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I wonder why is the Chicago Tribune linking to so many twitterers! Is the newspaper tracking down locals on Twitter trying to gain back some of its readers, because the newspaper industry is dying and more and more readers/subscribers are lost to the web and up to the minute news reports? Or is it trying to gain new readers by showing that it is a newspaper that is “cool” and runs with the web crowd.

With today’s integration of Twitter into all possible CMSs, someone is spending a lot of time finding Chicagoans, and I think the Chicago Tribune is trying out to save itself from drowning by trying various methods and options. But, just like many others in the next few years it will either go close to 100% digital or die. If and when it goes completely digital it will have some serious competition from already established news sources with a long following by the web crowd.

Uwe Boll does it again. The “let’s make it into a movie” game cinematographer, this time around, has brought us Far Cry.

After watching the movie trailer, it think that it looks more than decent. In many people’s eye Uwe has the reputation of being the man with the ability to take a great game and turn it into a total shit movie. I have seen number of his movies and I do like his work. I have also watched interviews with him and at first he can come across as an arrogant prick, but he is “cool” and gets the job done, when others can’t event get off the ground.

Good cast also.

I was going through old emails in my email inbox and I found an old event promo email from Microsoft. The email was about the Microsoft Connections Event for Small Businesses held in Lincolnshire. What was funny about it was that the event was from 8 AM to 12 PM on the day I received the emails 15 minutes after the event had ended.

Way to go Microsoft, sending out a mass email, about an event you had organized, 15 minutes after the event had already ended. That was really useful heeds up wast of my time.

I am looking at tweetmeme.com. A twitter.com tracker. 1? - what exactly is the point of a twitter tracker? By the way, there are a lot of them out there (just keep scrolling).

I mean, you see on tweetmeme.com what you see on twitter.com. The only useful functionality, I see, is its ability to sort content in categories: all, blogs, images, video and audio. It also takes and groups twittes, which are mentioning the same content. Personally, I am not obsessed with twitter to the point of constantly twittering, or having to know who’s doing what and what type of content people are relating to. But, I do like the idea/concept of micro-blogging, a lot. Micro-blogging is a cool idea, because it makes possible to blog quickly and in short blurbs without having to bother with all of the additional steps one needs to take to create a standard blog entry. On top of that, with tools like Alex King’s Twitter Tools WordPress plugin, at the end of the day you can automatically make a “standard” post to your blog with all of the twittes from the day.

I am sure that in the near future, with the next or after next upgrades of the twitter platform, we will see the ability to group/sort twittes by content type. This will return a lot users back to twitter.com, making sites like tweetmeme.com useless. For now, if you are board and looking for random thoughts and content from people you don’t even know, check out tweetmeme.com.

LOL J. Edwards. LOL

Tonight NBC News showed portions of an interview with John Edwards. The QnA that they decided to show was his answer to the question - What is the one country in the world that worries you? His answers was “Pakistan”. He is worried by Pakistan and president Musharraf, because the situation in Pakistan is unstable.

Uhhh, maybe you should be worried more about Iran. Because Pakistan continues to receive a strong support from the United States, both monetarily and politically. Iran, on the other hand, receives its support from Russia. Both countries have expressed, and continue to do so, their dislikes of the United States and some of our allies.

In my opinion, those two and their relationship should be what worries you.

I found on eBay the expansion set to the Doom: the Board Game - Doom: the Board Game Expansion. The person is selling the game for $38.95, one dollar less that Fantasy Flight Games, the game publisher, plus $15 for shipping. He also provides the option for or best offer.

Someone needs to explain to the seller what or best offer means. I saw that there were some previous offers, which were declined, but I could not see what they were. My offers started at $25 and ended $30, and I still did not get the best offer. That left me wondering what is that guys’ understanding of or best offer, because if his minimum for a best offer, for the game, is couple of dollars under his buy now price, than how does his minimum fall in the concept of “or best offer”. For a best offer to be worth anything to someone there has to be some noticeable difference between the selling price and what the acceptable best offer could be, and not a fraction from the selling price.

If the minimum is so close to the manufacturer’s price, why not just get the product from the manufacturer? That way the product is guaranteed and the warranty is valid.

On another note, I noticed that Fantasy Flight Games has published a StarCraft board game. Pretty sweet.

British censors banned the upcoming Manhunt 2, describing the game as an unrelenting focus on sadism and brutal slaying. Personally I think this is great news. Games like this, Dead Rising and few others shouldn’t be even thought of, let alone produced and put on the market. I don’t like it when people, like Jack Thompson for example, and some groups try to ban games. In their entirety that is! Action/violent games are needed, they are also fun. But the violence should go only so far, and not cross the psychopathic line, and thus reach deeper into a person’s character, exposing them to tourcher and sadism.

Not to be byes, but the same goes for some of the “scary” movies that have been produced in the last year. They are pointless and repulsive. People’s senses become dull and when outrageous acts of violence are presented in real live, people simply accept them without thinking twice. That is not right.

In closing, I am glad that standards and regulations exist, and be enforced to certain level. I just think that project, where the whole point of the game is to go around and tourcher people shouldn’t be considered.

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