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A whole new world...

December 28, 2008

alawhole So, I figured it was time to get into the new millenium and set up a new domain for my personal website, which was wedged awkwardly onto the Mono211.com domain. (I'm about to do a big rehaul on the Monotonik website, my free-to-download electronica netlabel, thus the change.)

My old Mono211.com-hosted ffwd blog was also running a prehistoric, comment-removed version of MovableType. Thus, I'm now up and running at SimonCarless.com with the latest WordPress install, which is all kinds of wonderful and easy to use. Anyone who's still using the RSS feed for old personal blog ffwd, please update to the new RSS.

I've also joined the modern age by getting a Twitter feed, which I shall hopefully be updating reasonably often. Also, I have a new Delicious feed that takes the place of the old linkblog. That's for non game-related links, of course - all the game stuff still flows into our ever-esoteric GameSetWatch weblog, naturally.

Other than that, it really is a whole new world! Back to work - what with regular Gamasutra work, judging IGF games and preparing Game Choice Awards nominations for the advisory committee, it's going to be a busy January...

Posted by h0l211 at 09:25 PM

I'm Simon 'simoniker' Carless, a publisher and editor^? originally from England, and now based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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January 01, 2009

Delicious: Simoncarless (Also, the linklog is being replaced by Delicious, I'm afraid. Thanks for subscribing for those 4+ years! Sign up for the Delicious RSS if you want more.)

Twitter: Simon Carless (Also, I have Twitter now.)

The Simon Carless Experience (Ah, this would be my new blog, then - please adjust your bookmarks/RSS feeds.)

December 31, 2008

Pink Tentacle: 'Decorated trains in Japan' (Like graffiti, only legitimate.)

December 30, 2008

Trends In Japan: Bacarobo 2008 - Stupid Robot Competition (VIDEO) (Last Saturday was the the long-waited finals of Bacarobo 2008, the “Stupid Robot” championship that made a name for itself last year.)

PSFK: 'Thoughts On TED’s Expansion : Cash In, Ideas Out?' (Interesting TED semi-backlash, considering that the conference has been pretty much unassailable to date. Via Dan Hon.)

Digital Disruption: 'The incumbent’s solution: 90% transformation, 10% innovation' (The Guardian's Simon Waldman on how bricks and mortar companies need to innovate subtly to get anywhere digitally.)

December 29, 2008

Big Picture: '2008, the year in photographs (part 3 of 3)' (This blog is just amazing - here's the year's photo highlights, in three parts.)

Back Of The Cereal Box: 'Speaking of Postcards' (These Lost promo postcards are cute.)

ASCII: 'Undistilled Amazing' (Recommending 'Live From Daryl's House', which I also heard was v.smart.)

December 28, 2008

Flickr: Seoul, Korea, December 2008 (Ah yeah, I sneaked to Korea before Xmas for the Global Online Game Awards, and never even blogged about it. It was... interesting!)

Machtdose: 'Favourite netlabel albums 2008' (Looks like some good stuff - man, I'm tragically behind on netlabels.)

Monotonik Forum: 'Cleaning up Archive.org Monotonik archives!' (As part of an wholesale attempt to fix up my net.label Monotonik's slightly neglected website and Archives, I'm fixing up its Archive.org MP3 archives into some better shape. Which means lots of free music, of course.)

December 25, 2008

YouTube: AddictiveTV's channel (The cunning VJs behind the Transambient series get relatively little love on YouTube, boo.)

December 21, 2008

MST3K recommendation: 'Time Chasers' (I am obsessed with this MST3K parody involving time-traveling light aircraft and chimneysweeps who took over the future. Please watch the MST version immediately. No, really, now.)

December 06, 2008

Long Now lecture - 'Lost Landscapes of San Francisco' (Rick Prelinger's ephemeral films are always worth checking out.)

December 02, 2008

Noerror - netlabel news page gets redesign (Looks swankier now - still v.useful!)

December 01, 2008

Monotonik - new on my net.label, Beak's 'Hard Nights' (Creative Commons-licensed guitar-idm neatness, and I'm looking for redesign help with the Monotonik site, if anyone wants to help out.)

YouTube: The Prodigy's 'Invaders Must Die' (Wow, just as I was discussing them, a new Prodigy video from their promisingly oldskool-sounding new album.)

YouTube: Pendulum Live, Voodoo People Radio One (Aussie drum and bass superstars cover The Prodigy live and shred-metal, with some style. Great tune, of course.)

November 30, 2008

Moodgadget releases Khonnor's 'Softbo EP' (Digital 'pay what you want' release from the amazing idm musician, late of Monotonik (as Grandma, mainly).)

Eldino: 'Netaudio Diagrams: November 2008' (Genres of the netlabel movement: 'The diagrams and the tables are based on my personal library of 43.057 netaudio tracks (316 Gb) and they are very accurate.')

VentureBeat: 'And now, for something completely different (on YouTube): Monty Python!' (I like it how they bother to record new stuff for things like this.)

November 28, 2008

Ironic Sans: 'Why didn’t anybody tell me about Ovation TV?' (Need to check out this channel again - I forgot it was so potentially neat.)

Pink Tentacle: 'Top 60 popular Japanese words/phrases of 2008' (Great cultural lessons here.)

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