Comments on: Anatomy of a meme, or why games journalism is iffy

By: Raph

Raph — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 07:31:12 +0000

Argh. Even the Gray Lady gets it wrong:

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/23/world-of-warcraft-players-need-not-apply/

By: len

len — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:08:32 +0000

It’s the culture of the shallow side of the lake.

Toss a blog on the waters and watch the frenzy to see if an original and possibly useful thought is returned. So much faster and cheaper than real research. A thousand eyes creates a thousand illusions that the lurkers can promote as original thinking. The olde yippie formula was to get ten people to recruit ten people to recruit ten people and then from the the middle of a thousand, ten would toss bricks. Voila. Instant riot.

All too typical. The web is an amplifier. Full stop.

By: damijin

damijin — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:25:53 +0000

Impressive!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 14:31:20 +0000

This is worse then some of the stuff at Magical Wasteland, wow. I’m pleased to read it though, I know more sites to avoid now

By: Eolirin

Eolirin — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 07:15:24 +0000

This all makes me kinda sad. I mean it’s not exactly hard to check the blog to see exactly what it said. (With the exception of that brief down period anyway)

By: Slyfeind

Slyfeind — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 03:57:59 +0000

We could have so much fun with this, but that would make it all even more sad.

By: Morgan Ramsay

Morgan Ramsay — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 03:18:14 +0000

Raph:

Oh brother.

Where would gamers be without their conspiracy theories?

By: Raph

Raph — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 01:58:57 +0000

Oh brother.

http://www.pixelsocks.com/2008/12/19/there-must-be-a-discrimination/

Emphasis mine.

The news bit started down in the message board trenches, so take it with the grain of salt it deserves, but the corporate reasoning has a certain verisimilitude. This, along with the fact that the blog that originally hosted this story has been suspended does raise some questions. However, it is too early at this juncture to rule out accusations of libel or simple excessive traffic as explanations for the blog’s disappearance.

By: Kim Pallister

Kim Pallister — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 22:49:53 +0000

“why games journalism is iffy”

I think you could remove games from that sentence. Isn’t this typical modern day slack-fact-checking, and telephone game at internet speed?

By: Sam

Sam — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 18:08:06 +0000

LOL at least it was while there were some really interesting articles on the main page that were interesting reads.