i am now convinced that there is no better way to boost your street cred with the 75-102 demographic than to appear on The Agenda with Steve Paikin. Regard: Steve Paikin: singlehandedly doubling both my site traffic and my lustful desire Keep Reading

i was interviewed last night on TeeVee Ontario’s serious current events show, The Agenda with Steve Paikin. Tony Walsh over at Phantom Compass recommended me for the gig. i couldn’t understand why he’d pass up the chance to sound interesting and plug his new start-up. Then i watched the show. Freak-out time: it’s for old [...] Keep Reading

What i realized from attending two Game Developers Conferences is that Americans seem to really have their heads in the sand when it comes to gaming trends and the “next big thing.” Companies like Blizzard have flat-out rejected the lucrative microtransaction payment model for online games, while Far East companies like Nexon and QQ are [...] Keep Reading

Massively’s Tateru Nino has succinctly spelled out why mainstream media plays dirty pool in its coverage of “new” media in Why mainstream media hates the Internet, games, MMOs and you: Games and the Internet are ultimately perceived as a threat to mainstream media’s long-term profits and marketshare. Mainstream media doesn’t want you spending hours meeting [...] Keep Reading

i turned on OMNI 2 today during my lunch break. You can usually expect a wild and woolly assortment of programming from the OMNI family of stations. Today, after enjoying a swing-style steel drum rendition of Amazing Grace, i stuck around for Merv Griffin’s Crosswords. My first though, of course, was “Merv Griffin? Isn’t he [...] Keep Reading