David Emery OnlineBloglines Suffers Major Outage
This is exceedingly annoying; I would switch away from Bloglines in a heartbeat if I could find a alternative that worked in the same way. The two features I need are marking all of the items in a feed read when you view a feed (as opposed to having to scroll through them) and a view all function that groups by feed (not mixed together like Google Reader).
EDIT: Of course, the minute I post about it it starts working again…
Visit ➔Game Criticism, Why We Need It, and Why Reviews Aren't It
More good thoughts around the whole video-games-as-art thing.
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I am currently undecided on the value of the internet meme. Most are painfully unfunny (assuming they are trying to be funny) or at the very least only the funny the first time you see them, not the 321st time. I can has cheezburger I’m looking in your direction.
Some I just plain old don’t get; Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle – what is going on here? Seriously, is this just odd for the sake of odd or have a missed out on some big cultural thing.
I quite like it though.
On a similar thread is the sub-genre of ‘blog post memes’, which generally take the form of a list of questions the author responds to, revealing a little bit more about them then you might normally get from a more serious post. And of course, they take no effort to write.
You can see what’s coming, can’t you?
Questions stolen from here:
A) Four jobs I have had in my life (other than current job):
Mac software developer, video games sales assistant, mobile phone software tester and freelance web developer (I’m not really freelance now. Much.).
B.) Four movies I would watch over and over:
2001, Pulp Fiction, A New Hope...
Welcome to our TV Show
Like an indie, lo-fi Later… with Jools Holland (but without the boogie).
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Tapes 'n Tapes: Hang Them All
Great new song from the forthcoming new Tapes ‘n Tapes album – well worth a download (and available in FLAC as well – nice).
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If they can actually implement this interface, Habari (an open source CMS like Wordpress or Textpattern) will be very impressive indeed.
Visit ➔Your Screen. On A Screen. On Screen!
This is pretty awesome – if you use Rogue Amoeba’s Airfoil to stream music to the Apple TV (which is pretty awesome by itself), you get a little picture of your computer complete with a screenshot where the screen should be!
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I have always thought that video games were the future of artistic creation.
Back before I went to university I was faced with a choice: do the ‘art’ thing and study Graphic Design or do the ‘computer’ thing and study Computer Science. I chose the computer route purely because of the potential I saw in the video games industry. Of course, I’ve ended up ostensibly being a designer anyway but that’s a story for another day…
Games have been around in some form or another for only about 30 years, which is practically a blink of an eye in real terms – for comparison, after 30 years commercial films were still silent, relying on a live orchestra for every performance. It feels like in some respects however that the games industry is settling into its skin; the technology race that so typified the last few generations of consoles seems to be mostly over; the massive success of the Wii and its last generation technology (at least in terms of graphics and CPU) has put paid to that.
In the last few years we’ve started to see some dalliances with games that could be truly termed ‘art’. Ico is probably the first best...
Read more ➔david hyman - A Savior for the Music Industry - But They Must Act Fast
Worth a read, but wrong I think – the saviour of the music industry is not to give away all the music. Yes, streaming music has a promotional role to play which will help sales, but giving away everything is not the answer (no matter how much some people would like it).
Music has a value, although it may be slightly overvalued at the moment.
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