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Link Roundup 12/3/2014

December 3, 2014 by Steven Savage

What’s worthy of your attention?

Cosplay

Abby of KeAbitum looks at the Cosplay Money fallacy.
A con that’s hardcore focused on sculpting and practical skills? Meet ConStruct.
And now a nonprofit makerspace community for cosplayers? Meet Studio Cosplay.

Culture

Cracked looks at why pop culture sucks. This makes a lot of good points, points I may explore later. Well worth reading.

Education

How Chicago’s schools came out behind on a financing deal – Answer, high finance swap deals that of course screwed them over. Lots of financial esoterica here, but important as many schools need money. Speaking of . . .
Good news Michigan, the court says you don’t have to provide quality education for every child! Kindly throw this in the face of anyone complaining about the state of education. We asked for it.

Science

The Best Science Books For 2014 – For yourself or a gift!

– Steven Savage

Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach. He blogs on careers at http://www.musehack.com/, publishes books on career and culture at http://www.informotron.com/, and does a site of creative tools at http://www.seventhsanctum.com/. He can be reached at https://www.stevensavage.com/.

Link Roundup 9/8/2014

September 8, 2014 by Steven Savage

Had a lot of links come in today!

John Oliver notes the for-profit education industry is bollocks – and like an STD.
Great piece of advice from Seth Godin – are you leaving a trail? That’s a good thing.
There’s a documentary coming out on the infamous – and formative, Golan and Globus media moguls.
In the American recovery, most people didn’t recover.

– Steven Savage

Links Of The Day 10/8/2013

October 8, 2013 by Steven Savage

What’s up today?

Let’s get depressed in looking at how . . . well dumb Americans are compared to other people. The computer skills part flips me out, frankly. Well this tells you about your audience – and maybe some opportunities to train or help people.

Speaking about training, here’s an excerpt that trashes crap advice books fro 1909. NOTHING has changed, has it? No. Worth reading – and a warning on the advice you may be getting from various sources, it may have been crap for 100 years.

I just found out about this evolving writing site, Describli. Keep an eye on it . . .

Games-wise news: SquareEnix is porting some Dragon Quest games to smartphones. Well you’ve got my attention – and this is a beloved series which has it’s mobile series as well. Smart move – and a reminder again that phones are a great way to re-release games.

Amazon wants to lure in Kindle developers and is offering rewards. They want this pretty damn bad apparently – if you want to take advantage of it is another question.

The BBC has gotten into its own store for downloading and keeping shows. Interesting move. So who’s next – and how will this affect media alliances?

– Steven “Now Available On Mobile” Savage