Archive for January 21st, 2009

The Game Night recap Jan. 20, 2009

With nothing but grit, determination, and a thirst for nerd-blood, Brad Kowalke and David Kam emerged victorious after a gut-wrenching bi-weekly game night on their home turf at the Sierra Bravo Colliseum in Bloomington, Minnesota.

Our intrepid sports reporter Mark “Scoop” Hurlburt reported that despite being a rookie, Kowalke won by a landslide in Puerto Rico leaving his opponents decimated on the side of the board game.

In what might be called the upset of a the century, Hurlburt said Kam stole a win in Bohnanza right out from under Mark Seemann, sealing his victory with a single point.

Hurlburt also reported that aside from him and his friend Barry, Justin Hendrickson, Chris Black and, Robert Speer brought 110% to the game night but still fell short when coming against Kowalke and Kam. This will only serve to intensify the nerd rivalry making the next match up between these nerds even more contentious. We will, of course, give you a full report after the next battle.

A listless revolution

Jon Gordon of Future Tense is asking for bloggers to make a resolution. I think it’s time for a revolution. We need to be done with the lists. They aren’t helping anyone, and really it’s just mindless blog fodder used to attract hapless Googlers to your site. When’s the last time you read one of those lists and thought “wow, I really learned something from that?” I’d venture to guess it might have been in 2004.

This week, and remember it’s only Wednesday, I counted no less than 14 different list posts in my Google Reader.

Enough!

Full disclosure: In the past, I’ve been quite an egregious list maker. Though my lists tend toward the absurd and not “18 Ways You Can Use Twitter to Annoy the Internet.” But still, a list is a list is a list.

As a blogger, I’d like to place the onus of this lackadaisical approach to producing blog content solely on the writers, but they are not the only ones to blame. Everyone who clicks one of those links, tweets it, or links to it is guilty. So let’s just stop. All of us. I will, I promise. Though, it does sadden me that my stunning list “14 Ways to Annoy Your Cubemate by Dissing Jack Kerouac” will never see the light of day.

Once we tackle the lists, we’ll start in on the Social Media experts. I think Michael Pinto of Fanboy might be on the right track with this problem.