Really Cool Media Blog

Nielsen Wire is something I kind of stumbled across this morning when I saw some within-state comparisons of ad spending by the presidential candidates. But I browsed around and found a lot of other cool stuff.

Wonder if some of this was pulled from db4500...

Versionista

I heard about Versionista last week on Buzz Out Loud ("CNET's podcast of indeterminate length") and have to say that they're right...it's nifty.

I'm guessing there are other tools out there like this, but I just haven't seen it yet. With a free 'guest' membership, I can pick 5 different sites or domains that I want to keep an eye on. Versionista will do this, caching the pages and marking up the differences for me to monitor as I please. You can purchase memberships to monitor more pages, but for now, this is just a neat little novelty.

Below is an example of how Barack's page has changed recently...click to enlarge.

The Best Website I Have Seen in a Long Time

I think this is not the newest site in the world, so no need to tell me how cool you were for noticing it first, but Stuff White People Like is hysterical.

Weatherunderground Introduces Cool New Graphics

I know, I know.

Weather is just weather.

That said, weatherunderground, which I find to be far superior to weather.com in the mapping views they present, has upped the ante a little bit with a new graphical interface. This shows storms in motion, too...