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Entry #76

Listening to:

Haydn, string quartet in C major, op. 50, no. 2.

I stumbled across the Epinions site this morning. It's quite a clever name, though I can't help but think of birds of prey (maybe electronic ones) every second time I look at it. Maybe Edops instead? But then some smart-arse would alter it to Edopes and where would you be then?

Liking the idea of a communal forum for the sharing of opinions on a variety of products (what a consumerist society we live in; there didn't seem to be any space for opinions about the social problems of the 21st century), I had a brief trawl and found a section on computer games. Inspired to write a review of Imperialism II for the delectation of gamers everywhere, I got going and wrote a fair screed (thinking all the while, "How many brownie points is this going to win me, huh? Is this, with its incisive analysis, not going to blow all those other opinions out the water? Yadda yadda...") I was brought up with a shock when I saw that they wanted exclusive online rights to my material if I had it posted on their site. "Hah!" thought I.

The (uncompleted) review is now freely available elsewhere. (Elsewhere is much better than merely here; so there!)