Living And Blogging In An Age of Web-Geekery: Covering Comic-Con by TOYSREVIL

My personal enjoyment of this year's San Diego Comic Con was dependent on everybody else online. From tweets to twitpics, from media outlets to media source, I had the opportunity to live the SDCC-experience vicariously thru the folks knee-deep within the bowels of the convention-aisles ~ via the internet, moreso now than I have ever been able to before, in the many moons that I have been humbly blogging. A sincere and humbled thank you to one and all for the opportunity to partake of the event!

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Twitter had played an enormous part in the experience, as it afforded immediate and instantaneous visual gratification beyond the hassle of uploading multiple images unto facebook (the second most common venue), followed by websites and blogs. And where else could you be where one single locale can keep you updated with every other second/minute with info and image deluge threatening to cyber-bury you in geekery-goodness, besides Twitter?

The ability to embed twitvids surely does aid in the dissemination of visual information (Although "Information" by itself would be accessed and assessed at later time, when folks boot-up their laptops and desktops and log-on proper), with YouTube still dominating and holding strong for audio-visual content, just not as immediate. In this age of disposable info, people tend not to click too far and wide, and would be content to view everything within a few dedicated clicks of the mouse.

I remember 2008-09, when folks would send over images and info to be shared and blogged about. This year was decidedly different. Everyone had their own media streams flowing, everyone carried and uploaded at their own leisure and under their own steam. And by "everyone", it includes the individual enthusiast and/or practitioner, and/or media source (except for the blessed few who continue to support and help guide TOYSREVIL though to the future). 2010 was a year when everyone was web-abled and capable of producing and carrying their own "content", which meant they needn't forward any content to other folks to post about. Everyone else has become a media platform now, even if by default.

Be that as it may, folks are more empowered and technically able to provide for everyone else who were willing to soak it all up. Dedicated independent small platforms (like this humble blog you are reading now ~ and bless you for reading it still) have become practically "redundant", at the very least in being able to provide coverage of the event as it happens.

I found myself scavenging for scraps of info and snaps all over the shop. And at certain times, it was glorious! As a pop-culture enthusiast myself, I would not want for anything else, to be bombarded with a steady influx of sights (if not sounds). This has been the BEST year ever, in terms of skinny-dipping in info-overflow! And oft times I have mentioned, tis great to be a geek in these times!

But as a (wannabe) content provider, I wish I could do more beyond regurgitating re-organized info, in particular for SDCC, or even Taipei Toy Festival. But I reckon what I have done is still within my ability and means, and will still continue to wait for folks' response for permission to post their content (for indie / smaller providers, not the media "giants" tho, a gnat I might well be to most LOL), or until the news becomes "stale", in this 24/7-cycle of informational-news we all seen to revel and dwell in. But good news is good news, regardless how long ago they have floated about the www-ether, innit?

Glorious times to be in, I'm sure.

Now we await the onslaught of New York Comic Con, DesignerCon and Singapore's very own Singapore Toy, Games and Comic Convention! A part of me abhors the notion of scavenging (again), but the geek part of me cannot wait to see, and perhaps even experience the surprises to come! Bring It On!

So how was YOUR SDCC-experience? :)