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Everyone has heard the old hacker slogan “Information wants to be free.” But it turns out that information doesn’t want to be free: instead, it wants you to buy it an Alexander McQueen dress and fly it to Paris for a night on the town.
Archive for the ‘New Media’ Category
In the beginning was Wikipedia
Posted: March 7, 2012 by Twitchdoctor in New MediaTags: Andrew Orlowski, collective intelligence, crowd sourcing, hive mind, Larry Sanger, Open Source, Wikipedia
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A Change is Gonna Come
Posted: February 24, 2012 by Twitchdoctor in Game Players, Games and Life, New MediaTags: Bioware, casual games, hardcore games, Jennifer Hepler, Reddit, Twitter
What would cause a large group of gamers to call a perfectly ordinary and inoffensive videogame story writer a cunt, a whore, a Jew, and a cancer, among many other things? Apart from the fact that they are users of the Internet? The impending end of their world, that’s what.
Looking for Wuv in All the Wrong Places
Posted: September 30, 2011 by Twitchdoctor in New MediaTags: Apple, Facebook, Facebook Changes, Facebook Timeline, information technology, new media, Technology, Twitter
Occasionally you come across something on the Web that forces you to stare unflinchingly into the dark heart of humanity. Well, OK, on the Web that happens more than occasionally and not simply when you are frequenting 4Chan. Sometimes, however, the experience isn’t simply repellent and/or tedious but actually illustrates something profound about the evolution of human nature and its vexed relationship with digital technologies.
A Few Thoughts on L.A. Noire
Posted: June 21, 2011 by aegisfang in game design, Game Genres, Games and Writing, New MediaTags: game reviewing, gameplay, videogames
In the month or so since L.A. Noire has come out, I have read review after review proclaiming it to be a revolutionary game. I have heard this before. Reviewers call games genre-changers or “like nothing I’ve ever seen before” or innovative or even, if you’ll excuse the terrible pun, “game-changers”. I hear this yet [...]
Here Comes Democracy
Posted: April 28, 2011 by twinhits in Game Research, Games and Life, New Media, UncategorizedTags: Clans, Democracy, Gaming Communities, Guilds, Jedi Academy, Syndicate
I’ll probably start off with this story in every blog post that I write in my life, but when I was thirteen years old I had the honor to found and lead a clan called The Order in the game Star Wars: Jedi Academy. What proceeded was a five year journey that would change my [...]
The Future is Always Living in the Past
Posted: April 14, 2011 by Twitchdoctor in Games and Life, New MediaTags: augmented reality, Christopher Dede, Futurology, games, Geoffrey Nunberg, HP, Information Age, mediascapes, Microsoft, Mscape, Technology, The Future
Last time I flew it was nothing like the Starship Enterprise cabin that Microsoft offers in its vision of the future. Instead it resembled an overcrowded and singularly malodorous Turkish bath, except that I probably would have had more leg room in a Turkish bath and wouldn’t have had to put up with some snotty ankle-biter kicking the back of my seat while their parental unit lay passed out after too many $15 rum and cokes. Microsoft and their ad agencies really need to get off their corporate jets and try flying commercial once in a while.
