(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com Steve’s Tumblr) After posting about chanting tech culture’s attitude towards women, I wanted to list the resources I found to support female geeks while working on my civic geek project (which I should update). Find … Continue reading
(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com and Steve’s Tumblr) The trailer for Star Wars: Rogue One dropped while ago. Much to my surprise it intrigued me – a Star Wars heist movie. Just as I felt TFA was flawed and cautious, … Continue reading
I’ve previously talked about geek evangelism – namely I missed it. It seems that the internet had given us a chance to seal ourselves off in echo chambers, and that has affected geek culture and culture in general. People we’re … Continue reading
I want to follow up on my post about how I missed Geek Evangelism. I had stated that I frankly missed the passionate outreach, even when it was annoying, as it had been replaced with stark territoriality. What, I wondered, … Continue reading
I miss Evangelical Geekery. Oh not geeks that are Evangelical Christians. I miss the geek who preaches about this great comic or great program. I miss the person convinced this anime will turn you into an anime fan and it’ll be … Continue reading
Imagine a bar for geeks. Food and drink, events, a library, games, and more. Sound like a great idea? Well David Zoltan and his group made it a reality with Geek Bar Chicago, which has exactly that. So of course … Continue reading
OK money-where-my-mouth-is time. I talked why we geeks should look into downshifting – and here’s a list of things I’ve tried, looked into, or heard about. Might be a good start. As for how geeky this is, well it comes … Continue reading
Now we come to the end of our journey. Well, so far, you know me. So my conclusions from all my analysis were: It’s understandable why people identify with fandoms – it’s a core expression. There are several forms of … Continue reading
I’d like to take a break from my deeper musing on Fandom to look at how having a Fandom as an identity and as a culture really isn’t that different from non-fannish stuff. Its probably easy to think of those … Continue reading
A few weeks ago there was a story bouncing around the internet about a Google employee who had started a petition to replace the US government, basically, with Google CEO Eric Schmidt. This was apparently not done with any form … Continue reading