Writer, Agilist, Elder Geek
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.
And here we are, yet again, discussing that painful, and all too common situation of having a job when her friends and family don't. And I, wanting to help my fellow professional geeks, have queued up another heaping helping of advice on what to do in the situation.
Tthe advice for this post? Start sharing their resources. You know, this job search sites you go to, or the newsletter should get, or the group you belong to. Share all the stuff we use constantly in her job search in our professional lives.
Gaming conventions are the peculiar state these days. They have a long, honorable, interesting history. Yet, in a time of computer games, they may seem a bit outdated to some outside of the fandom (at least to those outside the fandom). I also have seen, at least in my area, a revival of interest in non-electronic gaming, making me wonder what trends this portends.
Now, as I've been recently addressing ideas on how various kinds of conventions can “go farther” (thanks to Convention Career Connection), gaming–oriented conventions are really interesting to speculate on. They are, in many ways, traditional and focused. Yet, in other ways gaming has such a long history of innovation and change, such a long history of interesting people developing unique entertainment, there's also a lot to talk about career-wise.
(I should note, in order to talk about gaming, I am focusing on cons that deal with war-gaming, pen-and-paper RPG, etc. Video Game events will fall under another essay.)