Ramblings of a Technology Addict

Friday, February 14, 2003

Friday Morning Linky Goodness

Time for some Linky Goodness this morning.
Happy Valentines Day to my lovely girlfriend, Tiffany first and foremost.
...Cover of the NY Post is a stitch today.
...David Hyatt, lead dev on Safari, has posted Inside WebCore for all you Mac junkies to read up on how the new WebCore services will work in OS X.
...Brent Simmons (creator of NetNewsWire) has posted instructions on how to subscribe to a website's RSS feed directly from Safari.
...Mmmmm, Desktop Pictures
...Dan Hon thrashes just about every piece of interactive fiction since the Beast. Worth reading if you like immersive entertainment, subscribe to Collective Detective or some of the other groups out there playing these games.
We have an additional problem that's peculiar to this particular genre: with Microsoft's effort, the development team quickly found that they had--intentionally or not--targeted a hard core of infovores. These people would slave away, twenty four hours a day and grab up every single last piece of information and try and connect every single dot. They are a content producer's worse nightmare, because nothing you can do can satisfy them. The scarcity is on your side, not theirs: limited resources to produce limited content for an insatiable audience.
Dan's right of course, but this goes back to what I've been saying for a long time, post-Beast: It's the writing stupid. Give me half assed writing, like most of the games, commercial or no, and you'll get a less than quarter-assed product. The writing makes the game worth playing, it provides the illusion that makes the whole thing possible. Spot on, Dan.
...Meg, you should check out Duct Tape Fashion.
...Lori put up her photos from the DC trip.
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