Too Many Little Social Networks Popping Up Another thing that seems to fall into the “we don’t need it, and we should kill it with fire” category: social networks for couples. . It’s just funny enough to forward to someone, and possibly to download or sign up for as long as everyone knows you’re...
That would be stupid. Yet some newscasters seemed to say it, and this columnist appears to believe it, though since she’s really just using that as a hook to argue for feeding kids, we’ll give her some slack. What it did was strike down a badly written law, in which a State tries to...
Well, at least since 1975, when I first played “Gun Fight.” It wasn’t the first video-game I played. I played the original Space War at Magic Mountain, and of course Pong. But others may feel nostalgic about those games, or Pac Man, Asteroids, Space Invaders, or even Centipede. But the first time I played...
It seems like we’ve been waiting a long time for Hulu. Or Netflix, Tivo, or YouTube. I don’t have to watch my favorite shows when they’re on anymore. I can watch whatever I want, when it’s convenient for me. Yet I watch Battlestar Galactica on Friday night, at 10p.m. I let other things pass...
Since the mainstream media is often anti-gaming, it’s good to see the Washington Post join the ranks of publications such as Business Week in pointing out that World of Warcraft players really are learning valuable business skills. The Post takes the position that, if it didn’t alarm people so much, you could totally list...
So I twittered the other day, while watching Saturday Night Live, that the McGrubber segment should just stop. It’s never been funny, and adding McGuyver and Pepsi, all at once, hasn’t helped. Actually, I Twittered. Capital T to indicate the use of the Twitter social posting service that is gaining on pretty much everything. ...
Turns out that all the time I spend in World of Warcraft is honing my management skills. Business Week did an article on how all the skills used in WoW also apply to making the workplace better and more efficient. I think this is probably true, but have admit that my WoW performance, as...
My favorite virtual world, right now, is the World of Warcraft. Because it’s so popular, naturally some people will hate it. I don’t mind that, I sometimes hate people, movies, television shows, whatever, mostly because they seem way more popular than they deserve. I understand. But the reasons people give for hating are sometimes...