WoW link-o-rama

Science meets WoW: MMOs can make for the social (and because I love you here's a PDF of the paper itself, which reads like listening to one part of my brain talk about another part of my brain - an odd but not unpleasant sensation)

And this year's winner of the Leeeroooy Jeeeenkins award goes to this guy, whose rant (complete with flash animation that will entertain even people who have never played the game) is already famous enough to be referred to on a t-shirt. Best line: "If Internet guru Joi Ito is right that in the future, large organizations will be run like WoW guilds, you wonder if this is what corporations will sound like, when they go Enron." (OK, I just happen to like Joi Ito's blog and feel it should be read far and wide, but it's still a good line)

WoW link-o-rama

Science meets WoW: MMOs can make for the social (and because I love you here's a PDF of the paper itself, which reads like listening to one part of my brain talk about another part of my brain - an odd but not unpleasant sensation)

And this year's winner of the Leeeroooy Jeeeenkins award goes to this guy, whose rant (complete with flash animation that will entertain even people who have never played the game) is already famous enough to be referred to on a t-shirt. Best line: "If Internet guru Joi Ito is right that in the future, large organizations will be run like WoW guilds, you wonder if this is what corporations will sound like, when they go Enron." (OK, I just happen to like Joi Ito's blog and feel it should be read far and wide, but it's still a good line)