Video Games: The Future of Journalism?
Are news video games the next step in the evolution of journalism? According to Ian Bogost and the Georgia Institute of Technology they are. At the New Scientist, Bogost highlights…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Research confirms the obvious: people with more money use tech differently than those with less. There is now an open-source alternative to facebook. Choose to have your house blurred in…
Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Now that a trademark for “Face” seems likely to be awarded to Facebook, are they thinking about going after “book,” too? Academia is trying to bring cred to Wikipedia. A…
Murdoch vs. Gawker
Looking for a good summary of events between Rupert Murdoch’s HarperCollins and Gawker concerning the leaked excerpt of She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named’s book? Look no further.
Erin Rose’s Tech Links
If you have an i-device, you may care that the new iOS is out today. Tigers and panthers and snow leopards, oh my! They’re all dying out. Should Apple help?…
Second ‘Donkey Blogger’ Released
Yesterday we told you about the release of Adnan Hajizada, one of two bloggers who were jailed for “hooliganism” after a supposed fight in a restaurant, but who were more…
Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
At Google, “do no evil” means “pay us if you want us to do evil” when it comes to helping the government spy on you. For the mobile gamers: Pocket…
Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Let’s all take a moment & be grateful, ’cause none of us have been thrown in a labor camp on our wedding day for tweeting a joke. A joke! A tisket,…
“Charge, angry youth”
“A woman in China has been sentenced to a year in a labour camp” for a tweet. We encourage those of you who use Twitter to re-tweet her statement (“Charge,…
Donkey Blogger Released
Adnan Hajizada, one of two bloggers who were jailed for “hooliganism” after a supposed fight in a restaurant, but who were more likely being punished for a “satirical Internet video…
Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
A bug caused Facebook to forget that women are real people for a moment. Quantum physics, chaos theory, and bacteria might be powering the technology of the future. Another new way…
Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Full body scanners have been causing a lot of, well, rumpus. UCSF professors are worried about their effect on your health, and three-year-old girls are getting groped by TSA agents.…