Just two years after taking control of Tumblr as part of its acquisition of Yahoo, Verizon is looking to offload the blogging platform. According to the Wall Street ...

Men of all ages have been gathering on the streets of Taiwan wearing skirts, as part of events organised to challenge gender stereotypes and raise awareness ...

Previously, there used to be just a single way to grow the traffic of your blog. Some of you might try to work on those methods, while others used to look for ...

Before the internet was consolidated into centralized information silos, RSS imagined a better way to let users control their online personas.

For the past year-plus, I have been noticing a number of Microsoft bloggers posting that their blogs were either shutting down or moving to private/custom sites.

The bookstore formerly known as Common Good Books officially turned a new page on April 1 when new owner, Nick Ballas, took over management and began ...

The automaker will sell about $2 billion in stock and bonds to help fund its operations after a worse-than-expected first quarter.

Kibbles 'n' Bits 2/6/19: I have seen the Snappening and it is an RSS feed - The Beat.

You can take your Wordpress SEO to the next level. Following are 10 ways to make sure your WordPress site and *content* are optimized to the fullest.

Dear Gurumurthy, Intellectually, you are far ahead of RSS colleagues who think the story of Shiva placing an elephant's head on the decapitated Ganesha ...

When Google Reader was retired in 2013, many people lost their favorite way to keep up with new posts from their favorite news websites and blogs.

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A recent study on blogging in 2018 shows that the least common blogging tactics are most likely to be successful.

I chanced upon an ancient backup of my RSS feed subscriptions, a cold hard stone of data from my time at Wired in the mid-2000s. The last-modified date on the ...

A new generation of union activists see their struggle as part of the fight for equitable resources for the communities in which they teach.

While most Charleston-area influencers haven't reached a million-dollar level of success just yet, many have tens of thousands of followers and are climbing the ...

Communities like mine, in small-town Michigan, are told to blame immigrants when unchecked capitalism hurts us. We don't buy it.

Welcome to our new home on the web! For those of you who are longtime readers of Starts With A Bang!, I welcome you to our new location! And to those of you ...

Following the nation-wide police raids and arrests of several social activists – eerily reminiscent of an autocratic Indira Gandhi's Emergency – Rahul Gandhi ...

RSS was a revelation for blogging and online media; we got our first RSS feed in 2001 and I have relied heavily on RSS feeds to write this site (and stay ...

Where are you getting your social media marketing news and tips? Here are some of the top resources on the web where you can keep up with the latest social ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec.18, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Tumblr made the decision to ban all adult *content* and its bloggers from its website yesterday. This decision ...

by Chuck Collins and Jessicah Pierre. One way that extreme inequality shows up in our lives is unequal opportunity in homeownership. And for millennials ...

What is RSS? We explain why RSS is not dying and why it is still important. For small business owners and bloggers, we explain the benefits of RSS feeds.

The popularity of blogging (which originally derives from 'personal web log') continues, whether for profit, or just to have a voice on the web, since over a decade ...

Eighty-seven RSS swayamsewaks died fighting the Emergency. More than 80 thousand of them were jailed and suffered physical tortures. Many of them saw ...

Christie Tate has been writing online about her family for more than a decade. Now, her daughter is old enough to notice. After receiving a laptop for Christmas, ...

State governments have many options for recouping the windfalls large corporations and the wealthy received through the 2017 Republican federal tax law.

Most of the oldest board games that have been found are Race Games, and they are found all over the world. They are also incredibly popular, being pla.

An exploration of a new design pattern in games, removing abstraction to encourage better player behavior.

We show you how to become a science blogger and set up your science news site in 4 steps.

The RSS and VHP have done well to withdraw from the Ram Mandir agitation till the Lok Sabha elections draw to a close. For one, the movement was finding ...

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) last week held a three-day conference to outline its world view. A lecture by its chief Mohan Bhagwat appeared to signal ...

Following a request on the Bureau Local Slack channel (join here) I created a tutorial on how to create a Slack bot which would post alerts whenever a new ...

Having played Return of the Obra Dinn recently, I was inspired to write about historical settings, exploring themes, co-linear storytelling, and ships.

Most of us are active at a number of social media sites. And I bet, we all have a blog (or several blogs). You are very likely to be eager to share what.

Squarespace users have more than 90 different options, so we narrowed the field to the 10 best.

Last April, famed writer and hero-murderer George R.R. Martin announced that he was hoisting his ancient blog from his moldering LiveJournal onto his ...

At its core, public relations is largely about creating consistency. Anyone who has been in a PR meeting has heard the word 'drumbeat' more than once- create a ...

Should you post short, topical pieces at a high frequency, or is it better to have occasional posts with highly targeted information? The answer lies in between.

Having moved from Prez to citizen, on Thursday Pranab Mukherjee turned philosopher-politician at the RSS headquarters in Nagpur. He reminded all present, ...

You see a lot of slides at GDC. These are the best ones from the sessions I attended.

Ever wonder how EverQuest has stuck around for the last 20 years? This article shares insight into EverQuest's ability to retain players decade after.

20 pages of thoughts on Artifact cards that begin with the letter 'A'

Bloggers often ask me, what is thing called RSS and is it something I need for my blog. I tell them, only if you want more people to read your blog. RSS Feeds are ...

Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-Texas) is blogging from his road trip across the country, writing in his latest post that he has "been stuck lately ... in and out of a ...

Shape Theory is a theory we all know apart about and we are aware of it subconsciously. Here I break down how it can be used for level design and how.

2018 would have marked the 30th anniversary of the Advance Wars franchise, and the recent success of Wargroove made me nostalgic to talk about a great.

The top 5 reasons indie game marketing falls on deaf ears - and how to steer things back on track for your game!

If Beto O'Rourke doesn't end up running for president in 2020, he could always try writing a travel memoir in the style of John Steinbeck or Jack Kerouac.

Is it still possible to break into the games industry as an unknown indie in 2019? James Patton shares the sales numbers for his indie success Spinnor.

Three general lessons for students interested in narrative and game design on communities, supporting people, and the role of practice in trying to im.

From “flashy” beginnings to the development swamp and finally launching a console game, this is the story of how Move or Die was made.

In 2013, Jason Kottke wrote a prediction for Nieman Lab's year-end roundup: “The blog is dead, long live the blog.” Kottke was then (and still is) owner of one of ...

Let's talk about social media automation, RSS feeds & get a comprehensive how-to on dlvr.it. An RSS feeding tool to automate posts to your social media.

This article is based on a talk I presented on the Tehran Game Convention. Slides are available here. It is also available in my personal blog, in case you prefer ...

The discussion about how much a VR game costs to develop, and how VR really isn't that profitable for developers is a discussion running for nearly the past ...

Starting a blog for your brand? WordPress, Tumblr, and Blogger are all popular options, but which one is best suited to your organization's needs?

The summary of tips and tricks used in Graveyard Keeper to make different graphical effects and apply them on a pixel art picture.

The readers and SAVEUR's editors have spoken: here are your winners for the 9th annual SAVEUR Blog Awards. Finalists flew in from as far as West Africa, ...

Game design is the most important part of every game, but there are no specific tools for game designers. Dialogues must have a diagram-like layout to.

Let's talk about blood in video games, and the 2D pixel bloodstain system developed for a weird narrative experience called NetherWorld.

Does ArtStation bring artists closer together or their art, making it more similar in the process? In this article, I discuss if there is an underlyin.

Between 2004 and 2014, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) faced the 'no strong leader' problem. Party elder LK Advani's prime ministerial candidacy in 2009 and the ...

Analyzing the open world design in The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild to break down Nintendo's level design and use of topography to guide where t.

Humanity vs. Human Resources. Intro While this article focuses on what I understand the definitions to be of 'humanity' and 'human resources' in the context of ...

Amazon CEO could have given interview to Washington Post, which he owns, or done TV, but instead chose a blogging platform that's not household name.

In this series, kids (and not-exactly-kids-anymore) review how well their parents balance life and work. To nominate a potential subject, ideally between the ages ...

It's commonly wondered, searched, and debated by anyone who works with website *content* and copy: What's the ideal blog post length for SEO? The answer ...

I just got back from a trip to Boston where I took part in several roundtable discussions with indies and Valve that were mostly about how to make games that ...

So you want to start a blog and carve out a little corner of the internet to call your own — that's a pretty brilliant and popular impulse. We as humans are literally ...

Unity's audio import settings are not widely understood in their entirety, and at the time of writing, I have been unable to find any comprehensive guides to their ...

Well-orchestrated public statements with high decibel levels seem to be polluting the environment as we await the Ayodhya title suit to be listed before an ...

The business of making indie games has always been difficult, but recently it's become a lot harder. On October 5th, Valve introduced changes to Steam.

In this first of two blogs I explore the AI decision making framework that enables the machine-animals of Horizon Zero Dawn to behave independently an.

An addendum to my Designing a Production Process series that describes how to further utilize your issue tracking database to support it.

Burger King has removed an advert which shows western people trying to eat a burger with oversized red chopsticks following criticism on social media.

If a blogger falls in a forest, and there's no one around to see it…will Google still pick up the feed? Ha! I crack myself up. For those of us who spend time blogging ...

The success of Dark Souls has spawned many imitators, and for today's post, we're going to look at the common elements people get wrong when analyzing.

Official Postmortem for Das Geisterschiff, a survival horror adventure dungeon crawler and the first game by Graverobber Foundation.

If you spend much time online, it's likely you're aware of RSS feeds as a method of keeping up with blogs and websites. But what exactly is this technology? And ...

Digi-Capital's Games Report forecasts that games industry software/hardware combined could drive well over $200 billion revenue by 2023, despite short.

Observations from working on 50+ indie game marketing campaigns in 2018 - and some tips for how to give your game the best chance of success in 2019.

This article originally appeared on PR Daily in February of 2017. If you're looking for short, easy answers to some common blogging questions, here you go:.

This is our official post-mortem for our latest game, Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption. It took us 6 years to make this game, and we learned a lot from the.

My written and video thoughts on the Resident Evil 2 Remastered and how it applies both action-horror and survival horror game design.

If eating more plant-based foods is on the menu, here's where to get some great inspiration.

Promising not to write about her anymore would mean shutting down a vital part of myself, which isn't necessarily good for me or her.

Now that we are done with the singing of paeans (very well-deserved, of course) for our valiant Air Force pilots, isn't it time to sit back and think whether or not ...

In my first game design book review I take a look at Game Programming patterns by Robert Nystrom. This book is a great resource for somebody who knows.

Epic puts in 12% of the effort with an abysmal game launcher, few user features, but fantastic incentives for indie developers.

Tough Questions to Improve Your Leadership is the name of a talk I gave at GDC this year. Along with the talk, there was a handout with questions that.

Apple has announced its new game distribution *service*, Apple Arcade. This subscription-based *service* offers unlimited access to games present in its c.

Introduction. Two years ago I setup Yobowargames and work in my spare time as a solo Indie developer. Since I also have a full-time day job I would classify ...

A look at 2018 numbers for crowdfunding and video games.

A comprehensive primer on how to get started with roguelike development, guidance and tips in 5500 words and 84 images. (A text version of the open.

A critical analysis of common Japanese game narrative mechanics, their development and current modification from an outside perspective.

Is *content* syndication right for you? Let's look at the basics of *content* syndication, what it is and isn't good for, and some tips for getting started.

The Minority Department in the Congress party organisation is charged to look after the affairs of minorities that include Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, ...