Russell Beattie bids adieu — for now.

Russ has been a strong contributor to the conversations around gaming, blogs, and, most particularly, mobile. Now, he’s decided to take a breather from his four-year long brain dump.

Thanks, Russ, for the many years of great thoughts and attitude.

Keep up the stuff you’ve been doing as much as you can, I hope the reset doesn’t set you back too much. 🙂

See ya later, I am sure.

Link*: RussellBeattie.com.

Yep, after four years and almost 3,000 posts I’ve decided to close up the Notebook. There’s lots of reasons, but generally this is a continuation of the full-reset I started back in January. At first I was actually thinking about just transitioning to a more of a weekly blog where I write less frequently and was sort of cleaning everything up with that in mind. But then I just decided that I really needed a break, and that I’d really much rather start from scratch at another URL some other time when I’m ready to write again. Lot less pressure that way to do something new later on, and a lot easier to get out of the habit of posting daily now.

*Since Darla comes before Russ in my feed reader, she gets the credit here for letting me know about this news. Kinda fitting. I think Darla could be a good writer to pick up the slack left by Russ’ departure. 🙂 Kinda better in other ways, too – ‘pink’ and ‘diva’ are not two words I would associate with Russ. Ha ha.