My webinar with Steven Savage went down this Sunday morning and I think it went great! Thanks to everyone who showed up; it wouldn’t have been as good without all…
OK, there aren’t actually any Otaku Links this week. I don’t have very many because on Wednesday, I quit Twitter. (And yes, there will be an entire post on that…
Last week, geek hero Wil Wheaton made a wonderful point about payment vs. exposure. The Huffington Post contacted Wheaton in order to re-publish one of his posts for free. Instead,…
From Steve: How to Write About Japan. Just in time for NaNoWriMo, a scathing critique of the way writers sometimes fall into tropes that exoticize and stereotype Japan while underserving their…
A few weeks ago, I did 10 one-on-one consultations with newsletter subscribers. It showed me that there’s only so much you can convey with a blog post. Sometimes the best…
I’ve written for Forbes and CNN but I don’t think I’ve ever gotten as much feedback on an article as I have on this assessment of which Gundam shows are…
What’s the first thing your eye goes toward when you click on a media review? A lot of people would say the overall rating—and a lot of reviews are designed…
There’s New Journalism, there’s New New Journalism, and now there’s New Geeky Journalism. I wish I had gone to this New York Comic-Con panel about geek reporting and the positives…
Five years ago, I had a shiny new master’s degree—and a minimum wage retail job. It was the height of the recession, but I never thought that would affect me,…