Quick Articles FTW!
Posted by alan | Filed under Behind the Scenes
I tend to procrastinate…Â and I’ve accumulated quite a bit of hardware that has yet to be reviewed.
One of the reasons these things pile up is because of all the work it takes to actually publish a review. It may take you, the reader, about 2 minutes (or less) to skim through the article, but [...]
Tags: article, OCModShop;, paragraph, photograph, review, time, website
Digg thinks EVERYTHING is a similar post
Posted by alan | Filed under Behind the Scenes, Editorials
So, one of the things I do to promote the articles on OCModShop is to post an announcement onto Digg, as well as several other noteworthy sites.
Digg gets so many posts every minute, it’s insane. To (help) prevent spammers and bots, they extensively use Captcha and “we think your story might be a duplicate” thingy.
Every [...]
Tags: capcha, digg, duplicate, facebook, internet, network, OCModShop;, post, seo, similar, social
Read On to Find Out
Posted by alan | Filed under Behind the Scenes, Editorials
One thing that just irks me beyond belief is the phrase “Read on to find out” at the end of news snippets.
For one, this sounds almost like the “call within the next 20 minutes” command on TV informercials, to which I respond by immediately changing the channel.
Tags: advertising, feed, Hardware, infomercial, marketing, news, OCModShop;, rss, shamwow, technology, url, vince offer
The Big Mac in the photo
Posted by alan | Filed under Behind the Scenes
Some PR firms have special reviewer kits of their products that they send out to journalists like the fine staff here at OCModShop. We are initially impressed, as we should be, because there is a lot of fine swag in these kits.
But we’re here to give you an honest review about what you’re going to [...]
Tags: big mac, credibility, donation, kit, marketing, McDonald's;, OCModShop;, paypal, product, reputation, retail box;, reviewer
An Introduction and Recent Happenings
Posted by tyler | Filed under Gaming, General Life, Hardware
So before I go ahead with anything else, I wanted to go ahead and give a brief introduction to everyone. My name is Tyler Pilgrim and I’m a 19 year old computer science major out of Georgia College and State University and UGA. I’m also working on a minor in English, which was originally my [...]
Tags: Georgia College;, Intel;, OCModShop;, State University;, The Witcher;, Tyler Pilgrim;, UGA;
Pricegrabber
Posted by alan | Filed under Behind the Scenes
<shameless plug>
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OCModShop has partnered with PriceGrabber to bring you as many online rebates as you can handle.
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Here’s the link:
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http://ocmodshop.pgpartner.com/home_rebates.php/topcat_id=1/
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I’ve found several things there that I’ve bought because the prices are just too good. I do alot of shopping online just because I don’t have to pay tax, and the prices are usually much cheaper than [...]
Tags: OCModShop;, online rebates;, PriceGrabber;, retail;
Another Angry Letter about Uwe Boll
Posted by alan | Filed under Behind the Scenes
Here’s another angry letter I received:
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From: John-Paul Kelly
Sent: Sat 8/25/2007 4:08 PM
To: Alan McCloskey
Subject: Are you kidding me!?
I just got done reading your coverage of the Uwe Boll interview, and frankly, I am absolutely disgusted by the article. I’m not sure if you have ever had the unfortunate experience of sitting through an Uwe Boll [...]
Tags: Alan McCloskey;, cancer;, John-Paul Kelly;, OCModShop;, Uwe Boll Here;, Uwe Boll;, Uwe Bolls;
