Half aide-memoire, half-call-for-participation: things I have a burning need to write about/remove from my head by typing – but don’t have the time to address right now. Outboard-brain-dump begin.
- Product-placement in MMORPGS
- More on the UK TV industry, risk, reward and creativity.
- Steven Pinker, s0cials0phtware and ‘telempathics’
- Matt Webb‘s wondering what comes after the oyayubizoku + txting: is it Picting?
- Urban space, le parkour, yamakasi and impending superhumanity.
- Creating webservices for boot-strapping an online comicsphere.
- Victor’s appeal for a digital design strategy plan from now till the Singularity.
Dump ends. Begin prioritisation. What first? If you get to any of them before me – let me know! la la la… i found my sooooldier girl… she’s so far away… she makes my head spin around… la la la… BZZZT. End of line.
Petafloptimism 
Just posted this to gamegirladvance.com too.
[Product-placement in MMORPGS] doesn’t seem a huge deal to me… there has been product placement and (far earlier) advertising in computer games for years. It’s almost surprising it hasn’t made an appearance in online games sooner.
Some references:
Salon article from 1999
USA Today article from January 2002
Similar Tech TV article, but with screenshots
wonder how long it will be when Nike starts sponsering online gamers?