The readings are from Lev Manovich, one of the most influential writers and makers in this area (he has recently been instrumental in establishing the new field of 'software studies'), and Bill Seaman...Read More
It is trivial to make games that you can't necessarily win, but they are still rule governed, procedural (e.g. turn taking) and about the accruing of points, even where the game doesn't call them poi...Read More
Molly picks up my post about recommendation systems and notes that she hates the ads on Facebook but likes Spotify. Exactly, the former is only selling ads, not recommendations of what other peop...Read More
Emergence is a specific term that means something that seems to be chaotic in fact has a structure, which emerges out of the complexity and chaos, over time. ... It really is a bit like not trying t...Read More
Thanks to Samuel for this bit of software. Flux , adjusts screen temperature (colour temperature), so not just ambient brightness but it's colour values....Read More
A link is treated by Google as a sort of endorsement, that a link from that term or phrase, to that page, means there's probably some relation between the link text and the destination, and this is a ...Read More
Tony discusses the long tail , and is surprised at the mention of Kazaa, this just shows how quickly things change here, where we often measure an internet year as a dog year, so 1 year online = 7 yea...Read More
On the other hand we have culture, which today, is very hard to conceive of outside of a relation to technology (indeed someone like Jacques Ellul argues that culture is now a part of technology, not...Read More
Denham is interested in interactive documentary . Won't go into this much here but this is what Integrated Media One does, well, at least we make hypertextual online video works that are nonfiction....Read More