Published works: Kindle vs. iPad, cool games, ’90s tech giants
Recent things I’ve written:
New Indiana Jones video game
It’s not really Indiana Jones, but it rips it off beautifully. And you can play it.
Video games are in good hands
Here’s why: 
“I don’t read novels. I’m a novelist, but I don’t read. I don’t like reading. I love comics. I love reading comics. I can still read comics and write… But I come from a TV background.”—Gears of War 3 writer Karen Traviss, via Tom Chick
Nice to hear. For a while there I thought high-profile video games would start hiring writers who liked reading. Talk about dodging a bullet.
Published works: Home field advantage, fantasy sports, free college, gamer abandonment
Notable feature stories I’ve written recently:
Hey, ESPN spilt video games on my sports highlights
Similar to Madden NFL, the cable sports network now highlights the playmaker with a under-ring (as seen 1:05 into video). Me likey.
Published works: Wii U, Chromebooks, and shunning Facebook
From one of the most brilliant minds of our time comes…Embedded video is the new live blog
In the mid 2000s, live blogging was all the rage. Since streaming video was still in its infancy, a live blog was the only way you could get real-time updates of an event from a remote location. It was a great recourse, as onlookers could react, comment, and update each other in real-time.
Today, live blogging is mostly useless. Take this year’s E3, for example. Every game company either streamed their live press conference or had a partner do it for them, most of which could be embedded and streamed live to your own website or blog. Nevertheless, every major blog I came across continued to perpetuate the “live blog” like it was still an asset to the reader.
Unsurprisingly, comments have decreased on these live blogs because no one really cares anymore. The solution: Just slap a live video embed on your site and be done with it. You’ll still get all the reader participation you had before and cut down your workload.
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Smooth Harold is the official blog of Blake Snow, a contributing writer, user experience critic, and content developer living the good life with a wife and kids. He can be reached by email. RSS here. For updates on Blake's new book, click here.
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