Ian Hughes over at eight bar makes some good observations about online gaming. (He also has a followup post here)
I linked to a fascinating podcast about online gaming the other week in a posting that was really intended to welcome RedMonk to the world of PodCasting (I'm never sure.... should I spell Coté's name with an acute accent on the 'e' or with a trailing apostrophe? Love the clips, guys but James..... you've got to let Coté get a word in edgeways.) Anyway, I still recommend readers listen to the RadioEconomics clip.... the interviewee makes some insightful points.
This emerging, and interesting, area of computing unsettles me... I just hate the thought that all those friends of mine who spend hours gaming are actually doing something valuable.
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The accent goes over the e. "e acute" as it were ;) I put the accent after the e when (a.) I can't enter HTML entities, or, (b.) I'm last ;)
I'm glad you're liking the podcast!
Ahhh.... ok. That would make sense. Perhaps we should rename the "trailing apostrophe" to "acoté" accent....
Taking Ian's lead, I'd also started having a look around in Second Life and I think he's right (as usual) about the whole thing.
I haven't got to playing around in script just yet, though I'm sure that will happen, at the moment I'm just content to look around and see what's there.
I can't help feeling that I'm missing out on a big new thing... but I don't trust myself not to get sucked in to the whole thing and end up spending hours immersed in it :-)
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