Growing (My) Blogging Community

06/16/2012 1 Comment

This week in my course, we are thinking and learning about growing a blogging community. After all, a blog with no readership is really more like a diary. And I don’t keep a diary. I do keep an iPhone notes app full of ideas – this is where I really intersect with the idea of blogging. A lot of my ideas are short thoughts, odd takes on the world or what-ifs. When asked if I have a blog – when I tell people I think of myself as a writer – I think of this sort of content. But I also think of blogging a whole story. Read more of this post

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Amelia Earhart Crash Site Found?

06/10/2012 Leave a comment

After 75 years of searching, have we finally found the lost Amelia Earhart? So says The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) at this year’s Earhart Search 75 conference. What a way to lead off the conference! New evidence has been found – a jar of period anti-freckle cream – that places the crash on Nikumaroro Island in the southwestern Pacific.

We here at dbcox have been watching the evidence for years, and it seems the radio transmissions that some attributed to Earhart likely were her… but  by the time help was near Nikumaroro Island, her now-famous Lockheed Electra may have been swept away by the tides. With no aircraft to see from the skies, the island would have been easy to overlook. And as an unpopulated island, there would have been no help to find – which we would expect today, as Earhart was never found.

And now, what better way to commemorate the 75th anniversary than the TIGHAR expedition to try and find evidence of the sunken Electra?

Check out the original breaking story at Discovery News! And don’t forget to let us know what you think down below in the comments!

(Disclaimer: This is part of an assignment about building content for a blog, this post in particular about breaking a news story in a blog. The blog and its author make no actual claims about being a blog dedicated to Amelia Earhart, this was instead part of the assignment. The original breaking news can be found at CNN. Best of luck to the TIGHAR expedition!)

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What are the best Video Games?

06/09/2012 Leave a comment

I am interested in a couple of main things in video games, mainly around story telling, and then around social activity with friends and family. Maybe you picked up on this in my recent blog post. However, games mean a lot of things to a lot of people, and as I mentioned recently in a conversation about World of Warcraft, few games hit on all of these gaming needs and types (my point being that WOW sure tries to do so!).

I went to the Art of Video Games Exhibit recently, and it was a lot of fun. Even better was how it was taking games seriously. It approached games both by console, and by four groupings: Target (think Halo), Adventure (think Zelda), Tactics (think StarCraft), and Action (think Mario). Check out their list here. What is neat about this list is users voted on it, so it is a really good listing of games that have stuck with people and impacted them. Read more of this post

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My Top Ten Video Games

06/08/2012 7 Comments

Gamers often get into debates about which video games are their favorites, or which are the best, or influenced them most, or that you’re crazy if you don’t like. Well, I thought I would put out something of my list. To help justify my opinions, I have created a category for each, and for some even have runners up, that my top choice beats out.

Like I said, I was just at the Art of Video Games exhibit, so I know full well I am leaving out a lot of types of games. I plan to rectify this with some links to other top lists of games – so you don’t have to take my word for it! Let me know what you think.

Without further ado, and in no particular order… my top ten video games. Read more of this post

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Building Sample Content

06/08/2012 Leave a comment

This week we are looking at what sorts of content blogs regularly post. Which means this is also prep for building our own content.

So three approaches:

  • First, one built on existing content. A newsflash: Amelia Earhart possible crash site found. Taking the angle of being an Amelia Earhart blog, break the news.
  • Second, a list post, listing something like a top ten, which is what I plan on doing. This can be on any topic. More on my topic in a second.
  • Third, a link post, giving connections to other information on the subject. This should be on the same topic as the last one, to approach the topic from a couple of angles.

I was thinking about “writing” as my topic, but my initial look shows that directly blogging fiction is somewhat rare, and will take some deeper digging on my part. Sadly, the people who have so far found this blog seem to have found it from the writing angle as well (liking what I have seen so far at The Literary Man). But I just don’t feel like the subject matter expert there yet.

However, I was just at the Art of Video Games exhibit at the Smithsonian, and I think I could create some good content around video games. So expect to see these posts coming up here in the next couple of days!

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