From the monthly archives:

June 2009

Searching for Value in Ludicrous Ideas

So how do we come up with new ideas? How do we learn to think outside of normal parameters? Are the processes in place for

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The Wrath of Kong

The 2007 documentary The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters chronicles the surprisingly stirring struggles of Washington algebra teacher and Donkey Kong wizard Steve

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Show or Tell

A second thing that “The Program Era” does well […] is to treat the world of creative writing as an ant farm, in which the

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Dual Perspectives – Clive Thompson

“Games create drama and excitement,” as Jane McGonigal, one of the leading thinkers in the field, told the crowd at this year’s O’Reilly Emerging Technology

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‘The Cranky Copyright Book’ Joe Clark

There really is a way to look at copyright that is not a form of apologia for dying “content” industries, like the music business and

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It’s time for an ambitious new literature of the workplace

[M]any contemporary writers are notably silent about a key area of our lives: our work ….

It used to be a central ambition of novelists

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The Making of Zach Galifianakis

The considerable cult that has grown up around Galifianakis’s performances over the last few years, both live and on video-sharing sites like YouTube, has done

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Fiction reaches a new level – Telegraph

A vague interest in literary form has hovered for some time at the edges of contemporary gaming.

via Endpaper – Fiction reaches a new level …

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