Search Engine Watch
-Provides tips and information about searching the web, analysis of the search engine industry and help to site owners trying to improve their ability to be found in search engines.
Baidu
-A popular Chinese search engine.
Metacrawler
-A search engine that searches the "Internet's top search engines, including Google, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, About, FindWhat, LookSmart" and returns the "best" results (read: probably the top 10-20 ranked sites). Interesting for comparisons.
google-watch
-A site that monitors the ever-expanding google. Some interesting points on the google eula, but actually not the page I hoped to find.
In the year 2014, The New York Times has gone offline
-Flash-film about how the Internet may evolve, Google plays one of the major roles in that evolvement.
StumbleUpon
-New and interesting option to search on the internet, extension for firefox.
Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School
-and their filtering project
HorizonZero's issue on remix
-Various articles, including one by DJSpooky.
Postdigital remix culture and online performance
-UC Riverside's website on their exhibition on the subject. Lots of good links, short articles, and tidbits on the subject.
DJ Spooky's site
-Lots of resources here, not just articles but an interesting interview at radio station WNYC and music as well.
Bushwhacked
-Link Found!!! - Also check out Microsoft's Steve Balmer
Bush and Blair love duet
-More fun stuff
Hatten är din
-A tribute to the late webpage come.to/hatten which contained the legendary flash production "Hatten är din".
Boston Mashup Project
-Make sure to check out their links. For some general background on mashups check out the Wikipedia entry (starting to say that a lot here!)
OverClocked Remix
-Specializing in game music remixing.
Star Wars Kid
-Collections including the original and various remixes of the infamous Star Wars Kid video.
All Your Base
-One of the older, and now classic, examples of remix meets photo manipulation. The Wikipedia entry also contains a lot of good info on the phenomena.
genesis
-this piece of net.art created by Aureia Harvey and Michael Samyn, shows a really impressive way to remix elements from our popular culture in an artistic and immersive way. Be aware that the piece is pretty hard to get into - after all it's art - but it is worth the time. It actualy exsists of four different pieces, the first one is genesis. There are links to the other pieces at the bottom, numbers is the one that uses remix the most. If you like you should have a look at their website http://www.e8z.org they do make impressive stuff, it's a bit hard to navigate, since they don't like usability, but like to think of webdesign in terms of abusability :-)They also made a websearch engine - also containing remix elements - that are interesting in relation to our talk last week www.sixteenpages.net/
Ascii history of art for the blind
-Vuk Cosic made these different pieces of art accessible for the blind, by converting them to Ascii and haveing them read aloud. Remember this is for the blind, so you should ctrl a if you want to see which piece is read aloud.
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-This is a visual bombardment of popculture remixes made by Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung - it is massive!
The Grey Album
-When DJ DangerMouse (who, by the way, produced some tracks of the new Gorillaz album) decided to mashup Jay-Zs "The Black Album" and The Beatles' "The White Album", he not only created an instant masterpiece, but also made some powerful people quite angry, and started a useful and interesting debate. The linked page contains links to other sites, such as the EFF, on the case. And the album is pure gold. There is a video, too: Encore
The Kleptones
-In my opinion, The Kleptones are only a step down from DangerMouse, but their "One Night at the HipHopera", a mashup tribute to Queen, is so popular that the Disney Corporation swarmed half of the educated web, which mirrored this album, with cease-and-desist orders. Obviously, because it is way better than most of what they care to produce. And it is still out there.
The Bubble Project
-Remixing the public space.
Google Maps Mania
-Check out how people are doing a kind of mashup with Google Maps. Also see the New York Times article on the subject (free registration required).
Fan Fiction Net
-One of the largest sites collecting not only tv and movie fanfic, but that riffing on games and books
FanArt Central
-A site with lots of links to art/images
Chilling Effects FanFic info page
-There are a number of fascinating, and often contentious, legal issues around fan fiction and fan reappropriation. Chilling Effects is an excellent resource for some background info on the subject, as well as links to various cease & desist (C&D) orders that have been given to people for their fan produced work
Star Wars Revelations
-Impressive in its scope and production values, this 40 minutes movie is based on the Star Wars setting and universe, but incorporates an original storyline and actors. It is notable for its use of a distributed world-wide pool of contributors. Make sure to check out the FAQ.
StarTrek New Voyages
-A few guys taking StarTrek back to the original vision created by Gene Roddenbarry and continuing the 5-year mission led by James T. Kirk and his crew. So far 2 episodes have been made with more to come, all downloadable from the site
Star Wreck
-Star Trek parodies made by a Finnish aficionado. The author was 12(?) years old when he made the first one with Deluxe Animator.
Batman: Dead End
-Another fan movie.
www.machinima.com
-A site hosting a large collection of Machinima. In particular, check out Fake Science, the fan produced promo for PlanetSide, Machinima best picture winner Anachronix, and My Trip to Liberty City.
Leeroy!
-A now fairly infamous movie from World of Warcraft.
The Machinima Academy
-Their mission is to "advocate, develop and advance the arts and sciences of Machinima", also hosts the Machinima Film Festival.
This Spartan Life
-Easily one of the smartest, funniest machinima out there. This is an interview show filmed in the Halo environment.
Red vs. Blue
-Another Machinima filmed in Halo. Some of the humor will be lost on those who never played it, but it's worth a look.
Sims movies
-The Sims boasts a lot of fan produced films, including The Strangerhood, an episodic production. The horror genre provides an interesting twist on them though.
MTV's Video Mods
-Proof that Machinima has made its way into mass media, music video remixes using popular game characters and engines.
SelectParks Art mods
-Julian Oliver's site hosting a number of mods of popular games with artistic ambitions, also hosts a number of Machinima, open source projects and more
www.crymod.com
-A modding portal for mods made with CryTeks game FarCry
Curse Gaming WoW AddOns
-A mod need not be a complete remake of the game content. For Blizzard's World of Warcraft a scripting language was supplied which allows players to alter the game's interface or create one entirely new.
Chilling Effects
-Excellent resource for issues of law, technology, and regulation.
EverQuest EULA
-The EULA from Sony Online Entertainments EverQuest, pretty much sets the standard for EULAs. You should also check out the ToS as it covers another aspect of using the product.
World Of Warcraft EULA
-The World of Warcraft EULA
Second Life TOS
-Second Life tries to take another approach to virtual property and content by allowing the players interllectual property right over the content they create: ”Participants can create Content on Linden 's servers in various forms. Linden acknowledges and agrees that, subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, including without limitation the limited licenses granted by you to Linden herein, you will retain any and all applicable copyright and/or other intellectual property rights with respect to any Content you create using the Service.”
Project Entropia Conditions of Use
-Project Entropia is MMOG that takes yet another approach, granting players the ability to exchange their in-game cash for real world cash (dollars/euros), naturally their EULA will differ from the classic.
Napster EULA
-From the music downloading service. Also see the companion Terms of Service.
Windows XP Home
-Microsoft's version.
Blogger ToS
-One of the popular blog hosting services. Note that when you look around the site you can also end up at Google's info since they bought them.
Software that reads EULAs
-In this age of automated processes, some might even see as positive this kind of software - you don't really need to read the text, the machine will do it for you (while gently patting the user in the back, I suppose).
RTF EULA
-Article that tries to (playfully) state in plain English what some of that wordy EULA stuff can mean.
CoH vs. Marvel lawsuit as examined by law.com
-City of Heroes, the MMOG that lets you jump into a tight spandex suit and play it out as a super hero, had to face a lawsuit from comic book giant Marvel. Here the case is examined by law.com
Napster
-The good old Napster, now a pay service owned by Roxio, the creator of CD copying software, the irony...
SoulSeek
-A p2p filesharing service, primarily for music
KaZaA
-Probably the most used p2p filesharing network on the web i.e. lots of fake files, vira and spyware
BitTorrent
-The official BitTorrent site, it's really a p2p protocol used by a range of programs, a list can be found here
The FreeNet Project
-FreeNet is a distribution network which is completely decentralized with all its users anonymous. Joining FreeNet means you share a part of your hardrive and bandwith which then becomes part of the network. Information is encrypted. All this is to ensure "freedom of speach" and the free distribution of information
AntiPiratGruppen
-A Danish organisation representing large parts of the media industry, fighting the illegal copying and distribution of film and music
Piratgruppen
-A Danish organisation advocating the free distribution of cultural products
www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_1/kasaras/#k5
-Kostas Kassaras - Music in the Age of Free Distribution
Encyclopedia Britannica
-You can access the full version online while at the ITU if you go via the Intranet. Otherwise they offer some free limited access.
The Faith Based Encyclopedia
-Critical take on Wikipedia by former Encyclopedia Britannica editor in chief, Robert McHenry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
-The Wiki as described in the Wikipedia
www.wikipedia.org
-The Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia edited by anyone
www.worldwidewiki.net/wiki/SwitchWiki
-A list of all known public Wikis
WikiMania05
-The first internationnal WikiMedia conference, you can find the list of papers here
http://soufron.free.fr/soufron-spip/article.php3?id_article=71
-Jean-Baptiste Soufron's "The political importance of the Wikipedia Project: The Only True Encyclopedia of Our Days
://reagle.org/joseph/2004/agree/wikip-agree.html
-Joseph M. Reagle Jr. - A Case of Mutual Aid: Wikipedia, Politeness, and Perspective Taking
Analysis of Heavy Metal Umlat Wiki page
-Fascinating close reading (video) of one Wiki page and the changes it has gone though.
Coase's Penguin, or Linux and the Nature of the Firm
-An article by Yochai Benkler that deals with free software but, for the purposes of this week, also articulates a notion of "commons-based peer production."
Semapedia
-Merges semacode and wikipedia into a ubicomp annotating system.
Placeopedia
-Connects wiki articles with their place
Udell on podcasting
-An audio interview with Jon Udell, columnist for Infoworld, on podcasting.
Wikipedia entry on podcasting
-Just to complete the loop! Lots of links to helpful info, directories, etc.
Podcasting Wiki
-A wiki for podcasters and their listeners. Lots of good info, including how-to's, stuff on "pod safe" music, etc.
iPodder
-A cross-platform OS application for easily subscribing and listening to podcasts. Doesn't require an iPod (despite the name).
www.podcast.net
-A directory of many podcasts
www.apple.com/podcasting/
-Apples podcasting service
www.podcastingnews.com/
-A news site concerning anything potcasting related
America In Denial
-Political commentary and discussion
www.andrewsullivan.com/
-Andrew Sullivan's blog, as mentioned in the "Into The Blogosphere" article
www.poynter.org/
-The Poynter Institute is a school for journalists, future journalists, and teachers of journalists.
Is America Safe?
-Dedicated to defending Americans and the Homeland. How safe do you feel, let us know your views, opinions and comments.
Bush Watch
-A blog commenting on George W. Bush
Zoe's blog
-Enter the life of Zoe Freedman, Student English and Comparative Literary Studies
Jon's Jail Journal
-From behind the bars in a prison, Santa Rita, Tucson, Arizona, USA
Diary of a flight attendant
-Well...daily happenings in the life of a (now fired) flight attendant
http://kottke.org/
-Kottke.org
www.hyperorg.com/blogger/
-Joho the Blog
www.meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/
-Eric's Archived Thoughts (CSS guru)
http://bayosphere.com/blog/dangillmor
-Dan Gillmor's blog
http://binarybonsai.com/
-Binary Bonsai
www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/
-Steven Berlin Johnson
http://grumpygamer.com/main
-Grumpy Gamer
www.blackwood.dk/weblog
-Blackwood.dk
www.gamegirladvance.com/
-Game Girl Advance
Orkut
-”We are committed to providing an online meeting place where people can socialize and make new acquaintances who share their interests”
LinkedIn
-”With LinkedIn, you find the people, jobs and services you need through the people you know and trust, while you strengthen and extend your existing network”
Friendster
-Find friends online. Supports matchmaking based on horoscopes, filesharing and photo albums
www.flickr.com
-Say it with a photo - the site that Søren showed us
www.audioblogger.com
-Why not share your voice with the rest of the world as well?
http://groups.google.com/
-Google news groups with the integrated 20 years of usenet archives. Look here for some interesting posts from the past.
www.usenet2.org/
-And attempt to bring usenet back to where it started, without the spam and advertising, a place where people do actually communicate about things that matters to them
Yahoo! Groups
-Hosts a number of mailing list/bulletin board based groups on a variety of subjects.
www.mudconnector.net
-A site with links to more then 1000 different muds, great place to start.
Introcution to MUDs
-A brief introduction and history of MUDs
zMUD
-While you can play a MUD through a simple telnet client, a dedicated MUD client will make the experience a lot more accommodating.
A Tale in the Desert
-A MMORPG largely governed by the players themselves, free trial, Win/Linux.
Anarchy Online
-The first Sci-fi based mmorpg, launched 2001, free to play (without the expansions) Win only.
Second Life
-An online "game" with a main focus on socializing, free basic account, Win only.
Habo hotel
-Online world for kids, socializing
Ultima Online
-The first commercial success within the genre of mmorpgs. 2D isometric view, Win only.
EverQuest
-Probably the most famous mmorpg, the first 3D based game of the genre (actually that was Meridian 59, but didn't become a commercial success), Win/Mac
World of Warcraft
-The largest mmorpg with more the 4.5 million players world wide.
EVE-Online
-A starship/space based mmorpg with all the players on one server, holds the record of most players online at the same time on one server - 17k, Win only.
Project Massive
-A massive online survey currently in it's 4th wave, investigating mmorpgs and online gaming in general. Concerned with ”communication and organization in PC based, Massively Multiplayer games...[and]...the impact of online play on the players' real life activities, perceptions, and experiences.”
www.mmorpgchart.com/
-An ongoing project of cataloguing mmorpgs and their subscription bases. Has some analysis and history as well.
www.virtualworldsreview.com/
-”Virtual Worlds Review is a basic guide to persistent online 2D and 3D virtual worlds that emphasize social interaction”
www.mmorpg.com
-A site dedicated to mmorpgs, previews, reviews, interviews and more
Second Life Starter Guide
-The Second Life official starter guide
The Second Life Herald
-Comments and thoughts on Second Life, The Sims Online and social games in general
Second Life Teaches Life Lessons
-A wired news article on Second Life as more then mere entertainment
Second Life at Clickable Culture
-Assorted articles on Second Life
New World Notes
-Blogging from Second Life
The Second Life Convention
-An offline convention for second life residents
Second Life Events
-Official forum events board, this is where you find a party online (login required)