Justin Hall

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.

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 " [http://www.links.net Justin's Links from the Underground] ", which offered one of the earliest guided tours of the web.Harmanci, Reyhan. " [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/02/20/MNGBKBEJO01.DTL Time to get a life -- pioneer blogger Justin Hall bows out at 31] ." "San Francisco Chronicle." February 20, 2005. Retrieved on July 20, 2006.] 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."Rosen, Jeffrey. " [http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/19/magazine/19PHENOM.html?pagewanted=print&position= Your Blog or Mine?] " "New York Times Magazine." December 14, 2004. Retrieved on October 31, 2007.] Presently, Hall lives in San Francisco, California, where he recently moved from Los Angeles, California. He graduated from the USC Interactive Media Division. He is also a regular attendee of the Indie Game Jam. Hall's current project PMOG can be found at [http://www.gamelayers.com/ www.gamelayers.com]

Selected works

* [http://www.passivelymultiplayer.com/ThesisDefense-320.mov Passively Multiplayer Online Games - Thesis Defense] 70mb MOV video from 20 February 2007
* [http://server1.sxsw.com/2006/coverage/SXSW06.SCREENBURN.20060311.JustinHall.mp3 Playing a Life Online - an audio recording] March 11, 2006 (speech at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas USA)
* [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.04/play.html "The Fantasy Life of Coder Boys"] , April 2003, "Wired"
* [http://links.net/share/write/rollingstone/slashdot/ "Where the Geeks Are"] , August 19, 1999, "Rolling Stone"
* " [http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20615FD345B0C778CDDA80894DB404482 "Today's Visions of the Science of Tomorrow" ] , January 4, 2003, "New York Times" op-ed
* [http://www.salon.com/tech/log/2001/05/18/e3_hall/index.html "The Gaming Wars"] , May 18, 2001, Salon.com (review of E-3)
* [http://links.net/share/write/rollingstone/joshgriffith.lg.jpeg "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" [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144969/] .
* He appeared nude as an actor in "Blood" [http://www.ifilm.com/filmdetail?ifilmid=97396&cch=] .
* Hall was also featured in the Brainpop video Blogs.

References

Further reading

* [http://weblogs.annenberg.edu/diy/2006/11/post.html Justin Hall on passively multiplayer online games] ,Dead link|date=September 2008 Annenberg Center for Communications - November 2006
* "Yahoo Internet Life", May 2001, "Who let the Blogs out?"
* "New York Times Magazine", December 2004

External links

* [http://www.links.net/vita Justin Hall's official website]
* [http://interactive.usc.edu/members/jhall/ Justin's Blog] at USC
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx8rDD1ekGU "Dark Night" video clip of his breakdown]

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