I, Lamont

My kids like Webkinz World , Ganz's kids-oriented virtual world that is based on the purchase of real-world stuffed toys. During a visi...

This is a post about a remarkable pop song that you've probably never heard of, unless you have kids under the age of 10 who are famili...

Longtime readers of the I, Lamont blog may remember an episode from a few years back, involving the Ganz Corporation's poorly planned an...

A few weeks back, I wrote about my son and I modeling objects using legos. Now the girl is getting into it, too. A few of our latest creatio...

I've gotten a spike in traffic over the last week or so to this blog, caused by hundreds of people searching for help for their Webkinz ...

My apologies to the legions of frustrated Webkinz parents who were following this blog in the wake of the Christmas Webkinz outage. I had a ...

Still no go on Webkinz World. The room problems continue, and there is no help from Ganz. However, Mrs. Smith, the blogger behind the Webk...

I wish I had some good news to report to everyone, but unfortunately there's almost no changes in the performance of the Webkinz World s...

My daughter has been taking the Webkinz room outage in stride. She only discovered Webkinz about a week or so before Ganz's servers star...

After yesterday's attempt by Ganz to reassure its Webkinz customers that things are on the mend, it's pretty clear that normal day-...

( Update: Since writing this post, I have launched a company which is dedicated to helping people understand complicated technologies and c...

It's the new year, and Webkinz World is still limping along. There is a ray of good news, though: Nancylynn, One of the commenters on an...

Webkinz World received a nice boost from the New York Times this morning, in a front-section report by Brooks Barnes entitled Web Playgroun...

Update to the Webkinz World logon situation : While parent company Ganz has reactivated the virtual world's logon servers, at least some...

My daughter has been an enthusiastic Webkinz World inhabitant for about three weeks. She received a Webkinz dog at a party, and after enteri...