Posted in Secrets Man Was Not Meant To Know, Opinion, Online Communities on Nov 5th, 2007 2 Comments »
So I got this in my inbox after my recent flurry of tweets:
I’d link to their Twitter profiles but I don’t want to give them the inbound traffic. Needless to say these are spammer accounts. But… I don’t get it. What a pointless waste of time for someone. Twitter makes them totally ignorable by default. […]
Posted in Opinion, Online Communities, Web Development on Nov 4th, 2007 No Comments »
So I’ve been test driving Flock tonight. If you don’t know what Flock is I don’t blame you. I’d imagine that unless you were on the cusp of social networking (and if you are you have my condolences) that you’ve never heard of it. Here is how the company behind Flock describes themselves:
Flock is a […]
Posted in Family Time, Vacation, Online Communities on Aug 17th, 2007 No Comments »
Work has been more than a bit of a bitch lately, which has meant I’ve been totally devoid of inspiration to populate this space. This was all part of the lead up to today: Vacation! I’m now in Edmonton, officially off the clock, crashing at the pad of up and coming BioWare programmer Sebastian Hanlon. […]
Posted in Culture, Board Games, Video Games, Opinion, Online Communities on May 24th, 2007 4 Comments »
A recurring theme for me in the last few weeks has been the notion of tolerance, specifically in tolerating those around me that indulge in pursuits to what I perceive to be an unreasonable degree. It is utterly coincidental that I do this during the NHL playoffs when Canada, as a whole, becomes obsessed with […]
Posted in Family Time, Culture, Board Games, Opinion, Online Communities on May 13th, 2007 3 Comments »
Previously I outlined a deep concern I had with the state of modern board games: that the industry is being driven by an unreasonably hardcore fan community. This is not a premise supported by any objective, measurable phenomenon. Instead I draw this out of my distilled experience with the BoardGameGeek site, and drew some specific […]
Posted in Culture, Board Games, Opinion, Online Communities on May 9th, 2007 12 Comments »
Ever since The Dice Tower started I was haunted by a feeling that something was wrong with it. If you didn’t know, The Dice Tower is a prominent podcast about board games authored, primarily, by Tom Vasel. (Hi Tom. Despite what is to come I love the show). Weekly for most of its run, and […]
Posted in The 30 Year Old (MMO) Virgin, Video Games, Opinion, Online Communities on May 6th, 2007 No Comments »
Back in November of last year I began a series of articles entitled the 30 Year Old (MMO) Virgin to chronicle my immersion in Blizzard Entertainments smash success World of Warcraft. Though doing so I hoped to explain the genre to those, like I, who had avoided it and provide a commentary style review as […]
Posted in Opinion, Online Communities, Web Development on Apr 26th, 2007 1 Comment »
While meditating on the catastrophe that is the current state of Twitter, I am faced with the realization that online communities are for the most part terrible.
First and foremost is the horrific siloing of personal content - instead of thoughts, ideas, images, and memes percolating across the internet in some liberated existential sense you end […]