All right, so real quick: a couple posts ago I mentioned something about Jeff Gerstmann and eluded to his firing from Gamespot. Being a big fan of him and his work, I’ve been following along with what he’s been up to recently on his and other former Gamespot employees’ blogs. In the last couple weeks especially, he and Ryan Davis have been dropping some hints about a new project that they’re working on, and today they finally announced what it was. Introducing Giant Bomb (dot com). It’s still in the rudimentary stages, but what they’ve shown and eluded to here looks awesome, and really seems to be what fans of Jeff and of what Gamespot used to be are looking for: professional game reviews served with healthy portions of video content, and a super off the wall podcast that talks about energy drinks and action movies in addition to the standard video game fare. Hopefully they’ll be able to secure enough advertising dollars (maybe not right at the outset, but eventually) to stay afloat. This is clearly the place where Jeff’s experience with doing the same thing 11 years ago at Gamespot will come in handy.

In short, I am 10 kinds of excited about this.

I’ve noticed that ever since starting at the Purple Onion a couple weeks ago, there’s been a significant amount of “buildup” in my Inbox and on my Google Reader every day by the time I get home, and that some days it can take up to an hour or two to get through it all. By “buildup” I’m just referring to emails and rss feeds that get updated while I’m at work. I generally like to keep things clean in this regard (my Inbox having no unread messages and my Google Reader having no new updates), and I suppose that’s everyone’s ideal, but I guess I’m just realizing that I had a lot more time to do things like that when I was doing to Brueggar’s/Security at Trinity combo.

Oh, I’m still doing security, but not as much as before.

Also, I finally broke down and got a Twitter account today. I’ve always refused on the grounds that it’s “another social networking thing that would take up time” until my roommate Dan pointed out recently that a service like that, being web-based and not real time like the Google Talk status message, serves as a way to let people in on what you’re up to even if they’re not online at the moment, which makes a lot of sense. My plan right now is to put a Twitter app in my Google Desktop sidebar so that I can update both at the same time without the hassle of having to go to my Twitter page to do it.

So I’m gonna go ahead and echo Dan’s point that he made over at da Blog yesterday and issue a call to everyone who hasn’t done it yet to get Twitter and combine it with your Google Status message in some way. Hopefully we’ll start to see some activity much like what happened in the summer of ‘06 when everyone who hadn’t done it yet switched to Gmail, especially since Twitter has enough different ways to update your status — from a Google Desktop app to text messaging to an IM contact that you just send an instant message — to accommodate most peoples’ unique situations. So, get Twitter!