(In which the author/typist apologises in a roundabout way for posting less nowadays)
I need more time to sit and think about this, but Jane Pinckard has posted something very good, though preliminary, about emergent trends in entertainment.
There’s definitely something to this:
Facebook status updates are absolutely brilliant ways for expressing an immediate state, and allowing someone [...]

I’ve been reading Jon Taplin recently. He and John Robb seem to be a slightly eerie source of pragmatism on current economic problems. Jon:
At the beginning of last week, Bear Stearns had $18 billion in cash. Today it has no cash, but lots of unsellable bonds.
and
We were astonished last week that Carlyle Capital was [...]

One of the things I work on nowadays is an event called Never Mind The Polygons, a games industry discussion/booze up.
Andrew Armstrong, who curates a videogames section of the Internet Archive, kindy filmed the last one and produced a video of it. This one has a panel made up of Andrew Oliver from Blitz, Louise [...]

An MTV piece I read today hails back to some of the things said about Stalker by Borut Pfiefer. From the MTV article:
“I think we went through about a year’s worth of failed ideas… we tossed everything around,” Hennig said with a laugh. Right after she finished her stint as Game Director on “Jak III” [...]

Watching a friend play PES2007 on his PS3 last night, suddenly a big, garish PLAY.COM banner showed up in one of the menus:
“Look at that! It’s advertising in a game. Oh. That’s annoying. Games were one of the last places I could go to get away from it.”
He’s also annoyed that the game required him [...]

When I find myself making long forum posts, I realise I should be blogging instead. So here.

There’s a massive amount of agreement that “next-gen” has to mean something new and more sophisticated in terms of mechanics rather than just more elaborate aesthetics (For instance, this interview with Quantic Dream).
It’s a lot of talk, and I [...]

I finally decided to give Democracy player a go. It’s pretty good, especially as you can go down a channel just clicking one download button after another.
I’ve been using it to watch TED talks, which, between download binges and being arsed to transfer them to other devices, I’ve only watched sporadically before.
Robert Wright makes [...]

Guy Kawasaki recently visited Threadless and took a ton of photos. He also interviewed the CCO, gleaning this astounding factoid:
We currently sell about 80-90 thousand tees per month