Clay Shirky’s post about Gin, Television, and Social Surplus triggered some interesting thoughts about game-playing based on my reading of Rules of Play. In his discussion of how we’re starting to make use of our cognitive surplus, rather than wasting it on “gin” like TV, Shirky mentions video games. …
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The World of Warcraft and the Third Place
http://versionthis.com/~npilon/2008/04/27/the-world-of-warcraft-and-the-third-place/There’s been a lot of effort and thought put into working out why World of Warcraft has been so much more popular than other MMOs. Most numbers put them at ten times the active subscriptions of their closest competitor, though I don’t know of any that break it down by region. …
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More on Sharing
http://versionthis.com/~npilon/2008/03/04/more-on-sharing/Neil Gaiman made an excellent post the other day that covered, among other things, the effect of sharing on book sales. Entitled More on Free and Suchlike, he responds to a bookseller that accuses him of harming independent booksellers by giving away a book for free online: The books you sell have “pass-along” rates. …
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Blueshirt Bulletin
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New Lisp and Functional Programming Comic Novella
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=152481(cam.ac.uk) 4 points by mk 1 hour ago | 1 comment15.You only get one lifetime to do what you want to do. Touching photo essay. (guardian.co.uk) 29 points by FleursDuMal 15 hours ago | 9 comments16.On the Need for a Good Computer Science History Course (versionthis.com) 5 points by DaniFong 3 hours ago | discuss17.Damien Katz: CouchDB switching from Erlang to Java (damienkatz.net) 24 points by iamelgringo 14 hours ago | 6 comments18.Disagreeing with Paul Graham
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On Naming Startups, and Ruby Hackery. (with scripts!)
http://einfall.wordpress.com/2008/03/01/on-naming-startups-a...I threw together a ruby script to create domain names from some simple rules and then check whois. I multithreaded it for throughput. (Ruby threads are brief but apparently the threading system is not so powerful.) My friend Nick pointed out that our startup targets the young, urban, and restless. I tried the suffix ‘libre’, meaning freedom, and slapped letters from A to Z and roots meaning city in front. Didn’t quite work. At some point, I ended up with collibre.com (it
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On Naming Startups (with Ruby)
http://einfall.wordpress.com/2008/03/01/on-naming-startups-w...I threw together a ruby script to create domain names from some simple rules and then check whois. I multithreaded it for throughput. (Ruby threads are easily invoked but apparently the threading system is not so powerful.) My friend Nick pointed out that our startup targets the young, urban, and restless. I tried the suffix ‘libre’, meaning freedom, and slapped letters from A to Z and roots meaning city in front. Didn’t quite work. At some point, I ended up with collibre.com (it
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