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A Monkey in a Ball.
[ Posted by Dan on February 06, 2003 | 5 Comments ]

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Super Monkey Ball 2 for the Gamecube is one of the better games I've played recently, and most of that is due to the fact that it involves monkeys. Also, the controls in the game are perfect, easy to learn, and tough to master, making it a classic game. The cross marketing [see inset picture] is brilliant, even if the price was cut by 75%, and someone else bought the game figure and gave to me. She kept MiMi though. Heh.

Nintendo understands franchises. Sega does to, and so should all of you bloggers out there. There are too many blogs out there with the same basic UI that does nothing to differentiate the site in my mind. And with the volume of blog content pouring forth, differentiation is more important than ever. But don't take my word for it, I'm just very sensitive to branding and logos (being an Apple, Nikon and Nintendo fetishist).

OH man, I tried to get those figures but they sold out on Day 1 and the ebay people wanted too much.

Monkey target rules!

-Posted by Eric on February 6, 2003 01:27 PM

"There are too many blogs out there with the same basic UI that does nothing to differentiate the site in my mind."

With the popularity of NetNewsWire, and other RSS aggregators look might not be the way to differentiate sites. Things like tone and writing style may become the most important aspects of site branding.

-Posted by Josh on February 7, 2003 12:51 AM

oh, and here I thought you were getting flamed for this "There are too many blogs out there with the same basic UI that does nothing to differentiate the site in my mind."
and it was just an unresponsive submit button for one person. :-)
That's good. I was worried it would be weeks before you could post without some slashdot moron replying with something insulting and idiotic.

-Posted by jc on February 7, 2003 08:15 AM

Josh, excellent point, and is something I didn't think of when drooling over my monkey ball.

To back up that point, I'll mention that I was surfing around the web and saw on Black Belt Jones a notr about the UN guy looking like the Bespin comm guy.
I thought to my self, 'hey, he stole that from (dive into) Mark' but I was wrong. I first saw that article via NetNewsWire and didn't make an accurate association of who posted the blog entry.

Which leads me to this point. Perhaps NetNewsWire should grab the faviocon.ico file and associate it, in line, with the name of the blog in the window pane that lists the articles and the source.

Any thoughts?

(JC, the longer slashdotters stay away from here, the better. The signal to noice ratio in a slashdot thread is 1 to 20, at best).

-Posted by Dan on February 7, 2003 09:26 AM

For some reason inmyexperience.com and Chimera don't play nice for me. One single click can results in 50 posts. Wish me luck on this one!

It would be very interesting to see rss aggregators allow for some minimal graphical branding like favicons, color, or a simple logo graphic. I have bandwidth to burn, it could be a complex graphic for all i care.

-Posted by Josh on February 7, 2003 05:56 PM

Comment posting has been turned off because I don't have enough time and will to deal with the constant comment spamming. I'm very sorry and will fix this sometime soon (soon = before 2004 ends).