Justin Hall, 2007

Justin Hall (born December 16, 1974 in Chicago, Illinois), is an American freelance journalist who is best known as a pioneer blogger (internet-based diarist), and for writing reviews from game conferences such as E3 and the Tokyo Game Show. Events 755 - An Lushan revolts against Chancellor Yang Guozhong at Fanyang, initiating the An Shi Rebellion Year 1974 ( MCMLXXIV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A journalist (also called a newspaperman) is a person who practices Journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events trends A blog (a contraction of the term " Web log " is a Web site, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary descriptions of The E3 Media and Business Summit, formerly known as Electronic Entertainment Expo and commonly known as E3, is an annual Trade show for the computer The is a Video game Expo / convention held in the Makuhari Messe, in Chiba, Japan.

He graduated in 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. Swarthmore College is a private, independent, liberal arts college in the United States with an enrollment of about 1500 students The World Wide Web (commonly shortened to the Web) is a system of interlinked Hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. ^[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. The New York Times Magazine is a supplement to the Sunday The New York Times newspaper "^[2] Presently, Hall lives in San Francisco, California, where he recently moved from Los Angeles, California. The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West He graduated from the USC Interactive Media Division. The 's School of Cinematic Arts 's Interactive Media Division first accepted students in. He is also a regular attendee of the Indie Game Jam. The Indie Game Jam is an effort to rapidly prototype video game designs and inject new ideas into the game industry Hall's current project PMOGcan be found at www.gamelayers.com

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. Wired is a full-color monthly American Magazine and on-line periodical published in San Francisco, California since March 1993 Rolling Stone is a United States -based Magazine devoted to Music, Politics, and Popular culture that is published An editorial, leader (UK or leading article (UK is an article in a Newspaper or Magazine that expresses the opinion of the Editor 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

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]. Home Page was a 1999 Documentary by Doug Block on the Genesis of Weblogs and the lives of early independent content producers
• He appeared nude as an actor in Blood [2].
• Hall was also featured in the Brainpop video Blogs. BrainPOP is an educational website with Flash -based movies about Mathematics, Technology, Health, Science

References

1. ^ Harmanci, Reyhan. "Time to get a life -- pioneer blogger Justin Hall bows out at 31. " San Francisco Chronicle. The San Francisco Chronicle was founded in 1865 as The Daily Dramatic Chronicle by teenage brothers Charles de Young and Michael H February 20, 2005. Events 1472 - Orkney and Shetland are left by Norway to Scotland, due to a Dowry payment Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Retrieved on July 20, 2006. Events 1304 - Wars of Scottish Independence: Fall of Stirling Castle - King Edward I of England takes the last rebel stronghold Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.
2. ^ Rosen, Jeffrey. "Your Blog or Mine?" New York Times Magazine. The New York Times Magazine is a supplement to the Sunday The New York Times newspaper December 14, 2004. Events 1287 - St Lucia's flood: The Zuider Zee sea wall in the Netherlands collapses killing over 50000 people "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " Retrieved on October 31, 2007. Events 445 BC – Ezra reads the Book of the Law to the Israelites in Jerusalem (see Nehemiah 91 NLTse Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century.

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 Currently offline as of May 2008
• Justin's Blog at USC
• "Dark Night" video clip of his breakdown