- online readers compose their own beginning middle end
- growing up assuming you can publish is going to make people different
- in quarter of homes only one person can control technology
- if the news is that important it will find me
- paid vs earned media - on internet is fair fight
- wikipedia is like a community leaf raking project
- consumers treat advertising like trains
- i blame the public - the death of empathy
- web shows what we have chosen to care about
- proprietary platforms are like ice cubes
- Interesting Snippets: the book
- we've outsourced brain functions to silicon
- indigenous content - created by the natives
- to change is difficult but not to change is fatal
- decisive factor is not how we create but how we consume
- its a constant surprise to anyone over 30 that large parts of life can end up online
- if it were a country myspace would be ahead of russia
- just as we built up roads the next step is to build internet into surroundings
- globalisation of people happening faster than products
- in wow i can cross tasks off a list
- it is hard to think of anything more surreal than chinese goldfarmer
- games are vehicles for self expression
- some players call wow the new golf (v2)
- Beast was first prototype of web-based storytelling
- wikipedia accounts for 1 in 200 page views
it is hard to think of anything more surreal than chinese goldfarmer
Friday, July 20, 2007lynetter posted a photo:
There was a really interesting article in the New York Times recently that looked at the gold-farming phenomenon. For those who don’t know, ‘gold farming’ is the term given to people who play online games like world of warcraft in a manner so as to earn the maximum ‘gold’ which is then sold on to other players who don’t have the time/skills to earn it themselves.
It’s become a thriving business field in China, even though there’s tension between the ‘real’ players and the ‘goldfarmers’, and it’s not always supported by the game developers. The article is fascinating because it delves deeper than anything I’ve read before, in interviewing goldfarmers and understanding how it feels. The most amazing bit for me was how the goldfarmers in their time off
continued to play the game!
Quote from www.nytimes.com/2007/06/17/magazine/17lootfarmers-t.html?...
Photo via Flickr CC thanks to Thomas Hawk www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/156398965/
Original article from http://www.flickr.com/photos/lynetter/858255125/