So I hear the bloggies are dated and coming up soon:

Irish Blog Awards 2011, Saturday March 19th 2011, Europa Hotel Belfast

— Irish Blog Awards (@IrishBlogAwards) December 22, 2010

Campaign for the bear for Best Newcomer…?

So, despite the fact it’s barely even up a day, I’m already starting to get some flak over that new Facebook page I created for myself. As such, I’m going to explain the main reasons why.

Over the past year or so, I’ve had two main personas that have manifested – my own: that is to say, me the blogger, Twitter addict, boards.ie semi-lurker; and a more gaming-centric one: so that’d be my YouTube channel, Raptr, TrueAchievements, UKCS, Xbox and the like. Recently though I’ve started to feel that these two main personas have started to mix in with each other, and that’s not really something I want.

To put it into more detail… Well, I was following a crap-ton of gaming/YouTube related accounts on Twitter, and my own tweets were getting filled with YouTube tweets, gaming stuff and the like that I really don’t think those who follow me really cared about all that much. On Facebook, I was starting to get friend requests from people who followed my YouTube, thus I had to set my privacy so that only friends of friends can request me.

I feel that now with a separate Twitter account and Facebook page, then I can be the massive gaming/YouTube nerd I want to be, and those who actually want to listen to that stuff can read it there. This way my YouTube subscribers and gaming acquaintances can go follow my ramblings on either (or both!) sites without having all of my random banal rants getting in their way, and also my normal feed can be a lot more true to me.

This whole thing is not a new trend. I know plenty of YouTubers who have a separate FB fan page for people to follow them on. Chuggaaconroy, SuperSkarmory, FPS Russia, the guys from Is It a Good Idea to Microwave This; and more all have separate FB pages, so that their video fans can keep up with them there, while their personal profiles can stay true to their personal lives, family and friends. Yes, I’m nowhere near as popular as them, so I may be jumping the gun a bit with creating it at this stage with only 500 subscribers, but at this stage, I’d rather make things perfectly clear, rather than having to try do this at a later stage having already had everything mix together too much (a perfect example of that would be Jonny Paula and Jory Caron from the Microwave show – they hit the 5k friend cap simply because they were so popular, so an FB page made perfect sense).

This last bit is in direct response to Samm’s tweet:

What would you think of someone who made his/her own fanpage on social media? What about someone who “liked” him/herself?

I needed to “like” myself to do a few connection thing with the page so it would work. But I guess if that makes me seem really sad, then fine…

I suppose that as a gamer, I ought to write some more gaming and game-related posts; so, here’s something that I feel just a little bit vocal about – the upcoming large patch for Civ V in the next couple of days.

Judging by the entire patch notes (which include a few changes already made in previous patches), the core gameplay itself looks to be changed quite drastically, hence why I have held off starting a new game after winning my last game as America – somehow via Diplomacy when I had just spent the last third of the game wiping my equal rival off of the map after he was stupid enough to declare war on me – so that things won’t radically change during my game.

So, a few things I’ve noticed in these notes that I’m more than a little interested in:

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So over the past week, there was a bit of a rumour going around on the YouTube help forums saying that YouTube are slowly but surely removing the upload limits for all users who are in good standing when it comes to copyright and Community Guidelines. At first I was sceptical of reading this, thinking it was yet another hoax, as it usually is.

However, over the past couple of days I’ve been noticing a few videos uploaded that ARE longer than 15 minutes on channels that are neither partnered, nor are from 2006 and have the grandfathered Director’s clause (that is to say, in 2006 an account could be changed to the “Director” type, and after approval was given unlimited length uploads – essentially an early form of the partner program) and have been recently apparently allowed to upload long videos. See the examples below:

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Yea, not really in the mood for writing much. Too many videos being made. And too many nights ending at 7am.

Maybe I’ll rant something about the weather soon.