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Five Things: April 17, 2025 | As in guillotine...
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"Make One Change" On burnout, media literacy, fact-checking, dishonest charts, and WFMU.
on Apr 17
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Rogue Trader 40K: 3 Acts, 120+ Hours (so far) | As in guillotine...
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I'm totally hooked on the grimdark future.
on Apr 6
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Five Things: April 3, 2025 | As in guillotine...
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"The potential ripple effects are of personal and professional interest." On comics distribution, subjective propaganda, Substack enablers, and homebodies.
on Apr 3
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Media Notes: March 2025 — As in guillotine...
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Books I read, games I played, things I watched in March 2025, with a brief note on what I thought about each of them.
on Apr 1
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Remember the Blogaround Challenge? — As in guillotine...
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Cynics might consider this engagement bait nowadays, but this was pre-social media (as we currently know it), when blogs were peaking.
on Mar 26
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Blogaround Challenge 2007 "Winners" — As in guillotine...
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guy lecharles gonzalez | loudpoet: Blogging it like it is since 2003.
on Mar 26
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Five Things: March 20, 2025 — As in guillotine...
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"No one paying attention should be surprised by this." On IMLS, digital censorship, human librarians, regime media, and Wikipedia.
on Mar 20
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Five Things: March 6, 2025 — As in guillotine...
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"I'm actually a wargamer rather than a role-player." On objectivity, VOI, digital infrastructure, “democratizing” art, and game mechanics.
on Mar 6
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Media Notes: February 2025 — As in guillotine...
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Books I read, games I played, things I watched, in February 2025, with a brief note on what I thought about each of them.
on Mar 2
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Five Things: February 20, 2025 — As in guillotine...
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"Spoiler: It's capitalism. It's always capitalism." On real readers, critical thinking, poetry experiments, LinkedIn slop, and Public Humanities.
on Feb 20
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Guy LeCharles Gonzalez - ON HIATUS on Twitter (archived)
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Caught @realracingclub's 1-0 victory tonight; props to La Gradona de los Malditos for bringing some real energy!
on Feb 15
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Why keep blogging in 2025? — As in guillotine...
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Why keep blogging in 2025? If you've known me for a while, you know a Cluetrain quote is coming!
on Feb 10
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Five Things: January 23, 2025 — As in guillotine...
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"I'm an incremental work in progress!" On pragmatic meliorism, my digital twin, card games, improv, and the grim dark future.
on Jan 23
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2024 in Review: My Favorite Reads — As in guillotine...
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My favorite 2024 reads in nonfiction, fiction, comics, and manga.
on Jan 4
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Comics vs. Manga: Deciding What to Read? — As in guillotine...
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The most common joke about comics vs. manga is the question, "What and where do you start reading?"
on Dec 30
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2024 in Review: My Favorite Games — As in guillotine...
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My favorite games of 2024.
on Dec 27
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Blogroll — @glecharles — As in guillotine...
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A curated selection of some of my current favorite blogs and newsletters.
on Dec 23
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Five Things: December 19, 2024 — As in guillotine...
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"I approve of the bird in a trench coat." Ending the year with misinformation, extortion, big lies, Dakar fantasies, and the aforementioned bird.
on Dec 19
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The "AI in Publishing" Hype Train needs to be derailed — As in guillotine...
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The AI hype train is reaching predictably ridiculous extremes because credulous journalists happily platform the worst of this nonsense.
on Dec 13
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The Limitations of FREE; Godin vs. Gladwell — As in guillotine...
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Gladwell's must-read New Yorker review of Anderson's Free: The Future of a Radical Price nails its short-sighted, conference circuit talking point to the wall.
on Nov 22
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Five Things: November 21, 2024 — As in guillotine...
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"Gladwell has always been an overrated hack." On EV marketing, Gladwell vs. Anderson, subordination, enshittification, and preservation.
on Nov 21
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Shadowrun Subverted? A First Look at Subversion RPG — As in guillotine...
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Subversion RPG: Rebellion and Community in cyberpunk-fantasy world with interesting twists on mechanics and storytelling.
on Nov 3
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Booknotes: October 2024 — As in guillotine...
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Books I read, and a brief note on what I thought about each of them. Includes other media, too.
on Nov 2
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Five Things: October 31, 2024 — As in guillotine...
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"Nothing good in tech lasts forever." On #SocialReboot, radical RSS, content strategy, publishing tech, and the truth about snake oil.
on Oct 31
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Happy 4th Anniversary to Me, LibraryPass, and Reading ALL the Comics — As in guillotine...
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"What had started as a fun side gig helping a friend out with strategy and messaging, slowly evolved into a mission that became personal on several levels; most importantly, an opportunity to be the change I wanted to see in the market."
on Oct 17
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Five Things: October 3, 2024 — As in guillotine...
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"Why did you remove all the updates?" On digital licenses, accessibility challenges, soft censorship, startup follies, and fun with LLMs.
on Oct 3
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"Make progress among the willing." The Good, Bad, and Ugly of #PIF24 — As in guillotine...
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An excellent reminder that the industry is so much bigger than Amazon and the Big 5, and if we prioritize making progress among the willing, we can disrupt the industry for the better — from within.
on Sep 29
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Is the Publishing Innovation Forum an event the industry really needs? — As in guillotine...
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Is the Publishing Innovation Forum an event the industry needs right now? I think it can be. #PIF24
on Sep 24
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Persona 3 Reload is Amazing (so far) — As in guillotine...
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Persona 3 Reload is amazing (so far) and is threatening to become one of my favorite games in a long time.
on Sep 14
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Am I Too Old for Playing Games? — As in guillotine...
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I am by most definitions an Adult Gamer, but I'm starting to feel a little like Murtagh: maybe I'm getting a little too old for this shit?
on Aug 15
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Stagger Lee, Best of 2006? — As in guillotine...
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guy lecharles gonzalez | loudpoet: Blogging it like it is since 2003.
on Aug 14
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Five Things: August 8, 2024 — As in guillotine...
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"'Inevitability' continues to be the boogeyman driving bad business decisions." On digital archives, content theft, expensive ebooks, public domain, and Electric Capitalism.
on Aug 8
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Guy LeCharles Gonzalez: As in guillotine. Old/new media pragmatist. Sometimes loud, one-time poet, still opinionated.
on Aug 2
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Five Things: July 11, 2024 — As in guillotine...
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"If Goldman Sachs is saying this, things are very, very bad." On comic acquisitions, the AI bubble, social gaming, monocular vision, and the Jersey Devil.
on Jul 11
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Always Take the Meeting — As in guillotine...
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guy lecharles gonzalez | loudpoet: Blogging it like it is since 2003.
on Jul 1
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Five Things: June 20, 2024 — As in guillotine...
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"People are the answer to the problems of bits." On AI use cases, bad journalism, Jaron Lanier, bubbles, and Pokémon.
on Jun 26
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Understanding Libraries (I'm Speaking at Two Industry Conferences) — As in guillotine...
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I'm looking forward to attending and speaking at two upcoming conferences, helping attendees understand the importance of libraries.
on Jun 24
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Five Things: June 6, 2024 — As in guillotine...
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"Trains can be rerouted, stopped, or if necessary, derailed." On library borrowing, the black box problem, faking diversity, digital divides, and thinking about systems.
on Jun 9
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Booknotes: May 2024 — As in guillotine...
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Books I read, and a brief note on what I thought about each of them. Might include other media, too.
on Jun 2
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Catch-22: Thoughts on "AI" in Marketing and Inevitability — As in guillotine...
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One of the biggest reasons "AI" is gaining traction in marketing circles so quickly is most marketing is actually pretty bad already.
on May 31
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Five Things: May 23, 2024 — As in guillotine...
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"Here I am." On indoctrination, relaxing reads, comics media, self-driving cars, and even sneakers are bad?!?
on May 23
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Five Things: May 9, 2024 — As in guillotine...
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"These damn kids don't like what I like!" On book snobbery, comics for kids, acceptable censorship, marketing KPIs, and car stuff.
on May 9
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Five Things: April 25, 2024 — As in guillotine...
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"The road we took here is washed out." On library ebooks, digital media, TikTok and marketing, EV overload, and Gen X insights.
on Apr 25, 2024
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Five Things: April 11, 2024 — As in guillotine...
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"Because missing an episode of The A-Team had real consequences." On publishing contracts, accessibility, AI shenanigans, and the Vectrex.
on Apr 11, 2024
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Five Things: March 14, 2024 — As in guillotine...
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On ebooks (again) and games in libraries, the cons of subscription services, dirty money, and Racing Santander.
on Mar 14, 2024
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Booknotes: February 2024 — As in guillotine...
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Books I read, and a brief note on what I thought about each of them. Might include other media, too.
on Mar 3, 2024