Where do those star ratings for movies in TV listings come from? [more inside]
posted by RotJ on Jun 25, 2009 - 2 answers

Where might I find a list of Publishers Weekly's starred reviews? [more inside]
posted by mrhaydel on Jun 2, 2009 - 4 answers

How can I learn more about Catholic parishes online? Is there a Rate My Catholic Church.com? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Dec 16, 2008 - 7 answers

How can I help keep Pushing Daisies from being canceled? [more inside]
posted by photomusic86 on Oct 27, 2008 - 10 answers

I recently became an Arbitron ratings person (which I'm not allowed to tell anyone, hence my anonymity). I'm supposed to carry a portable device that they say picks up "sound energy" signals embedded by participating radio and TV stations so they know what I'm listening to, even if the audio is compressed. What the heck is "sound energy"? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Sep 14, 2008 - 11 answers

How do you rate which country is "leading" in the Olympics? [more inside]
posted by markkraft on Aug 21, 2008 - 23 answers

Is there an equivalent of IMDB or Allmusic for books? i.e. A site that lists all books written by a particular author with ratings, reviews, comments etc? English language based.
posted by mairuzu on Jul 3, 2008 - 13 answers

Have American movie ratings, specifically the PG rating, gotten somehow weaker over the years? [more inside]
posted by blueberry on Mar 26, 2008 - 19 answers

Where can I find online laptop ratings about durability, repairs, or typical problems, the way Consumer Reports does for cars? [more inside]
posted by salvia on Mar 14, 2008 - 17 answers

I'm thinking of nuking my hard drive and reinstalling Windows XP. This means iTunes, which sits on my C Drive, will obviously be wiped and reinstalled. If I do this, will I lose all the star ratings and other individual settings I have for my mp3s (which are stored on another partition that I won't be wiping)? If so, is there some file in the iTunes directory or somwhere else that I could back up and add to my new iTunes installation so I don't have to individually rate every mp3 I have all over again?
posted by Effigy2000 on Oct 31, 2007 - 5 answers

I rate my music on my ipod as I listen through it, and I'm trying to get several thousand ratings from the ipod back into itunes. It doesn't seem like itunes can do this for me. (That's stupid!) I found this script, which also has failed to work for me. Need help using the script, or itunes, or finding another alternative. [more inside]
posted by lockse on Oct 7, 2007 - 12 answers

Hosted (free?) CMS to contain a directory of online resources and organizations for a college student population. Is there something better than blogspot for what we are doing? Also, is there a way to allow people to rate each post? [more inside]
posted by andoatnp on Jun 18, 2007 - 6 answers

Where can I find comprehensive ratings information for The Simpsons? [more inside]
posted by aftermarketradio on Apr 30, 2007 - 5 answers

How long have we been numerically rating music and other art? [more inside]
posted by mikeyk on Mar 10, 2007 - 4 answers

How, and how much, do the makers of TV shows get paid? [more inside]
posted by AmbroseChapel on Jan 28, 2007 - 15 answers

Say you just come out of the theater and someone asked you to rate the movie. You say 9/10. But if someone asked you how a movie was 2 months later, you may say 6/10. I'm told there is literature that supports this - people are initially more excited right after an experience than when they think back to it 3 weeks later. Is there a psychology term or articles on this? [more inside]
posted by lpctstr; on Nov 28, 2006 - 23 answers

Save my itunes playcounts and ratings! Damnable windows has crashed! [more inside]
posted by gergtreble on Jul 20, 2006 - 6 answers

Family-friendly audiobooks and/or book content reviews? (Have you read The Kite Runner? Never Let Me Go? Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell?) [more inside]
posted by rafter on Jun 16, 2006 - 30 answers

AirCards . . . Has anyone done a real comparison of the features, peformance, and cost of the different cards and the diferent plans? I'm sitting in an expensive hotel paying an additional $10 for HS cable access per day. I've decided to get an AirCard but I'm not sure which is best.
posted by AJ on Feb 22, 2006 - 4 answers

What's the best method/software for storing/viewing ratings in ID3 tags for mp3s? [more inside]
posted by shinji_ikari on Jan 2, 2006 - 9 answers

My ipod (4G, 40Gb, monochrome, firmware version 3.02) keeps forgetting the ratings that I've given to songs. [more inside]
posted by Could it be, El Guapo ... on Nov 20, 2005 - 4 answers

I'm looking for an online index of tv show ratings (TV-MA, etc.) for various tv shows. Falling short of that, is there any sort of site that gives a guide to what offensive content may be in a given show? [more inside]
posted by rorycberger on Jun 10, 2005 - 3 answers

Does anyone know of a website that rates realtors in Manhattan?
posted by mert on Jan 2, 2005 - 0 answers

Thursday Tech Two-fer:
(1) What's the best way these days to have multiple MT blogs one one page-- RSS or what? What's the best way to implement this?

2) What criteria do you use to rate your MP3s? For example, does a five-star rating mean all-time best of, best of the artists' work, best within a genre? What rating method do you find most useful?
posted by keswick on Sep 9, 2004 - 12 answers

I'm in the market for a new cell phone, and I'm trying to find some knowledgable reviewers (particularly of carriers and coverage). [more inside] [more inside]
posted by keswick on Feb 2, 2004 - 8 answers