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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.

I’m off to the British Association Festival of Science in Leicester tomorrow, and will be back on Friday or Saturday, so updates will be less frequent than usual next week.

I’ve made some minor improvements to mssv.net, by adding the little permanent link icons to individual posts, as well as the dinky little comment icons. I’d intended to add permalinks for everything a while back, since previously you’d have to sift through the monthly archives to find a particular post. When I upgraded to a [...]

I won’t be updating this weblog regularly for the next couple of weeks, as my first exams are starting on Friday. Over the course of 14 days, I’ll have eight exams totalling 22 and a half hours. Surely there’s a better way?

Just uploaded the new mmoe-TV article which I’ve been working on intermittently during breaks in revision. Turned out longer than I expected, but I’m reasonably pleased with it.

I’ve added a new comments feature to the ‘middling’ column, since due to the nature of ‘massive’ I hardly ever post there. They won’t be activated on all posts however, but I’ve put them on this one in case people have anything interesting to say about previous posts.

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 [...]

I just posted the ‘For Freedom!’ article. I was a little wary about doing this as I’m not sure whether it flows properly, seeing as I wrote it over a couple of weeks in two sittings (see if you can find the seam). However, I do think it has some good ideas in it and [...]

Just as I’m in the process of writing a new article for Massive on degrees of freedom within games, Brad DeLong goes and posts this site’s URL to the Culture list which currently only has an intro article. Oh well.
The new article is proving to be particularly interesting to think about though, dealing with the [...]

An introduction to mssv.net, and a primer on massively multiuser online entertainment (mmoe).