Shift Interview Up

The Shift.com interview is now up, with their kind permission. Thanks, guys. I’m still waiting to hear back from CGO about the Asher interview.

With the big update, I clean forgot to put up links to a host of other stuff that I was involved in since the last time I posted anything to the site. Specifically:

• Not only did I attend GDC, but I also went to the MUD-Dev dinner after, and then chaired a session at MERA ’01. . The other chairs were Lee Sheldon and Randy Farmer–so I finally got meet Randy, to whom the genre owes so much! There is an article on the event up at Gamespy.
• Elizabeth Kolbert wrote a lengthy article entitled Pimps and Dragons: How an Online World Survived a Social Breakdown for the New Yorker. I was interviewed for it. The restaurant we ate at, if you’re curious, is North by Northwest, which does not resemble a ski lodge, IMHO.
• Alex Pham of the L. A. Times interviewed me not once, but twice. The first was for a front page piece on cross-gender roleplaying in online games. She talked at great length with me for background material, but then only mentions me as an example–and doesn’t mention what I do for a living. She apologized for though! Reprint after reprint shows the power of syndication…!
• …and Alex then followed up with another interview but you’ll have to pay to get to it.