Net neutrality is the principle that all internet data should be treated equally, that no service provider should sell preferential treatment to the highest bidder, and that no company can discriminate what sites their users see. It prevents wealthier sites like BuzzFeed from being the fastest things on the net. It prevents Comcast from charging … Continue reading The Esoteric Order of Internet Service Providers
As more information archeologists dig into the web, content creators have been getting the short end of the pickax. Dependent on services to host our treasures, we’re finding them hidden, buried behind copyright claims, closed off to adventurers who once sought to share them. The internet is still their dig site of choice, but it … Continue reading We are the Internet
The following is a NEWS PARODY and not part of the actual Cloverfield ARG. This Monday there were massive internet service disruptions, starting with reports that T-Mobile’s network was down followed by Sprint, ATT, Verizon, and Comcast. Then the servers for Call of Duty went offline, followed by Fortnite, Twitch, Facebook, and Instagram. Even Google … Continue reading Massive Communications outages a clear sign Cloverfield monsters are coming
Are you having night terrors, followed by waking hallucinations? Are you experiencing nosebleeds despite never having any preexisting allergies? Are you hearing tape hiss even though you don’t own a VCR? Are you feeling a strong compulsion to scratch faces out of magazines or draw circles on the ceiling? Look around. Are there flies in … Continue reading How Contact Tracing Could Slow the Spread of The Ring Video
Meet Dragrim Obsidian, the necromancer responsible for the negative energy that’s bringing you down. “If you feel like you’ve been abandoned by those in power, like you’re at odds with all of your peers, and there’s no hope for the future, that’s probably my doing.” Obsidian agreed to an interview provided we met on the … Continue reading Meet the Necromancer Responsible for the Negative Energy on Social Media
The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown all our lives out of balance. 30 million Americans have applied for unemployment while essential workers find themselves working twice as hard. Madame Monisha is a spectral officer for Lakeside Village, a planned community in White Bear Lake Minnesota. While the community is young Madame Monisha says there are hauntings … Continue reading Why Everyone is Stockpiling Amulets
Showman P.T. Barnum once said, “There’s a sucker born every minute.” and if you believe he actually said that you may be one of them. Barnum promoted sideshow hoaxes like the Fiji mermaid and the Cardiff Giant but his biographer, Arthur H. Saxon, casts doubt on the idea that Barnum would openly “disparage his patrons.” … Continue reading How to Trick People into Reading Your Story By Convincing Them it’s about Them
Stephen King cut his teeth submitting short fiction to magazines. Legend has it that he hung his rejection letters from a nail in the wall. When the nail couldn’t take the weight he upgraded to a railroad spike, but King kept right on going. The greatest skills an aspiring author can learn is to handle … Continue reading Gracefully Handle Rejection By Standing Outside a Publisher’s Home in a Clown Mask
So you want to be an author in today’s entertainment climate, when the golden age of television can be streamed from any phone, when videogames have addicting gambling mechanics, and political theater is broadcasting 24/7. You have the audacity to look at all the stories around you and say, “I want to get paid to … Continue reading How to Serve the Social Media Algorithm
This year I’ve learned some hard lessons about publishing, book promotion, and blogging. I’ve honed in on my problems and come up with some solutions for 2019. PROBLEM: My novel isn’t going crazy viral A blog is not the best promotion vehicle for a novel (even if I write a dozen novel-centric articles). Most of … Continue reading Drew Year’s Resolutions
