Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can’t do […]
Australia is slowly waking up to a little publicised ALP policy about “cleaning up the internet to protect our children”. Once again it seems to be a case of apply the most ineffective and intrusive means possible. No-one is saying that we don’t want kids to be safe. The overly simplistic gainsaying of our new […]
Linden Labs have just announced in a security bulletin that their databases have been compromised. Detailed investigation over the last two days confirmed that some of the unencrypted customer information stored in the database was compromised, potentially including Second Life account names, real life names and contact information, along with encrypted account passwords and encrypted […]
This is becoming quite an interest of mine over the past few months and has also taken centre stage as the focal theme of my online drama work. There are emerging more and more stories about griefing across the entire web – in games, virtual communities, online worlds… etc…. Mark Wallace over at 3pointD and […]
Dr Dean Chan presented at the CREATEC seminar today about his work in Theorising Diasporic Asian Cultures. His discussion on Asian American Gamers was a taster of his ongoing research into this area. His introduction of the “Garden Grove” experience of a few years ago was especially interesting albeit very brief. PRIVACY, FREE SPEECH & […]
Turbulence blog reports: New Scientist reveals that the Pentagon’s NSA in the form of ARDA (Advanced Research Development Activity) are interested in the information people post about themselves on social networking sites like MySpace and are funding research into it’s mass harvesting. The W3C WWW2006 conference accepted a paper entitled Semantic Analytics on Social Networks, […]
I’ve just been introduced to a video of an event that took place in the virtual gamescape of World of Warcraft. You can watch the same video here: http://tinyurl.com/lcuct (Be aware some of the text included on the video might fall into the “explicit lyrics” category) I found it incredibly absorbing and was fascinated by […]