Link Roundup 11/5/2013

Crowdfunding a manhunt for Joseph Kony?  It may happen even if this sounds like a TV plot.  This could put the ethical and political issues of crowdfunding further into the public spotlight.  Meanwhile some people just wonder why they thing they Kickstarted folded.

Why aren’t students ready for the job search?  The Dunning-Krueger effect of not knowing how ignorant you are.  A good reminder if you’re on the job search or talking to someone about theirs . . .

Mark Duffy would reccomend your friends shouldn’t go into Social Media as he thinks Social Media managers are . . . kinda stupid.  This has been going around today.

There is now a book on the history of Minecraft.  Really, you’re going to buy it.  So  . . . yeah.

In Silicon Valley or thinking of living there?  In the tech scene?  China is buying it’s way into Silicon Valley.  This gives them the chance to expand and get outside their current market.  I think this’ll be continuing for awhile (though I am concerned that Chinese banking problems may affect it).

Brand journalism and content marketing is here to stay says Laurie Rutterman.  Thoughts worth reading, especially if you’re in media.

Commuting alone?  That’s becoming the norm – which could lead to a push for more public transport.  Also, it is kinda lonely.

Amazon is leaping into original series.  Let’s get our popcorn for the Amazon-Netflix-Whoever-Else battle.  This could get very intriguing – and spawn some jobs.  Of course the fallout can kill some since not everyone can win . . .

– Steven “Linkstorm” Savage

 

 

 

Seventh Sanctum Update 11/5/2013

Sorry for a bit of a delay here folks, got a bit under the weather and had a convention to go to.  Not an ideal combination, but had a blast – and got to meet some Sanctum-users there.

So first of all, I did some updates to the Seventh Sanctum test site, Page of Generators.  I’d like you to try it again to make sure the updates work.

And after that?  A launch this month.  Quite looking forward to it.

Still having talks about how to do community building, but a lot of the “old gang” are busy right now.  But it’s not forgotten.  I’m always open to suggestions of course – the more I think of it, the Disqus links really do have their limits.  I may think this over during the holidays when I have some spare time – and yeah, I’m taking some time off.

Redoing the site has given me new generator ideas and I think it’s time to get some out after I got the site updated.  Actually the modification of the site has let me really re-examine some of my code so I think I’ll have an easier time of implementing things.  Lately a lot of my ideas have been about concept/fusion generators.

Was wondering if anyone has ideas about building a challenge community.  Yes I know they’d like the contests back, but also I want to think about writers.

OK, so back at it, I’ve got some work to-do, so check the beta and let me know!

– Steven Savage

Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach.  He blogs on careers at http://www.musehack.com/, nerd and geek culture at http://www.nerdcaliber.com/, and does a site of creative tools at http://www.seventhsanctum.com/. He can be reached at https://www.stevensavage.com/.

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– Steven “Watching Intently” Savage