Avant Game: This Was Never a Game- July 7, 2008 "3 things ARGs are good at. 1) collective intelligence 2) social or dark ... marketing 3) small groupsexisting social networks and communities entertaining each other ... ARGs that HAVE worked are social media. NOT GAMES." via Kimhttp://avantgame.blogspot.com/2008/06/this-was-never-game.html Rory Cellan-Jones: Watching you, watching YouTube- July 7, 2008 "we have no real control over our data once it is lodged on a corporate server ... only the blogs ... seemed to understand the significance of the ruling when it emerged on Wednesday night"http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/07/watching_you_watching_youtube.html Warren Ellis The Patchwork Years- July 7, 2008 "Wouldn't it be nice if we could stand up now & say, okay, these are the post-curation years ... What is required ... is what we're supposed to call "content" these days. When I were a lad, back in the age of steam, we called this "original material""http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=6068 Seth's Blog: Wikipedia gets fictional- July 7, 2008 "as we get further & further into Googleworld, who decides what's worthy ... There's no right answer, of course. But "no answer" isn't an answer either. ... I hope it Wikipedia gets to where it deserves to go, which is a long way down the road"http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/07/wikipedia-gets.html Creativity & The Humanities Jon Taplins Blog- July 6, 2008 "I understand we will need a lot more engineers and scientists in the next few years, but in our rush to remake our school system, we cannot forget that it is art and the humanities that teach us how to creatively live our lives to the fullest."http://jtaplin.wordpress.com/2008/07/06/creativity-the-humanities/ Rockstar's Houser: "Hollywood Hegemony" Won't Support Games- July 6, 2008 Dan Houser: "We're trying to give gamers freedom. It boils down to critics not liking the fact that people can choose to do 'bad' things in a fantasy world - which to me is silly."http://kotaku.com/5010689/rockstars-houser-hollywood-hegemony-wont-support-games Anti-Feministing: Debunking The Argument Against GTA IV- July 6, 2008 "a playground in which to explore & reflect on our baser ideas ... Rockstar's core tenet ... is to force people to consider moral depravity, not to beg them to embrace it. And that's why GTA IV appeals to the socially curious & the civil-minded, too"http://kotaku.com/5012227/anti+feministing-debunking-the-argument-against-gta-iv Pasta&Vinegar Blog Archive Bruce Sterling about failed futures- July 6, 2008 they dont fail because of science they fail because of political frontiers between groups that we dont know how to cross () the real frontiers are no longer engineers law like Moores law or Metcalfes law but social and legal practiceshttp://liftlab.com/think/nova/2008/07/06/bruce-sterling-about-failed-futures/ The New Yorker: The Return of Karl Marx- July 6, 2008 John Cassidy, The Next Thinker, "THE RETURN OF KARL MARX," The New Yorker, October 20, 1997, p. 248http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1997/10/20/1997_10_20_248_TNY_CARDS_000379653 |