As I approached my final New Media Frontiers class, naturally, I wanted to make my last graded post a good one :) Struggling to find anything promising in my google search entitled "new technologies," I decided to visit the website of my teacher, Leslie Walker, hoping to find something new and exciting there. As I read through her glowing bio, I learned that she had written a book, "Sudden Fury," a New York Times best seller. As if that weren't cool enough, the book had been made into a t.v. movie which aired in 1993!
My first instinct was to search "Sudden Fury" into IMDb. Sure enough a page with the heading "A Family Torn Apart"-aka Sudden Fury, displayed across my screen. Though other sites on google contained some knowledge about "Sudden Fury," the extent of information paled in comparison to that given on IMDb. Unlike most other sites which merely provided the star of the movie, Neil Patrick Harris, IMDb provided a list of the fifteen characters who had played a significant role in the film, each with a link to the bio of the actor, including all the filmography each had been a part of during their career.
What I love about this site is that unlike other sites which provide only pieces of what make up the entire puzzle of everything related to a movie or t.v. show, IMDb provides practically all there is to know. Whether it be the release date, exact length of the film, the awards it has won, quotes from the movie, cast, etc. IMDb is sure to have it! This suggests that in order for a site to survive as long as IMDB (almost twenty years now,) it must provide as much information about a topic as possible, users desiring to get the majority of information on a topic in one place.
