Short little post over on BoingBoing where Cory Doctorow mentions that he heard a great song on a podcast, found the band’s MySpace page and “ripped” the song for his personal collection.
As one who has also acquired music in this way, I am not mentioning this to say what Cory did was wrong but instead to look [...]
BoingBoing has what they are calling part of a Terminator/Sarah Connor Chronicles ARG.
The “footage” claims to have been recovered from the wreckage of the EniTech Research Lab. Their website has a bunch of videos about opening up their research to the public.
The comments are great as people try to determine whether or not this is [...]
Well, the numbers are already rolling in on the Nine Inch Nails self-release and things are looking pretty good.
BoingBoing: “it only took the band two days to exceed the typical net from a massive-selling traditional CD release. The band sold $750,000 worth of “limited edition deluxe sets,” plus an unknowable further sum from sales of [...]
For my money, ARGs as a way to deliver compelling storytelling and solid marketing seems like a slam-dunk, with the obvious caveat that they are incredibly complex and challenging to design and implement.
For now, I’m just going to keep pointing out posts of interest. In this case, the world-trotting Cory Doctorow has super kindly posted [...]
BoingBoing has a totally cool story about a rural internet implementation:
“The Question Box is a project from UC Berkeley’s Rose Shuman to bring some of the benefits of the information on the Internet to places that are too remote or poor to sustain a live Internet link. It works by installing a single-button intercom in [...]
BoingBoing has a quick post about the on-going free book discussion:
“Bottom line: low-risk/low-cost books are how readers discover new authors, and the biggest threat writers face is the overall unpopularity of reading books, not people reading for free.”
They point to a post from Neil Gaiman, (who’s book, American Gods, is “available” for free online) who [...]
A couple of posts about the world of books caught my eye. First, over on BoingBoing, Cory Doctorow has a scathing review of Harper-Collins “free” version of Neil Gaiman’s book “American Gods”:
“I think that Harper Collins got this one wrong. They’ve put the text of American Gods up in a wrapper that loads pictures of [...]
Cory Doctorow over on BoingBoing has a look at what sounds like a very cool step in the world of game development:
“Eskil Steenberg is a solo game-developer who’s bent on creating an entire massively multiplayer online world single-handedly, using procedural generation techniques that cause the game to build itself by starting with clever rules and [...]
Wired’s Chris Anderson’s preview essay of his upcoming book FREE is getting a lot of attention (see BoingBoing) for starters). Considering he is the guy who wrote the extremely influential book The Long Tail it isn’t really that surprising.
Maybe because I am so deeply involved in the world of “new media” I don’t find [...]
BoingBoing points to a great way to beat the music pirates - offer something that can’t easily be pirated. In this case it is a collection of recent albums on LP. Yes, vinyl, whose death has been somewhat over-reported.
“It’s a limited 5LP set with tracks by Cat Power, Animal Collective, The Knife and more that [...]
