Roleplayers play games to cope

Scientists have recently begun analyzing 60 TBs of Everquest 2 data given to them by Sony. In analyzing the biggest data set of human interactions ever made publicly available, scientists have already come up with a number of interesting and a few amazing findings. The data includes about 4 years worth of server logs of 400,000 players and includes follow up demographic surveys of the players. Read more

Facebook not so evil

So today I have a new view of Facebook. They’re not evil but they’re like a growing teenager, big, clumsy and not aware of their own strength. In a dramatic reversal, Facebook did a complete about face on their odious Terms of Service agreement. The new Terms of Service created a huge negative backlash on the Internet when it stated that Facebook owned anything you publicly posted on your Facebook account forever. Facebook reverted back to their original ToS a couple of days ago. Read more