WoW: Lich King Trailer

To celebrate my relapse into WoW I give you this trailer for the next expansion, due next year.

Pic of The Joker!

Empire Magazine has a new pic of The Joker which has been making rounds on the internet todday. So very very cool!

I tried to give it up, I really did!

Well as of this past Saturday I'm back in Azeroth. I blame my brother who pretty much forced me to roll a new character and join up with him. So I did. Right now I'm a level 12 Human Warlock playing on the Aggramar server. Name is Tennant (Double points if you can figure out the subtle reference the name makes), if you're on you might as well toss me a shout out. I refuse to purchase Burning Crusade...although my brother is a lot stronger than me and has ways of making me do what he says....shit

"That kid is soon to be lawnmower man!"

Check out this Reuters Article:

People with severe paralysis could find new opportunities from shopping to doing business or making new friends in the virtual world of Second Life by just thinking about it, if experiments being conducted by a Japanese university bear fruit. (Full Story)

So technology is allowing the disabled to basically live "real lives" interesting implications...

Great Moments in Gaming

Found this on 1up, hilarious drawings from fans!

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Facebook: The Future Home of Flame Wars

Computer World Reports:

ABC News reporters embedded with presidential candidates throughout the race will post news stories, blogs and photographs from the campaign trail directly onto Facebook, ABC said. A section of the application called Debate Groups will allow Facebook members to post and share thoughts about the campaign, especially during the nominating conventions of the political parties next year. (Full Story)

I've gotta say, this seems an awful lot like ABC and Facebook is teaming up to basically create message boards for people to bitch about candidates on. Debates? More like preaching to the choir of people who already support a candidate and adding fuel to the fire of people attacking other candidates. Plus this rings a little too fmailiar after CNN and their YouTube debate where people were allowed to submit video questions....which CNN sifted through and selected certain ones that basically gave candidates a chance to practice their canned responses. Web 2.0 is about interaction and ABC and Facebook are not acting as a platform for communication but rather an excuse for two organizations to get some news coverage while the voters still have no real interaction with the candidates.

Is Technology the New God?

From AlterNet:

Technology is all about control, and the more we Americans singularly worship technology, the more we singularly worship control. Our society is increasingly dominated by megatechnologies -- huge, complex technologies that most of us neither understand nor can control. (Full Article)

How much is news worth?

Yahoo news has a very interesting article up (part 1 of a 3 part series) that deals with the decline of print but the lack of a financially stable web.

Leaders of America's corporate mass media have embraced a financial model that relies upon a fatal internal conflict. The future of media, they believe, belongs to "consolidators" like the Drudge Report and Huffington, who pull together creative content--in these examples, news stories and opinion columns--they don't pay for. But who will write the stuff they steal--er, consolidate? (Full
Article)

Sure you can get your news from blogs that collect news stories (Like mine!) but there isn't any money being exchanged, most bloggers don't make a living writing blogs. I think the question to ponder is: How important is making money when it comes to reporting news? Perhaps it was the love of money that turned print and television news into the corporate sell outs that it has now become. Just some food for thought.