From the monthly archives: November 2006

Danish newspaper establishes news room in Second Life

By On 22/11/2006 ·

New-comer Danish newspaper 24timer (named after Jack Bauer’s show, I’m sure) has established a “news room” inside Second Life and will report on virtual happenings for a week.
I haven’t seen decidedly negative game (or virtual world) coverage in Danish media for quite some time. Times they are a’changing.

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Paper on role-playing game communication out

By On 21/11/2006 ·

I wrote a paper with Anders Tychsen, Michael Hitchens and Susana Tosca which is now published:

Tychsen, Anders & Smith, Jonas Heide & Hitchens, Michael & Tosca, Susana. Communication in Multi-Player Role Playing Games – The Effect of Medium. Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling and Entertainment (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Berlin: Springer Verlag.

Abstract: [...]

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Interesting article on player rating

By On 16/11/2006 ·

I rambled a bit below on player rating systems. On that note we have a (much more) interesting new article on Game Research about Trust, Cooperation, and Reputation in Massively Multiplayer Online Games by Tony Tulathimutte.

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Dissertation proves defensible

By On 16/11/2006 ·

My evaluation comitee has found my dissertation (draft version final version) to be defensible, which means I move on to the final level: Defending the thing on 7 December.
We are close now, we feels it…

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State of the Blogosphere: Explosive

By On 16/11/2006 ·

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New numbers from Technorati out. The number of blogs tracked now doubles every 236 days. 55% of the blogs tracked have been active within the last 3 months.

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