified_gmt":"2008-05-13T19:06:07","slug":"fun-online-tools-blippr-mini-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/fun-online-tools-blippr-mini-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun online tools: blippr mini-reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blippr.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static1.blippr.com\/images\/logo-huge.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>So, I&#8217;ve been hooked on <a href=\"http:\/\/blippr.com\">blippr<\/a> lately. What is it? It&#8217;s a simple site where you can leave and peruse reviews for movies, video games, and books. The catch is that in <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\">Twitter<\/a> fashion, your reviews can only be a maximum of 160-characters.<\/p>\n<p>I love this service for one very obvious reason. When I ask a friend whether or not they enjoyed a book, movie, or game that I&#8217;m even remotely interested in, they don&#8217;t sit me down and begin to unravel every aspect of the story, de-mystifying the artistic style and languishing laboriously over every minute detail of the dichotomy of the main protagonist versus the foul, despicable villain.<\/p>\n<p>No, they tell me very simply <em>&#8220;sure, you should check it out, because&#8221; <\/em>[insert 1 fairly straight-forward sentence on the reasoning behind why I may or may not enjoy said piece of entertainment]. That&#8217;s it. Sure, once I&#8217;ve seen\/read\/played it as well, we will then begin to languish laboriously over every minute detail, but until then, I just need a trusted source to either give me a thumbs up or a thumbs down, with just a quick blurb about why. All I need is a <a href=\"http:\/\/blippr.com\">blip<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s still in beta, obviously, so I&#8217;ll be continuing to play around with the site. I&#8217;ve been periodically dumping in some feedback about some of the features. They have a handy system for importing an Amazon wish list into their system, which is a phenomenal idea for tracking and eventually blipping content once digested &#8211; if it actually <em>worked<\/em>, that is. Hopefully that&#8217;s something they get smoothed out because I can see myself utilizing that feature heavily.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, I&#8217;ve added an RSS feed of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blippr.com\/profiles\/DrSetebos\">blips<\/a> to the sidebar there on the right, and in the movies listing down on the far left, I&#8217;ll be adding a link to the blips for each movie as they become available.<\/p>\n<p>My thanks go out to Chris Harris (@<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/charris1980\">charris1980<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/friendfeed.com\/charris1980\">FriendFeed<\/a>) of the #<a href=\"http:\/\/dmtweetup.org\">dmtweetup<\/a> group for pointing me towards <a href=\"http:\/\/blippr.com\">blippr<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;ve been hooked on blippr lately. What is it? It&#8217;s a simple site where you can leave and peruse reviews for movies, video games, and books. The catch is that in Twitter fashion, your reviews can only be a maximum of 160-characters. I love this service for one very obvious reason. When I ask [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[259],"tags":[572,715,284,364,135,465],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-blippr","tag-gaming","tag-movies","tag-social-networking","tag-technology","tag-twitter","last-post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}