Someone asked for the contact address of a friend yesterday as they wanted to talk to him about his new company. After a few minutes searching I realised that I knew where his office was, and his phone number – but the only other ways I’d talked to him were in person, on Twitter and [...]

I’m always surprised when anyone ever asks me for advice or directions.  Anyway – last week a nice bloke very politely asked me for some thoughts about a book they were working on, which sounded like a brilliant project and clearly something which should be published – the problem of course, is that the subject [...]

Every year, I forget to make any note at all of the GameCity development process, then we get caught up in the mania of the show and all of the amazing things that happen simply fly by. I can’t remember anything anymore on account of my brain being sub-optimal, so this year I’m resolved to [...]

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49 Amazing Social Media, Web 2.0 And Internet Stats lots of big numbers. (tags: socialmedia web2.0 stats)

Sat writing up some answers for an interview about archiving, and the issue of documenting process came up. It occurred to me that I couldn’t think of a documentary about videogames that came close to the candor of ‘Hearts of Darkness‘* (or that Metallica film I don’t know the name of…) Jesus, this industry needs [...]

Apparently… Gamecity is an independent, annual videogame festival launched in Nottingham, UK in 2006. It is notable in being aimed at the general public to a far greater extent than many gaming events – with many events held free in the market square where any members of the public may join in. The festival receives [...]

AMC » The Prisoner Classic Series 1967 – 68 original prisoner streamed online… blimey…

Locus Online Features: Cory Doctorow: Writing in the Age of Distraction (tags: writing productivity corydoctorow) Best of Casual Gameplay 2008 – Jay is Games Jay's best of 2008 IS the best of 2008 (tags: games casual) boxee blog » Open, locks, Whoever knocks! Boxee is brilliant, now it has iPlayer – it's even better. (tags: [...]

…because you needed another aggregation of links from the week.