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Saturday, May 15th, 2004
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12:43a - Study the Economy of Online Games
You won't believe this, someone even show serious academic interest to study a PC game. But these days online games are so invasive and it even can offer an ideal model for economists to study human behaviour in the market. In fact the online games market are so appealing that companies and websites just trade the virtual good are popping out. It's even interesting to know that there even exits mafia in the Sims online game, and Peter Ludlow, a professor of philosophy at the University of Michigan, became fascinated by The Sims Online last year and founded a blog — "The Alphaville Herald" for the "news"
You can read an research paperon this by Edward Castronova, which is posted on the net in early 2002.
Or read a good article on this on the Walrus Magazine.
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1:34a - Begin to use JabRef as BibTeX manager
using JabRef 1.3, a Java prog, to manage to entries. Seems good, but lacks online database search.
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