Black & White 2
February 26, 2005 | CommentsInterview with one of the guys working on B&W2: "The game now actually really changes depending on how you play the game! Isn’t that cool? So if for example you are a warlike player the game will be more like that: the world will be full of armies and wars and actually you can win the land by kicking people’s ass, by using force."
The Guardian on Religion
February 24, 2005 | CommentsWhy religion? "If you look at three- to five-year-olds, when they do something naughty, they have an intuition that everyone knows they've been naughty, regardless of whether they have seen or heard what they've done. It's a false belief, but it's good preparation for belief in an entity that is moral and knows everything," he says. "The idea of invisible agents with a moral dimension who are watching you is highly attention-grabbing to us."
Evidence
February 24, 2005 | CommentsNo charge over Falluja killing: "Legal experts have concluded that the situation was too ambiguous to ensure conviction, the network said."
Eyewitness accounts and video footage - what stronger evidence is it possible to collect?
NetImperative Awards
February 23, 2005 | CommentsHmm, I presume that lack of entries has left me in the running for the NetImperative "Best Digital Media Blog" award. I suspect that voters won't consider this site of more importance than the Guardian Online or Ofcom tho... gowan, prove me wrong ;)
LinkRummage
February 23, 2005 | CommentsStuff that's piled up over the last few days, which I've not had time to write about:
- mo:life: "a moderated email list focusing on mobile-media culture and technology"
- Nokia enters the data dispenser biz: "At 3GSM last week, Nokia tiptoed into a market that one day might be enormous: the proximity server"
- Who needs 3G?: "FM radio already comes as a 'free' piece of added value in some phones, so DAB now being a hell of a lot cooler, why not DAB, in the form of DMB? You could also view the radio roots as something of an advantage, given that we know people will listen to radio while they're moving, but we've yet to establish what the market for TV while moving actually is."
- 'Friends fear' with lost mobiles: "People are becoming so dependent on their mobile phones that one in three are concerned that losing their phone would mean they lose their friends.". It's true - your friends are the people who are so important to you that you *don't* know their numbers...
- Ajax: a new approach to web applications - well... "new" if you've not seen GMail, Flickr, and many others, but still a good article about what's going on under the hood. And talking of Flickr, here's an interview with Stewart Butterfield.
- UK net users leading TV downloads - and more from Russ. I guess the situation is blurred slightly by the BBC and license fees, no? I mean - isn't one of the drivers behind the IMPS project the idea that we own this programming already? Gah, Bittorrent is just a proto-Tivo for the rest of us anyhow - where's the line between videoing something that was on the TV last night and downloading it the next day, anyway?
- Mmm, Tetris unplugged...
- Foe Romeo on RFID toys, and a piece on NTT DoCoMo's plans to use the human body as a network transmission path.
- EU software patent law faces axe: "opponents of the bill said that it could stifle innovation, be abused by firms keen to protect existing monopolies and could hamper the growth of the open source movement."
- A good piece on digital memories which I want to print out, read, sit down and think about for an hour or two - one day: "Hardly any of the potential consequences of our move to digital products and services are given a moment's thought.". Mark has a lot to say about this. Or maybe Agnes does, I'm not sure.
- FreeLook: "allows you to use movements of your head to accurately control your mouse cursor"