Monthly Archives: August 2008

BSG GOP WTF?

Too good to pass up. By way of Burnlab.

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I feel as if I should write

It’s been a long time. But I just don’t have anything to say. Which is about the least interesting way to start a blog post I can think of. I mean… I have things I *could* say, certainly… 1) I’m … Continue reading

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There’s no gold in them thar hills

I recently blogged about the value of virtual stuff in virtual worlds and games, and (tangentially) on gold farming (also called RMT, the Real Money Trade). Again, for the uninitiated, gold farming involves playing a game to earn in-game wealth … Continue reading

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Zeitgoogleist

Wonderful XKCD comic today: On the other hand, “shouldn’t have eaten that” gets 14,000 hits while “should have eaten that” gets only 2,200.

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Gamerspace is somewhere between the size of Granada and Croatia

By way of Terra Nova, I found the Development Informatics (DI) working paper, “Current Analysis and Future Research Agenda on ‘Gold Farming’: Real-World Production in Developing Countries for the Virtual Economies of Online Games.” Quick definition for y’all non-grognards: gold … Continue reading

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