Mssv

The Guardian has released the results of their ‘Best UK Blog’ competition, in which I was pleasantly surprised to see mssv.net on the shortlist. Also check out the related Metafilter thread for more comments.

My theme tune for Metafilter (sorry Gilbert and Sullivan!)

Metafilter’s talking about the AI game again. I’ve already said a few things in the thread there, but I thought I’d add something here. I’m always happy to see that there are still people out there who are interested in massively multiuser online entertainment (mmoe) of the AI variety, yet it seems that most of [...]

There’s been a story on Metafilter that mirrors a recent thread on the Culture mailing list concerning the rash of media coverage on child kidnappings in the US and UK. If you read the Metafilter discussion, it morphs into an argument about whether it’s insensitive for someone to say, “Well, it’s very sad that these [...]

Once again, Metafilter has me worried. Far be it for me to predict the imminent demise of one of the Internet’s most popular and well-known weblogs when it has confounded the predictions of countless others, but this time I think there’s a real problem.

I was reading a thread on Metafilter about television when I realised that there are now two ways to look at it. You can watch television, or you can watch a programme.
To me, ‘watching television’ treats television as an end in itself, whereas ‘watching a programme’ treats it as a means to an end. This [...]

Hello to all Metafiltrians! If you’re interested in massively multiuser online entertainment and would like to read more on the subject, here are some handy links:
The Cloudmakers website, dedicated to the Microsoft AI web marketing campaign.
Jawbreakers, a good introduction site to the first successful independent attempt at mmoes called Lockjaw.
Unfiction.com, a general website covering all [...]

I exhausted my link-finding ability today after constructing a post to Metafilter about discourse markers such as ‘you know’ and ‘I mean’. Read and enjoy.

Reasons to be cheerful:
People on Metafilter liked my post about aerogel (inspired when I saw these pretty photos). I’m very pleased about this - Metafilter is being swamped with too much news culled from CNN, Slashdot, Kuro5hin and other web news portals these days, so I thought the readers might like a change and see [...]

A nice post in Metafilter about how asking people out is simply a numbers game (the page is huge and while your browser will jump directly to the post, it may take a few seconds to load up).