Here’s a pretty cool experiment in social media data gathering. Every day through the end of the Olympics, Great Britain’s EDF Energy will light up the London Eye based on sentiment toward the Games on Twitter. The Eye, known to the rest of the world as that giant Ferris wheel on the opening credits of […]
With just days left before the opening of the 2012 Olympic games in London, it’s time to get your mobile devices ready. NBC, which again has the exclusive United States broadcasting rights to the games, has partnered with Adobe to release two separate Android apps to augment its official coverage. The main app, NBC Olympics, […]
Reasons why I love QuakeCon include: being Left 4 Dead (@%#! you guys) by my teammates, before the game was released. Discovering Novint’s haptic feedback controller, but being too broke to afford it (then). And oh, how the booths await my ego-engulfing lust for treasure. As you might have guessed, I’m already registered. I can’t […]
My brother Austen and I are hooked on MOBA games. You might know them as “DotA games” or “Action RTS games,” but it’s equally likely that you haven’t heard about them at all. At the very least, you probably have no idea how fast these Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (see, MOBA) games are growing and […]
I’m a skeptic, so I’m not going to come right out and say I love something that doesn’t even exist yet. But man, I love Ouya. I really do. At least, I love the promise of Ouya. I love Ouya’s potential. Because I love indie games. I love Steam and the Playstation Store. I love […]
For those of you who don’t know why the Magic: The Gathering is interesting: these motherf*&!ers plane shift between exotic alternate realities whilst summoning beings of incomprehensible power to battle against one another or creatures capable of devouring entire dimensions, all elegantly expressed through the joy of a children’s card game. Awesome, right? It is. I played […]
First and foremost, let me get this off my chest. I am an MMORPG whore. I’ll get with any MMO, and I don’t care who’s watching or what they think. That being said, I have an unbiased opinion on this genre. I honestly want to love every MMORPG I play and I do my best […]
Dan Gillmor, author of the book Mediactive, wrote an increasingly relevant post in 2009 after botched reporting of the shooting in Fort Hood, Texas, in a call for what Harvard University’s Ethan Zuckerman calls a “Slow-News Movement.” Like many other people who’ve been burned by believing too quickly, I’ve learned to put almost all of […]
If there’s one thing you can say about Kim Dotcom, it’s the fact that the guy just keeps getting back up when he’s knocked down. As soon as the Megaupload founder’s restrictions on internet access were restored, he created a new Twitter account. His tweets thank all of his supporters and promise a revival of […]
If Ray Bradbury rose from the dead and came to this website, he would likely rant about what he would see as an error in the menu bar: entertainment has four nodes – TV/Film/Video, Music, Video Games, and Comics. But no books. Bradbury, who died last week, was an explosive book lover and library defender. […]
