links for 2009-12-11

• MIT TechTV – Session 5: Producing Transmedia Experiences: Participation & Play
  Panelists include: Frank Rose – Wired contributor and author of Welcome to the Hyperdrome (W. W. Norton, forthcoming); Jordan Weisman – CEO and Founder, Smith & Tinker; Louisa Stein – San Diego State University; Mia Consalvo – MIT; Ken Eklund – Writerguy, World Without Oil
  (tags: arg transmedia world-without-oil)

links for 2009-12-10

• exoriare.com
  (tags: games comics comic arg design flash douglas-rushkoff)
• Wasting Time for a Good Cause
  That's where Foldit comes in. Computer programs could calculate all the possible protein shapes, but it would take far longer than the average researcher's life span. Instead, the University of Washington team that developed Foldit is hoping that human game-players can figure things out faster.
  (tags: foldit collective-intelligence crowdsourcing games science social)

links for 2009-11-27

• 10 Alternatives To Mininova | TorrentFreak
  After nearly five years of loyal service, Mininova disabled access to over a million torrent files when it partly shut down its website. Starting today, only approved publishers are able to upload files to the site, but luckily there are plenty of alternatives and potential replacements BitTorrent users can flock to.
  (tags: torrent torrents bittorrent p2p download mininova piratebay)
• Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy
  Kathleen Fitzpatrick's book about "…not just on the technological changes that many believe are necessary to allow academic publishing to flourish into the future, but on the social, intellectual, and institutional changes that are necessary to pave the way for such flourishing."
  (tags: publishing technology future books research academia openaccess kathleen-fitzpatrick)

links for 2009-11-25

• How Trans Is Your Media?
  (tags: android:bookmarks transmedia henry-jenkins foe4 storytelling narrative cross-media)

links for 2009-11-23

• WikiMindMap
  (tags: mindmap visualization search tools reference)

links for 2009-11-17

• MediaShift Idea Lab: Changes in Media Over the Past 550 Years
  The World Wide Web is proving itself to be just as disruptive of a technology today as the Gutenberg Press was in the 15th century. The internet is growing up.
  (tags: media history internet culture web social news information presentations newspapers)

links for 2009-11-13

• Harvard Task Force Urges Centralization, Collaboration, and Access (vs. Acquisition)
  (tags: android:bookmarks library academic scholarship education)

links for 2009-11-08

• Many Eyes
  Many Eyes is a bet on the power of human visual intelligence to find patterns. Our goal is to "democratize" visualization and to enable a new social kind of data analysis.
  (tags: visualization data statistics collaboration analysis tools web research ibm crowdsourcing)
• twendz : Exploring Twitter Conversations and Sentiment
  (tags: twitter trends tools search visualization)

links for 2009-11-05

• 20 Visualizations to Understand Crime
  (tags: visualization crime data maps infographics mapping googlemaps design journalism)

links for 2009-11-04

• Cisco Gets Real with Alternate Reality Games
  A closer look at the alternate reality game (ARG) that was developed for the Cisco Global Sales Meeting.
  (tags: event game arg augmented)