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Illustrations RSS FeedsTechnology's Untanglers: They Make It Really Work - (New York Times) SOMETIMES there is a huge disconnect between the people who make a product and the people who use it. The creator of a Web site may assume too much knowledge on the part of users, leading to confusion. Software designers may not anticipate user behavior that can unintentionally destroy an entire database. Manufacturers can make equipment that inadvertently increases the likelihood of repetitive stress injuries. | Enter the usability professional, whose work has recently developed into a solid career track, driven mostly by advancements in technology. -- [The tech bloggers sort of scoffed at this article when it first came out, since usability is a basic concept to people who work on the internet. Still, it's a good thing that a reporter took the time to educate the general public. --DGJ] ...Feed Source: jerz.setonhill.edu Somewhere Nearby is Colossal Cave: Examining Will Crowther's Original ''Adventure'' in Code and in Kentucky
- (Digital Humanities Quarterly) Because so little primary historical work has been done on the classic text computer game "Colossal Cave Adventure", academic and popular references to it frequently perpetuate inaccuracies. "Adventure" was the first in a series of text-based games ("interactive fiction") that emphasize exploring, puzzles, and story, typically in a fantasy setting; these games had a significant cultural impact in the late 1970s and a significant commercial presence in the early 1980s. Will Crowther based his program on a real cave in Kentucky; Don Woods expanded this version significantly. The expanded work has been examined as an occasion for narrative encounters (Buckles 1985) and as an aesthetic masterpiece of logic and utility (Knuth 1998); however, previous attempts to assess the significance of "Adventure" remain incomplete without access to Crowther's original source code and Crowther's original source cave. Accordingly, this paper analyzes previously unpublished f... Internet News Audience Highly Critical of News Organizations
- (Pew Research Center) The internet news audience -- roughly a quarter of all Americans -- tends to be younger and better educated than the public as a whole. People who rely on the internet as their main news source express relatively unfavorable opinions of mainstream news sources and are among the most critical of press performance.
[The statistic I found most interesting is that those who prefer to watch TV news were twice as likely as internet news consumers to say news organizations care about the people they report on. Of course, that statistic might also mean that people who prefer empathy end up watching TV news, or that the TV news includes more emotional content.
We're a long way from the time when popular culture was full of heroic reporters who righted wrongs and stood up for truth. --DGJ]
... Danny Ledonne on Super Columbine Massacre RPG
- (Guardian GamesBlog) There is ultimately no way to "justify" SCMRPG in the minds of those who find it deplorable but I believe even the game's detractors will find that the film fleshes out the controversy to better understand the future of games as a medium. The film is essentially a challenge to game developers to rethink the limits of their medium and a challenge to the general public to expect (demand!) more from games than mere entertainment. -- (interviewed by Keith Stuart)
[Filing for future reference. --DGJ]
... Holmes: Send them all to summer school
- (Daily News Trivia) If we teach our children that school is a prison, then summer school is extra punishment for the worst offenders. The sting of humiliation and failure adds to the pain of having to go to school when your friends are free.
That's too bad, because summer school isn't a punishment, it's an opportunity. In terms of education, summer vacation isn't a well-deserved rest; it's the time students forget much of what they learned.
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Summer vacation persists because of tradition, inertia and the desire of some businesses for seasonal labor. The school calendar may have agrarian roots, but there's nothing natural about it. The good lord may have decreed that plants sprout in the spring and are harvested in the fall, but he never said kids were supposed to stop learning in the summer.
[Sheesh. When I used to teach a two-semester freshman writing course, I was shocked at how much backsliding there was over Christmas.
After I returned the first assignment in January and ... Artists climb the uncanny valley
- (Guardian) Masahiro Mori's Uncanny Valley hypothesis states that, as artificial beings get closer to resembling real humans, the slightest errors or inaccuracies can shift our responses from empathy to disbelief and even disgust. It's why, in Toy Story, we love Woody and Buzz Lightyear, but are totally unmoved by Andy, their human owner.
This is something both videogame and movie special effects artists are having to grapple with now that processing power is allowing ever more naturalistic representations of human characters. And grappling with it they are.
[A good introduction to the subject. --DGJ]
... Photo tool could fix bad images
- (BBC) James Hays and Alexei Efros from Carnegie Mellon University have developed an algorithm to help people who want to remove bits of photographs.
The parts being removed could be unsightly lorries in the snaps of the rural idyll where they took a holiday or even an old boyfriend or girlfriend they want to rub out from a photograph.
To find suitable matching elements, the research duo's algorithm looks through a database of 2.3 million images culled from Flickr.
"We search for other scenes that share as closely as possible the same semantic scene data," said Mr Hays, who has been showing off the project at the computer graphics conference Siggraph, in San Diego. --
[I wonder whether such a database could also be used to detect doctored images? Thanks for the suggestion, Rosemary. --DGJ]
... Simulated Relationships Offer Insight Into Real Ones
- (Science Daily) Vicary and Fraley modeled their study on a 1979 Random House interactive fiction series, "Choose Your Own Adventure," which allowed the reader to select from multiple options at critical points in the story. Each choice directed the reader to a new scenario.
This approach appealed to the researchers because earlier studies of individual behavior in relationships asked participants to make choices based solely on descriptions of isolated events. The sequential nature of the new study was more like an actual relationship, Vicary said, in that it involved ongoing interactions with the same partner.
[Measuring test subjects' responses to tree fiction, with a branching plotline that reflects how positively or negatively the subjects responded to a simulated partner. Sounds cool. --DGJ]
... Recommend a few good text adventure games!
- (MetaFilter) Lately I've had the urge to play text adventure games, but I'm not sure what to play. I've been googling, but I'm overwhelmed by the variety of games available and can't seem to find a useful review site.
So what should I play?
[I missed this thread when it appeared Thanks, Matt, for pointing it out to me.
Many of the games I'd recommend were on this list. I'd add 9:05, Christminster, and Jigsaw, too. --DGJ]
... New York Times to end paid Web service: report
- (Yahoo! | Reuters) The New York Times Co. (NYT.N) plans to stop charging Internet users for access to its columnists and Op-Ed pieces on a section of its Web site known as TimesSelect, The New York Post reported on Tuesday.
[Certain upscale and targeted audiences will pay for some premium content, but this decision suggests the amount of money the Times made off of its premium content is not worth the hassle (and is not worth the income the company stands to make if this previously walled-off content is opened up to search engines and bloggers). --DGJ]
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Protecting Your Photos and Memories - You've just taken the picture of a lifetime, or you are on a trip that you won't be repeating any time soon and have hundreds of photos - this article was written to help make sure you have the knowledge and equipment with you to make sure you can get those images safely back home, and keep them there. Over the years we've had numerous hard drive failures, including two in laptops, numerous external and network drives fail, several desktop computers, and one in a server caused by a power surge from a squirrel rather spectacularly short circuiting some cables. We've also had a laptop stolen from a locked rental car trunk outside a restaurant. These things happen.... Avoiding Arrest and Your Camera - My 5 year old daughter came home from Kindergarten today with a letter from the school to all parents. 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How to Understand Digital Cameras and Megapixels - Digital cameras today are being made with more and more megapixels and the general feeling is that more means better.As a rough rule of thumb more megapixels means greater detail or resolution, which means that more cropping or enlarging of your photos is possible.However, if your pictures go no further than a computer screen, which itself has low resolution, then the number of megapixels is not so important and 2-3 megapixels should be enough.This is good enough for e-mailing or putting up on a website.... The Making of a Professional Quality Stock Photo - Making a high quality professional stock photo requires more than just a good working knowledge of Photoshop. Other important considerations are high quality digital images for the raw material and a good deal of imagination and creativity. Here are all the details.... Types of Flashes - Have you ever thought how those cameras produced the "flash of light" effect when somebody is taking a shot? I was surprised to know that it can be a separate unit and is actually called flash.... Tips For Better Vacation Photos - Here are a few tips that will improve the quality of your vacation pictures. Modern cameras are all point and shoot. But there is one thing that we do have complete control of and that is the composition of the photo.... Black and White Or Color Wedding Photography? - I say why not both? In a previous article, I suggested an important question among a list of questions to ask your potential wedding photographer, "Do you shoot in black and white and/or color?" Another question related is "Do you shoot digital or film?... Panoramic Photography For Beginners - Part 4 - More Panorama Photo Shooting Tips - Continuing our series of articles about panoramic photography for beginners, this article contains seven more photo shooting tips to help you create the perfect panorama. In this article you'll learn how to shoot panoramas without a tripod, which camera mode to use when shooting for panoramas, and more.... Are You Looking For Photo Communities Online? - As a photographer I can definitely appreciate and enjoy other people's work when it comes to any kind of art; not just photography. Recently I was searching online for some photography communities that I could get involved in and I found a few really interesting one's.... Photography Basics - Exposure Tips - Photo Exposure: The exposure you make with your camera is simply the amount of light that passes through the lens into the camera and onto the film or CCD sensor. Or in other words, correct exposure is the amount of light needed to make a pictures that is not too dark and not too light. Of course, correct exposure is somewhat subjective and a scene can be exposed in many ways and still be a beautiful picture.... What is With Digital Photography? - Digital photography is nothing new to the general public anymore. Whether you are watching TV, online or go out to a gathering, you will see people snapping pictures with digital camera. But what actually did digital photography change compare to film photography? This article shares with you the answer to that.... How to Buy the Right Digital Camera For Yourself - Digital camera is the first thing you need to enjoy digital photography. Then, how do you choose the digital camera that suit you best? Come join me to find out what you need to look for before you dig in your wallet and buy that camera.... Digital Photography - Digital Cameras and Its Benefits - This article talks about how much digital photography will cost, what a digital camera can do and should or should you not get a digital camera. Find out for yourself the benefits of having a digital camera here.... Compact Digital Camera - Why is it So Special? - Just look at the compact digital camera nowadays. They are cheaper, lighter, smaller and more compact than before. But is that all? This article will share with you what makes compact digital camera so special that they are getting more attention from the consumers ... 4 Tips to Building a Career With Digital Photography - It is always exciting and fun when you can make money with what you enjoy. Imagine that going to work is like spending your time with your favorite hobby. Doesn't that put a smile on your face? This article is going to focus on how being different, learning photography, having a portfolio and the right equipments can help.... Digital Photography Tips - How to Take Winter Photos - Many people that have just started taking photographs have no knowledge that, when taking pictures of snow, the properties in their cameras are set to counterbalance the abundance in light that is reflected in the snow. Because of that, snow is captured as gray or blue instead of white. Fortunately, there are two solutions for this simple problem that frequently happen in the winter.... Taking Pictures of Cows - The Perils and Pitfalls - Photographing animals is certainly interesting, and sometimes dangerous. Shooting pictures of cows can be particularly challenging as this article depicts. Here are some tips for animal photography and cows in particular.... Copyright © 2009, Internet Marketing. All Rights Reserved. |