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Culture

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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Fiction reaches a new level – Telegraph

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

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Be Easy

Magazine editors are among the most unhappy people in the country. This is especially true now, with the industry imploding. But it’s been true for

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Some of the most disturbing photographs from Abu Ghraib are not photographs of torture.

Rather, they are photographs that show our soldiers trying — without the proper training or equipment — to do their jobs.

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Backward Runs ‘Newsweek’, says Kinsley

The newsmags face a choice. Actually, they’ve faced it since long before the Internet. Should they try to provide a complete picture of what happened

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McSweeney’s in a spot of trouble (kottke.org)

McSweeney’s in a spot of trouble (kottke.org)…

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