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Breakdown of DashCon's Responses
This will cover their reply on Tumblr [1] and their website [2]. Let's start with what was posted on Tumblr. (Note: Anything stated by DashCon is in blue.)
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DashCon 2014 Part Deux
This is a followup to my previous post.
Though kinder more forgiving souls are willing to give the DashCon heads the benefit of the doubt and label the mess "growing pains", the more I read of their series of misinformation and outright lies the more I'm inclined to believe otherwise.
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Failed Conventions: DashCon 2014
What happens when a group of fans with no relevant experience get together to run a three day geek convention? DashCon 2014. It begun its life as Tumlbr-Con, organized by fans who had no idea what they were doing.
While Dashcon was Tumbl-Con USA, they decided to create committees for each fandom to raise money for the convention itself. Their ( Read more... ) -
F*X*T
Been away a while, and there's a lot of topics I could go on about, but I'm not sure who's around anymore. Most people I know have moved on to Twitter, Tumblr or even resigned themselves to the bowels of Facebook.
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A Liberal Arts PR Problem
"Help a broke anthropology student go to field school!!!!" read the GoFundMe. The amount for the summer study abroad was raised, but a couple of months later another plea went up to help cover rent, bills, medicine and moving. A few days later followed posts about how much they’re enjoying the latest Grand Theft Auto, currently retailing around $60 ( Read more... ) -
Saving Time & Money
Recently an artist posted tips for making "freelance life easier by saving you time and money and keeping your morale up". Her tips included (summarized):
- Put dish soap on greasy pans first before water and rub it around
- Throw out scrubby sponges when they smell.
- Use vinegar for everything.
- Buy a cheap pumice stone to scrub porcelain.
- Shop at the ( Read more... )
- Put dish soap on greasy pans first before water and rub it around
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Sheltered
"Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans." - John LennonYears back if you asked Shari where she saw herself in comics, it probably wouldn't be as a colorist. She could have stuck with what was familiar: black and white comics; a lot of people do. But I think it's a mistake to stick to only what you know. You may be good at it, but ( Read more... ) -
Not Career Suicide, but it is Judgemental
I took a trip down the rabbit hole, sort of. Bear with me.
While checking out the latest updates on the Sullivan's Sluggers Kickstarter fiasco -- I didn't pledge to that project, but and saddened to see the writer behaving so poorly -- I came upon one person's reviews of projects he's supported. One he ranked lower was Ashes. The names sounded ( Read more... ) -
Better, Worse... Whatever -- It's All Personal Opinion.
I've thought of this before, and I think I've mentioned a variation of this elsewhere: indirectly criticizing someone else's likes.
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Document Readability
This is a fun little test of your writing. The site explains it thusly:
This free online software tool calculates readability : Coleman Liau index, Flesch Kincaid Grade Level, ARI (Automated Readability Index), SMOG. The measure of readability used here is the indication of number of years of education that a person needs to be able to understand ( Read more... )