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Games websites see 12.5c growth in NZ visitors

By Julie Starr | Published: May 30, 2009
The number of New Zealanders visiting games websites rose 12.5 per cent in the past year, according to Hitwise.
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Using games to tell the news

By Julie Starr | Published: April 13, 2008
The Beat Bloggers - a group of US journalists who are experimenting with using social networks in newsgathering - have posted about using games to tell the news. This might sound a little odd at first but it soon starts to make sense - it's another way of engaging readers and letting them have their say about what's going on in the world. The post points to a game that ReadWriteWeb has been running:
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Day in the life of a Second Life reporter

By Julie Starr | Published: February 9, 2008
Eric Krangel is a Reuters reporter covering a technology beat - with a difference. Eric is based in Reuters Headquarters in Second Life, the virtual world. (He also reports about Second Life). You can see Reuters' Second Life news centre here. They also reported from Davos.
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If toddlers hang out in virtual worlds, so should news companies

By Julie Starr | Published: January 19, 2008
This caught my eye on PaidContent.org - PBS, the US Public Broadcasting Service, is developing an ad-free subscription-based virtual world for toddlers. Yep, toddlers.
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