By Frank on December 31, 2009
As 2009 comes to a close, I think that it’s a good time for everyone to kind of look back on what they achieved and reflect on it. The thing is, from both a non-geek and a geek perspective, it’s difficult at times to look positively on some of the things that have happened to [...]
Posted in Computers, Gaming, Internet, Serious Business, Social Geekery | Tagged new year
By Frank on November 26, 2009
Ah yes, Thanksgiving – that American holiday where the Butterball Turkey hotline is jammed up for hours, food coma is a given, and people start gearing up for Black Friday (post on that coming early in the morn, tomorrow) and the inevitable march towards the holiday season.
Whether you’re a geek or not, celebrating Thanksgiving is [...]
Posted in Serious Business, Social Geekery
By Frank on November 10, 2009
Yesterday was apparently a rough day for the small rolodex of developers that I know from EA. The rumor going around is that layoffs happened at the publisher, with at least four different studios thought of to be affected. Being a slight bit more connected than the average joe gamer, I can say that while [...]
Posted in Gaming, Serious Business | Tagged EA, layoffs
By Frank on October 30, 2009
Sometimes when you’ve been on the bandwagon for just a little too long, it’s time to trade in for an updated model, that’s what I say. Of course, saying that almost always gets me into trouble financially when it comes to new tech, but hey – this isn’t about my spending habits, right?
I like to [...]
Posted in Internet, Serious Business, Site Related | Tagged Internet, site-related
By Frank on October 1, 2009
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Some of you may have noticed that my updates have come a bit less frequently than they should have these past few days. Now that I’m done with what I was up to, I can actually speak to the details. Basically, I was picked and chosen to serve on a jury on a [...]
Posted in Serious Business, Social Geekery | Tagged jury duty, jury duty tips
By Frank on August 31, 2009
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Over the past few days or so, I’ve watched the various blogs that I tend to watch from the corner of my eye posting about how serious blogging apparently is. From Tobold running off on Twitter-pated bloggers to Dragonchasers taking a break, and a few others not related to the topics [...]
Posted in Internet, Serious Business, Social Geekery | Tagged blogging, Blogosphere, Weblogs
By Frank on August 20, 2009
On Broken Toys I managed to find out that there’s someone out there who is looking to achieve a very ambitious goal – interview bloggers as a project to include into a compiled set of thoughts and ideas. With the ease by which anyone can blog these days, that’s basically like saying you want to [...]
Posted in Serious Business, Site Related
By Frank on July 23, 2009
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Over at MMORPG.com, Sanya Weathers of Eating Bees has a great article based upon something one of her friends found that was relevant to community management. In it, she specifically talks about feedback, how community teams get it, what kinds of metrics are taken, and what she feels are the steps [...]
Posted in Gaming, Philosophy, Serious Business | Tagged mmo
By Frank on April 8, 2009
That’s a White House smirk, you know.
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If you haven’t seen the latest episode of House, I warned ya.
Every so often an episode of a good TV show will come along that hits you straight out of left field. It points behind you and then takes the opportunity to punch you in the gut, [...]
Posted in Serious Business, TV and Movies | Tagged House, KalPenn, Kutner
By Frank on April 3, 2009
You wouldn’t like me when I’m angry…on a forum
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Over at The Casual WAR, Josh decries the wonderful world of forums, frustrated and disheartened by the constant stream of negativity, ne’er do wells, and other such villainy over on forums in general.
It’s real easy to get discouraged by forums. After all, unless [...]
Posted in Internet, Serious Business
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