An Analysis of Interactive Blogging Features and Language in Fostering Characterization and Community Building

June 22nd, 2008

You may have noticed that I made some slight modifications to the regular articles, adding in a new feature called Journals. I’ll be sure to document these changes later in a follow up. If you have had any experience with tertiary education then this may already be familiar to you. Journals are academic pieces of writing which account for research articles within their field. At University, I basically write one of these per subject in my linguistics stream as a major piece. While most of these are irrelevant to the Gamer Blog, after completing one of my courses (concluding with this piece) I feel empowered to write more articles of this nature. In saying this I don’t think that the article below is greatly worthwhile. Still it is something that I would like to try my hand at in the future, covering issues of video games, technology, language and culture.
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Tags: Affiliations/Mates, online community

VG Media Network

January 19th, 2008

Hey Guys, I’ve been pushing myself a little too hard lately so I’m going to take a break and talk about a network of blogs that I have recently become a member of.

VG Media Network is a new network of quality video game blogs with the aim of working together to improve the quality and popularity of the blogs within the network.. As you would expect I think its an awesome idea, its great to see bloggers in this niche come together to form a community.

I’ll just quickly run through the current blogs in the network:

Draining Souls
The Server Is Down
Girls Don’t Game
Write The Game
The Hunter’s Mark
Tank Hard!
Press the Buttons
Consolation Prize

Unfortunately I’m not really into the MMO RPG scene just yet, so I can’t say much about The Server Is Down, The Hunter’s Mark, Tank Hard! and Draining Souls. I’ll have to read over them to improve my knowledge on the subject.

If you have a keen eye then you probably aready know that I’ve been affiliating with Press the Buttons for a while now. Matt’s blog is a great read, I always enjoy his Nintendo themed articles. I’ve also been reading Girls Don’t Game for a few months now, they have a great variety through articles from every corner of the industry. Admitably I haven’t had the time to read much of Write The Game and Consolation Prize but from what I have read they seem like very respectable blogs.

So, be a good man or woman and be sure to check out all of the sites in the network.

I’ll be adding these links in a special area under my blogroll. Since I need to custom code it expect it up in the following days. I’ll be back to the usual schedule soon, have a good weekend.

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Tags: Affiliations/Mates, mmo rpg, VG Media Network