Social Media: yor doin it rong
December 6th, 2011 by

  After starting my first writing project during NaNoWriMo, I started following a lot of writing-related people via Twitter and my feed reader. Some people get it very right, and it’s a joy to have a tiny vicarious window into their world. If they’re someone who writes books that I love, so much the better. [...]

Won’t Somebody Please Think of the Children?
July 12th, 2010 by

Damn. Blizzard goes and changes their corporate mind about RealID, just when I was getting my absolutely brilliant social networking campaign going. I only had a chance to send one email. It would have been so evil, and so successful. You see, I was going to get the Moms involved. Every womens and parenting site [...]

The Beauty of Virtual Personas
July 8th, 2010 by

There has been a lot of commentary (quite obviously) on the Blizzard/Activision RealID debacle, and quite a lot of it has pointed out that Blizzard’s official response seems to be “We’re doing this, so deal with it or stop playing. What are you guilty of that you want to hide your real identity?” which is [...]

Pass the Popcorn
July 7th, 2010 by

No, I’m not dead. There have been quite a few mornings when mortality almost seemed preferable to going into the much-hated job (the damned coin never seemed to fall the right way up!) but in the end I’m still here. I’ve been quite cheered up by the whole RealID fiasco – I haven’t seen drama [...]

Rise of the Godslayer: Social Media Fail
April 23rd, 2010 by

Yesterday I had what is in retrospect quite an amusing conversation with P. I was saying that it felt strange for an entire summer (and part of the fall, if Cataclysm isn’t going to be out until November) to stretch out with absolutely no new MMOs to play. I said that if I had a [...]

Social Networking and Multicultural Guilds
August 27th, 2009 by

Since I live in the UK and play on European servers, I’m used to guild members being from a multitude of countries. It’s quite a nice experience, actually – especially for someone from the US, where you may occasionally play with Australians or Canadians, but that’s usually as exotic as it gets. In my Warcraft [...]

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