Gameshelf stuff

The Gameshelf Blog's subscription count has been increasing daily since its (re-)launch ten days ago. Yesterday it broke 50 subscribers, and also surpassed the number of people subscribed to the video-only feed. And we got our first comments from users who aren't themselves authors on the site. (Specifically on a Zarf essay about "The Game". The recent meme/prank, not the 1997 Michael Douglas movie.)

Meanwhile, I just soft-launched the Gameshelf Casting Call. This is separate from the specific casting call I will do for upcoming episodes, which I've actually started to schedule, if you can believe that. No, this is me trying to cast a wider net, something I've been wanting to do for a long time, and the show's having a blog (and therefore a continual presence even between actual episodes) makes it feel more feasible now. After the thon, I'll start promoting that page (and therefore the rest of the Gameshelf site) around LJ and such.

And in case you haven't noticed

I'm kinda giving up on jmac.org/blog. I've already stated why I failed to leave LiveJournal, and there's no good crossposting tools that I can find. Meanwhile, the jmac.org blog has 0 subscribers. So LJ kind of wins.

You know what doesn't win? xJournal. It used to be a pretty good LJ client for Mac, but it's been getting crappier. Since I "upgraded" a month or three ago (probably because the old one didn't work on Leopard) my tags have only shown up about half the time, and I have no idea why. In case you were wondering about that, too.

(In fact, the reason I haven't found any good crossposting tools yet is because they do exist but none of them support LJ tags properly. I don't know if this is because LJ's tags are nonstandard and hard to cope with, or if the toolmakers are just lazy.)

Anyway, meh. I think the jmac blog might morph into my company's blog, once my company has a website.