Duncan Gough’s passively multiplayer online gaming (PMOG)
Ian Delaney writes about passively multiplayer online gaming (PMOG), the brainchild of Duncan Gough.
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This is the deal. You install a Firefox extension that records everything you visit on the web. It uses this to create a roleplaying game character. If you visit blogs a lot, then you might become a Seer. If you use a lot of aggregators, then you’re a Hoarder, etc. You get experience points and build up levels and skills depending on which sites you visit. So basically, you end up with a profile of yourself as a web citizen done in a tongue-in-cheek, Dungeons and Dragons-ey way.