Sunday, April 6, 2008
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Boss Key
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Friday, March 14, 2008
From D&D to Google
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In a sweet article in Sunday's New York Times, Wired editor Adam Rogers notes the passing of Dungeons & Dragons co-creator Gary Gygax and argues for a sort of teleological relationship between the culture of D&D in the 1970s and our current digital culture. This is interesting for the explicit link Rogers makes between gameplay and non-game digital objects and business models. Of course, it's also clearly a geek fantasy of redemption ("The stuff I know, the geeky stuff, is the stuff you and everyone else has to know now, too"). Not to mention, it repeats the digital culture origin myth (that functions very powerfully and literally) of American boy geniuses creating through play.
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Bloggers Union? Maybe All Internet Users Need a Union.
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Sunday, August 5, 2007
Working Class Millionaires
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Poney Magique sheds a tear.