A social scientist’s dream has come true [I am glad, that I am an anthropologist] with parc’s newest groupblog ↑PlayOn—Exploring the social dimensions of virtual worlds. ‘Dimensions’ hits it right home, as it seems to be all about quantification. via … Continue reading →
Tricksterish hoaxing definitely is an integral part of online-culture. At c0x2.de an unidentified individual posing as an electrical engineer and US-citizen ↑reports that he found a keylogging-device similar to the ↑KeyGhost brand inside his Dell-laptop—inserted right between keyboard and ethernet … Continue reading →
Chris Kelty ↑already warned us, now it’s published. The June 2005 issue of Fortune Small Business carries an article by Richard McGill Murphy called ↑Getting to Know You (↑also here [.pdf | 53KB]). The subtitle says: “Microsoft dispatches anthropologists into … Continue reading →
Today ↑Remedy has released a video of Alan Wake, by far surpassing the ↵teaser-trailer. From comparison to the descriptions in some of the E3-press-reactions I deduce that this is the video which was presented there. The game-engine shows off its … Continue reading →
With the recent hype around ↑Revenge of the Sith hitting the silverscreen I was reminded of the heap of work we had done for the Max Payne 1 total conversion (TC) Lightsaber 4 (LS4), but which never was included into … Continue reading →
Last saturday I attended a good friend’s felicitous 30th birthday. Geek he is, he had set up some sideshow-amusement for us (the other geeks): A Commodore Amiga, running vintage games, ↑Giana Sisters (see pic, courtesy of ↑fab) being the top … Continue reading →
The following thoughts are based on a forum entry of mine at ↑PayneReactor (meanwhile the ↑original thread has migrated to ↑MaxPayneForums) dating back to 29 July 2004. The post was an answer to an article dated 28th July 2004 by … Continue reading →
The field I am doing fieldwork in consists of three spaces (or kinds of spaces) at least. First there are the conceptual communication- and interaction spaces made possible by the Internet-infrastructure, respectively by the various Internet-services like www, e-mail, ↵IM, … Continue reading →
The waiting has an end: ↑Mission:Impossible—New Dawn has gone gold and can be ↑downloaded.
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