Interrupt your tech news: Fandoms Rating

     Earlier today I got into  a good discussions about fandoms, and what are 'good ones' and 'bad ones'. This is mostly about ones opinions, but it did get me thinking; what if there was a system to actually rate a fandom for people. Certain area's of interest if you will, so that one could check out all of the merits of a fandom. The only bad thing about a system, as with all ratings are that they tend to be much more bias since people will flood it full of their own opinions when dealing with a favorite, or not so favorite, fandom. 

     Some of the ones I, and a friend of mine have come up with are:

• Loyalty: Which is how loyal are they to the particular fandom, what do they do to show their worth. As in pokemon, do they buy all the products and watch/read all of the literature.
• Synergy: How does everyone mix in with everyone else, do they feed of each others energy, or are they normally more separate. Is there different sides to the fandom that in constant 'war' with each other?
• Level of contemplation: How deep does the fanfiction, or other fan communication, go? Does it only hit on levels that are shallow to the viewer and focus on only small things; Or does it try and attempt to answer certain aspects about life.
• Friendliness: How accepting of new members is the fandom? Can a new person come and feel accepted, or do you have to be there from the beginning for people to accept you.
• Age: This is a secondary aspect to judge, since really it has nothing to do with how the fandom is in ones opinion, but it is something one should take note of when working on judging a fandom, since older fandoms tend to be a bit more complex and widespread.

      If you notice, these topics can also count on judging fan. This is because judging a fandom, is judging a group of people. Judging a group of people is taking the averages, or the norms, of the group and commenting on it.
    This is by no means a complete work, this is just a few of the initial ideas of such. What do you think? Is this list a good list to start from?

Your Fellow Technomancer,

Kyle Atterson

YFTechno

YFTechno: My new facebook page that is focusing on the quick and social aspect of some of the things this blog, as well as a notifier for some of you all so that when I update people can know a bit quicker.

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Your Fellow Technomancer,

Kyle Atterson

The ARMSmasters Project

     Good afternoon everyone! I am here today as a favor for a friend to help spread the word about something he is supporting: The ARMSmasters project. The project is a animation with inspiration from games, action anime, and all that. It looks interesting, I suggest taking like 10  mins just to check it out and see what you think, if you got a dollar then give a little. If not, then perhaps just help spread the word. 

Your Fellow Technomancer, 

Kyle Atterson

Redo my crew, revamp my camp, recreate the wave

     Hey, me here. Been a while, hasn't it? I am writting this partially about news on the site and goal of it, also a reminder and reason to do it.
     I have been doing a lot of soul searching and trying to figure out what I want to do with my life and be able to truly say exact to the bone. I have come up with I want to become The Reason, not be a professor, a software engineer, or a robotics researcher. I want to be true to what my heart tells me, to better technology. Not here or there but everywhere.

Getting that out of the way, my to do list for this year shall be the following:
1) Get my own server/domain for this site.
2) Start getting people together on working up a good technology news, forum, and all of that (for people who knows of my old projects, think of CompileCrazy but bigger).
3) Start a working on building up the community here in my home town of Terre Haute, this being by trying to get funding to create a hackerspace.

For now that is my main goals for everything. As well as trying to keep everyone updated and do some postings.

One thing I am going to attempt to do, make my posts more visually appealing, and maybe even add some videos when I can. Well, good night for now and everyone have a fun evening!

Your Fellow Technomancer,

Kyle Atterson

Smart-mouthed phones

So as of Saturday I have gotten a smartphone for the first time. This means two great things: 1) I will be posting more often and 2) I will write a review of the device as well as some well needed tricks and tips for them. I may even write a post on the total app boom and expectations of where it will lead us to.

Online software, what is this madness?

So we all have seen it, if we are on Facebook, Google+ or any other social site we deal with it every day we log in, online software. I am talking about sites that are in a sense software that allows the users to do stuff without downloading a program. But what makes things a online program? 

It is pretty self explanatory: a program that is online. A site that has features that allow the user to do things online that one could possibly do offline. Now, there are programs that need the internet to be useful, where as all sites need internet to be useful. Some people are wondering right now why I included social sites as a online program, that is because they are; they allow you to communicate with people, share things, just as some older programs that we would download onto our computers did (Instant messagers and the like) but with more features because of their focus and medium.

So, what does this mean for the future of the consumer? Almost nothing, just that in the future there will be more integration with online services and how things run; so if you understand how to use the internet effectively through your browser, there should be nothing that you can not be able to accomplish in future applications.

Your Fellow Technomancer,

 Kyle Atterson

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This site is one of my favorite dice rolling sites, it has somewhat of a simple way of allowing you to roll and to auto count successes or whatever. Very useful for all those who play table top rp.
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