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I went to Boston this past weekend.

I finally got to meet Neil and Emmy Cicierega
I went to Nan Ling.
The RoflConcert was awesome, videos coming soon.

Everyone’s ‘internet fame’ was a fluke, barring MillionDollarHomepage guy. Very, very much a fluke, in lots of different ways. Lots of flukes. Related to this: If you want to be famous on the internet, you really can’t try, because people will smell your effort and not care.

One reoccurring and very annoying theme was the need for girls to ask the white twenty-something-aged guys on the panels “Why is it that you’re all white twentysomething guys? Where are all the girls?” I can’t blame college kids for being feminists but this really got on my nerves towards the end. Why are you asking them? Ask yourself why you aren’t making stupid, impulsive shit for yourself and sharing it with the world? My friends and I had some really good convos afterwards, about things like the content itself has no gender, how traditionally online, girls tend to be the presenters of the content and not necessarily the creators/producers… Lots more, too.

I saw the Second Skin documentary.

Here’s some pics, I’ll update this post with more as I find them.
Flickr: The ROFLCon 2008 Pool

I came down with some sorta sinusy-flu so I don’t really feel like spilling guts about the con at the moment, and I know this will sit here for days if I don’t just share it with the world.

I’m also realizing that I dread the ‘recap’ aspects of adventures, sadly. I’m jealous of people who do good jobs of it but I’ve always got the internal struggle between experiencing an event and documenting an event.

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Some interesting articles to read…

Vol 1, No 1 (2007)

Because you asked, here is a brief list of the “Eight Kinds of Fun.”

This particular author has come to the conclusion that there are ‘eight kinds of fun’ when dealing with making games.

The collected game design rants of Marc LeBlanc

The Association of Virtual Worlds has just released its new title The Blue Book: A Consumer Guide to Virtual Worlds listing over 250 virtual worlds and is pleased to offer it free to anyone who is interested in the rapidly growing field of virtual worlds.

Basically a book listing of lots of virtual worlds. It’s interesting because it includes the bigger social networking sites.

Association of Virtual Worlds