Advice

Go Farther: Media Cons

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I hear the term "Media Con" be used more and more lately to refer to those cons that are just, well . . . everything.  You know a con may have started as SF, or fantasy, or anime but after awhile it's about many media in all but name.  Comic cons are certainly evolving into "geek media", and there's cons dedicated to broad media interests, or broad but specific slices (such as pulp fiction, etc.).

So in my roundup of the way cons can go farther, of course I had to speculate on what the more general/media conventions can do for career events.  This includes those cons that were always general media or evolving that way.

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The Benefits of Blogging: Learning Again

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I've been blogging here for going on three years (man, has it been that long?) and it's been been pretty informative. So, since I'm in a bit of a nostalgic mood as the third anniversary approaches, I wanted to share some of my insights on blogging with my fellow progeeks.

I often advise people to try blogging – sure it's not for everyone, but I find it's very useful to pursue, because if it is for you, you'll gain a lot of benefits. So, don't take this as pressuring you towards blogging, but I want to share an interesting professional benefit about blogging as I do–on careers and so forth.

One of the benefits of blogging is that you learn something twice.

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My Little Sony: Thoughts on The Sony Outage

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Well you knew I'd chime in on the Sony Playstation Network outage and the SOE hack.  I knew I'd do it.

I expected the writeup to be done after the fact, since I write at times a week ahead.  I figured it'd be a measured analysis (and with an extra rant, perhaps).  I had all these expectations of what I'd do when PSN was up.

I didn't expect I'd write it when PSN was still down and this was still a developing story.

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