E-Male

Deleted both my Facebook accounts today after 6 years of FaceBragging.

On to the next Internet trend . . .

Dr. Strangelove

This from a recently published academic study (summarized here):

"First and foremost, P2P game piracy is extraordinarily prevalent and geographically distributed [at least it was during the period analyzed]. However, the numbers in our investigation suggest that previously reported magnitudes in game piracy are too high," Drachen adds. "It also appears that some common myths are wrong, e.g. that it is only shooters that get pirated, as we see a lot of activity for children's

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It is not often that I encounter across myself when researching a topic. I found the following in a recent article on the uses of ethnography in virtual environments:

Virtual Video Ethnography

Neither the virtual ethnography nor netnography seem to pay special attention to the visual aspect of cyberspace, which seems contradictory, since the great popularization of the online medium is mostly due to its visual appeal, both in the use of the graphic interface and in

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It has been almost 6 months now and I am still waiting for the second peer-review report to come in for my next book (this one is on the future of television).

Things usually unfold faster than this, even in the slow-paced world of scholarly publishing.

I hope the tardy second reviewer gets his or hers work done soon so I can make any changes to the manuscript during these slower summer months.

At this rate the book will be available in Fall 2013. ...