NFZ site news and updates

*taps the gavel*

I now bring this unofficial meeting of the No Fact Zone readers to order. We’ve got a few items of business to discuss, but if this kind of thing bores you to tears, feel free to skip to the end where there’s a pretty picture.

WANTED: VIDEO RESEARCHER FOR COLBERT UNIVERSITY

EDIT: We have had a very generous response from our readers. So we are good for now with this request. Thank you for all of your quick offers.

Do you like to watch old videos from ‘The Daily Show’? Do you have nothing better to do than peruse videos for hours? Do you need a hobby during this show break? Have you always wanted to contribute to the NFZ family of sites but didn’t know where to start?

Then we need YOU! Here’s the lowdown, from Colbert University guru WordsWithGrace:

Now that all of Stephen’s segments on The Daily Show have been moved to TheDailyShow.com, most of the links in CU’s Klassic Kolbert course don’t work. because they were links to the clips in Comedy Central’s old Media Player database, which doesn’t exist anymore. (Hover over the link to see the URL it goes to … if it begins “www.comedycentral.com,” that link is no longer good.)

Most or all of these clips are at TheDailyShow.com now, but someone (or several someones) needs to go through all our links and find the TheDailyShow.com link for each one. I would love to recruit a few volunteers who would enjoy looking at Daily Show clips. People could just take a small part; someone might want to just help with the “This Week in God” section, or the “Even Stevphen” section, for instance. Any help would be appreciated.

If you are interested, shoot me an e-mail – I hope to hear from you soon!

NEW SITE FEATURES

First, I’d like to give a huge and massive Thank You to thatguyagain, who came out of the woodwork to design us a most excellent new header and logo. The NFZ minions know that I am beyond anal about details about the site, and thatguyagain did over a dozen revisions of the logo before he came up with one I was happy with. So again, thank you, and I do sincerely owe you a cookie or something.

Secondly, Kina made that lovely graphic in our site bar announcing the strike to be over. Yay, Kina and her mad Photoshop skillz, yo! (The pic is from an old Daily Show sketch featuring Stephen in the cutest sailor outfit ever.)

In addition to our new site graphics, we’ve also added a “Featured Videos” section to the sidebar. This is just a spot for us to put videos that tickle our fancy at the moment. We’ll try to switch them up every few days, just to keep things interesting.

COLBERT PLATINUM: FOR THOSE OF YOU WITH AN iPHONE

If you’ve got way too much disposable income and the subsequent iPhone that accompanies it (or you run a very popular web site and need 24/7 access to the web to manage it), you can bookmark No Fact Zone to show on the home screen of your iPhone. And we’ve added a handy dandy new custom Web Clip icon that works automatically when you add a bookmark of our site to the home screen. To add a bookmark of No Fact Zone to your iPhone home page:

• Open your Safari browser
• Go to http://www.nofactzone.net
• Click on the + icon at the bottom of your screen
• Click on the “Add to Home Screen” button

And voila! Now you can get your No Fact Zone fix wherever you go! I know in Dallas, the site comes up pretty quickly on the Edge network. We’re also going through a few other technical mods to make sure that No Fact Zone continues to be iPhone friendly.

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Okay, I think that’s all we need to discuss for today. Thanks for putting up with the business end of the site. And, as I promised, here’s a picture to look at.