Users, Humans and Eyeballs: Designing for News Readers
The Best Star Wars Nonrequired Reading of 2015
The Myopic Web: shrinking the filter bubble with Dropcat
Going to work at Salon.com
Peeking into Facebook’s algorithmic black box
My 12 rules for talking with others on the internet
Response Stack: build stories out of reader comments.
Where have all the student journalists gone? To HuffPo and HubSpot.
But our professor is in another castle: Universities don’t get MOOCs
The new Coldplay album has come with a few interesting nods to convergence culture, how to work with it, and how to exploit it. I’m going to skip over the pre-release marketing and community building done on their website, there isn’t much new there, except for the fact that it is a major artist on […]
So, I did something I almost never do. I went to a movie on opening night. It would be a lie if I said this wasn’t partially due to PG’s influence. However, I really wanted to see it too. Despite the bad reviewers, I wanted to see The Happening. And there are really bad reviews, […]
Yea, I know, it has been a while since a real blog post. Don’t worry, it’ll come. I’ve just been busy. In the mean time, more news of the upcoming Duke Nukem game, including a video clip of some gameplay. Check it out.
For my fellow Guitar Hero fans, Kotaku has gotten it’s hands on the latest GH game, Aerosmith. Check out the partial setlist below. An important note, the game does not introduce any new game play elements. The Kotaku post also has a whole mess of pretty screenshots to check out. Nipmuc High SchoolMott the Hoople […]
If for some god-awful reason you have yet to play one of the greatest games of all time, now is your opportunity. Gametap has the game for you to play for free, if you download their launcher. Of course, you could skip the ads and just buy the game too, which is probably under 10 […]
Check out this article on game design and how to create happiness in games.
Check out this Game Career Guide article on the 10 top myths about game degrees.
Check out this recent Wired column by Clive Thompson about post-Turing AIs and how in-game NPC’s can trigger an emotional reaction from the players, even though we know they are machines. Thompson notes: “the truth is, we often develop complex emotional and social relationships with AI characters inside games.” See the full article for more:Going […]
I remember when the USA Channel did little more than shows about angels. Yet, in a relatively short time frame, the channel has transformed itself into a network with a number of excellent, well-known and well-received shows. At the core of this transformation has been their “characters welcome” brand. The reason that USA’s brand is […]
