I browse a lot of forums and aggregators on a wide range of topics. One site that I visit, and enjoy less and less is conferencingnews.com. The site is arguably the largest aggregator of news articles about web conferencing and video conferencing services, but lately the site has just gone to shit.

Aside from being riddled with ads and profile pictures of those most retarded looking people, the site does this very annoying auto-refresh about every 10 seconds. I’m not sure if this is just to reload their little box that features the retarded people, or if it’s also to reload other ads, but it’s annoying as hell. i can’t make it half way down the page before i have to wait for the inefficient site to reload and then find my place again. Pretty much everything I hate about the site probably makes them money, but there’s a line you need to manage where you’re monetizing your site and still providing a pleasant browsing experience. I also noticed the site dropped from a page rank 5 to 4 in the last Google shuffle, so I assume other people feel the same way.

Maybe I should start up my own conferencing news aggregator…