Why Do Web Journalists Fail At Facebook?
I don’t mean to pick on Josh specifically, but he’s hardly a role model.
Up until about a year ago, my Twitter feed was married to my Facebook feed. Whenever I tweeted, It would show up on my Facebook wall. On the former, I’d get quick replies from randoms, on the latter, I’d actually have fruitful conversations with friends. It makes sense: if you’re gonna post something, why do it twice? Eventually I fell out of favor with Twitter’s lowering signal-to-noise ratio and uncoupled the two, leaving me to direct specific topics in either direction. So far, the experiment has been fantastic. I post a lot more content exclusively to Facebook and I feel I’m really taking advantage of both feeds for their respective purposes. But as I start to use Facebook more fruitfully, I look at my counterparts across the web and wonder, not really at why they don’t post more exclusively to Facebook, but why they fail to use Facebook to any of its potential.
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Future Consoles To Go Dedicated Digital Distribution? Some People Think So.
Which one will the next generation use?
So there’s a lot of speculation flying around in the industry as to the future of consoles and game distribution. Some people are saying the next generation of consoles will have gamers getting their software through conventional means – i.e. going to the store and picking it up – while others believe that the new generation will see games being distributed exclusively digitally.
I, for one, think this is a really silly debate.
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Happy Independence Day, America – From The Staff At FEZ, To Your Hearts
Fireworks – The Hallmark of America’s National Holiday
As we move further in to the day which will always remain as America’s National Holiday – Its “birthday”, of sorts – We here at FleshEatingZipper would like to say “Happy Independence Day” to America, and “Thank you!” to all of those who, throughout the years, have served to keep America – and other countries – free.
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#WaldoCanyonFire: A Burning City Through The Eyes Of The Internet
The view from inside the dome: the trauma of Waldo Canyon stretches over Colorado Springs.
Wildfires are a common sight in the news during the hot, dry summer, a season that was particularly hot and dry this year in southern Colorado. Our state’s had its fair share of blazes, acreage totals, and containment percentages, but rarely are they as intimate or as destructive as the Waldo Canyon fire. As it began to rocket down the slopes that border FleshEatingZipper’s home town, the social media we use so often morphed into a bizarre experience as local friends maintained a minute to minute watch on the flames while the outside world sailed on without a care.
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The Amazing Spider-Man Review: At Least It’s Better Than Spider-Man 3
The Amazing Spider-Man, Marc Webb’s slightly updated take on the origin of our favorite web-slinging superhero, hits theaters this week and it’s about as good as a complete retread of a ten year old movie can possibly be. The movie sports a darker color palette, improved CGI, bloodier action sequences, and a cast that is generally superior to Raimi’s crew (though no one in this movie rivals Willem Dafoe’s scenery chewing performance as the Green Goblin). And yet, as I watched The Amazing Spider-Man, I couldn’t shake the feeling that the story was completely obligatory and listless. It’s like everyone involved was really excited about the idea of a sequel—about eventually doing for Spider-Man what Christopher Nolan did for Batman with The Dark Knight—but they were all told to trudge through a perfunctory reboot before they could have any fun.
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Call of Duty DLC Now 50% Off for the Next Week!
Starting today, right now, Activision has discounted downloadable content, meaning maps and map packs for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Call of Duty: Black Ops. This will be worldwide for Xbox and PC players and only for PS3 players in the US. European players get the discount starting on July 4th. A portion of sales from the Call of Duty DLC promotion will be donated by Activision to the Call of Duty Endowment, a non-profit organization that provides job placement and training services for veterans. Read the rest of this article…
Microsoft Finally Gets It Right With (Temporarily) Cheap Windows 8 Upgrades
This kid is running to upgrade his Vista desktop right now!
I’m not sure when things went wrong (Windows Vista), but at some point, Microsoft felt like introducing “premium” versions of their flagship operating system that were over-valued and featured negligible exclusive features. Like BitLocker; who used that? Windows XP, their dominant version of the past decade, shipped in two flavors in green and blue boxes and you did well with both. Windows 7 continued this trend under Sinofsky’s reign, but it seems that Microsoft wants to apologize for all that madness with Windows 8.
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Linkin Park’s Living Things Review: One Small Step From Meteora, One Giant Stumble From ‘Suns’
Linkin Park may look older, but their music seems to have barely aged.
And it seems ugly, but it can get worse,
‘Cause even the blueprint is a gift and a curse
‘Cause once you have the theory of how the thing works
Everybody wants the next thing to be just like the first– Mike Shinoda on “When They Come For Me”
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Nuketown – Reimagined for Call Of Duty : Black Ops II
OH LAWD! Iz dat sum NUKETOWN?!
So, yeah…Nuketown is pretty much the m0st popular Call of Duty map EVAR! It’s had like 18.74 gajillion plays and Black Ops players just. can. not get enough of this one. This, along with some of the amazing changes we saw which have been made to the franchise for Black Ops 2 has had us pretty excited to see what’s coming in the future.
Well, today it was announced that Nuketown is making a return in Black Ops II and that it’s had a bit of a touching up, which made me do peepee in my pants, a little.
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Sony Computer Entertainment Acquires Gaikai
Hmmm…Sony and Gaikai. This could be interesting!
Sony Computer Entertainment today announced the acquisition of cloud-based gaming leader Gaikai, solidifying Sony’s place as the premier provider of cloud based, streaming games.
Now, I know that this whole cloud based gaming thing is still new and a lot of people are very unsure about how the technology is going to pan out in the long run.
When we were at E3, I had a chance to look at Gaikai’s service and, let me tell you…It was pretty impressive!
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