Do Nothing Goals

Welp, it's January 2012. The final countdown. Can't you just hear the music? But seriously, 2011 was a crazy year. I'm looking over this blog and remembering how it was basically dead. In June of 2011 I came back with new motivation. Twenty-three posts later, it's the beginning of a new year. For those of you who can't math (like me), that's 23 posts in 6 months, which is 3.8333333333333333333333333
333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333...posts per month. Sorry, I can't resist recurring decimals.

So, if a new year is supposed to be about goals and commitments and change, what is the plan for this space? This mass of jumbled thoughts and broken language about video games, a digital life, and (seemingly) doing nothing. I guess the lazy answer is to keep on keepin' on. And I am never opposed to sticking with the lazy answer.

Focusing on audience seems like a good place to start. Go for more views/hits/clicks. Isn't that how the Internet works? If I were trying to make money off of these ramblings, that might be the way to go. But I don't care about money. No, I'm more interested in content. If I have a goal or new year's resolution for blogging, it would be to produce more.

More than four posts per month and at least one "original" comic per month. None of this rage comic crap or movie stills with text. Maybe dry erase board stuff. More creative, original content in the form of words and images. That's the ultimate goal.

I hate writing game reviews, so I'm not going to delve into that well. There is a different process that I follow when it comes to buying new games. It goes something like this:

Funneling - What video games interest me?
Research - What have I read/seen/heard about this video game?
Expectations - What am I going to find/see/do in this video game?
Purchase - Did I buy this video game based on the three areas above?

No - Why not?
Yes - Did the video game fail/meet/exceed my expectations?

If I were to start writing reviews, this would be the format I'd follow. This could also be a sexy infographic.

Speaking of infographics, have you heard of wordle? It's an awesome word cloud generator. I created two word clouds for this blog. Maybe I should do this every six months and see how the image changes.

The last thing I want to mention is Destructoid's community blog and their "Blogger's Wanted" weekly topic. I've written in on four of those topics. Just four. I'm picky. So, the goal here is to be less picky and try my hand at more video game topics. The last one I posted was on Christmas eve. I love the picture that went with it.