Taking Technology For Granted
When I moved to the U.S. two years ago, I was amazed at how technologically slow the U.S. was. Of course, I cannot speak generally because the Internet itself was […]
Category Archives: being digital
About cyberspace, games, digital life, Second Life, etc.
Cosplay at Anime Boston 2009
Just posted article on Cosplay at Playaslife.com…also posted photos on flickr. Youngest cosplayer: 4 months old
North Koreans Get Internet…sort of
South Korea is one of the most wired countries in the world- a place where national high-speed Internet access has created all sorts of interesting Internet-derivative culture that usually starts […]
Koreans ‘nuts’ over Cyworld
Getting nostalgic…I found this article I wrote in 2004 about how everyone in Korea was using the social networking site Cyworld. At the time I wrote it, I thought it […]
Is Machinima Fair?
I attended a panel at Play Machinima Law, a Stanford conference on machinima law, where the main discussion was trying to figure out if machinima was fair use, and if […]
Play As Life!
Play As Life, a new publication that looks at gaming as a form of play and play as a part of life, is now in beta-launch! (Currently in process of […]
Trading cyber money offline is illegal?
Of all countries, it angers me that Korea thinks offline trading of cyber money is illegal. According to the wire service Yonhap, a local court in Busan fined two 30-somethings […]
Breeding in Games and Morality
When you think of it in real life, breeding is a complicated thing that requires time, money, and in many cases, emotional involvement. Any effort made by human beings to […]
D. Yvette Wohn 