Comments on: Facebook and diminishing returns… http://www.niall-larkin.com/blog/2008/04/27/facebook-and-diminishing-returns/ ...even a dice can roll Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:03:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Niall Larkin http://www.niall-larkin.com/blog/2008/04/27/facebook-and-diminishing-returns/#comment-23746 Niall Larkin Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:49:27 +0000 http://www.niall-larkin.com/blog/2008/04/27/facebook-and-diminishing-returns/#comment-23746 On a tangent that question you asked goes right to the heart of one of the main reasons I started blogging. Having no definition of MMO in the above blogpost was a bit slapdash of me. And its also a sign i'm loosening up in my writing. One of my personal aims in writing this blog was to learn to let go of the highly constrained style of writing I learned when I was a science and tech writer for H.W. Wilson. That means occasionally letting typos stay as typos. But more importantly letting some sentences and paragraphs hang together in a loose ill-defined informal conversational structure. Its been a long slow process of letting go. I've come to believe its much easier to learn something new, than unlearn something you've practiced so much as to make it become second nature. The style and structure I had when I first started blogging was only suitable to and digestible by the small audience of academics who insisted on a dry and constrained style. My sincere apologies for the sloppiness that is an inevitable part of the process of reversing these instincts. And my sincere gratitude for your patience and assistance where its needed. This time, I think the pendulum swung a little far and I appreciate you nudging me back on course. I don't exactly know what an MMO is. It wasn't defined in the original blog post either. (These blogging types are sooo unprofessional). But I think you are on the money with the multiplayer online game like World of Warcraft. Perhaps MMO is a diminuitive of MMORPG- a Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game? On a tangent that question you asked goes right to the heart of one of the main reasons I started blogging. Having no definition of MMO in the above blogpost was a bit slapdash of me. And its also a sign i’m loosening up in my writing. One of my personal aims in writing this blog was to learn to let go of the highly constrained style of writing I learned when I was a science and tech writer for H.W. Wilson. That means occasionally letting typos stay as typos. But more importantly letting some sentences and paragraphs hang together in a loose ill-defined informal conversational structure.

Its been a long slow process of letting go. I’ve come to believe its much easier to learn something new, than unlearn something you’ve practiced so much as to make it become second nature. The style and structure I had when I first started blogging was only suitable to and digestible by the small audience of academics who insisted on a dry and constrained style.

My sincere apologies for the sloppiness that is an inevitable part of the process of reversing these instincts. And my sincere gratitude for your patience and assistance where its needed.

This time, I think the pendulum swung a little far and I appreciate you nudging me back on course.

I don’t exactly know what an MMO is. It wasn’t defined in the original blog post either. (These blogging types are sooo unprofessional). But I think you are on the money with the multiplayer online game like World of Warcraft. Perhaps MMO is a diminuitive of MMORPG- a Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game?

]]> By: Robin Blandford http://www.niall-larkin.com/blog/2008/04/27/facebook-and-diminishing-returns/#comment-23744 Robin Blandford Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:50:55 +0000 http://www.niall-larkin.com/blog/2008/04/27/facebook-and-diminishing-returns/#comment-23744 Sounds about right Niall. What's an MMO? Can't find a ref to it. It's an multiplayer online game right? Sounds about right Niall.

What’s an MMO? Can’t find a ref to it. It’s an multiplayer online game right?

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