Jake and I sat down via satellite with Sam Humphries to talk about creator-owned books Our Love is Real, Sacrifice, and John Carter!
There was some cursing, so I got creative with how to present that to our family friendly audience.
Drool.
iPad-ready mixer from Behringer.
Of course, you could go my route and use a USB attachment to connect to your iPad and record podcasts.
Snap. It’s this week’s comiXology podcast and just 25 minutes long.
Honestly?
The site I started with friends over at Paperkeg just crossed 7,000 followers.
Huzzah!
I know that 7,000 followers does not mean that 7,000 people will be willing to interact with you in any fashion. I mean, just look at the top Twitter users. When they post a photo to TwitPic, click on the photo to see how many views it has. Often, it does not correlate at all with how many followers they have. (That visible disconnect is solved now with Twitter using their own photo upload service.)
Even if you throw up some amazing post, it’s very rare that it would be Reblogged and then posted in that dopey Comics tag area and underneath Batman & Robin making out and then becoming popular.
However, you would think that something WOULD get Liked, or even Reblogged by at least a small fraction of that number, right?
We get many new followers a day on that page, and most accounts have some awful hyphenation in their name and just look plain fake.
When we do get reblogged, it’s more often than not a Tumblr page that has Reblogged 50 other posts in about 30 minutes. Is that Spam? Is it a 15 year old girl that we can still consider spam in the grand scheme of things?
I often read posts where Tumblr throws out stats about just how active their users are. Well, who gives a shit how active they are if it’s just one reblog circle-jerk of possible Spam accounts?
Wouldn’t that create the same inflated statistics?
Me and my husband happened to sit next to a father and son at a restaurant the other day. The dad was reading comics on his iPad, and the 9-year-old boy was quite a fan of the X-Men. Here, in a nutshell, is the chain of events that led to both currently reading comics.
The father, a school-teacher, used to read comic books when he was a kid. You would think that it was he who introduced comics to his son. But no:
Hello!
Let’s end the week on a high note, shall we?
Monday we’ll be recording the hotly anticipated PK40 | LemireKeg with none other than special guest host @b_corto! (She’s a girl!)
We’ll be discussing Lost Dogs towards the end of the show. OMG IT SHOULD BE GOOD. Did I mention we’ll also be reading the first volume of Transmetropolitan for PK41? I just did, bro.
Will Jonesy be able to make it through the recording without making awkward sexual comments? Will Mark make it through two shows without becoming overtly bored? Will Dale find the time to read anything worthwhile?
Get your letters in, stat.
OK, so we’re recording it tonight, but still. Get your letters in if you want your name read LIVE on the show.
Is YouTube the biggest failure in media delivery history?
How many people use YouTube daily? It’s on iPhones, iPads, Androids, Xboxs, PS3s, Rokus, and whatever the hell else.
Why have they never made a major push for a rental service for movies like Xbox has with the Zune Marketplace or even iTunes? The YouTube app for 360 is better looking the then the damn website.
Everyone knows and uses YouTube. Why not rent movies from YouTube?
Edit: Yes, I know you can rent movies from YouTube. So, what movies have you rented on your Xbox YouTube app? Did you rent The Dark Knight and watch it on YouTube on your computer? Not happening.
Taken with Instagram at Son of Matthew’s House
I have immense respect for those that just do their own thing and create.
Be arrogant thinking you can do it better than others.
Make 2012 the year you go out there and just fucking do it.
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