Torill, Hilde and I would like to start a researchers guild on a European World of Warcarft server (rumours have it Terra Nova already has one on a US server, and Joi Ito and other already have a “WoW is the new golf” guild). Torill describes our idea: contact one of us if you’re interested!

(Caveat: I actually ran out of game time so my account’s frozen. I’m insanely busy and will be away over xmas so was thinking of waiting till mid-January before reopening it… So I won’t be active in the guild myself for a while.)


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  1. […] how we can learn and build from them. But I’m sure this sounds interesting to all you other WoW freaks as well! I’m staying away from it all and trying to wrap things up! Although I’m […]

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