Social Games: The Next Juggernaut?

Social games are all the rage these days. Zynga has flipped Facebook on its head with Farmville. Mafia Wars has half of my friends asking me to join their side so they can get a sub-machine gun. And, I get notifications of people crushing hugely high scores in COLLAPSE! at least once a day. The [...]

10 Questions: Garrett Link

1: You grew up in Alaska. I picture wolverines, huge snowfields and Dick Proenneke. What was it really like?
You left out Igloo’s.
I grew up in Anchorage, a town of about 250,000, but aside from the weather and outdoor activities, I suspect it’s about any town it’s size.  You’re right about the Wolverines.  Alaskans, some Alaskans, [...]

Tech/Love/Fear

Computer technology, especially of the media and social networking type, is the insidious beast that many traditional academics fear may one day rob us of our human touch. And yet, despite a steady stream of resistance literature, certain technologies have seeped slowly into the American lifestyle. Just this weekend, I rocked out to some Dropkick [...]