When Left Is Right: How Rachel Maddow Become A Star (2)
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"Can you believe that sellout, Barack Obama?" says Rachel Maddow, looking around the room. "Let's hit him from the left!" It's 1:30 p.m. on Nov. 5, and the six-foot-tall Maddow, wearing her trademark baggy 501 jeans and thick-soled sneakers, has just burst into her staff meeting in a small office at 50 Rockefeller Plaza, home of MSNBC. Her team of political junkies, mostly in their 20s and 30s, perk up, laugh and start talking about ...
Obama Loads His Team With 'World of Warcraft' Fan and Bloggers (1)
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Filed under: Computers, Celebrities Despite the looming possibility that incoming president Barack Obama may have to give up e-mail, there is still strong expectation that an Obama administration will be sensitive to technology issues. One of those reasons is his continued appointment of people with deep connections to cyber culture.Obama's latest appointment is Tom Daschle as head of Health and Human Services (we thought that job would have gone to Dean). Daschle is a former ...
Ayn Rand Dating Site: Worst Form of Hell or Best Idea Ever? (1)
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That headline may be a bit misleading, so let's clarify. The question is, which side are we on, the side that thinks an Ayn Rand matchmaking site is the scariest thing ever or the side that sees this as a great way to keep crazy egomaniacs away from Nerve and other dating sites, and therefore out of our gene pool? When we read about this in last week's New York, part of us thought it ...
Ozzy Endorses, Then Battles The Lich King [World Of Warcraft] (1)
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Be warned, this is awkward. Still, it's also good for a chuckle, as you can just picture the advertising meeting where this got pitched. "Ozzy Osbourne? Endorsing Wrath of the Lich King? Yeah, fuck it, why not".
World of Warcraft's birth and development chronicled by video retrospective (1)
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Filed under: World of Warcraft, Fantasy, Video, Culture GameTrailers put together a three-part series of Warcraft retrospective videos in the days leading up to the launch of World of Warcraft's Wrath of the Lich King expansion, and WoW was the focus of the third and final episode. In over 20 minutes, the video looks at the early MMOs and influences that led to the creation of WoW, the project's beginnings in discussions between Blizzard guys ...
Wrath of the Lich King sells 2.8 million copies in first 24 hours (3)
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As if there was any doubt, Blizzard sold an awful lot of copies of Wrath of the Lich King last week. In fact, it sold more than 2.8 million copies of the game within the first 24 hours of its release. That’s what told us, at least. The previous expansion, The Burning Crusade sold 2.4 million in its first 24 hours. Ever since then, people have been playing the game non-stop, sometimes to the detriment ...
You wanna see wrath?! Lich King sells 2.8 million copies in 24 hours (2)
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Filed under: Mac, PC, Online, RPGs, MMO Blizzard announced today that World of Warcraft's second expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, sold a paltry 2.8 million units in its first 24 hours. That's only 400,000 more units than Burning Crusade did on its launch day. We're guessing Activision is completely regretting that whole merger now, huh?With 11 million players currently in Azeroth, that means about 25% of the base couldn't live without their precious expansion ...
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Omar G. said:
For those who think WofW is losing momentum.
WoW's Lich King sells record 2.8 million copies in 24 hours (1)
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Filed under: World of Warcraft, Fantasy, Business models, Events, real-world, Expansions, Launches, MMO industry, New titles The numbers are in and Blizzard has broken their own record once again. After selling 2.8 million copies in 24 hours, World of Warcraft's second expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, has set the record as the fastest-selling PC game of all time, according to Blizzard. The irony is that the previous record holder was also Blizzard with their ...
‘Lost’ Easter Egg Found in World of Worldcraft (1)
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I’m not a World of Worldcraft fan. I know Ellie Kam over a /gossip is pretty obsessed with it, but I’ve learned that my addiction to video games is bad enough. I certainly don’t need to preoccupy most of my time to just one of them. That said, I am a crazy for the TV show ‘Lost‘ on ABC and found this picture related to both. So I decided I would share it with all ...
Finalmente disponibile il gioco di miniature di World Of Warcraft (1)
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Abbiamo aspettato un po’ ma alla fine è arrivato anche da noi World Of Warcraft Miniatures, wargame da tavolo dedicato al famosissimo MMORPG di casa Blizzard. Presentato ufficialmente al Lucca Comics And Games 2008 (dov’era possibile provarlo insieme agli addetti della Upperdeck), World Of Warcraft Miniatures è in assoluto uno dei prodotti più interessanti degli ultimi mesi. Ma andiamo con ordine e cerchiamo di analizzarne pregi e difetti. Le regole sono di facile apprendimento e, ...
How to Build Social Mobile Applications (1)
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As I work on my MobiChange application for the second round of Knight News Challenge 2009, my thoughts return to two recent posts on building social mobile applications. Ken ‘Kiwanja’ Banks wrote a great post last week on the mistakes techies make in developing social mobile applications for the emerging world – Progress in the social mobile field will come only when we think more about best practices in the thinking and design of mobile ...
New Web Tool: The Solutions Are Waiting (2)
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Click to load video Worldchanging ally Michael Schmitz from Berlin sent this terrific video our way earlier this week. He and several friends produced the animation, which reviews (in a weirdly soothing way) the process of climate change, and offers a glimpse of a grim future in which we've done nothing about it. But the main point of the video is hope and education: the animators describe a variety of solutions that will be needed ...
Pourquoi bloguer au Salon du livre de Montréal (1)
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À compter de ce soir, je serai au Salon du livre de Montréal en compagnie de Michelle Blanc, Martin Lessard et Philippe Martin. Ce sera notre seconde visite car nous avions fait une courte apparition l’an dernier dans le cadre de l’enregistrement du Carnet techno de Bruno Guglielminetti. Cette fois c’est de façon officielle avec plusieurs séances de dédicace de notre collectif «Pourquoi bloguer dans un contexte d’affaires » Nous serons au stand 536 de ...
Obama's net neutrality man plays Warcraft [Kevin Werbach] (10)
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Supernova conference organizer Kevin Werbach is part of President Change's FCC transition team. I've hung out with the guy, and I never would've guessed he belongs to not one, but two guilds in World of Warcraft. Here's his take on WoW's benefits to grownups: What the game does is provide an incentive for people to develop new software and ideas for collaborative production. Many of those ideas will translate to other group activities, including those ...
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indyumd said:
More geeks in charge, that's the kind of change I can support
Obama's FCC Transition Team Has MMO Background (4)
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The co-chair of President-elect Barack Obama's FCC transition team is a World of Warcraft geek.That word comes by way of GigaOm, where Wagner James Au writes that Wharton Prof. Kevin Werbach (left), a Net Neutrality advocate is steering the Obama team's takeover of the FCC (presumably between WoW raids).In fact, Werbach belongs to a pair of WoW guilds. He wrote of his gaming in a 2006 blog post:I play Warcraft because it’s fun. It’s taking ...
