Justin Hall, 2007

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He graduated from Chicago's Francis W. Parker High School in 1993, and in 1994, while a student at Swarthmore College, started his web-based diary Justin's Links from the Underground, which offered one of the earliest guided tours of the web.^[1] Over time, the site came to focus on Hall's life in intimate detail. In December, 2004, New York Times Magazine referred to him as "the founding father of personal blogging."^[1] Presently, Hall lives in Los Angeles, California, where he is a graduate student in the USC Interactive Media Division, and a regular attendee of the Indie Game Jam. Hall's current project can be found at www.bud.com Francis W. Parker School is an independent day school serving students from junior kindergarten through grade twelve of high school. ... Swarthmore College is a private, independent, liberal arts college in the United States with an enrollment of about 1,450 students. ... Graphic representation of the world wide web around Wikipedia The World Wide Web (WWW, or simply Web) is an information space in which the items of interest, referred to as resources, are identified by global identifiers called Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI). ... Look up December in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... Los Angeles and L.A. redirect here. ... The University of Southern Californias School of Cinema-Televisions Interactive Media Division first accepted students in 2002. ... The Mondays is an effort to rapidly prototype video game designs and inject new ideas into the game industry. ...

Selected works

• Passively Multiplayer Online Games - Thesis Defense 70mb MOV video from 20 February 2007
• Playing a Life Online - an audio recording March 11, 2006 (speech at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas USA)
• "The Fantasy Life of Coder Boys", April 2003, Wired
• "Where the Geeks Are", August 19, 1999, Rolling Stone
• "Today's Visions of the Science of Tomorrow" , January 4, 2003, New York Times op-ed
• "The Gaming Wars", May 18, 2001, Salon.com (review of E-3)
• "Hire This Boy To Play Your Video Games", October 12, 2000, Rolling Stone
• Just In Tokyo, 2002, Garrett County Press. ISBN 1-891053-50-7

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Contributor

• J. Goldstein & J. Raessens, Handbook of Computer Game Studies, MIT Press, 2005: Chapter on "Future of Games: Mobile Gaming"
• T. Fullerton & C. Swain, Game Design Workshop, CMP Books, 2004: Sidebar/chapter on "The Indie Game Jam."
• V. Burnham, Supercade: A Visual History of the Videogame Age, MIT Press, 2001: Essays on the Apple ][, Burger Time and Spy Hunter.

Films

• Hall was featured in the documentary Home Page [1].
• He appeared nude as an actor in Blood [2].

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References

1. ^ ^{a b} Harmanci, Reyhan. "Time to get a life -- pioneer blogger Justin Hall bows out at 31." San Francisco Chronicle. February 20, 2005. Retrieved on July 20, 2006.

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Further reading

• Justin Hall on passively multiplayer online games, Annenberg Center for Communications - November 2006
• Yahoo Internet Life, May 2001, "Who let the Blogs out?"
• New York Times Magazine, December 2004

External links

• Justin Hall's official website
• Justin's Blog at USC
• "Dark Night" video clip of his breakdown