A Green Mushroom

A quick link version of Sunday Reading: Professor Beej on the way reading makes better writing . A crazy (but interesting) Sony patent. Is the game industry really a happy place ? A deeper analysis of the FFXIII story. In honor of the StarCraft 2 release here's a cool lego stop-animation video.  

My guest post is up on Professor Beej's blog!  This is the first guest post I've written and I'm excited to be featured on another person's site.  Beej is one of my favorite bloggers and I jumped at the chance to write something for his blog.  Hop over and take a look at my post on fragmentation of media !

Here's a quick version of Sunday reading without my standard commentary. Tobold: When is an add-on cheating ? Penny-Arcade: Everything you need to know about Blur . And the comic . Professor Beej: Are you buying in to The Old Republic ? Wolfshead Online: A real MMO Cataclysm . As usual I don't agree with everything that authors write but all of the articles have some interesting food for thought.  Expand your mind with some reading and enjoy your Sunday.

As a group activity for the 2010 Wordcount Blogathon bloggers were encouraged to write about blogs they can't live without.  I missed the May 10th date when we were supposed to write on the subject because I was out of town.  I think it's a great idea so I'm going to do it anyway. Here we go, my top 5 blogs: Professor Beej - Extremely intelligent writing about all things media.  He covers a wide breadth of knowledge about books, movies, television, technology, gaming, and the internet.  Variety is the spice of life when it comes to the topics Beej covers. Bio Break - Syp is a MMO gamer who likes to share his thoughts.  Half of his posts are random thoughts throughout his day, but they are always interesting and worth reading. Tobold - One of the most well known MMO bloggers currently.  He always gets a ton of comments and is great at generating discussion.  Read the posts and the comments when you visit Tobold's site. Copyblogger - As I tr...

Blogathon 2010 is going on.  I learned this from Professor Beej 's post on the subject .  I love reading his blog because he covers the intersection of all things media.  It isn't always gaming, but if you have an interest in TV, movies, books, games, and emerging media you couldn't find a better site to read. Wordcount Blogathon 2010 is about writing a post for your blog every day of the month.  So far I tend to write about 5 times each week, but I'll try to make it 7 times per week this month.  Let's see if I can make it.  I think pre-scheduling posts is about to become my new best friend. Last week I forgot to direct your attention to a great post by Spinks on the slow but inevitable death of 25 man raiding .  She has some really good points about the way World of Warcraft raiding is heading in Cataclysm.  Her point about it being less friendly for casual players really hit home with me because I am never a hardcore raider. W...