Site of the Day for Thursday, August 9, 2001 Metacritic Is your mind already gearing up for the weekend? Planning to take in a movie? The List has a little site for you. Instead of tracking down what a number of reviewers have written about a particular movie, stroll over to Metacritic, where the work has been done for you. "Although at the time [1999] the web offered a wealth of reviews and other movie information, there was no easy way to track down all of the various pages without spending a lot of time and effort searching. Thus, Metacritic was born. We envisioned Metacritic.com as a place where movie fans like us could easily find the most important reviews for each new movie at a glance. Thus, in addition to quotes from reviews from major critics on each movie page on our site, you will find links to each of the full reviews. We also wanted to design a system for comparing reviews between critics and between movies. To accomplish this goal, we developed our Metascore formula. Each movie is assigned a Metascore, which is a weighted average of each of the individual reviews for that film. This number, on a 0-100 scale, lets you know at a glance how each movie is reviewed. " - from the website This is how really good ideas blossom on the web. Two minutes on this site will have you heaving a sigh of relief that finally all the critical reviews of a specific movie are lined up ready to peruse, with a numerical rating to indicate the general tenor of the reviews. In addition, the site has added games, video/DVD and music to its areas of coverage. Metacritic is well worth a permanent bookmark in your list of favorites. http://www.metacritic.com/ A.M. Holm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SotD Ashlists archives - http://www.mail-archive.com/site-of-the-day@ashlists.org/ SotD Website - http://www.ashlists.org/sotd/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and in the BODY type: unsubscribe site-of-the-day