Tonight I’m in Manchester for the Social Technology Summit, part of the Futuresonic festival. The opening gala event was a chili-and-chocolate mix of performance and prose. The chocolaty bit was provided by Tim O’Brien and Mark Pilkington. O’Brien works at the Jodrell Bank radio telescope observatory outside Manchester, and Pilkington is a musician. For their […]
Read more "Futuresonic, Day 1 – Alien Music, Hacking the Earth"Here’s a great little example of a game where aesthetic design and innovative game mechanics all come together to make something really special. Daniel Benmergui’s Today I Die is a poetic experience, very much a genre on its own. The experience of playing it is all the more valuable because it’s intrinsically interactive – this […]
Read more "Today I Die"I’ve been having a lot of fun with Spotify lately. It’s a nifty, nifty piece of tech. Finally, someone’s cracked out a business model that works with digital media. One feature that I really like is shared playlists. You can create a playlist and share the address, and anyone with the address can add a […]
Read more "The Great Spotify Experiment"Atomic Games is teaming with Konami to release a “gameamentary” about the real-life Battle of Fallujah. UPDATED: Six Days in Fallujah has been dropped by Konami, after a storm of controversy from veterans and veterans’ associations. Atomic is still working on the game, but without a publisher at this time. I agree that this is […]
Read more "Game Documentary: Six Days in Fallujah"Ariel, the BBC’s newspaper, ran an article on BeeBCamp today. (It’s on page 14 of the PDF). Feels nice to be mentioned. But it’s got me wondering. It’s funny, isn’t it, that everyone likes to see their name printed on paper? Any social media/gaming type out there feels good when they get blogged about, linked […]
Read more "BeeBCamp on Paper"Technology is amazing. About once a day I encounter something TCFW – Too Cool For Words. Here’s today’s – the first time I’ve seen a workable, wearable augmented reality prototype. It’s not quite Rainbows End yet, but you can bet that by 2012 we’ll have commerically available versions . . . (Via Hugh Garry.)
Read more "Augmented Reality Peeking Around the Corner"In the aftermath of BeeBCamp, Jason DaPonte had a cool idea. The BBC is a public service broadcaster, right? It exists to serve the public, rather than make a profit, and it is funded directly by the public, through the licence fee. So wouldn’t it make sense that the public should decide what goes on […]
Read more "Down With Channel Controllers?"UPDATE: I can’t keep track of all the blog posts, videos and bhotos that have been posted as a result of BeeBCamp2. Should have known that trying to manually catalogue the internet was futile. So there’s plenty below, but for anything posted after 23 Feb 2009, your best bet is here. ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: BEEBCAMP 2. […]
Read more "BeeBCamp2 – The Morning After"Here’s a really straightforward example of a game adaptation that works. Some guys at Durham University have used the Source engine from Half-Life 2 to create a fire drill trainer for their department. If you’re a player of first-person shooter games and their mods, this is an obvious kind of good idea. You start walking […]
Read more "Researchers Torch Their Own Department"Can social media be useful for politics? Clay Shirky explored this question last night at the London School of Economics in a lecture chaired by Charlie Beckett. Shirky has been a proponent of the transformative power of social media for a long time. His book is a chronicle of how this new way of communicating […]
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Philip Trippenbach 