Me Geek, You Geek

I do have to admit, I have a man crush on Google.  Always have and most likely always will.  I think part of it, in all seriousness, is that I love companies that become so respected, so popular, and so widely known for what they do that the the name of the company becomes the verb of their respective business "action".

"I don't know man, why don't you google it and see?"

I guess this is why I love Kleenex and Tivo too.

So when Google came out with their beta version of Google Chrome, which is their answer (and in my opinion the correct answer) to web browsers, I was there on day one to check it out.

Now, this isn't a tech blog so I won't go into the specifics of Chrome or how a blog tested that it is at least twice as fast as anything you have used before, but there is a connection to our hobby.

Google being Google, they found an innovative way to tell their story about building Chrome from the ground up and not making it boring as all hell. 

The innovative way?  A comic book.

Woot!  Carrot Sticks!

So I am reading this thing and since I was at work, my mind was only half into it, but I had a strange awareness of "being here" before.

By the end of the comic book I came to realize I was reading a Scott McCloud production and it reads entirely like his three books on the topic of comics in which he uses sequential story telling to teach.  And of course, since we comic book readers are trained to instinctively understand the comic book page, learning about Chrome was easy and enjoyable. 

What other medium could teach you about web site permissions, javascript handling and sand boxing code and keep your interest?

So check out the free Google online comic and download Chrome now!

On a related note, I have been working through my copy of Scott McCloud's "Zot".  (Also check out his free online comics, they are rad dude...)

576 pages! 

This is the complete set and so far I have really enjoyed it.  As Scotty says in the intro, he told me I could call him Scotty, some of it is dated since it ran between 1987 and 1991, but all in all it does hold up well. 

He also throws in commentary throughout the book between issues, which is very cool to read.

I recommend it.  It's better than most of the current crap, er, I mean, stuff that is out there.

Labels: Comic Blogs, Comics, Digital Comics, eComics

Posted by Jon on Thursday, September 4, 2008 at 5:37 PM | Permalink