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Modding and the ?brutal economics? of video games

Posted Thursday July 10, 2008, 4:56 am, Over one day old

How lame is it that I find the game I want to play next through an academic talk at Berkman? Portal began as a mod to Half-Life, taking advantage of the fact that Valve offers an SDK (software development kit) which allows users to build full games using the core game engine from Half-Life.

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Media, reality, representation: what are we paying attention to when we pay attention to Darfur?

Posted Monday July 7, 2008, 1:41 am, Over one day old

War between Ugandan forces and the Lord’s Resistance Army in Northern Uganda has displaced more than a million people from their homes, and one in three boys in the region have been abducted, for periods of time or permanently, by LRA forces.

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The Fallacy of Examples, and the problems of extrapolating from media

Posted Friday July 4, 2008, 2:04 am, Over one day old

David finds the story moving - how could you not! - but points out that Biira’s amazing journey is hardly a typical outcome of livestock donation programs. People on American television aren’t a bell curve distribution in term of weight - they’re way, way out on an extreme.

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A goofy dance, a sweet lullaby

Posted Friday July 4, 2008, 2:04 am, Over one day old

The story of Deep Forest’s unauthorized use of the sample, their miscrediting of the sample’s origins and Zemp’s understandable anger has been brilliantly documented by Professor Steven Feld in an article called “A Sweet Lullaby for World Music” in Public Culture.

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Polymeme: Architecting the way out of echo chambers?

Posted Thursday July 3, 2008, 2:34 am, Over one day old

More to the point, as a Belarussian fascinated both international politics, he’s frustrated that popular blog aggregators rarely track news from around the world, or news on subjects other than technology.

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Global Voices and collective decisionmaking

Posted Sunday June 29, 2008, 5:03 am, Over one day old

That means passionate, difficult conversations about big issues, like whether Global Voices editors and authors should be permitted to express strong personal opinions in their articles on the site. The Global Voices folks are tightly clustered on the affirmative end of the toilet paper.

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China, bias, misunderstanding

Posted Saturday June 28, 2008, 12:03 pm, Over one day old

It’s become very clear to those of us who watch blogopshere conversations that there’s a great deal of anger in China about percieved media bias in the US, and deep misunderstanding between Chinese bloggers and western human rights activists.

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GV Summit: Elections and citizen media

Posted Saturday June 28, 2008, 12:03 pm, Over one day old

There are at least 800 Kenyan bloggers, who are both fiercely independent and tightly linked together. “If you build a new Kenyan blog, if you put it into the webring, you’ll have a thousand viewers the first day.” Many of these bloggers were anxious to cover the elections.

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Rising Voices at the Budapest Summit

Posted Saturday June 28, 2008, 12:03 pm, Over one day old

REPACTED specializes in communicating through community theatre. “We don’t have a lot of streets, so we don’t call it street theatre - it’s village theatre.” The productions use a wide range of techniques to get communities talking about HIV/AIDS.

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A quick update from the GV summit

Posted Friday June 27, 2008, 5:47 am, Over one day old

We’re alive and running at the Global Voices 2008 summit here in Budapest. We’re thrilled that people are paying attention to the work we’re doing at Global Voices and our involvement via Global Voices Advocacy in issues around free speech online.

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