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Today's Fresh Blogs...| Advance Wars |
| Published: June 23, 2007, 4:49 am |
| Tags: Intelligent Systems, Strategy, Gameboy Advance |
| Advance Wars is a turn-based strategy game, released on the Game Boy Advance in Europe on 11 January 2002. It was developed by Intelligent Systems, who have made all the Famicom/Advance Wars games thus far, and also have experience in making other strategy games, such as Fire Emblem, and are the developers of the Paper [...] |
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| Autism Stakeholders' Symposium - Where The Heck Are You? |
| Published: July 29, 2007, 5:10 pm |
| Tags: Stephen Harper, Autism Stakeholders Symposium, National Autism Strategy, Autism Disorder |
| the feeble National Autism Strategy of Prime Minister Stephen Harper. A one page web site and a national autism stakeholders symposium. It is difficult to imagine a weaker response to Canada's national autism crisis but Harper watered down his already incredibly weak response by canceling the stakeholders' symposium. Why?Purportedly because |
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| Evaluating the Running Back Theory |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 12:44 am |
| Tags: Strategy |
| For those who are not experts in fantasy football strategy, the Running Back Theory has been a prevalent fantasy draft approach in years past. The main tenet of the theory is simple: Running backs are the scarcest position, so therefore it makes sense to spend several high picks making sure ... |
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| BBC Returns To Game Development |
| Published: August 6, 2007, 5:49 am |
| Tags: Games Industry, Bbc Plans, Broadcaster, Casual Web, Controller, Edinburgh, First Word, Games Development, Games Strategy, Game Development Business, Interactive Festival, Keynote Address, New Games, Outline Plans, Scotland On Sunday, Unveil, Unveiled, Web Based Games |
| boss to unveil new games strategy at Edinburgh Interactive Festival, says report The BBC plans to ‘beef up’ its strategy for gaming and return to games development, according to a report in Scotland on Sunday, with the first word about the corporation’s plans to be unveiled at next week’s Edinburgh Interactive |
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| Sex Sells, Even in Politics |
| Published: August 6, 2007, 12:40 pm |
| Tags: Political Strategy |
| The Los Angeles Times: "In this long, hot campaign season, intimations of sexuality are sprouting like wildflowers along the road to the White House. Not that the commingling of sex and politics is anything new, but for what seems to be the first time in memory, voters are being confronted with questions that don't usually break the surface: Just |
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| Attention is Power |
| Published: July 19, 2007, 7:52 pm |
| Tags: Podcasting, Trends, Business, Strategy, Early, Influencers, Power, Precisely, Attention, Dwindle What, Slusher, The, Newer, Shinier, Transitory, Reason, Jumping |
| If you’re irritated about the way influencers seem to be jumping from one web app to another, you aren’t alone. Dave Slusher just renounced ‘the search for the newer and shinier,’ and I suspect many others will follow after Facebook becomes passé. What Dave doesn’t realize is that it is in the nature of early |
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| Required Skills |
| Published: July 16, 2007, 1:23 am |
| Tags: Strategy, French, Skills, Required, Quebec, Speak, Forever, Playing, The, Wrong, Game, Toronto, Happens, Suddenly, Amazing, Hire, Swim, Finally, All, Guy |
| In Quebec everyone needs to speak French– so when an ad for a job appears, it says “French skills required.” It’s a given. Those that move to Toronto, though, something happens to them. Suddenly, everyone goes “this guy’s French is AMAZING! We have to hire this guy!” You’ve become the specialist. |
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| Podcasters are still slaves |
| Published: July 3, 2007, 1:56 pm |
| Tags: Trends, Strategy, Picture, Notice, The, Cracks, Satellite, Radio, Stance, Work, Change, Dramatically Being, Syndicated, Friday, Raised, Profile, Immensely, Sirius, Changed, Life, Receivers Once, Told, Thing, Expect, Adam, Mentioned, 3rd, Largest, Retailer |
| We may talk like revolutionaries, but we still worship our old masters at the end of the day. Prove this to yourself– next time you meet a podcaster, tell them your show is on the radio, and watch their stance on your work change dramatically. Being syndicated on Sirius changed my life, but not in the way you’d expect. Adam mentioned |
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| The N Sucks (for a month) |
| Published: August 2, 2007, 9:32 pm |
| Tags: Rider Strategy, Transit Failures |
| Would anyone care to expand upon Todd’s gripe? Random gripe: WTF is up with the N? No downtown express service for a month?! Rush-hour too! Is The MTA on vacation or something? (Oh, and the 4/5 this morning was crazy busy) Bookmark SUBWAYblogger to: |
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| Police to Fight Subway Perverts? |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 10:29 am |
| Tags: Crime, This Just In, Good Lookin, Rider Strategy, Live Blogging On The Subway |
| AMNY reports that the Manhattan borough president wants to have the police crack down on subway pervsattacking and harassing people in the subway. Scott Stringer’s office asked commuters how often someone sexually attacked or harassed them in the subway, and found frightening results. More than 60 percent of those who responded to the online |
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| Some Autism Society Canada Questions for Health Minister Clement |
| Published: August 11, 2007, 7:01 am |
| Tags: Stephen Harper, Autism Stakeholders Symposium, National Autism Strategy, Autism Disorder, Tony Clement, Autism Society Canada |
| excuse for a national autism strategy. Then, with very little notice, the symposium was suddenly cancelled in a fit of public relations panic. I have excerpted and highlighted the key paragraphs from the ASC letter and the letter itself follows the highlighted paragraphs.Excerpt from Autism Society Canada Letter to Health Minister Clement"It |
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| Autism, Toxic Toys and Health Minister Tony "Be Fair to Me" Clement |
| Published: August 16, 2007, 5:28 am |
| Tags: Lead, Stephen Harper, National Autism Strategy, Autism Disorder, Tony Clement, Toys, Recall |
| clear by its national autism strategy farce. The strategy would be a joke if the subject matter were not serious. The sum total of the Harper-Clement national autism strategy is a less than mediocre one page web site and a cancelled national stakeholders symposium.Now, with his government facing criticism for its failure to protect Canadian |
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| The New New Internet Is Coming Soon |
| Published: August 16, 2007, 10:15 am |
| Tags: Business, Business Blogging, Conferences, Education, Event, Frank Gruber, Internet, Om Malik, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Strategy, Technologies, Technology, Web 2 0, Web 2 0 Culture, Web Tech |
| What's new new on the Internet? If you are looking for a conference to help you find out you might want to check out this years The New New Internet Conference on November 1, 2007 in Reston, Virginia (northwest of Washington, DC). I am pleased to be among the a solid list of speakers for the sessions which includes Om Malik, Brad |
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| Namco-Bandai Games Announces Warhammer: Battle March |
| Published: August 17, 2007, 3:58 pm |
| Tags: Microsoft, Warhammer, Game Consoles, Computer, Games, Game Platforms, Bandai, Expansion, Fantasy, Mark Of Chaos, Namco, Namco Bandai Games America, Real Time Tactics, Rts, Rtt, Strategy, Warhammer Mark Of Chaos, Warhammer Universe, Xbox 360, Xbox Live |
| It is nice to see more strategy games taking it to the console platform. For those not in-the-know, Warhammer: Mark of Chaos is considered a Real Time Tactical game, or RTT. Instead of the usual clickfest resource hoarding concept that is the staple of most RTSes, WH:MoC focuses more on the strategy elements. This laid back approach is |
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