7 posts and columns on depression

Can Playing More Games Make Your Life “SuperBetter”? Jane McGonigal Thinks So.

in Social on March 9 at 4:40 pm PT

Few people on their death bed would probably say they wished they had played more videogames, but game evangelist Jane McGonigal insists games can help people live a much richer life.
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The Depression App (Comic)

in Voices on January 6 at 3:52 pm PT

Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site.
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There's No Biz Like No Biz at Twitter! (And Will Google Swoop In Before It All Comes Crashing Down?)

in News on February 13, 2009 at 2:41 pm PT

Since BoomTown constantly called the $15 billion valuation of Facebook “insane” when Microsoft forked over $240 million in 2007, and gave Slide’s Max Levchin a very hard time when his widget company got a $550 million valuation a year ago, it’s only fair that I say something equally appropriate about Twitter. The hot microblogging service just got its very own $250 million valuation, but without a dime of revenue in sight. (I know, Bijan, it’s coming, it’s coming!) After all, Facebook and Slide got their funding in boom times and here we are hurtling toward a possible Depression: The Sequel. But I am torn.

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in News on December 2, 2008 at 12:00 am PT

Good thing the National Bureau of Economic Research wasn’t established with the goal of providing timely economic analysis; otherwise its announcement Monday that the country has been in a recession since December 2007 might seem, you know, ludicrous. But the NBER’s business is quantitative historical analysis, not timely economic intelligence. And that makes today’s pronouncement even more worrisome.