This week's (and last's) links

Oops. Forgot to do this last week. Here's stuff I flagged as interesting for a variety of reasons over the past two weeks:

• TechEBlog » Top 10 Strangest Lego Creations
  The title says it all. Some crazy lego creations ... (tags: Lego Art)
• GameDaily BIZ: Report: China's Video Game Market to Reach $2.1 Billion in 2010
  "Casual predicted to account for 40% of online revenue". See, there's a reason I switched to this part of the business! ... (tags: CasualGames China OnlineGaming MarketResearch)
• BitTorrent, YouTube, and Google Video (kottke.org)
  A good case example of disruptive technology and biz models at work. Like the author, I too have noticed a lot less mention of BitTorrent in my online circles lately. A testament to the fact that in the fast moving online world, you should have no illusio ... (tags: Google YouTube BitTorrent BizModels DisruptiveTechnologies)
• Raph’s Website » Massive, XFire, what’s next?
  Another Raphtastic set of insights into the online gaming world. This time, a perspective on Big Media's recent online gaming acquisition spree, and what it implies in terms of the medium's maturity ... (tags: OnlineGaming Web20 VentureCapital Business GameBiz MMO Games GameDevelopment)
• Publishing 2.0 » What If Media 2.0 Is Less Profitable Than Media 1.0?
  The title says it all. An interesting essay from a somewhat 'sky is falling' POV. I thought Gaping Void's take on it was the best: "Wrong Question. Right Answer: Who cares?" ... (tags: Marketing MySpace Web20 Publishing Media Advertising)
• David Seah : The Printable CEO
  A good tool to help you be efficient - whether you are a CEO or not ... (tags: Business Efficiency TimeManagement)
• The Networked Book » Names@Work » Blog Archive
  Interesting model for ePublishing a book. "serialized feeed" is a neat concept ... (tags: BusinessModels Publishing Books RSS)
• Signum sine tinnitu--by Guy Kawasaki: The 120 Day Wonder: How to Evangelize a Blog
  Guy gives us the shitake about blog evangelism and what he's learned about blogging and evangelizing your blog in his 120 days doing so ... (tags: Blogging business Marketing VentureCapital)
• Lip-Sticking: 5 Questions You Should Ask Yourself
  LIp-Sticking the "smart marketing to women online" blog talks about things you should consider if your website caters to the ladies. Applicable to those in casual-games-portal land... ... (tags: Marketing CasualGames Women Portals)
• Vinography: a wine blog: Celebrating The Design of The Wine Label
  A dated post (references a museum exhibition that has passed), it talks about the design of wine labels, having to sell customers and make your bottle stand out with limited real estate in a crowded market. Interesting comment thread afterward. I think th ... (tags: CasualGames Merchadising Marketing Wine Retail GameBiz)
• Fire Someone Today: Carnival of Marketing
  As usual, a host of links to interesting marketing reads ... (tags: CarnivalOfMarketing)
• An Inconvenient Truth - Google Video
  Perhaps overdramatic, but considering the subject, perhaps not. A frightening trailer for an upcoming movie about global warming. Al Gore is the central figure and man, do I wish he'd been elected. ... (tags: Environment AlGore GlobalWarming Movies)
• Up With Grups - The Ascendant Breed of Grown-Ups Who Are Redefining Adulthood -- New York Magazine
  Via Souris (self-professed fit for the article's subject), an article talking about 'grups' a.k.a. yupsters ... (tags: HusterOfCulture yupster culture business trends)
• Raph’s Website » Wonderland: On public service gaming
  Raph posts a good follow-up to Alice's piece on 'public service games'. His point on the fight for visibility with increasingly choice-innundated consumers is a good one. ... (tags: gamebiz games Culture publishing funding)
• Serious Games Source
  David Rejeski kicks of a meme about government as potential funding source for games 'in the public good ... (tags: GameBiz Games game-development Culture)
• Wonderland: On public service gaming
  Alice posts some thoughts that are, well, thought provoking, on the 'public service games' meme. ... (tags: games gamebiz game-development funding publishing)