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Death of a Blog,Birth of a Podcast

Well,not quite ‘death’but an indefinite hiatus. I’m powering down this blog for a few reasons,one of which is my desire to finish my PhD. I’ve tried for the last year and a half to do PhD writing and work and this blog,but found the mindsets are somewhat incompatable. I’ve decided therefore [...]

Axel Brun’s presentation on ‘Produsage’

One of the presentations I really enjoyed at perthDAC 2007 (which I reviewed here) was Axel Brun’s ‘The Future is User-Led’. In particular,I appreciated his ‘common characteristics’of Blogs,Wikipedia and Second Life. Here is his ppt:

The full paper is online [PDF] and detail about the book this paper [...]

Wow! What are Microsoft Thinking?!

After my post about highly regarded fan fiction,it was interesting to note Tony Walsh’s post about Microsoft’s ‘Game Content Usage Rules’. People wanting to create machinima using XBox 360 are warned:

You can’t add to the game universe or expand on the story told in the game with “lost chapters” or back story or [...]