Still Alive
I know, it’s been a rather long while between updates for me. I’ve been busy lately. Really busy.
My company, Blue Frog Gaming, put out a new game a month or so ago called Starfleet Commander and it’s been doing really well. The volume of support work has been huge, 4 or 5 times all of our other games combined (though the other games add up to much more traffic). Some of its due to the fact that we just haven’t ironed out a lot of the kinks yet, but most of it’s because people are just getting way more into it. We’ve got significantly higher engagement, growth, and revenue per user than we’ve seen before.
So I haven’t had much time for writing, but what I have had time for, I’ve gone a little overboard with. I’ve been holding it back because I’m always loathe to publish some 20,000 word blog post, but I’ve got a good series about the state of internet advertising, especially as related to social media, that I think I need to at least serialize and get out there. It starts with a rather lengthy primer that’s totally skippable to anyone who knows the difference between CPA and eCPM, but is a great intro to how ads work online for everyone else. I’ll probably try to get that live in the near future.
I’ve got some stuff to say about the public health care debate too. I know, who doesn’t? But it’s one of the most fascinating and complex issues our country has dealt with in living memory, and I find most of the arguments both for and against it to be focused on the wrong things, and the task of arriving at any firm conclusion to be almost entirely impossible. I also plan to write about why Libertarianism has become nothing but a religion for people who think they are too smart to buy into the other ones. It may be Target to Christianity’s Wal-Mart, but it’s still just a big-box retailer.
So more coming soon, I promise.
