Hark! Comes Calling
The crack team at Hark! launched our browser plugin the other day at TechCrunch50, though to seemingly mixed reviews. This is a project I spent more than two years working on as CEO and co-founder, and one I’m still involved in as a board member, and it’s a service I strongly believe will change how [...]
Inchvest in Detroit: $1 an inch
Jerry Paffendorf has a cool new project that’s looking not for investors but for inchvestors: for people to spend $1 to purchase one square inch of the city of Detroit. Check out the Loveland page over at Kickstarter for more details. Jerry has been chronicling his Detroit adventure in colorful detail over at his Tumblog, [...]
How the Xerox Machine Changed Publishing
Image stolen from The New York Times
I just noticed a great short piece in last Sunday’s New York Times by Joni Evans, one of the important figures in book publishing from the mid-1970s to mid-1990s (and now founder and CEO of wowOwow, a site for women). Evans gives a great, succinct portrait of the evolution [...]
Discount Passes to Engage! Expo
You can use code MWVIP to get $200 off an all-access pass to Engage! Expo, which takes place September 23-24 at the San Jose Convention Center. It looks to be an interesting couple of days, featuring panels and talks on social media, virtual goods, 3D environments and more.
Online Game Addiction: DVD Giveaway
I have a few copies of Second Skin to give away, the recent documentary that looks at the phenomenon of addiction to online games like World of Warcraft. (I appear briefly in the film, commenting on virtual worlds in general.) The movie doesn’t do much hyperbolizing; the players that are followed in the film really [...]
Mothballs: the End of an Eve Online Corporation
I’ll begin this blog with an ending: My friend Jim Rossignol writes this week (over at Rock, Paper, Shotgun, a site he co-founded) about the five-year spree of StateCorp, a player-run “corporation” in the massively multiplayer online space opera known as Eve Online. (Eve’s corporations would be known in most other games as guilds or [...]