Tag: collaborative

Gold Farmers

Funny yet profound:

a new trade association has been formed by Korean gold farmers and real-money trade sites to lobby the Korean government, which has been considering regulation of the sector.

2007-06-19: Should have read the nyt gold farmer story. Not just the obvious arbitrage angle, but farmers playing WoW in their spare time after 12h shifts clicking away in WoW, and 40-person guilds for hire by high-level players in need of backup for their campaigns.
2007-07-09: Creative protests

The farmers retaliated by slaying gnomes and arranging them on the ground to spell out the URLs of their gold-farms.

2008-05-08: AN explainer

Gold Farmers are young people who earn their living by playing MMORPG games. They acquire (“farm”) items of value within a game, usually by carrying out in-game actions repeatedly to maximize gains, sometimes by using a program such as a bot or automatic clicker.They sell the artificial gold coins and other virtual goods they’ve harvested to players and/or farming organizations and get “real” money in return. Players from around the world will then use the golden coins to buy better armor, magic spells and other equipments to climb to higher levels or create more powerful characters.

Google Mondrian

sweet. i look forward to using this 🙂

Code reviews can be initiated and completed from within the Mondrian interface. A developer requests a review from another user or a group of users to kick off the process. Each invited reviewer can add comments directly underneath a line of code or reference the entire file. You can request and diff the file against previous versions as well. It’s a pretty slick interface, lightly highlighting each line of code as you hover, and popping open a comment box in response to a double-click. Comments can be saved as a draft and shared at a later time.

Nature Shuts Down Wikipedia-Like Peer Review

too bad for open access. i guess the scientific process is still too mired in the traditional ways. this will come back.

Nature is killing off the experiment after just a few months. It appears that most authors had absolutely 0 interest in pre-publishing their works for the rabble to critique — and, not surprisingly, of the ones that were published, there was very little activity in terms of peer review.

Bloodspell

BloodSpell is a full-length animated “punk fantasy” feature film, from Machinima pioneer Hugh Hancock. In the world of BloodSpell, some people are infected with magic in their blood. When the blood is spilled, the magic comes out, to harm or to heal. These “Blooded” are driven into slums, forced to live in squalor and hiding for fear of the Church, who hunt them in order to cleanse their “taint”. But when a young monk of the Church discovers his own Blood Magic and flees to the underground pitfights and hidden power of the Blooded, everything will change…

Blogging to tagging

you may have noticed that this blog is far less active than it used to be. i blame del.icio.us. the opportunity to write pithy one-liners instead of rambling posts is just too attractive. if you want to enjoy those, either join my network (preferred, i like to know who enjoys my stuff) or subscribe to my del.icio.us feed, or both.

i also went ahead and added tags on here. You can now read all posts tagged with science. i also blend in the appropriate del.icio.us results at the bottom.

if you are feed-challenged, you can also follow the latest del.icio.us links on the side bar on my blog. otherwise, i recommend google reader.