RTP-area local music and culture

[grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>]

Thank you all for your kind words. Jay Cuthrell, who has been the 
volunteer coordinator and more-or-less Head Honcho for the past 2+ 
years, was interviewed via phone today for WCHL, so you hardcore AM 
talk-radio-news listeners might hear a little bit more about movieminder 
on the radio sometime in the next day or three.

When we were suddenly confronted with the need to make some kind of 
decision (6 years of free web hosting at multiple different facilities 
has finally come to an end, basically), Jay & I agreed that even as his 
job has gotten harder, and volunteers have gotten harder to corral, the 
other websites (google.com/movies and raleighlist.org are the two that I 
find most useful) have gotten easier to use, and have more-useful and 
more comprehensive info than they used to.

Keep in mind, too, that all the movie times were still being 
hand-entered into movieminder by a team of volunteers, as we could never 
make the numbers work to justify paying for a subscription data-feed 
like the other sites use, not actually having a budget of any kind. And 
there are at least 2x as many screens in the Triangle as there were when 
Larry Iversen started movieminder back in ~1999 or so. Probably closer 
to 3x as many, though I haven't sat down to add them all up.

So while I can't speak to the relative level of "need" for a site like 
movieminder, I can say that the incentive to keep it running (which for 
a long time was simply "it's the only site good enough for us to 
actually *use*") has waned to the point that it wasn't too painful to 
let it go.

If there are features at movieminder.com that aren't paralleled in some 
way at those other sites, I suspect the folks at raleighlist.org might 
be interested in hearing what they are.

Thanks again, y'all. Movieminder always got a fair amount of email, 
which was the other main incentive to keep it running, and all kind 
words were & are appreciated.

Ross

Todd Morman wrote:
>  > that was, like, my favorite web site, dudes. thank
>  > alla y'all who helped with it over the years.
>
> I used it every time I wanted to see a movie in a theater (which was a kinda
> rare event, but still). Thanks, Ross et al. It was a beautiful thing to do
> for us. And this:
>
> "As a final courtesy, here are some links we have collected if you wish to
> bookmark your favorite venues as seen through other services."
>
> is just the creamy icing on the delicious free cake.
>
> todd bravissimo morman
>
>
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