from Wired 13.08: START The not-so-secret trick to succeeding at EverQuest, the popular multiplayer online game, is to hit the black market. In the thriving world of message boards and auction sites, players can buy and sell virtual in-game objects – weapons, currency, even whole characters – among themselves using real cash. But this summer, […]
Read more "rise and rise of the virtual economy"Wired News: Cell-Phone Rappers Spit Grime The success of a U.K. music genre known as grime, championed by the likes of Dizzee Rascal, has made rapping to mobile phones a popular pastime for a lot of British young people. On the street, cell phones enable impromptu rapping, or “spitting,” over music played through speaker phones. […]
Read more "Cell-Phone Rappers Spit Grime"p2pnet.net – the original daily p2p and digital media news site p2pnet.net News Feature:- A good conspiracy story is always guaranteed to get people going and we’ve been getting emails for quite a few days, now, on the real or imagined connection between Jun Group’s The Scene online movie series, and Operation Site Down, the […]
Read more "The Scene continues to stir things up in The Scene"Guardian Unlimited | Online | Ben Hammersley: A moral imperative But it has run into a snag. Two, actually. The first is that the existing BBC archive is full of footage where the BBC does not own the right to reuse it in this way, or where no one knows to whom the rights belong. […]
Read more "sounds like BBC's Creative Archive project is dying in the ass.."Silver Bullet Comics! interview… Johns at his LA office, tying up some final ends before he heads over to his house in Ottawa for some R and R. The plan is that in two years, John will pack his bags and move up north permanently. Get Shorty made LA look fun, but that followed the […]
Read more "excellent interview with Mr Rogers"PBS | I, Cringely . July 7, 2005 – Pod Person NerdTV is pretty much as I described it back in 2002: a downloadable video show that features long-form interviews with notable nerds. I was definitely ahead of the curve with that download feature. What has changed about the show is just the episode length, […]
Read more "coming soon.. Nerd TV.."no, not the Fantastic Four.. I’m talking about good stuff B Movies Invade Your TV! – New York Times A combination of outrageous genre concepts, low-budget filmmaking and sensationalized titles like the roll call above are all part of the Sci Fi Channel’s attempt to establish a presence on Saturday nights, when a good number […]
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Read more "John Rogers elaborates his theory of "4th Generation Media""interesting, if only for the first official comments from the WB.. Wired News: Rejected TV Pilot Thrives on P2P A sacked TV pilot about a large number of people who stay in touch through an underground data network has popped up on … well, an underground data network. .. Rogers, who said he had nothing […]
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The Committee to Nuke Elysium 