No more leaving things lying around

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This column appeared in The Herald-Sun in April 2014: Back in the 1980s, I didn’t think twice about stashing my blue Jansport book bag under a bench outside the public library while I wandered around downtown Orlando. Today, though, it’s a different world. So I can only imagine the horror that a man from Akron,…

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Journalism, Non-Fiction, Sample Columns

New pose-length limit

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In preparation for the launch of our newest roleplaying-outreach initiative, we’ve hardcoded a new feature into OtherSpace MUSH. From now on, all poses and lines of dialogue are limited to no longer than 140 characters. It’s in the best interest of broadening our RP accessibility that we make this move, so that we can provide…

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MUSHes, Online Storytelling, OtherSpace

The chance for a living history lesson

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Even today, nearly 70 years since he joined the first wave of soldiers through the surf onto the German-fortified shores of Normandy, Charles Chappell remembers. “I am getting really forgetful about a lot of things,” he said. “But I can picture today right in front of my eyes how that beach looked that day.” Born…

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Just another excuse for change?

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The idea of the OtherSpace reboot is interesting to some, but really, they wonder, isn’t it just another huge change for the sake of change? If that were the case, I could certainly see how the novelty of such a change might quickly wear off. But I think the sort of “huge change for the…

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MUSHes, Online Storytelling, OtherSpace