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OMG! SEO, SEX KITTIES, WEB PRESENCE, N00bTASTIC, PR0N

November 6, 2012 Uncategorized Comments Off on OMG! SEO, SEX KITTIES, WEB PRESENCE, N00bTASTIC, PR0N

Um.  Yeah.

See, the last time I tried a linkbait headline and a string of provocative hash tags, I picked up a stalker.  Not much of a stalker as they go, I had to put up with a running series of comments that all began with “Hey babe” and went downhill from there.  Good thing I moderate the comments!

With web-presence being more and more of a “thing” I’m starting to make some decisions about I want to show up when someone a-gits-ta-Googling.  I have multiple personalities on here, you see.  I’ve got my game-face and my family-face and my mildly snarky-CEO face and soon enough my writer-face is going to pop into the mix as well.  For me, on my end of the exchange, these things aren’t really separate, so keeping them separate here in the swim of information feels a little odd.  I feel like I’m hiding things when presenting someone with just one face or the other.  My games feed my writing feed my friends feed my business, etc. so I can’t just take one or the other.  Well, I *can*, and I have been until recently.  But now I’m considering consolidating everything, choosing one site/location to be the “core” version of me and allow everything to feed in and out.  G+, Twitter, FB, XBox Live, Gamasutra, what have you.

All of which means this site might be undergoing a change or two in the next month or so.  Keep an eye peeled.  I have some flowcharting to do.

Wait, what did we just DO?

January 27, 2011 Uncategorized Comments Off on Wait, what did we just DO?

I was trolling through the “Juvie” books the other day, looking for something new for my 9yo son (Thing01).  I do this reasonably regularly, and I will freely admit, about half the juvie books I bring home get read by me first, or sometimes me only, since I occasionally pick out something that sounds really interesting to me, but for whatever reason, Thing01 doesn’t take a shine to it.  Really, its a win-win because otherwise I’d never get the chance to read books at all.

I ran across “Enders Game” by Orson Scott Card and I stopped.  My first throught was that someone had left it on the shelf when they changed their mind (which probably happens a lot) but on closer examination I found that it was, in fact, classified as juvenile fiction.

Excuse my French, but WTF?

This was one of my favorite books when I was a tween, but back then it was categorized simply as “science fiction”.  The breakdown of books at my local B.Dalton was much more straightforward, you had books with pictures, you have a small group of “half and half” juvie books (like The Three Investigators or Encyclopedia Brown) and anything “good” without pictures was found by genre.  You didn’t go for the “Fiction” shelves because there you would invariably run into Wuthering Heights and books about relationships.

But now, when I wander through the “juvenile section” I keep seeing these classics from my childhood recategorized, taken out of the “science fiction and fantasy” shelves and plugged in amongst the Hardy Boys and Artemis Fowl.  It feels like a lost opportunity there.  I keep hearing about how people want more “good” science fiction on the shelves, but I have to wonder if it’s just slipped sidways from the genre.  I never would have found Handmaid’s Tale by looking in the genre section, or even the Hunger Games. 

Since I hate presenting a problem without at least looking for a solution, I have to admit, I’m stumped.  Shelf space is a valuable commodity, so having a book placed in multiple categories simply isn’t going to happen.  How then do we cross-promote titles to where fans of different genres can find what they are looking for, regardless of age or labeling?

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