More Reading Material

Detailing Diablo III: Interview with Jay Wilson, game director of Diablo III:

… I think the key is identifying what the core philosophies are that made the game popular in the first place … to a certain degree, you’re going to have to challenge conventions, and you just have to have the guts to do that. But the best way to do that is to learn what core things are important to the game.

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Nick Hornby interviews David Simon, creator of The Wire:

My standard for verisimilitude is simple and I came to it when I started to write prose narrative: fuck the average reader. I was always told to write for the average reader in my newspaper life. The average reader, as they meant it, was some suburban white subscriber with two-point-whatever kids and three-point-whatever cars and a dog and a cat and lawn furniture. He knows nothing and he needs everything explained to him right away, so that exposition becomes this incredible, story-killing burden. Fuck him. Fuck him to hell.

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Q&A: Joss Whedon:

None of us is going to become a billionaire from doing this but yes, I think it’s very tricky and most people will tell you it can’t be done. I had one person who might actually be a billionaire, and he said, “Yeah, you’ll make $2,000.” And he wasn’t being mean. ... I’m happy to say, we’ve topped $2,000.

Hal Varian: 14 Free business models:

Most information is born digital and that digital information is typically very easy to copy and distribute, it is conceivable that copyright laws may become almost impossible to enforce. Are there ways for sellers to support themselves in such an environment?

Saul Williams is hecka smart:

Although I cannot boast a lifetime of keeping my views to myself, I have seldom taken on the responsibility of trying to change someone (alright, maybe a few girlfriends, but you’ll never hold me to that). However, this year for me has been one of aggressively shifting from a reluctant pursuit of change and growth to taking a proactive stance on what I believe in times that I see as clearly representative of a societal paradigm shift both necessary and urgent for our country and world.

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Note to self: less with the reading, more with the making.