David Holloway

Nice to do another piece for AMW and a larger one to boot. It’s a 3000-word feature on music-related apps for iPad / iPhone / iPod Touch. It’ll be appearing in the February 2012 print issue and I’m assuming online sometime after.

Update: here it is

A longer piece for the ABC, doing a review of the upcoming MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic, based on my experiences in beta testing. If you’re a Star Wars geek, it’s a game that you’ll enjoy a lot. It’s also a game that’s taken up a lot of my writing time as I run my own site devoted to the game.

Another enjoyable piece for the ABC, this time on the upcoming Star Wars MMO. Have a look for yourself.

I’m enjoying my regular monthly commission for ABC Technology as it allows me to showcase virtual worlds goings on that normally wouldn’t get much exposure outside of the industry. This month it’s a piece on Sydney’s Leonie Smith and her avatar Paisley Beebe’s popular virtual TV show.

Another piece for ABC Technology, this time interviewing the driving force behind the ABC’s island in Second Life.

I’ve written a short piece for the UK website The Register, on a Fansite agreement being promulgated.

My latest piece for the ABC has appeared today. It’s about the role Massively Multiplayer games are playing in education and business leadership. Have a look for yourself.

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation recently launched their technology portal and I’ve been commissioned to write a monthly column / blog on virtual worlds.

You can check out my first piece here.
Thanks to Nick Ross at the ABC for providing the opportunity.

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.