Creating government in an lawless world
Henry Jenkin’s post on politics in Second Life reminded me of my own observations in Second Life which I’ve been meaning to write about. The interesting thing about Second life […]
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Why people play social network games…
(cross-posted on Play As Life) Why do people play games? A lot of scholars and market researchers have looked at game motivations and have pretty much come up with similar […]
Tim Burton’s Bulbous Heads
Tim Burton has a tendency to depict sinister characters with large, bulbous heads. Although the big heart-shaped head of the Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland may have been more […]
Getting news from your social networks
About a week ago, I was telling my colleague about how we should do a study about how social network sites are increasingly becoming people’s initial (if not primary) news […]
The serious cr** of serious games
I am all about games being used as an educational tool. I am all about games being used to increase awareness or instigate action. I am NOT about games that […]
Fat bastard Chardonnay 2008
(This essay is a “tasting story” of my experience with this wine) I sat at the dinner table, highly anticipating to meet my friend’s fiance. I had heard only one […]
Why should farm games mirror reality?
Another example of a waste of bandwidth and memory is this blog post saying that farming in Farmville is different from reality; thus we need to do farming in real […]
Newspapers won’t die, but some should
The OJR posted an article that is by far the stupidest argument I’ve ever seen on why journalism is bound to fail. The gist of the argument is that people […]
D. Yvette Wohn 