Playing Warcraft for fun and profit. The New York Times explores the lot of "Chinese gold farmers": young gamers in China who play the lower levels of World of Warcraft and other online games, then sell on their winnings to cash-rich, time-poor western gamers. The article makes it sound less like an adolescent's dream job and more like fairly grim, sweatshop-type work. It also reveals that many workers spend their time off gaming.
The perils of blogging. Academic Daniel Drezner linked to this report in the Boston Globe which is a cautionary tale on blogging about your job—and your malpractice lawsuits. I wasn't a regular reader of Flea's blog (which is now offline) but I hope he resumes blogging.
Battle robots. This Washington Post article (actually from May, but we didn't have a blog back then) is on the contribution of robots to the US army in Afghanistan and Iraq. Go robots!
The perils of blogging. Academic Daniel Drezner linked to this report in the Boston Globe which is a cautionary tale on blogging about your job—and your malpractice lawsuits. I wasn't a regular reader of Flea's blog (which is now offline) but I hope he resumes blogging.
Battle robots. This Washington Post article (actually from May, but we didn't have a blog back then) is on the contribution of robots to the US army in Afghanistan and Iraq. Go robots!
