Had the pleasure interviewing Current TV's Ezra Coopenstein as part of the first Portable Film Festival being run in Singapore. The old parliament house was a spectacular venue for the symposium and Ezra and I were seated in the centre of what used to be the Singapore government chamber. I had to try not to [...]
I'm not a huge Oprah fan but this is an amazing video from a courageous and inspiring man called Randy Pausch giving his 'last lecture'. I've blogged about Randy Pausch before - he is one of the founders of the Carnegie Mellon University Entertainment Technology Center and was jointly responsible for developing an amazing and [...]
Well I do. Tells you something about my age. Just watched the new online serial Quarterlife from the creators of the original Thirtysomething series. Got to say it's the most compelling drama I've seen online. A lot of the others like Lonelygirl15, Kate Modern and PSTrixi were aimed very much at a teen girl demographic. [...]
A couple of graduates of the USC games course have just been nominated for a BAFTA Award for Games Innovation. I'll warn you now, their short game flOw is highly addictive as well as strangely beautiful from a visual and audio perspective. It's great news that the BAFTAs have been far sighted enough to recognise [...]
A student at Arizona State University has posted on a Mac rumours forum some observations about a new 3D social network being developed and tested there. The blogosphere has since come alive with rumours that Google is about to launch 'My World', a virtual world/social network which may link to Google Earth and Maps applications. [...]
Connectivity is changing everything. Have been looking at some presentations from the Austin GDC conference and one slide of Raph Koster's presentation stood out for me. The game has changed The hot platform is the net The hot audience is the non-gamer The hot feature is other players The hot technology is connectivity The hot [...]