Content
education
I do like reading intelligent things. GEE doesn’t completely belong ot this group, but it’s close enough: A game magazine that caters to a mature readership, and that is refreshingly different.
Somehow it reminds me of the early issues of Wired. Wired was, and to a good extend still is, much more designed than GEE, and it had a much stronger political voice as GEE. But both serve the readers need to think twice, coupled with the love for technology as art.
That’s what sets these magazines apart: They don’t count pixel, megabytes etc, but actually sit down and think about what one can do with them. GEE can’t care less if company x builds a faster computer than company y, or if the screen resolution is better. They write about the games itself, and what sort of culture can evolve around them.
Couple that with a clean, if somewhat empty, design, good writing, and I’m sold.
Lyrics, Copyrights, and Cease-and-desist orders
Copyright is a tricky thing. When you have created something on your own, you want to keep it. The least one usually asks for is that people give credit where credit is due. When the creative work is what one does for a living there is of course a healthy interest too.
Boo Hoo
From dot.com to catastrophe…
I’ve been digging out old books again, to re-read them. This is one out of my „real life“ collection. Boo.com was supposed the leading fashion store in the internet. They got millions of funding, big brands as supporters…
… and failed. Horribly.
This is their story. And a good one too. It keeps making me wishing that I had discovered my meagre talents in programming 5 years earlier. I could have busted a million by now then too!