Archive for June, 2008
Friday, June 27th, 2008
Interesting links for June 21st 2008 through June 27th 2008:
Simpsons Map for Quake III Arena [YouTube] - A fantastically detailed mashup, bringing 3D textures from the Simpsons into Quake III. [Via Waxy]
Is YouTube truly the future? [SMH] - Henry Jenkins and John Hartley give their take on the "pre-history" of ...
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
It seems that tagging information is useful for more than just organising things (either individually or socially); tags can be art, too! In that vein I’ve just discovered Wordle which can take any series of words – or pull your tags straight from del.icio.us – and let you play with ...
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Interesting links for June 17th 2008 through June 19th 2008:
Study: 82 Percent of Consumers Accept In-Game Ads [Life from Wired.com] - "... according to a recent study crafted as a joint venture between the Nielsen company and in-game ad entrepreneurs IGA Worldwide. "82 percent felt games were just as enjoyable ...
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
Unless you’ve been hiding under a digital rock, you’d know that the best browser in the world has released an even better incarnation: Firefox 3 is here. I could write about all of its improvements, but you can get a fuller version here, suffice it to say ...
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Monday, June 16th, 2008
Interesting links for June 12th 2008 through June 17th 2008:
Blogger arrests hit record high [BBC NEWS | Technology] - "Since 2003, 64 people have been arrested for publishing their views on a blog, says the University of Washington annual report. In 2007 three times as many people were arrested for ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Interesting links for June 8th 2008 through June 11th 2008:
Change Congress - NCMR keynote [Lessig Blog] - Lawrence Lessig's keynote at the National Conference for Media Reform arguing for a mobilisation of talent to try and end (or, at least, decrease) the corruption in the US Congress.
J.K. Rowling Speaks at ...
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Sunday, June 8th, 2008
During the last semester, I've been coordinating a fun little honours unit which was called 'Creative Selves'. One of the main ideas we explored was the ways in which 'creativity' is defined and deployed so differently across all sorts of areas from the creative industries to education and marketing. I ...
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Even thought Viddler already does it, and does it better, I'm still quite excited by YouTube's addition of annotation tools. I've got 28 groups of students creating Digital Media Projects at the moment and one of the stipulations was that they have to examine the videosharing websites out ...
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
I realised today that I've passed one of those blogging milestones: about a fortnight ago, I crossed the birthday barrier and have now consistently spent Five Years Blogging! Sure, it hasn't all been here ... like many people I started out on Blogger because it was free, easy ...
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
A simply beautiful design for a future Floating New Orleans as noted by Inhabitat:
It’s been almost three years since New Orleans weathered Katrina’s wrath, and debate still rages over plans to reconstruct the sunken city. Myriad options have surfaced ranging from rebuilding the levees to designing storm resistant structures to ...
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