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Bevan, R. and T. Wright (2000). Online Caroline, XPT. 2003. http://www.onlinecaroline.com/
Portrait of the blogger as a young man by Julian Dibbel
The ascendance of the search engine has done nothing to stem the tide of the Web’s original filter: the personal Web log. Julian Dibbell gets inside the obsessions of one of the Web’s most prolific bloggers.
Joystick101.org || getting in-depth, with games.
Interesting piece on art vs game which argues game as art
This is an art film about film decay. There are some really mesmerising Quicktime clips to watch along with reviews etc. The decay of the film coupled with digital compression artefacts create another interesting effect which make the clips quite distinct from an actual film screening or even a video tape of the same material.
This is the most moving site I have been to for a long time, maybe ever. Pauly is VERY honest about being a semi-washed-up Hollywood actor who is finding it hard to get a role. The page of ex-girlfriends is particularly moving, along with the ‘me and famous people’ and ‘me and my real friends’ series’. It has a real borderline-suicidal looking back over life kinda feel (and far too many pictures of Pauly not smiling).
The first page in Google that comes up when you search for Mr T. This site turns just about any other site into Mr T nonsense.
Very cool to use similar script to make my own versions of legitimate sites. Major ethical (if not legal) issuses! Hmmmm
I found this New York Times article through slashdot.
It is about the phenomenon of Alternate Reality Gaming, a kind of online gaming in which clues are written into seemingly authentic constucted websites. The article notes that one of the most popular examples of AR gaming was associated with the promotion of the Spielberg/Kubrick film A.I.
To me the concept of AR seems much more appealing than Virtual Reality. It is definately more do-able in terms of production without a huge budget or access to ridiculous amounts of processing power. It seems to be capable of a different kind of immersion in a constructed gamespace, one which can be indistinguishable from reality. In many cases AR gaming only has to simulate ‘real’ websites since it is accessed through the web itself where VR often attempts photorealism and audiovisual immersion.
I definitly need to look into this more…
