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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
In class today we talked about what restrictions create the class “Literature.” We looked through a number of works from the site we all had to look at from last week: Electronic Literature Collection Volume One. One of the things we examined were what do all of the pieces share, or lack? The main thing […]
I looked at three of the works in the Electronic Literature Collection Volume One, however I was entranced by Inanimate Alice, going so far as to pursue the other episodes. As I worked through each of the short interactive episodes, I couldn’t help but feel that this sort of thing was where the future lies. […]
So, I went to the first class for English 344 today, Digital Writing in the Genres (you’ll see posts for the class on this blog as well), it looks like it is going to be a lot of fun. We were going over a number of the course requirements and I saw that among the […]
A Jan. 26 New York Times article by Seth Schiesel titled “Author Faults a Game, and Gamers Flame Back” relies the story of ignorant commentators getting their just comeuppance. As you know, the Conservative blog world and lately FOX has been in an uproar over the supposed hard-core sex scenes in Mass Effect. After FOX […]
This was previously published in the George Mason University newspaper Broadside Last year was a strong one for video games of all types, but 2008 looks to be even bigger. With record sales of console over the winter holidays, there will be a bigger audience than ever before. The industry looks like it will be […]
The title says it all, 101 of the best free games for the new year. The feature (from 1up and Games for Windows) is well worth the read. In a time when games are $60 a pop, a few good freebies are a welcome respite.
I know it is incredibly geeky, but I am and continue to be really really excited about a Star Trek MMO… which is why this latest newsbreak from ‘the company previously known as Perpetual” is aggravating as anything. P2 Entertainment – formerly Perpetual Entertainment – has ceased development on Star Trek Online, according to multiple […]
BioWare’s latest game Mass Effect has been subject to a great deal of criticism lately by the conservative online community. Unfortunately, it has been completely uninformed criticism. The best quote from conservative blogger Kevin McCullough’s The “Sex-Box” Race for President? His statement that Mass Effect allows you: to engage in the most realistic sex acts […]
According to Tolkien at SlashDot, the source code for Sim City is now freely available under the name Micropolis. The code has been ramped up a bit and is now open to anyone interested in playing around with it. Interestingly “the plane crash disaster has been removed as a result of 9/11.” In my opinion […]
2D Boy has come out with a new game called Robot and the Cities That Built Him this last week. I highly recommend the game, it’s a lot of fun and very stylized looking flash game. I played all the way to city 57 before setting it down, with my squadron of robots fully upgraded […]
