This is amusing. GameCity has launched a campaign to Save the Video Game. OK, so the video game isn’t exactly under threat, even if there’s plenty of talk in that direction from people like Susan Greenfield. But it’s a good thought experiment. If I were contributing to the archive, my top three would be Civilization, […]
Read more "Save the Video Game"A game about energy policy, made by The Economist and Chevron? This I’ve got to see. I missed this when it first came out, but yesterday I saw a full-page ad for Energyville in an old copy of Wired. I got to chatting about it with Adrian Hon. Here’s how it went . . . 11:01 AM Me: […]
Read more "*Gasp* Chevron Video Game is Pro-Oil"So Users Add Value. You’ve got a great news network with millions of people contributing rich, insightful material every day. Lots of people comment on your news articles; there’s a thriving debate online. Thousands of people are submitting content that could enhance the power of your journalism and help them get the information they need […]
Read more "How to Turn Millions of User Videos Into Good Content"What will the journalists of the future be like? What will they have to be like? Sense-makers, not messengers. I spent most of yesterday sitting around a table with a bunch of journalists, drinking far too much coffee, arguing and trying to work this one out. We were at the uber-trendy Hospital Club in Covent […]
Read more "Journalists are Sense-Makers, not Messengers"Thanks to Roo, just found this excellent, excellent little video. Tim O’Reilly explains what Web 2.0 is. Tim says: “Web 2.0 is the understanding that the network is the platform, and on the network as a platform, the rules for business are different. And the cardinal rule is this one: users add value. And figuring […]
Read more "Journalism Needs to Listen to Tim O’Reilly"Microsoft wants to put games in your classroom. They believe video games are powerful teaching tools. So much so, that they’re willing to create something known as the Games For Learning Institute (G4LI) at New York University in Manhattan. With guaranteed funding for at least three years. OK, so three years’ funding for an institute like this is […]
Read more "All Together Now: “Good Morning, Mr. Microsoft!”"The BBC this morning contained this interesting report on RadarCultura, a Brazilian radio programme that has learned some lessons from Web 2.0. RadarCultura is an afternoon music programme broadcasting on Radio Cultura AM in Brasil. The playlist is determined collectively by the audience voting on tracks in a digg-like manner, through the RadarCultura blog and […]
Read more "Social Media, Meet Old Media. You Should Talk."Well, I’m a bit disappointed. Ian Bogost just launched Campaign Rush, a flash game about the 2008 US presidential election. You pick a ticket – Democrat or Republican – and then have to manage campaign workers in that party’s war room. The phones are ringing, the e-mails are coming in, and your busy little campaign […]
Read more "Campaign Rush – FAIL"This one deserves to be shouted from the rooftops: Far from turning teenagers into anti-social loners, video games help them engage with friends and community, says a report. The Pew Internet study of US teenagers found that few play alone and most join up with friends when gaming. It found that many used educational games […]
Read more "Video Games Help Make Friends, Engaged Citizens"Here’s something interesting. The UK Prison Service is banning 18-rated video games for inmates. Other video games are allowed, but only to those who have earned perks through good behaviour. “We should not forget the usefulness of these games to prison officers and governors keeping order in overcrowded prisons,” Geoff Dobson, deputy director of the […]
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Philip Trippenbach 