Amsterdam clinic offers gamers path back to reality – Yahoo! News:
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Addiction expert Keith Bakker hopes
the serenity of a 16th century townhouse on one of Amsterdam’s
canals will coax those snared in the fantasy world of online
games back to reality.

“Like many others he started out with a handheld GameBoy aged 12 but progressed to multiplayer online games that offer open-ended stories set in virtual universes that can support tens of thousands of players.”

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is it that bad?

social interaction online…. the new drug! not.

I have about 4 shelf-feet of dungeons and dragons, middle-earth roleplaying game and related materials that i’m selling for $75 plus shipping (probably close to $100). If you love rare and not so rare role-playing stuff drop me a note. They can be yours.

Also if anyone in blacksburg is reading this…. I have about a cubic meter of books that i’m going to give away to whomever comes to help me move… excellent reference, philosophy, ethics, sts, theory, and related things.

H-Info:
H-Info focuses on the interdisciplinary, international study of information and information institutions, broadly construed. It includes the foundations and history of print culture; reading and reception histories; the history and foundations of library and information sciences; and the history of libraries, archives, document-based cultural repositories, and other information institutions
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as i’m a knowledge junky… i signed up for this a few days ago…

/Message: Edglings: A Well-Ordered Humanism and The Future Of Everything:
Here’s some thoughts on the emerging characteristics of web culture: the glue that holds Edglings — and through them, everything else — together:

These facets of society are arrayed in no particular order, and are strongly mutually reinforcing. They share, at the core, a strong predisposition to reject centralized authority, whether in business, goverment, media, or religion. The web allows us to change all the major axes of life, and to work our way onto a substantively different cultural ethos than what has preceded it, specifically the structures of life and work that have been thrown up by the industrial revolution and its aftermath.

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stowe boyd has some insights into a phenomenal he calla ‘edgelings’… to me it looks remarkably like postmodernity combined with a more personal informationalism and consumerism.