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TURN IT UP TO 11
We are Loudside. Extreme music. Extreme movies. Extreme sports. Extreme lifestyle. We turn it up to eleven.
11, going on 12 years as Loudside.com, the loudest place on the web, and we're continuing to bring you the newest artists and cutting edge music in the hard rock/ metal world, along with the latest in Entertainment - Movies, DVDs, T&A (Hot Chicks!), and more.
Loudside.com is your one stop source for Music and Entertainment News, Information, Discussion, and Exclusive Content you can't find anywhere else.
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Where is Loudside Located?
Los Angeles is the home for all things Music and Entertainment, and it has been home for Loudside.com since 1998, and will continue to be our home for years to come... until rent becomes too ridiculously high (it's already ridiculous, who are we kidding?) or the city falls into the ocean.
We also have staff across the United States and Europe.
How can I help out on the site and become part of your crack staff?
If you would like to help out on the site, click here
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| RANDOMLY GOOGLED LOUDSIDE.COM ARTICLE |
"CNN vs. Loudside" by A. Gardner
originally posted here
I chose CNN.com and Loudside.com my two sites. I visit them frequently because one is a news center, and the other is a news center specifically focused on rock music. Each site has its own design and layout that accomplish different things.
CNN organizes its website much like a newspaper is organized. It places the top story at the beginning of the page, with other important story headlines right after. It then breaks down the rest of the page into categories such as sports and business. Most people are familiar with the layout of a newspaper, and so the website follows the same idea with these categories. What gives the website the advantage over a newspaper is that it can be updated for readers whenever it needs to be. Most newspapers have a morning and evening printing, so they can only update stories twice a day. With a website you can update as many times as you need at convenient times.
The website also allows the ability to provide links that lead to more information, such as government websites or other articles. It doesn't just use the web for itself; it uses the web to connect users to other sites that contain relevant information. Most newspapers don't do that. It also manages to cover more stories than newspapers because it is not limited by paper size, and web space is cheap.
The only place where the site would fall apart is it's extremely text driven. There are few visuals, and even fewer sets of live footage. News seems to be better conveyed when it has visual aids and is narrated. At the same time though, making all stories streaming video would take a long time to prepare and upload, which would delay the news in getting to the masses. Keeping it text driven means more information in less space. Also, they are trying to communicate with an educated audience, which means visual aids are usually unnecessary. So, making the site mostly text was a good trade off.
Loudside is also a news site, but directed at music. Since it focuses on music, it can display entire news articles on the main page (since there are fewer of them). Since it is mostly geared toward a younger audience, it uses a lot of flashy visuals to catch the viewer's eye. The use of customized fonts also helps to give it an informal atmosphere, and a dark background reflects the dark surroundings of a concert. It also has multiple categories, such as 'Featured Artist', where people can find out about new bands. All the bands ever covered are also archived, much like news articles.
There are only a handful of ways people can get information on the bands they know; they can either go to the band's site or watch MTV. The former works, unless you have a long list of bands. Then it becomes too inefficient. For the latter, MTV rarely covers the bands you like, so it pretty much isn't even an option. So having a website for music information is quite useful. You can easily use the web to link to other sites and to media, such as music videos or MP3s. By linking to official band sites and to media, as well as giving current news, Loudside makes itself a virtual music haven for people who like rock.
These two sites use their virtual space to create a place people can visit whenever they want form wherever they want. They use the web to link to other sites with additional information and media, they use computers to help run the media (movies, sounds, etc.), and they use the real world as their information source for these stories. These sites may eventually replace their material world counterparts.
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