User:Nofactzone
"The vast majority of bloggers out there are responsible correspondents doing fine work in niche reporting fields like Gilmore Girl fan fiction, or cute things their cats do, or photoshopped images of the Gilmore Girls as cats. That's great. Where I draw the line is with these attack-bloggers. Just someone with a computer who gathers, collates and publishes accurate information that is then read by the general public. They have no credibility. All they have is facts. Spare me." – Stephen Colbert
About Nofactzone
[edit]Nofactzone is a Wikipedia user whose sole purpose for Wiki activity is to monitor sites relating to Stephen Colbert and The Colbert Report and to assist in the editing of these sites.
Nofactzone is webmaster of NoFactZone.Net, a Stephen Colbert-centric News Blog and Reference-Oriented web site. The web site went live on July 16, 2006.
The purpose of the NoFactZone.net fan site is to aggregate topical news articles and buzz from the blogosphere featuring Stephen Colbert into a comprehensive web site, as well as to feature archived articles, videos and other files for reference and educational purposes. This site is edited daily and is formatted to read like a news blog.
According to Nofactzone on the NoFactZone.net web site (About The Webmaster):
The trick to a fan site like this one is to have a good mix of both informative static pages with historical data about the career of Stephen Colbert, as well as a very topical, very well maintained news/blog page. I feel that by aggregating the information that is already out there on the web at sites such as Google News, Technorati, etc. , I can develop a site that will be both relevant to newbie fans as well as interesting enough to bring back readers on a daily basis. My goal is to put all of the random information about Stephen Colbert in one place, and to only put the information this is interesting and informative.
Origin of term "No Fact Zone"
[edit]While Stephen Colbert was still a correspondent for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, he starred in multiple faux teaser trailers for The Colbert Report. The show was a parody of personality-driven pundit news shows such as The O'Reilly Factor. On The O'Reilly Factor, Bill O'Reilly hosts a segment called the No Spin Zone. The No Fact Zone is a direct parody of this element of O'Reilly's show, and is featured on the original trailers for The Colbert Report.
Wikipedia Pages monitored and edited by Nofactzone
[edit]Site Stats for NoFactZone.net
[edit]Since its humble inception, NoFactZone.Net has quickly become one of the most relevant and popular Stephen Colbert fan sites on the web. According to Technorati, the site has been linked over 800 times, and has received the status of A Lot of Authority (the highest search level given to a blog in Technorati). According to the site's Sitemeter log, the site has recieved over 245,000 page views.
In the short time that the blog has been publishing, it has been linked by many major mainstream news sources and popular entertainment blogs such as:
- Barnes, Michael. Reporting on ‘Colbert’, The Austin American-Statesman: Entertainment blog, December 26, 2006.
- Ryan, Maureen. 'The Colbert Report's' guitar shredathon brings in the big guns, Chicago Tribune: 'The Watcher' Blog, December 21, 2006.
- Sklar, Rachel. Daily Show Update: Steve Bodow New Head Writer; Simpsons' Josh Lieb Joins As New Co-Exec Producer, The Huffington Post, December 1, 2006.
- Glaser, Mark. Stephen Colbert: Don’t Love and Leave YouTube, PBS.Org: Media Shift, October 30, 2006.
- Gordon, Avery. Colblinks!, Colbert Nation (official web site of The Colbert Report, September 25, 2006.
- Sklar, Rachel. Stephen Colbert's Web Dominance: How "The Colbert Report" Is Fast Becoming The Leader In Web-TV Integration, The Huffington Post, August 22, 2006.
- Wu, Annie. TV Squad.com The Stephen Colbert Bridge needs you!, TVSquad.com, August 10, 2006.
External Links
[edit]- NoFactZone.Net - Stephen Colbert Fan Site
- OSCLA.net - phpBB Fan Forum with focus on Stephen Colbert
- Colbert's Heroes - Fan Site
- WonkyEar.com - The most exhaustive resource for Stephen Colbert pics on the net
Contact Information
[edit]E-mail DB Ferguson - db (at sign@) nofactzone.net