Presenting the new Weekly Geek
Consider this post a sort of new Weekly Geek "manifesto". Except less sinister-sounding.
The Weekly Geek has been around in many forms since its inception in 2002(ish). First we were a radio show on a small desert town's college station. It was just Grant and I back then, and we would rock every Wednesday morning with three hours of music, geeky or otherwise hilarious news, video game reviews and pseudo-internet-celebrity phone interviews. We even did a comedy sketch or two.
During the three years The Weekly Geek ran in Ellensburg, we put on a couple big video game tournaments, covered two E3s and gave away thousands of dollars worth of games to on-air callers. We started uploading the non-music bits of the show to the radio station's website around 2004, before we even knew what podcasting was. You had to walk uphill both ways to download a podcast those days, and that's the way we liked it.
In 2005 we launched the first official Weekly Geek blog and attached our audio file to an RSS feed. Ever since then we've tried to bring you a steady stream of great articles and content, unique to the geek community. We've even started our own little community here, which has been one of the coolest things I have ever personally been involved in.
You may noticed the place has changed a little bit... hopefully this design will serve you better than the last disorganized mess we forced you to look at. There's revamped commenter options, a better tag system and archives and direct links to download the most recent podcasts on the right hand bar. These certainly are exciting times.
We can't keep up with the news like a big gaming website. We don't have the connections or the big financial backing. The site has always been funded out-of-pocket and with whatever scant bit Google decides to bequeath us for showing irrelevant ads in prominent locations. We don't want to participate in the echo chamber and just repeat verbatum press releases and media jargon.
For me, I've always thought of The Weekly Geek as a place where people can read about stuff concerning their own geeky lifestyle, filtered through our lens. We aren't a news site but we may break stories like a news site might. You may hear about something for the first time on The Weekly Geek, but we aren't all about the rush to post the newest screens from Saints Row 2, gleamed off of some corporate ftp site.
It's like when your friends send you a quick link to something cool online. It's like when someone gives you a music recommendation and you actually take it. We post what we like, and from that we cover the full gamut of geekery, from video games to food to movies to comic books to music, whatever you're into, we're into. We're geeks. We get excited about cool stuff and we live to let people know about all the cool stuff we are into.
There's still a few kinks to be ironed out of the new design, but I hope you enjoy it and stick around. There's more cool stuff in store.
What say you?!