Who Needs Advertising?

When you have this sort of team on your side.

Only about 20 months late on this.

(And yes – I wish I could shut off that frickin’ tweeting from the Cooking Mama post below. I’ll replace the widget with a link v.soon.

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Mama’s Got A Brand New Bag

What I imagine many readers are looking for from an English social media and tech­no­logy blogger is an overdue Thanksgiving treat. So here you are:

<(delme)embed src=“http://www.peta.org/cooking-mama/swf/cooking-mama.swf” width=“300” height=“219” type=“application/x-shockwave-flash” /​> Widget deleted for noise pollution!

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Serious Games and Things

If you start a job as an oil rigger, then there’s a 50% chance you’ll have a report­able accident within the next six months. After that period, the risk drops to 5% or less, as you get to know the ropes.

That’s quite fright­ening for poten­tial oil-​​​​riggers and for people in the oil and gas industry who hire

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Viral WoW

Blizzard, the company behind the most suc­cessful and prof­it­able enter­tain­ment fran­chise in the world*, World of Warcraft, held a mini-​​​​conference in Paris last week to announce that a second sequel to its Diablo series — Diablo III — was in devel­op­ment. Unlike a lot of press con­fer­ences, they invited along lots of fans, active forum members

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My Week in Media

I’ve been tagged twice for this so here goes. I have also cheated and extended this out to two weeks…

Telly: watched Extras and Dr Who over Christmas. Neither of them were as good as I’d hoped. Otherwise, I watched The Most Annoying People of the Year on BBC 3 through iPlayer, which was quite possibly

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