Writer, Agilist, Elder Geek
Io9.com, had an article on sequels in sci-fi and horror.
In the last nine years there's been a big increase in what percentage of the science fiction and fantasy lit market are sequels – and the spike started in the late 90's and then leveled off – but did not decrease. If you think I'm going to state it and not do an analysis, you really don't know me that well.
Why do I think this is? And what does it mean for progeeks in writing and lit?
There's a chocolate with less calories and that's far, far less sensitive to temperature.
This was made by geeks. Chem geeks. Food geeks. Folks like Phil and Lem from Better off Ted.
So when you run into people that doubt the power of geekery, you point to this. We've made chocolate better.
– Steven Savage
I'm going to talk about Netbooks and laptops. Please don't let this shock you, I know it's very unusual here.
On the 7/10 podcast Bonnie and I made one of our asides to discuss Netbooks and how it was relevant to Google's Chrome OS. I noted Netbooks do have a niche as what a Laptop is is changing, so I wanted to go a bit further on this since it will have affects on the market.
I used to be a non-believer in Netbooks – they seemed to be stripped down laptops. Then when Bonnie got one and found it useful, I began to see they served a vital niche, and now I have my own, I really get it. The importance of netbooks is not overshadowed by Laptops – it compliments them.