Archives for December, 2009
by Steve Prentice | December 30, 2009 | 3 Comments
The Christmas holiday season is a time when you get to meet many of the more far flung members of your family, and their offspring – it’s always an interesting period. As economists around the world are still debating the undoubted impact of Paul Samuelson, the Nobel prize winning economist who died a couple of [...]
Category: Behaviour Uncategorized Tags: economy, environment
by Steve Prentice | December 21, 2009 | Comments Off
I have been pondering a lot recently on the notion of “value” and the motivations we have for investing in technology and the like. This is a subject I will likely be exploring a lot more in my research in 2010. In the meantime I have to share two examples of technology advertising that I [...]
Category: Marketing Tags: value
by Steve Prentice | December 8, 2009 | 2 Comments
It has been a busy year and I kind of got out of the habit of blogging, so I have resolved (in advance of the holiday season!) to try harder! I have passionate discussions with the virtual environments community about the use of the term “Serious Games”. I have lost count of the number of [...]
Category: gaming Tags: addiction, avatar, Consumer, gaming