rejournalization

From Powerplay Publishing comes the first ever style manual for gaming journalists.

February 28th, 2007
Categories: gaming . Author: mist . Comments: No Comments

In a Web-based chat with Washington Post readers earlier this week, columnist Howard Kurtz shared the results of a recent Pew poll regarding the coverage of Anna Nicole Smith’s death:
In a Pew survey, 61 percent say the Anna Nicole saga is being overcovered, but 11 percent say they are following it very closely. Cable is […]

February 22nd, 2007
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Long before Dreamgirls the movie, there was Dreamgirls the award-winning Broadway musical from the early 80s which caused quite a storm of happy, singing lovin’ up and down the Great White Way. But there’s a big difference between DG-movie and DG-play. DG-movie has been seen by millions of people and as a film (and a […]

February 22nd, 2007
Categories: film, music, theatre . Author: mist . Comments: No Comments

Found via the Colbert Report, introducing MasterMedia’s prayer card. Your media personalities need your prayers.
Update: corrected link. Sorry about that.

February 20th, 2007
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The Best Videogame Rumors of the Past Twenty Years: “A nostalgic look at some of the coolest myths, rumors, and lies surrounding your favorite games, including the Lara Croft Nude Code, the Aeris Resurrection from FFVII, and the Triforce in Zelda: Ocarina of Time.”

(Via digg.)

February 20th, 2007
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RIAA and police in Atlanta raid an award-winning pair of D.J.s in Atlanta. Okay. Said DJs were hired by music label to create mixtape CDs. Okay. Labels ratted out DJs to RIAA causing the raid due to said mixtapes. Er, what?

February 19th, 2007
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DRM, or Digital Rights Management, is not well-understood by many lay people, despite the fact that they interact with DRM every day. Almost every time you pop a DVD into your DVD player, or CD into your CD player, or even listen to a track on iTunes, you’re interacting with DRM. How can one explain […]

February 18th, 2007
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From Boing Boing comes the following. In 2006 the United Kingdom passed the Terrorism Act which, in part, made it illegal for people to glorify acts of terrorism in the UK. Enter Glorifying Terrorism, a collection of short stories out of the UK published in protest of said Act, and for the right of freedom […]

February 17th, 2007
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MMORPG.com is reporting that the Art Institute Online, of the famous Art Institute colleges, has formed an online community for students in Second Life. The community was built and designed for a Business Communications course the school has recently started teaching.

February 16th, 2007
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Slashdot is reporting that former Vice Presidential candidate and current presidential candidate John Edwards (D-NC) has set up shop in Linden Lab’s massively multiplayer game/virtual world Second Life:
thanks to a grass-roots effort, John Edwards has become the first presidential candidate to set-up-shop in Second Life. Jerimee Richir, whose avatar is called Jose Rote, paid-for and […]

February 15th, 2007
Categories: gaming, politics . Author: mist . Comments: No Comments