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What’s Fun about Games?
Great list of characteristics of the gaming experience that contribute to what we call “fun” from The Ludologist. I think it could be applied to a range of creative pursuits, especially online, and I’d hate to lose it so excuse the long quote. Fun The holy grail of games, but an ill-defined term for purposes […]
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Open Source Music Projects
Creative Commons calls for producers to remix Bm Relocation Program’s song, Superego Exchange. Successful remixes will end up on the next Creative Commons promotional CD. Details here. Australian youngsters (
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Link Dump: Democratization of Technologies etc.
As my field of interest narrows again in response to the increasingly urgent requirement that I come up with a solid PhD proposal, I’ve been looking for blogs with a similar focus to what mine will be (soon, I hope). Here’s todays harvest. Corante.com is a handy hub for several blogs hooked into the whole […]
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Retro Chic Moves On
SHoLtZ ViTRiNe asserts that the retro chic army has turned to obsolescent digital technology in search of that all-important grunge factor (although without quite forgetting that whole “analog is warmer” argument). “MP3 players suck.” Says Garry Banes of Time To Drive magazine. “That bloody ‘squishy’ sound that makes tasty cymbal sound like Biros on tabletops. […]
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Jenny Everywhere
From the My Favourite Things Department… A bunch of creative people have done something very cool with Tom Coates’ Open Source Comicbook Character meme (see here for the collaboration behind it all). The result is Jenny Everywhere, aka The Shifter: She’s open source! She’s multidimensional! That’s right, the character of Jenny Everywhere may be used […]
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P2P as Market Research
At the same time as the RIAA is playing dress-ups in jackboots, other sections of the music industry are catching on to the potential of the wealth of data being generated by users of P2P clients. It’s all a bit hypocritical and understandably hush hush, but for the last two years a media research company […]
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Latest Toy
I’ve always hoped that one day I would be wandering dejectedly around some incredibly sad flea market and come upon a real retro find, but so far, no luck. Today, however, on my big excursion to the local primary school fete (hey, at least it got me away from the computer and out into the […]
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Creative Networks: Smaller, Better, Smarter
Tom Morris has responded to my previous post on “mass amateurisation” with a thoughtful piece on the personalisation and decentralisation of the web: While personalisation and decentralisation may be just buzzwords at the moment, with the rise of the independent web we might see these becoming much more important: your own agent search engine finding […]
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RIAA Settles With 12-Year-Old Downloader
Via Slashdot, an update on the RIAA’s legal nastiness looks like the RIAA has rushed to settle with 12-year-old Brianna LaHara, after serving her with a lawsuit on Monday. It looks like her single mother will be paying a $2,000 fine to the RIAA for her daughter’s song-swapping, which they had thought was legal. Said […]
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Online Toy: D U B S E L E C T O R
Found via Dublog: D U B S E L E C T O R offers 10 flash interfaces so you can remix/perform dub tracks. Go play…