- My priorities have changed. It could be related to losing a part of the family June 26, 2011 or getting older or just wanting to invest my time on internet projects that generate revenue instead of doing things for a hobby and being open source with my writing. Server costs are high. Whatever the case may be, things will be getting phased out or have been cut, while other projects are gearing up as we head into 2013.
- Please consider donating to
Simon DeCarvalho, who needs monetarily assistance for his medical condition.
- I will be pumping out books in the last quarter of 2012 and 2013. Some will be co-authored and others will be solo. Some will be under pen names. I will be using the power of my high traffic sites to promote them. This is where my writing will be focused- not the blogs anymore.
- I will be getting out much more online content for my business; Dan Gandul and I have HUGE things in the works and much that has been completed already. We always stay ahead of the competition. Generation Imaging has been a success story.- Damianhospital.com was hacked by some Canadian pharmacy spammer in 2012, so after getting deindexed from Google, I decided to let the domain expire since it's blacklisted. This site, damianhospital.weebly.com is my official site. Thanks to the anonymous person (who I think I know in real life, but he refused to give his name) who gave me the heads up.
- I lost my desire to post frequently on my DailySkew sites in recent months for a number of reasons. One major reason is that the comments were what I call "hit-and-run" or "drive-by" mutants- negative comments that didn't offer constructive criticism and, of course, spammers. I get thousands of hits a day, but the only comments were from drive byes. So I have shut down all comments. If you had something to add, it's too late, because everyone has lost the right to post on Skew and Baseball. And I don't care.
- I lost my desire to continue posting on my comic book website, Bad-Dreams even though it's so content rich, heavy with traffic, actually gets some social buzz on Facebook. and the occasional positive e-mail from a real person. I will let the domain expire. I am giving too much away for free, and fans don't post anymore. I put two good years into it. Suffice to say I will use those articles and original research for a book one day.
- I pulled two Blogspot websites: Tashman Technologies and Wrestling Dream Matches off the net in an effort to cut loose ends and refocus. No one cares about Tashman anymore. A third Blogspot site, Elfhelm's Bane Shrine received its last post on July 19, 2012. That site will stay up, however, since it is helpful to a handful of people who are obsessed with that Apple II game from 1984. My marketing partner
Yin Chan Vo pulled down DailySkews.Blogspot.Com, which was an automated site that reposted news from Posterous and the DailySkew. It probably offended Google. Since she's in grad school, she's not been focused on my crazy SEO stunts.
- Speaking of Posterous, I haven't made any new Posterous podcasts since April 2012. I have no desire to play with a microphone anymore and waste my time without no benefits. More power to you if you like doing that. I did create podcasts for my upcoming book
Enneagram Pop! Fictional characters, which dissects the personalities of TV, movie, comic book, and literary characters, but they are hosted elsewhere.
- I do not interact on Twitter anymore or read tweets, so if you are leaving messages to me there, I won't see them. I just post links to Twitter to share with my thousands of robot followers. One reason is that I don't like the character count limit and miscommunications can happen (drama). However the main reason is probably that I didn't like most of the tweets or the atmosphere. Feel free to RT me, though.
- My Facebook boycott continues, and the blowback I received is that 99% of the people who were my "friends" made no attempt to find me elsewhere on the net. For those of you who actually used a search engine to contact me, you get an award. (Thank you Anthony Mackenzie, Martha Blum, and Jim Foligno for thinking of me and finding me online.) And of course, here's a shout out to my daily/weekly e-mail peeps: my mother, Anthony DeCarvalho, Chester Babst, Gary Byrd, and Arnold Roberts. Dan Gandul and I also like to bomb our boxes every day even though we see or talk to each other every day as well.
- Another amazing thing about how the world is so used to Facebook and FB internal e-mail and Wall posts is that my extended family doesn't even communicate with me anymore as much since I left FB. For some reason actually checking or drafting an e-mail from their Yahoo, Hotmail, or Gmail is completely out of the question. They are so used to using the internal chat, e-mail, and post comments that taking the time to write a personal e-mail is...too intimate? Takes too long? Site out of mind? Too busy? Frustrated I don't worship them on FB anymore like their hundreds of so-called admirers? Who knows?
- Based on the lack of a fanbase, I'm not into the Dream Seeker book series (co-authored with Tony Vahl) anymore, so I removed references to it on the front page of this site. They will always be up on Amazon Kindle and Lulu, since they are passive incomes, but I will not create any new stories.
Excelsior!
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