Most people who read this blog don’t need to be told that money is a virtual concept. That the piece of paper we routinely exchange for food, fuel and other goods has little or no intrinsic value; it’s just a piece of paper representing a stored value. That the stockmarket is one big virtual game; and that Sun Microsystems professes to run the world’s biggest MMOG by virtue of providing the backbone on which Wall Street plays that game.
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A Word From Our Enemy Territory
Blue’s News points to an entry on the Enemy Territory:Quake Wars site (Link) discussing the in-game ads for the upcoming addition to id’s Quake franchise. Here are some clips:
Hi, I’m Neil Postlethwaite, Splash Damage’s Managing Director and one of the Producers on Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars. I’d like to talk to you today about the in-game advertising we have in ETQW.
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“Afterworld”, Machinima and Webisodes
Everyone has, by now, heard about lonelygirl_15. And if you do any surfing through Veoh, you’ve probably noticed all the “Prom Queen” entries. What I didn’t know about, until I saw it mentioned on Mashable (Link), was another webisode effort called “Afterworld“, a product of Electric Farm Entertainment.
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Tech Review’s Excellent “Second Earth”
Rather than bother reading Forbes or BusinessWeek and getting poorly-researched stories, check out the excellent “Second Earth” (Link) article penned by Technology Review contributing editor Wade Roush. It’s not perfect (e.g. Multiverse doesn’t sell its software, it provides everything for free and makes money when world builders make money), but it’s close. The Multiverse slip, which isn’t all that major, was the only thing I caught, and considering this article is 11 pages long, there was plenty of opportunity to get it wrong… but Roush doesn’t.
Excellent piece of journalism by someone who obviously took the time to get it right, as far as I’m concerned. So take the time to read it.
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Forbes Gets It Wrong, Too
In a blog entry today (Link), Jaffe Juice relayed frustration with the author of a Forbes article covering Second Life. The piece, “Sex, Pranks and Reality”, written by Allison Fass, is posted on the blog for our review, so let’s see if Forbes is any better at writing about Second Life than BusinessWeek (reLink).