From LambdaMOO to World of Warcraft - MMORPG’s

UPDATE: Yet another paper from the mastermind that brought you such literary gems as Hyves & Privacy and Planet of the Apes. How does he do it?

Anyway, this one’s sort of a virtual lineage, chronicling the adventures of the Multi-User Dungeon, all the way up to everyone’s favourite online RPG World of Warcraft. If you’re wondering what can be said about WoW and other MMORPG’s from an academic point of view as opposed to a what-level-is-your-Night-Elf-Mohawk point of view, clicky-clicky here or visit the papers section on the right.

Wikipedia’s typing monkeys

UPDATE: Another paper! This one’s about Keen’s flawed arguments on collective intelligence and Wikipedia. Not my best work, but I’ll make it up some day by delving deeper into the veritable armada of weirdly ridiculous arguments that bitter sack of shit we all know as Andrew Keen has come up with in order to deal with his own failure as an Internet entrepreneur. Get over it, bro.

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Hyves & Privacy

UPDATE: Added a paper on privacy within the Hyves social network to the new “Papers” page on the right. Try to contain your enthusiasm.

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