David Holloway

The past month or so has been tied up in two exciting projects. The first involves a chapter for an upcoming book on virtual worlds and health (details here) – the first draft is due mid-June so that precludes much freelance work between now and then.

The second project is a really fun one. TOROZ is a site devoted to covering the upcoming MMO, Star Wars: The Old Republic (SWTOR). It’s in its very early stages but there is already a great deal of interest building. SWTOR is slated for an April 2011 release, but there’ll be no shortage of news and opinion generated in the meantime.

It’s been a more leisurely few months as far as commissioned pieces go but I’ve been writing more than ever. Unfortunately Australian Macworld don’t put anything published in the magazine online until a number of months later, but I’ve had some pieces published there including a review of the latest Logic Studio and some opining on the highlights of the past 25 years in Mac land as Australian Macworld have just reached that milestone.

For the terminally bored, you can always read my discussion paper on the policy agenda-setting challenges for virtual worlds over at my pride and joy, The Metaverse Journal.

An article for Crikey, this time on the precedent setting legal action underway against Second Life creators Linden Lab. You can view it here.

Crikey asked me to write a piece on the potential impact of the Federal Government’s internet filtering legislation on virtual worlds / online games. You can read it here.

A piece I wrote for Crikey appeared today, under the humourous title of Conroy yet to buy g-nitals in Second Life but business is booming.

You can read it in full here.

I’d also strongly recommend a Crikey daily email subscription – for a bit over $100 a year you get a daily email with some impressive stories. It’s a particular boon for politics junkies.

I spent last evening at Hornsby RSL Club, where Howard Jones was playing his second Sydney gig on his current tour. Having interviewed Howard prior to his 2007 tour, I was actually at the gig to interview Robbie Bronnimann.

That interview will be appearing in an upcoming issue of Australian Macworld, but here’s a short sample of Robbie, Howard and vocalist Laura Clapp at work:

Enjoy and thanks to Robbie Bronnimann for his time during a fairly frenetic setup and soundcheck.

Update:some superb photos of the gig taken by my colleague Graham Body can now be found here

Thanks for dropping by – this is a site devoted to my writing work. I’m in my tenth year of writing about technology and I’m enjoying it as much as ever.

To see some samples of my work, check my portfolio or you’re very welcome to contact me to discuss potential future projects.