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Hook Up With Crossroads Alpha And Muse Hack!

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Hey gang, if you’d like to contribute to Muse Hack – or really any one of the Crossroads Alpha alliance sites, be sure to drop by our site and give me a buzz.  We’re looking for people!

Comics Bulletin Is Looking For . . .

  • Writers – We’re looking for reviewers and writers..
  • Site Personnel – People experienced in site “traffic control” – posting, editing, and more to help behind the scenes.

Indie Haven Is Looking For . . .

  • Contributing writer- I need someone willing to write written content for the website. We’re always in need of reviewers, but also people who can write features, news posts and Op/Eds if they are willing. Previous journalism experience welcome, but not required.
  • Livestreamers- I’m looking for people willing to play games while doing commentary for our TwitchTV stream. Some video editing and writing skills will be required. Part of the job will entail editing those streams and putting them up on YouTube then posting those vids as posts on our site.

MuseHack Is Looking For . . .

  • Contributing writer – Looking for writers who want to focus on geeks, fans, otaku and how they use their interests in career and community building. We’re interested in both general and specific subjects, and are especially interested if one wants to take on a specific focus.
  • News Gatherers – I’m looking for someone who can compile relevant news articles into weekly and monthly updates, focusing on news related to.

Seventh Sanctum Is Looking For . . .

  • Contributing writers – We need writers who can write on creativity – art, fiction, and more. Prefer themed columns.
  • Link Gatherers – We want to publish gatherings of amusing and artistic links relevant to the audience. Light commitment, but we prefer updates every week to every few days.

– Steven Savage

Update 2/9/2014

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Hello everyone, hope you’re all doing well.  What’s up with me?

  • I am now formatting the book.  I am never sure how long this is going to take since between tool updates, lessons learned, and my different kinds of book it’s a tad unpredictable.  I’m hopefully going to finish by Monday next week so I can get a test print early.  But we’ll see.
  • You saw the new Magic Guild Generator, so now after a break, I’ll decide what’s next to do.
  • We are recruiting at Crossroads Alpha. Stay tuned for more to come from that side . . .
  • I’m lining up some more speaking events, but still haven’t finalized my spring/summer schedule.  I actually should get to that shouldn’t I?
  • I do need to do more here on my site.  I got a lot of cooking I want to post, some actual relevant things about me, so we’ll see.  I’m definitely going BACK to my old method of consolidating writing time.

That’s all for me – what about you?

– Steven Savage

 

Geek As Citizen: Ties To The Community

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Saint Nicholas Charity

I’m sure you’re familiar with the issues of “techies” in San Francisco and the surrounding area. They’re supposedly obnoxious, driving up home prices, Google buses are getting a free pass and blocking traffic, the startup ideas are stupid, etc. If you haven’t heard about it . . . well I live in Silicon Valley and I hear a lot about it.

Though admittedly being south of San Francisco, some of it is probably a sort of bias – there seems to be a kind of SF/San Jose area split here.

Now there are issues of changes in San Francisco and the surrounding areas, but in reality none are as simple, clean cut, or frankly tech related as many people may think.  A lot of attempts to cover it are sadly over simplified and over generalized.  I myself have my own issues with some of what’s going on in San Francisco, but feel a lot of it is blown out of proportion – and population shifts, economic changes, and the like are part and parcel of big cities.

That being said, there’s concerns – and when you get a lot of people moving into an area there is going to be a sense of distance and alimentation. The new population could be totally great people, but they’re still outsiders – and that’s not helped when money and expense is a major issue, and even more so in this economy.

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