Nigeria, fraud, and counter-fraud Years ago, at the very beginning of my “journeys into cyberspace”, I was quite careless with my e-mail address. As a result I became the target of junk-mails, spam-mails and what you have. Meanwhile I’ve got …Continue reading →
The latest issue of Kommunikation@Gesellschaft is dedicated to ↑Exploring blogging: Social science approaches and perspectives of weblog-research [in German]. Since recently the online-journal Kommunikation@Gesellschaft is accompanied by the ↑k@g-Blog. via entry at zerzaust
This is the second instance of my blog ‘xirdalium.’ The first instance for years ran fine on a university server, but then technical problems became overwhelming. Ye ole ‘xirdalium’ meanwhile is no more. Hence I decided to give it a …Continue reading →
It seems that ↑Cory Doctorow somehow managed to virally spread his on- and offline looks Snow-Crash style. ↑Charles Stross ↑commented the above, non-doctored (pun not intended) picture like that: I sometimes collaborate with sometime Campbell Award winner, EFF activist, …Continue reading →
But—and it was a very large but—his had been the guiding brain, the one with the big overall concept, the vision. And that was the one that counted. (Jones 1966: chpt. 1) Briefly he considered his future, but …Continue reading →
I just got notice that my proposal for a workshop ‘Cyberanthropology’ at the Conference of the German Anthropological Association (GAA aka DGV) – Halle / Saale, 4th – 7th October 2005 has been accepted, and that I am organizing it. …Continue reading →
This indeed is an unusual specimen of fan-made artefact—the first one of its kind I ran across thus far. At myspace music there is the ↑Alan Wake 24-Hour Real-Time Online Radio Serial, seemingly brought to us straight from Silver …Continue reading →
The manufacturer’s website offers a diagnostics tool, promising to have a look into the according hardware, detecting if more recent drivers are available and leading you through easy download and installation. All right, just for the fun of it, let’s …Continue reading →
zeph’s pop culture quiz #51 Who is just arriving here? Simply leave a comment with your educated guess—you can ask for additional hints, too. [Leaving a comment is easy; just click the ‘Leave a comment’ at the end …Continue reading →
[Abstract:] As research on virtual worlds gains increasing attention in educational, commercial, and military domains, a consideration of how player populations are ‘reassembled’ through social scientific data is a timely matter for communication scholars. This paper describes a large-scale study …Continue reading →