Seems I’ll be visiting the (surely) fair city of Sanda not far from Osaka and Kyoto in September for the ICEC 2005 conference. This will also mean being forced by the pleasant circumstances to attend the fabled Tokyo Game Show.
Tips regarding lodging in Tokyo will be much appreciated.
LEEROY!
My glorious WoW days are over, and I’m sure you’ve all seen this, but it’s just hilarious: The Leroy Jenkins incident.
There’s a website as well, of course.
Garrg makes the front page
An article (intro article) in today’s Politiken describes the development of real-world markets for virtual world items (and such) including statements from yours truly, Espen, Miguel, Edward Castronova and Julian Dibbell (website down).
Among the more noteworthy features, well-known orc warlock and my former WoW avatar Garrg lights up the very front page of today’s newspaper (see picture above).
First rule of methodology club
One of the few universal rules of methodology club is that you are not allowed to say that all studies within a specific area must conform to a certain methodological approach. I’ll refrain from mentioning names here, but please believe me: You REALLY shouldn’t. If tempted, please recall your first methodology lesson where they told you that the “correct” methodology is a function of the research question. In this particular case “they” were right.
Dr. Egenfeldt I presume?
In 20 minutes Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen will be defending his PhD dissertation (preliminary version) here at the ITU (Auditorium 2).
All are welcome.
Update:
As we see here the candidate assumed a rather laidback position, a position not really changed throughout the event.
The panel consisting of David Buckingham, Jørgen Bang, and Espen Aarseth convince the candidate that they are really nice guys after all.