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Happy New Year!

Chevy Chase New Year Gif

I’m not feeling very verbose as I kick of 2013, but I did want to showcase some highlights from 2012 and some plans for 2013.

Wow, what a big year – things at Raidious started off pretty hot with the Superbowl XLVI Social Media Command Center propelling our company into the national spotlight. Indianapolis was a great host for the NFL and I’m proud to have been a part of it. Raidious also won a Mira award and we ended the year by  announcing that we are planning on adding 75 new jobs by 2016!

Speaking of jobs, I am happy to announce that my day-to-day role at Raidious is shifting from Operations to Technology. The leadership team at Raidious continues to expand, and I am excited to have a new area of the business to focus on! 2013 is going to be a revolutionary year for our company, and I am excited to be building some innovative new tools for audience building.

2012 was a good year for music as well. Last year I joined up with some good friends to start a new music project, dubbed Conjurer. It’s slow, heavy, and loud. We just finished a recording and have been playing in Indy. Be sure to like us on Facebook and  come out to see us if you are a fan. I also had the privilege of doing a weekend tour with Autobody.

I’ve never been a big fan of new years resolutions, so I will announce a couple of 2013 plans instead. Things to look out for:

  1. Conjurer Demo – This thing should be wrapped up super soon.
  2. Henchman – a new comic book project that I have been working on with my high school friend, Jamison Raymond.
  3. More exciting things from Raidious.
  4. Other stuff – I’m not sure yet, but I am hoping to get around to another project in my loose idea folder this year – stay tuned!

As far as the rest of the world goes, Google did the best job recapping a pretty incredible year in the world. I leave you with their Zeitgeist video for 2012

For my birthday I got Google Maps 8 Bit for NES

Google Maps 8 Bit - Google Headquarters

Every year Google does something funny for my birthday. Everyone thinks it’s for April Fool’s day, but I know Google knows everything about me, including my birthday & what color socks I am wearing today. It stands to reason that they know of my love of video games as well, and this year they made this!

Hilarious. They even made 8 bit versions of street view, complete with little avatar.

8 Bit Street View - Google Headquarters

April’s Impending Reign of Showers

I found myself with some time during the Icepocalypse, and jotted this down, so I today present a little satire for your Saturday.

The mid-west froze in it’s slow paced tracks last week as, “Icepocalypse 2011″ slid it’s way across the country.  Quickly followed up Snowpocalypse, meteorologists now turn their gaze toward something far, far more sinister.

Aprils’ Reign of Showers.
“I’ve already got me a pontoon boat.” said James “Jamie” Kurnch of Mooresville, Indiana. I use it down on Lake Cataract every summer – way I figger, I’ll just be getting drunk sooner!”

Not all residents are as laid back. “I DON’T HAVE A BOAT, OMG WTF WILL I DO TO SAVE MY TRENDY RESTAURANT!” wrote twitter user @winecellar1977. To translate, we went to local president of social media expert science lab, and mayor of 93 local foursquare locations, Kenny Savage, and he gave us this totally unrelated quote.

“Many have come to me, saying… how will you cope with the intrusion on your bohemian lifestyle,  and attend all of those networking events?! Let’s just say… someone owns some special twitter handles, and has already started working on something special for the future of the web.”

How will the world cope?! Time will only tell. Be sure to come back for our next report:

“Pilgramage – how May’s flowers will bring us home.”