February 2012
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“The expression, “a Tim Schafer moment” is used among video game...”
– From Tim Schafer’s Wikipedia entry.
I think it’s safe to say the internet is collectively having a Tim Schafer Moment.
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Double Fine Launches a Kickstarter Project, the...
If you like games and have been on the internet tonight, then you know that it is currently kersploding with excitement over Tim Schafer’s announcement that Double Fine will be making a new adventure game and funding the whole thing on Kickstarter. In about 2 hours, the project has already raised $158,986 and there is no end in sight. I’ve been staring at the project page since it...
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“Oh, and my email inbox is a swirling eldritch nightmare that threatens to burst...”
– An interview with Order of the Stick’s Rich Burlew.
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Next year's GoDaddy Super Bowl commercial is going...
Too Real.
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“But what makes it really fascinating is that it’s the democracy of the...”
– Chris Sims at Comics Alliance marvels at the power of fans.
As of this moment, Order of the Stick has raised over $331k and is on track to become one of Kickstarter’s 10 Most Funded projects of all time.
Mind. Blown.
January 2012
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Meet the new highest-funded comic book project on...
Rich Burlew, creator of the popular webcomic Order of the Stick, wanted to raise $50,000 to reprint previously sold out collected editions of his comics. In just a week, he’s raised over $239,000.
One long time fan sums it up nicely here:
I’ve been an Order of the Stick fan for a long, long time and I have almost all the books in print. I donated early to this drive and I’ve been...
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“The one thing I wish I had known before launching my Kickstarter project was how...”
– Ted Rall shares lessons he learned from running a Kickstarter project.
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“For every human being who looks up at the moon in the nights to come will know...”
– From the speech Nixon would have given, in the event that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became stranded on the moon. I wonder how different space exploration would be now if this had come to pass?
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Neil Gaiman: An open letter to Washington from... →
neil-gaiman:
We, the undersigned, are musicians, actors, directors, authors, and producers. We make our livelihoods with the artistic works we create. We are also Internet users.
We are writing to express our serious concerns regarding the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).
As…
So say we all.
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Silicon Valley's New Clothes
Yesterday a random post from tech blog The Next Web popped up on my dashboard, featuring a snippet from a story they ran about Filip Santa, a “Gutsy Designer” who launched a site that doubles as his resume called takemetosiliconvalley.com.
“Hello Guys, Scroll Down Please,” the site says.
Go ahead, look at the site and soak it in.
When I landed on the site, my first...
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Happy New Year
I celebrated New Year’s Eve with my boyfriend by calling a restaurant at 5pm, making a reservation for 9pm, and then deciding last-minute to go see a movie before dinner.
We made it to the movie theater five minutes before the movie was supposed to start, and not surprisingly it was sold out. So we wandered around Union Square and held hands and joked about walking to Times Square just to...
December 2011
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Potentially Awkward
NBC’s Rock Center will feature a segment on Kickstarter tonight. It’s exciting, and if this clip is any indication, the side of the back of my head might be on national television:
Anyways, my parents will be watching because they are parents and I’m glad they’ll get to see what goes on at my office and what (as my mom says) “Kickstart” is. Apparently their...
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“In changing its position, Go Daddy remains steadfast in its promise to support...”
– GoDaddy issues a statement that they no longer support SOPA after customers revolt, and erases all evidence that they ever supported it in the first place.
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BRYCE DOT VC: SOPA Casts Light on the Growing... →
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Two articles grabbed my attention yesterday that touched on a growing concern I’ve been wrestling with far longer than SOPA/PIPA or any individual bill has been bouncing around; namely, that the people making decisions about legislating the future of the technology have little, if any, understanding of it.
As Clay highlights in his post:
Our 111th Congress has 2 professional...
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“I learned that money can be a lot of things. It can be something that is...”
– Louis CK, on his recently successful experiment releasing content directly to fans.
There are those who think the Internet needs more regulation to protect the copyright holders and intellectual property owners. Seems to me Louis CK proved that you just need to be fucking funny and really...