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  John Pope Lead Editor/Moderator
  36 Posts	About John Pope, a.k.a. JohnP@Dell, has been involved with social media since 2006 and computers since, well, let's just say... Recent Posts Unboxing One of First Dell Studio Hybrid PCs Will the Olympics Melt the Internet? Wi-Fi at Cruising Altitude Hear No Dull, See No Dull On The Road Again

  

  John Blain Gaming Guy
  25 Posts	About John has been active in social media at Dell since April of 2006, starting with the blog outreach team, and now as the ... Recent Posts Lights. Camera. VICTORY. I Did It for the LULZ QuakeCon's Over, But Extreme Gaming Tour Trucks On! A Closer Look at Clan PMS On Camera From QuakeCon: Movie Director Mike Pasley

  
  

  Natalie M. Davis Manager, Global Operations for Community Team
  22 Posts	About Natalie and her team engage in conversations on Dell and non-Dell social media sites. She has over 10 years of marketi... Recent Posts Sew Not Just for the Retired Chic Geek Oh, How Far They’ve Come: Avatars for the Chic Geek Back-to-School Advice on What Really Matters Numero Uno Misconception: Can You Say “Handy-Woman?” A Chic Geek's Guide to Color

  

  Chris Byrd Digital Life Liaison
  19 Posts	About Chris works closely with the online community on all things "digital life" and is known on Twitter as @ChrisBatDell. Wh... Recent Posts Dell Summer Rocks Tour: Next Stop ... Outside Lands Festival Dell Summer Rocks Tour Multimedia: Lollapalooza 2008 Dell Summer Rocks: Day 3 Wrapup Dell Summer Rocks: Day 2 Dell Summer Rocks: Part 1 - Day 1 Lollapalooza

  

  Jay Pinkert Raconteur

  15 Posts

  About To paraphrase the Bard, some are born great bloggers, some achieve great blogging and some have blogging greatness thru... Recent Posts Terry A While: Dell Kicks Off Music Festival Tour and Sweepstakes with Massive Towel Giveaway Dell Makes Online Bargain Hunting Easier Simon and Paula Who? Take Your Case for Rock Stardom Directly to the Fans Finals Fantasy: College Gaming League Hooks Up with the Pros The ROI on GPS

  
  

  Anne B. Camden Consumer Product PR
  11 Posts	About Anne has been with Dell Corporate Communications for 10 years, proudly practicing product PR the entire time. Started o... Recent Posts Live From New York, It's ... Dell and PBTeen's Satellite Media Tour! Meet Dell's Studio Hybrid PC Dell Upgrades Consumer Linux PCs to Ubuntu 8.04 So Easy Your Mom Can Do It Drinking From the Fire Hose

  

  Jennifer Hughes Community Content Manager
  10 Posts	About Jennifer leads the content coordination for Dell’s social media properties. She has been involved with social media s... Recent Posts Technology for Independent Seniors Cyber Sisterhood Weekly Reads From ‘Round the Web Cyber Sisterhood Weekly Reads From ‘Round the Web Backpacks Optional The New Egg Timer

  

  Randy Gibson Imaging & Display Guy
  6 Posts	About Randy is a technical writer and senior analyst for the Dell Solution Network. A nine-year veteran of Dell, he specializ... Recent Posts A Full-Color Printer That's Surprisingly Green Your One-Stop Solution for Photo Editing New Options for Home Theater Inkjet Printer Tips for Great Photo Quality Pain-Free Wireless on the Way

  

  Ed Hassinger Software Engineer for Austin-based NetQoS

  6 Posts

  About It feels like I bought my first "IBM-compatible PC" just last year. And despite two decades and stints with nine failed... Recent Posts A Windows Screenshot Says A Thousand Words 5 Great Things About Vista Photo Gallery Stranger in a Strange Land -- A Windows Guy Finally Gives Linux a Chance Customize Your Network For Skype, Media Streaming, BitTorrent, Gaming, etc. Windows Vista + Windows XP: The Best of Both Worlds

  

  

  Jesse Leonard Vista and Ubuntu Linux Liaison
  5 Posts	About Jesse Leonard, a.k.a. Dell-Jesse_L within the online Dell community, has been involved in the Dell Forums for eight yea... Recent Posts Firefox 3 Add-Ons Firefox 3 Download Day Logs More than 8 Million Takers Firefox3 Update Latest Mozilla Firefox 3 Update Firefox 3 Fans Target World Record for Downloads

  

  Winnie Wong Alienware Marketing Communications
  4 Posts	About Winnie has been a part of the Alienware family since 2000, when there were only 64 employees on the payroll. Her passio... Recent Posts Girls Just Want to Have Fun: More Women LAN Partying Immersive Gaming Microtransactions Becoming Major Issue with Gamers First Sighting

  

  RichardatDELL Two Ears, One Mouth Advocate
  4 Posts	About After a career in Canadian politics, Richard moved to the U.S. to build out a career in communications. He joined Dell ... Recent Posts RichardatDELL Finds a More Beautiful Way to View Photos on the Web That Dreamy Infrared Photographic Feeling Returns, Thanks to LifePixel Geotagging Your Photos Online Photo Fun

  

  Lionel Menchaca Chief Blogger
  3 Posts	About Lionel Menchaca (LionelatDell in Twitter) has lived and breathed social media for the last couple of years and wishes ... Recent Posts Microsoft & Netflix Agreement Coming Alternative to Roku for Streaming Netflix Vista Tip: Use Snipping Tool for Screen Captures

  

  Richard Bernier Dell Community Security Liaison
  3 Posts	About I have been with Dell for five years; two of those have been spent with the conversations group. You may have seen me o... Recent Posts Show a Little Laptop Love! Same Phish, Different Scales Look Out for Phishing E-mails

  

  Jacqui Zhou Lead Editor/Moderator of Direct2Dell Chinese (http://chinese.direct2dell.com/)
  2 Posts	About Born and raised in Shanghai, China, Jacqui always wanted to travel and see the world. After she earned a college degree... Recent Posts “Bandit” Cell Phones: Part II “Bandit” Cell Phones Find Favor Among Chinese Consumers

  

  Ellen Murphy Consumer Public Relations, EMEA
  1 Posts	About Ellen works on the Consumer PR team in EMEA. She has nine years of marketing and communications experience, ranging fro... Recent Posts Dell UK Formula 1 Test Day Event at Silverstone

  

  Andrew Ford Head of marketing, corporate accounts, Dell Europe, Middle East and Africa
  1 Posts	About Andrew is a keen internet, e-mail and social media enthusiast, and has worked in the IT and telecoms industry since the... Recent Posts Your Data -- How Much is Out There? Is It All Bad?

  

  Bob Blomquist Senior Manager, Electronic Media
  1 Posts	About Bob has spent 15 years at Dell working in a number of communications roles ranging from video productions to broadcast ... Recent Posts Social Network for Pedal Mashers

  

  Stefanie Nelson
  1 Posts	About Stefanie has been entrenched in online media since the mid 90s, currently runs the marketing communications programs fo... Recent Posts Google on Your Phone

  

  Ricardo Guerrero Global Online Project Manager & "Twitter Dude"
  1 Posts	About Hailing from Colombia, South America, Ricardo has worked at Dell since 1999 as a content developer, and most recently ... Recent Posts Twitter: It’s Not Just TMI About Your Friends!

  

  Michael O'Dell Team Dignitas, Managing Director
  1 Posts	About I've been a gamer since I got my first computer, a ZX8, in 1980. Last year I was able to fulfill a lifetime dream and t... Recent Posts Join Team Dignitas Live on WebCam at the M Festival Tomorrow

  

  Dawn Lacallade Lead Stormchaser
  1 Posts	About Dawn has been with Community for several years and is currently the Lead Stormchaser for Dell Ideastorm. She has been w... Recent Posts Wii Fit: Who Says Exercise Can’t Be Fun?

  

  Mary Ellen Krautter
  1 Posts	About I've been on the cutting fringe of the technology world since 1981 when my husband brought home one of the first person... Recent Posts Coming Out of the Closet: The Ideal Home Office for the Not-So-Techie Gal

  

  MoneyGuyBK
  1 Posts	About MoneyGuyBK is one of our most active and helpful customers on the Dell Community Forum, where he has earned “Supersta... Recent Posts You and Your Idle PC Can Help Humanity

  

  Kara Krautter Foodie in Training
  1 Posts	About Although I spend most of my day managing the Small Business blog for Dell, any free time I have seems to involve food. ... Recent Posts Online vs. Print: Where Do You Find Recipes?

  

  Jennifer Allison Global Consumer Internal Communications
  1 Posts	About Jennifer joined Dell’s Corporate Communications group in 2006 to focus on executive and employee communications for t... Recent Posts Separating Ourselves from the Animals

  

  Deborah R. Wood Independent Communications Consultant
  1 Posts	About Open to learning about almost any topic and a professional interest in helping people communicate in new and traditiona... Recent Posts Passionate About Your Stuff? Check Out itaggit.com

  

  Shaun Clark World Class Gamer
  1 Posts	About Shaun Clark (game name Apollo) is a name that has been partnered with command and conquer since the release of EA's tit... Recent Posts My Weekend at the M Festival in the UK

  

  Stuart Wallock Dell Senior Manager, Global Community & Personalization
  1 Posts	About Loving new tech things to play with since I started gaming on my Atari 2600 way back when, I have been working with Int... Recent Posts New Dell Special Art Edition Laptops

  

  Matt Parretta Dell Analyst Relations
  1 Posts	About Matt has been at Dell since 2006 and is responsible for relationships with consumer industry analysts. He spent four ye... Recent Posts Photography PhD Not Required

  

  Eric Erway Program Manager, Global Online
  1 Posts	About Eric serves as a program manager for Dell’s Global Online team, working with multiple groups to translate customer re... Recent Posts Making Technology Work for You

  

  Michelle Mosmeyer Dell Communications Analyst
  1 Posts	About Michelle has been with Dell Global Communications for more than eight years. In that time, she’s worked in Executive ... Recent Posts Tech Tips for Those of Us With Wanderlust

  

  Rick Scott
  1 Posts	About Rick is a PADI open water scuba instructor and photographer. He splits time between his home in Austin and his ranch ne... Recent Posts For Under $500, Gear Up for Amazing Underwater Shots

  

  Todd Smart Dell Community Outreach Administrator
  1 Posts	About My job is to support our Community Liaisons as they help to resolve customer issues. I’m originally from Western New ... Recent Posts Wireless Networking is Great, But There Are Practical Concerns

  

  Geoff Knox Supervisor, Global Operations for Community Team
  1 Posts	About Geoff has been with Dell since 2005 and has been working with Dell’s social media efforts since 2006. He has been a f... Recent Posts To Be, or Not To Be, on the Vista SP1 Bandwagon?

  

  aikiwolfie Frequent Contributor to IdeaStorm
  1 Posts	About I got my first Atari when I was only 2 years old - 1980 I think - and I've had a computer of some kind ever since. Past... Recent Posts Thoughts on Simplifying IT and After-Sales Support

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  • Tech Tips for Those of Us With Wanderlust
  • Lights. Camera. VICTORY.
  • New Dell Special Art Edition Laptops
  • Sew Not Just for the Retired Chic Geek
  • I Did It for the LULZ
  • Technology for Independent Seniors
  • Dell Summer Rocks Tour: Next Stop … Outside Lands Festival
  • Cyber Sisterhood Weekly Reads From ‘Round the Web
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    Lenovo more. I'd like to add 512MB
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    credit card terminals is that quite
    a lot of them use une...
  • Lenovo website is updated and now
    states ships in 3-5 days for the
    S10. I have to hand...
  • The Aspire One does look pretty
    good. I don't like the glossiness
    of the Dell anyway; ...
  • You should enjoy Germany, Berlin is
    nice. I would make some
    recommendations but I only...
  • Lenovo has launched the S10 with 10
    inch screen with Intel® Graphics
    Media Accelerator...
  • After reading a number of sites on
    netbooks I am going to go w/ the
    Lenovo S10. The fra...
  • @sugarbear, I wouldn't be surprised
    if it was a Bernina. They are
    incredible. Sew smoot...
  • Dell you are to late. I just go my
    Acer Aspire One by FedEx today. I
    is great and has a...
  • Thanks for checking it out
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    useful! Let us know if you le...
  • Jennifer, This is great
    information. I wish I had known
    about it a few months back when...
  • Here how the power supply will look
    like http://www.eeepcnews.de/2008/
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  • Sure offer ATI video on the
    notebooks I'm not interested in.
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About: John Blain Gaming Guy John has been active in social media at Dell since April of 2006, starting with the blog outreach team, and now as the Consumer Liaison for the Dell Community Forums and also working with Lionel and John Pope on various Dell Blog projects. His first computer experience was with an Apple II in 1980, and he has been an avid gamer and tech-geek ever since.

Recent Posts

1. Lights. Camera. VICTORY. August.19.2008_2:22 pm

   Categories: Events, Gaming, Laptops

   Some of you may remember my post about Clear Skies, the machinima creation of Ian Chisholm that combined the Eve-Online and Source engines to create a “space western.” For those who don’t remember, you may want to read it to get yourself in the machinima mood.
   Why, you may ask? Just click on the image below:

   That’s […]

3. I Did It for the LULZ August.18.2008_12:55 pm

   Categories: Gaming, Social Media

   (A word of warning: some of the pages linked in this blog post may contain coarse language. Unfortunately, it’s part of the gaming culture.)
   Amid the buzz of my trip to Dallas for QuakeCon two weeks ago, I received an e-mail from my colleague Jay Pinkert, who was wondering if I would be interested in blogging […]

5. QuakeCon’s Over, But Extreme Gaming Tour Trucks On! August.14.2008_11:54 am

   Categories: Events, Gaming, Video, Vlogs

   While I was at QuakeCon I spent a fair bit of my time in the Extreme Gaming Tour truck sponsored by Dell and Intel, hanging out with the ladies from PMS and checking out all of the cool equipment loaded with the latest games while the DJ pumped out the tunes. Midway through the conference, […]

7. A Closer Look at Clan PMS August.13.2008_12:59 pm

   Categories: Events, Gaming

   Earlier today, Winnie Wong wrote a wonderful post about the upsurge of women in the gaming world. It’s true: men in games are finding more and more often that the uber opponent who has their number in the gaming arena just happens to be a member of the Cyber Sisterhood. The appeal of games has now reached […]

9. On Camera From QuakeCon: Movie Director Mike Pasley August.6.2008_5:27 pm

   Categories: Events, Gaming, Vlogs

   Now that I’ve returned from the field, I’ve had a chance to look through all of the footage I gathered at this year’s QuakeCon. As promised, this will be one of several posts over the next few days where I show some of the highlights. There was just so much to see and do […]

11. Out With a Bang August.3.2008_8:30 pm

    Categories: Events, Gaming

    QuakeCon 2008 has finally ended. After the dust has settled, the tournaments have finished, and the prizes have been distributed (go here for the tourney results), all the digital warriors I’ve spied earlier today were literally ambling about like the walking dead. Even I find myself feeling worn down by the event (having fun IS […]

13. Gaming ‘Til You Drop August.2.2008_7:43 pm

    Categories: Events, Gaming

    Gamers are a tireless breed, and yet the 24/7 BYOC (bring your own computer) hall has taxed even the most stalwart here. When I awoke this morning, I became painfully aware of the punishment I had been putting myself through over the past 48 hours by a dull ache over my entire body and a […]

15. My QuakeCon Movie Recommendation for the Day August.2.2008_12:13 pm

    Categories: Events, Film, Gaming

    When I was a child, my parents had no real clue I was a gamer. I would spend hours banging away at the family’s Commodore64 I had co-opted, and strangely, they barely noticed. I guess it went both ways: I was so involved in my own world that I didn’t notice that they didn’t […]

17. A Dozen Cans of Bawls Later August.1.2008_8:39 pm

    Categories: Events, Gaming

    Day two, and my BLISTERS have blisters. I must remember to buy a new pair of boots, as I think QuakeCon has done this pair in.
    Last night, after filing my last blog posting, I sat in on the keynote speech by id Software co-founder John Carmack, and was even able to film the first half […]

19. The Fun Begins July.31.2008_5:29 pm

    Categories: Events, Gaming

    After a three- hour drive yesterday, I pulled in to The Anatole Hilton in Dallas, the site of this year’s QuakeCon. After quickly checking in, I took a self-guided tour to get a handle on my surroundings. This hotel is absolutely huge, as it should be. After all, it would take a huge venue […]