ReadWriteWeb:
In an unsurprising move, Apple is said to be working with major record labels to provide an "interactive album" to consumers. The company is rumored to be working with EMI, Sony, Warner and Universal to bundle photos, lyric s (Read More)
mcwflint's shared items in Google Reader:
Ok, so I see it now. It’s not like I didn’t have some notion of it before, but now it’s really obvious.It would seem as though I’ve become one of those mean and despised open source nut-case curmudgeons with nothing nice to s (Read More)
Mixx: Entertainment:
There’s a lot of thought and technique that goes into a work of art. Whether it’s a novel, film, sculpture or painting, the skills necessary to produce a quality piece of art are worthy of admiration. Check out these free onl (Read More)
Submitted by Chronotope
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What breaks your sense of presence in a story? The culture of video game playing has developed a tolerance for the common practices and limitations in designing and producing games. We’ve stopped asking “why?” and have come (Read More)
Pharyngula:
Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum were right about one thing.They sent me a copy of their new book, Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future(amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), with a strange request: "We hope t (Read More)
Submitted by louisgray
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In late May we reported on rumors at The Reg and the New York Times (here) that interconnect maker Quadrics was heading for a shutdown of operations in June. Subsequent Googling turned up a big fat zero, except that the rumor (Read More)
Delicious/thantos:
Read my post on why I made this remix on WIMN:http://www.wimnonline.org/WIMNsVoicesBlog/?p=1272In this re-imagined narrative, Edward Cullen from the Twilight Series meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It's an example of transform (Read More)
Submitted by jny2cornell
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Over at The Atlantic, I’ve been interviewing Jack Hitt, one of my favorite journalists. If you’ve never heard the This American Life episode The Super, do yourself the favor of consuming it immediately. It’s just damn good st (Read More)
Submitted by digiphile
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I’d highly recommend reading “The Real Struggle In Iran,” George Friedman’s analysis the recent events in Iran. I have no way of knowing if Friedman’s analysis is accurate or not; but it seems a good deal more plausible to me (Read More)
MediaShift:
On June 13, bloggers around the world imagined they were under attack by the living dead, writing short horror narratives for the annual Blog Like It's the End of the World Day (which was especially appropriate for me since i (Read More)
NPR Topics: Books:
With a superbly woven narrative, this history examines the unexpected connections between science and Romanticism.» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us. (Read More)
Submitted by ukstevieb
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Image via Wikipedia Legislation that will end ethnic studies programs in Arizona high schools looks set to be signed into law by the state’s governor. Promoted by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Tom Horne, the (Read More)
Confessions of an Aca/Fan:
This is another in a series of essays by my CMS graduate students exploring what personal narrative might contribute to the development of media theory. In this case, Begy blurs the line between games research and fan studies (Read More)
Knowledge Hemispheres Consolidated Feed for New Media:
Click here to view the embedded video.Independent studio Ag8 has announced Purefold - a series of linked 5- to 10-minute web videos inspired by Blade Runner. Purefold won’t be a sequel or prequel to Blade Runner, but is a new (Read More)
SAMPLE REALITY:
Ian Bogost has a theory about Every Computer Animated Film Ever that boils down every plot into a universal structure, not too dissimilar from the monomythic Hero’s Journey. I don’t have much to add about the narrative conven (Read More)
Threeminds:
In mid-April 2009, two Domino's pizza employees decided it would be funny to pull a little YouTube prank. One employee prepared sandwiches for delivery while putting cheese up his nose and blowing nasal mucus on the sandwiche (Read More)
Submitted by Alexruthmann
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In this narrative account of a secondary school classroom of students with special needs, I share the story of a teacher and her students. With multiple impairments and low socioeconomic status creating an additional layer of (Read More)
Submitted by SquidLord
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Just another dating sim designed by refugees from 4chan as a result of an anonymous post on /a/. Also, all the girls are disabled in some way -- Katawa is roughly translatable as "retard" or "cripple;" it's not a nice word. H (Read More)
Submitted by DamienBasile
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In what will come to be seen as either an extraordinarily brave or an unbelievably foolish move, Newsweek has carried out a major reinvention this week, on the eve of its 75th anniversary. In an attempt to deal with the chang (Read More)
Submitted by SquidLord
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A friend sends a link to this story by the Associated Press:DUBLIN (AP) — When Dublin university student Shane Fitzgerald posted a poetic but phony quote on Wikipedia, he was testing how our globalized, increasingly Internet- (Read More)