Mark Bernstein, Tinderbox creator, sends readers on to our own Brendan Finn and gives him a “well worth reading” compliment. Brendan didn’t quite make a Joyce Cycle in his hypertext, but it was a nice cycle nonetheless.
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What do new media jobs look like in the cutting edge. Take a look.
Via Tiltfactor:
Washington, October 12 (ANI): San Francisco-based firm Posit Science has developed a set of five video games, together called InSight, to improve the mental acuity of older drivers.
Insurance provider Allstate sent the games to 100,000 drivers aged 50 to 75 in Pennsylvania last week, hoping that the pilot program will turn older drivers into [...]
From the Knight News Challenge
We’re giving away around $5 million in 2009 for the development and distribution of neighborhood and community-focused projects, services, and programs.
If you have a great idea that will improve local online news, deepen community engagement, bring Web 2.0 tools to local neighborhoods, develop publishing platforms and standards to support local conversations [...]
Jessica Sanner is learning the value of building complexity via small bits that add up to a larger whole, a valuable lesson even for advanced coders. Build components, test, evaluate, iterate.
I am also finding that it is much less overwhelming to build the game one section or concept at a time. I am First adding [...]
This is interesting, on the Little Bib Planet delay:
“During the review process prior to the release of LittleBigPlanet, it has been brought to our attention that one of the background music tracks licensed from a record label for use in the game contains two expressions that can be found in the Qur’an. We have taken [...]
From Studio Wikitecture:
Because buildings are so expensive to build and modify in the real world, rarely are students and staff able to actively participate in the creation of the physical spaces they use. In a virtual space, however, the tables are turned. Anyone can easily prototype their idea in 3D, walk through it, [...]
From College Scholarships:
Is Your Blog Worthy of a $10,000 Scholarship?
Do you maintain a weblog and attend college? Would you like $10,000 to help pay for books, tuition, or other living costs? If so, read on.
We’re giving away $10,000 this year to a college student who blogs. The Blogging Scholarship is awarded annually.
Scholarship Requirements:
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A thoughtful observation from Jess Sanner on trends in games:
It seems as though a great majority of video games are stuck in a world of Me Vs You or Me VS AI and this is very dangerous and stifles creativity. It’s time to move past the point of a game being to simply win or [...]
A new media accounting of projected war costs
GOOD: The Hidden Cost of War
I’m moving the Mapping Space assignment up a few days. Look for the assignment to be downlaodable sometime today.
Dan Kimerling of TechCrunch has some interesting and arguable ideas on the relationship between Microsoft and future power users. He writes
Another example of Microsoft’s inability to understand younger users, comes in what I can only call their software design philosophy, which I can summarize as “Throw in More Features”. Yet, that seems antithetical to [...]
This is something to look into: SnapPages.
I don’t know a lot about webpage creation tools, such as SnapPages and the product from Google, but it’s well worth the time to play with the software. That’s what we do: play, explore, and wonder at the usefulness.
SnapPages™ provides a suit of tools that make creating your [...]
Something to keep up with is the EuroITV 2009 conference. Context:
EuroITV2009 is a forum for professionals not only from Europe, but from all over the world who are interested in, work with and do research on all aspects of interactive television. The conference will be held in the lively university town of Leuven, Belgium [...]