One of the worst characteristics of writing and writers is not writing, and I am one of the worse offenders. I make several excuses, sort of like why I don’t work out and the like. Bottom line is, I have time, I just don’t use it very well. I let stuff sit on my mind and fester, so I came up with a little solution and took the name from a comedians special: Ryan Neff: Raw. Basically this is me, no editor, no drafts, straight to the site. Yeah I will check stuff, but I use to write something in Word, and then post it here, make sure I don’t sound like a tard and be done. Well, done with that, straight to the site.
For a first post of the day, I have nothing to contribute. Also going to make an opportunity to post links to sites I like, and explain why I like them. So the first one I am posting is to Digg.com. I like Digg because it was started by the brain of Kevin Rose, a internet innovator who I first ran across on TechTV before G4 took it over to become a MTV for gamers and geeks. (i.e. sucks) He left soon after the takeover for reasons that seemed obvious to me, they stole the show Screen Savers which had heart, character and class and made it “Attack of the Show” which to me is more full of douche bags and company barkers than anything else. So props to Kevin Rose for starting the Diggnation. I get a lot of news from Digg and seem to note that so do a lot of other people, like the local radio station I listen to in the morning. Check it out, you can vote on news articles you think are worth reading, good ones generally make it to the front page and the best ones to the top ten of the day.
Geek:Incognito isn’t on the shelf its just being reworked, add a /xoops at the end of the .com and you will see its current experiment. TheGI.net concept has fallen apart and save some cash I will let the domain go when it comes due. As far as the community, well, like the Grail King legends when the king is wounded the kingdom suffers, add to it, we’re all adults now (in our 30’s – even the high school kids are DONE with college!) so our lives have all changed drastically. We have our myspaces and facebooks to keep in contact, but I wonder if the community will ever be like it was.
Anyway, this is my first raw session, hope stick to this and keep it up.