This week is crazy; something happening every day to bust up my schedule, and with layers of crisis on top of that. Cannot complain because there are exciting opportunities afoot too, but it's frustrating not to be able to commit much time to implementation, especially since I still feel like I just got home from abroad ( Read more... )

Highlight of the weekend was a last-minute decision to attend BarCamp Boston 4. This was the second "Unconference" I'd attended, after last year's GameLoop (which was, in turn, inspired by BarCamp Boston 3). I had a great time, learned a lot and met lots of cool people. Inspired to try proposing some talks myself, next time I attend something like ( Read more... )

Just had reason to touch up my LinkedIn profile. Re-aimed the Volity link to the increasingly useful company page Zarf made, changed my profile's headline from "Software Consultant" to "Software Consultant and Ludocentric Entrepreneur", and added this graf to my description:
I am also the president of Volity Games (Read more... )

Hello, my social network ( Read more... )

I really need to GTFO of the house, so I'm going to this thing tonight: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1502742
Boston is full of cool Internet people. Why aren't they meeting each other ( Read more... )

Had a decent time at Post Mortem last night; I think I'm going to make a monthly habit of it. An open but passively advertised event (I honestly don't recall how I originally heard about it), it's much less crowded and stressful than certain other pub-based nerdly events I could name. Arguably its industry focus helps keep the number of attendees ( Read more... )

Blurb to put into your conference ad if you don't want me to come:

There was so much energy in the room - with everyone taking pictures, blogging, podcasting, and twittering - it was reminiscent of SXSW.

Why yes, I have set up a twitter thing, though I update it maybe twice a week currently (I'm "jasonmcintosh"). And I might go anyway - eh, it's ( Read more... )

On a whim, I just registered for a breakfast meeting of the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce tomorrow so I can network with local businessfolk as a service provider. It's a little pricey, but not too pricey to rise out of what-have-I-got-to-lose range. (Plus, it's a write-off. I now make the write-off gesture, to demonstrate ( Read more... )

Hey folks. I didn't go to Origins; the Andys didn't wanna and the timing just didn't seem right. I am giving myself another day or three to decide if I wanna go to Gen Con. I don't have a really solid reason to go, since Volity is in such a weird transitional state. Networking is good, but until the web client's in full beta it all feels ( Read more... )

It has been a full weekend ( Read more... )