So here I am, day 2 of my new career.

Pulling together a team for a new startup magazine is interesting.

The team for Massive Gamer has gathered in St Louis for five days of brainsorming, organizing and planning. Ok, so we're not in St Louis... we are a bit north, in a sleepy little farming community called Jerseyville.

We are staying in the only motel in town (we think), a Super8 surrounded by corn fields. You can see the WalMart, the biggest building in town, which is just visible over a distance of about 3 football fields worth of bright green corn.

We have no distractions. None.

You'd think that would mean we were getting a LOT of work done, but there is one hitch: the Internetz tubez are unreliable here at best. Of four active laptops, only two of them can even connect here, and that is intermittent.

So get a group of people from the online gaming industry together, take away their laptops, ensure that there is no Starbucks in town (they won't allow a franchise here due to lack of population), and you have geeks using pen, paper and Mountain Dew.

Yeah, baby, we are OLD SCHOOLING it.
We rock.

I can tell you that we are aiming for a magazine with at least 88 pages, a personal style and a lot of timely content.

And you'd be AMAZED at what you can get done in a small conference room on the edge of civilization.

Talk to you next week!
;-)#
Brasse