Jan 05 2010
This post is just to test Twitter Tools to make sure it auto-tweets whenever I post a new blog entry. Read the mini-reviews of games in my previous post and why I’ve decided to write them in the post before that. :)
Dec 15 2009
and just a note: I updated this blog to latest wordpress release and went ahead and updated my plugins (and ditched some plugins I never use anymore). Let me know if anything is broken.
Nov 15 2009
Haven’t posted in a while, but this was too cool to just share via Google Reader.
Visualizations of choose your own adventure books!
(via GameSetWatch, via Waxy)
Jun 22 2009
Apr 02 2009
2008 Latest Edition – Did You Know 3.0 – From Meeting in Rome this Year
Dec 30 2008
I’ll post the draft when I get a chance. It was originally a paper on expertise development in WoW, submitted to Transformative Works and Culture, a new online journal. I didn’t have time to get into it as much as I wanted and turned the paper into one that highlighted ethnographic methods and how they were useful. I am now revising it, however, to be re-reframed back to being about expertise development, on the advise of the editors. Makes sense, and there’s plenty material… It’s just sort of haphazard now, though…
But anyway, I ended up cutting this paragraph out and thought it should be saved somewhere:
Part of the meaning players derived from playing World of Warcraft depended heavily on body performance. Playing successfully was not just a cognitive function but required experiential knowledge in a sort of physical sense—both the real aching, tired wrists and back after a long session of playing and the virtual movement and actions on-screen. For example, I experienced finding the “groove” for my character, hitting a particular tempo with the activation of his abilities that everything seemed to “flow” perfectly. While I don’t think “flow theory” (Csíkszentmihályi 1990) applies to most of the game, “flow” is an apt description of the perfect rhythm I was feeling and the muscle memory I was developing.
Oct 29 2008
And… it seems to be coming from states with higher percentage of black voters!
FiveThirtyEight.com: Electoral Projections Done Right: The Black Turnout Surge, Already In Progress
