What links things together…

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Neil Turner blogs about a machinima (in this case a kind of pop video) on YouTube created in World of Warcraft using the song Here Without You.

I love this. I love WoW being used for something quite different than it was orginally built for, simple cos of an ethic of letting folks play. (And how much free publicity is that worth to them, by the way?) And I love what Neil shares in his blog.

There’s something holding all this stuff together and I fancy most of us could use some more of it…

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