Largely Lost-centric links for May 24th 2010: Lost Finale: What the Web Wasn’t Made For [Mashable] – Why I’ll be off most social media today: “Those two wonderful facets of the web — on-demand viewing and instant communication between fans — tonight become a double-edged sword. The Lost Finale will be shown at 9pm ET [...]
Links for January 3rd 2010 through January 4th 2010: Self-Proclaimed Social Media Gurus on Twitter Multiplying Like Rabbits [B.L. Ochman's blog] – There are now 15,740 self-proclaimed social media gurus on Twitter! Don’t be one of them. Ban This Game! – Silly but simple flash game exploring the “logic” of the Australian government’s proposed internet [...]
Links for August 15th 2009 through August 20th 2009: iiNet uses Telecommunications Act to boost copyright case [Australian IT] – "iiNet has put two new lines of legal defence before the Federal Court in its bid to stop a group of entertainment companies suing it for copyright infringement. … barrister Richard Cobden today ventured a [...]
Links for June 10th 2009 through June 12th 2009: Find Creative Commons Images in Google Image Search [Google OS] – "Google Image Search added the option to restrict the results to images that are licensed using Creative Commons, a list of flexible licenses that allow content creators to share their works with the world. The [...]
Links for January 7th 2009 through January 8th 2009: How to Use Twitter for Marketing and PR (Good advice.) Apple Drops Anticopying Measures in iTunes [NYTimes.com] – In moves that will help shape the online future of the music business, Apple said Tuesday that it would remove anticopying restrictions on all of the songs in [...]
Links of interest for October 1st 2008 through October 2nd 2008: Google Search 2001 – To celebrate Google’s 10th birthday they’ve gone back in time and worked with the Internet Archive to let you search the 2001 web … YouTube is a nonsense word, ‘blog’ only returns 76,400 hits and Facebook has just under 1800 [...]
Interesting links for August 21st 2008 through August 22nd 2008: Monkey Magic – Karen Lury / University of Glasgow [Flow TV, 8.06] – Playful and engaging reading of the BBC Monkey-style BBC Opening for the Olympic Games: “A playful, irreverent choice then: a trailer that reverses a mythic journey (from West to East) and which [...]
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 YouTube, looking at [...]
Interesting links for May 18th 2008 through May 19th 2008: Positive or Not – Think you can tell if someone has HIV? – An educational game in the style of ‘Hot or Not?’ which challenges preconceptions about people with the HIV virus. [Via NY Times] Ikea Stuff Pack for Sims 2 Confirmed [Ad Lab] – [...]
Interesting links for April 6th 2008: Study: Violent Games Relax Players [Next Generation - Interactive Entertainment Today, Video Game and Industry News - Home of Edge Online] – “People who play violent videogames online generally feel more relaxed and less angry after they have played, according to a new study by psychologists at Middlesex University” [...]
