Happy birthday - yes, Barts' News is already one year old!
I will confess - I started it because I was very ill. Feeling really bad, unable to go out, to move, taking painkillers all the time. I begun this project because I wanted to do anything more useful than just play computer games after work, I wanted to share my reviews and other interesting bits of information with other people and I also wanted to practice my writing. I already was toying with the idea for some time before, yet what really got me started was the fact that there wasn't much else that I was able to do in my life at that time.
One year later I must admit that it was a good idea. One of my tips got featured on Kotaku (and reached Top Story status), my slideshow on in-game advertising in Wipout Pure got featured on Destructoid (and then on GeekSpeak and Urbaer), my note about Deus Ex was hotlinked on Wojciech Orliński's blog (with error, duh), my post on recovery mode of semi-bricked PSPs helped a good number of people, who had made the mistake of not being careful enough with their firmwares, the average monthly number of visitors exceeded 1500 (which is perhaps not that much in terms of internet, but it means that over one and a half thousand people reads my stuff every month), my webpage got me into Tokyo Game Show 2007 and helped me meet folks from the industry (Kotaku crew, Jessica Chobot, guys from Ubisoft, Gearbox, Wicked Studios, Beepa, OpenOko and others). Apart from all that, it gave me something to do in the dark times when I was sick - which had a very good therapeutic value.
Being game journalist has its advantages...
It was a good year and frankly, I didn't expect all that when I was starting this journey. I am now a different person and I can't believe where my fate has taken me to and good part of it stemmed from sitting down on dark October evening and typing my first two posts. Barts' News has now somewhat lower priority in my life now than it had one year ago (because I finally am able to do other things too), but I will continue to use it as my digital soap-box. I remain a devoted gamer and technophile and I will keep posting about games, computers, linux, gadgets and other geeky stuff.
Let us hope that the next year will be equally good in terms of positive changes! And thank you kindly dear readers for putting up with me this long!
I will confess - I started it because I was very ill. Feeling really bad, unable to go out, to move, taking painkillers all the time. I begun this project because I wanted to do anything more useful than just play computer games after work, I wanted to share my reviews and other interesting bits of information with other people and I also wanted to practice my writing. I already was toying with the idea for some time before, yet what really got me started was the fact that there wasn't much else that I was able to do in my life at that time.
One year later I must admit that it was a good idea. One of my tips got featured on Kotaku (and reached Top Story status), my slideshow on in-game advertising in Wipout Pure got featured on Destructoid (and then on GeekSpeak and Urbaer), my note about Deus Ex was hotlinked on Wojciech Orliński's blog (with error, duh), my post on recovery mode of semi-bricked PSPs helped a good number of people, who had made the mistake of not being careful enough with their firmwares, the average monthly number of visitors exceeded 1500 (which is perhaps not that much in terms of internet, but it means that over one and a half thousand people reads my stuff every month), my webpage got me into Tokyo Game Show 2007 and helped me meet folks from the industry (Kotaku crew, Jessica Chobot, guys from Ubisoft, Gearbox, Wicked Studios, Beepa, OpenOko and others). Apart from all that, it gave me something to do in the dark times when I was sick - which had a very good therapeutic value.
Being game journalist has its advantages...It was a good year and frankly, I didn't expect all that when I was starting this journey. I am now a different person and I can't believe where my fate has taken me to and good part of it stemmed from sitting down on dark October evening and typing my first two posts. Barts' News has now somewhat lower priority in my life now than it had one year ago (because I finally am able to do other things too), but I will continue to use it as my digital soap-box. I remain a devoted gamer and technophile and I will keep posting about games, computers, linux, gadgets and other geeky stuff.
Let us hope that the next year will be equally good in terms of positive changes! And thank you kindly dear readers for putting up with me this long!
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