Årstiden er kommet, hvor man skal undgå alle medier. Lamme artikler, genudsendelser og fjogede sommerværter på Red Bull.
Træk stikket ud og bliv havemand, vandmand, vildmand, grillmand eller bogorm.
Du kan også vælge blot at lade tomheden fylde dig op… Go’ sommer = mondofunza.com er tomhed det næste stykke tid…
I 1999 havde min kollega Anders K og jeg en ide på Harddisken. Telefonbokse over hele byen og på Roskilde Festivalen, hvor man kunne gå ind og skrige til et kamera, som automatisk uploadede ens skrig til websitet skrig.dk. Vi fik aldrig ført den ud i livet, men memet levede åbenbart videre for at blive til virkelighed på årets Roskilde Festival: Karin Høgh blogger om det.
NEW YORK — Digg.com, a Web site that ranks and displays news items based on recommendations from its users, is expanding to include video and topics beyond technology.
Currently, users are limited to posting and reading items on security, digital music, robots and other tech-related categories. Beginning Monday, they’ll get world, business and entertainment news
as well, along with non-news video. Games and science also will break out of the general technology section.
Users also will get more options for sorting and displaying items.
Link:
An amazing new instrument, but where can I hear it?
I was harrassed by a papparazzi Nokia-phone kinda guy today: http://www.23hq.com/mygdal/photo/804983
E-newspapers just around the corner. Really | Reuters.com:
E-newspapers just around the corner. Really
Mon Jun 12, 2006 2:02pm ET
By Kenneth Li
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The newspapers of the future - cheap digital screens that can be rolled up and stuffed into a back pocket - have been just around the corner for the last three decades.
But as early as this year, the future may finally arrive. Some of the world’s top newspapers publishers are planning to introduce a form of electronic newspaper that will allow users to download entire editions from the Web on to reflective digital screens said to be easier on the eyes than light-emitting laptop or cellphone displays.
Flexible versions of these readers nay be available as early as 2007.”
Read more:
Danish hackers launch Free Beer 3.0, with guarana: “Danish hackers launch Free Beer 3.0, with guarana: ‘Cory Doctorow: The Danish free culture activists who created a free beer with an open-source recipe have released a new version of their free beer: Free Beer 3.0 with guarana. Free Beer…”
(Via OpenLife.)
Übermorgen: Overgaden Contemporary Art Institute, Copenhagen (Denmark)
Solo-Exhibition “Foriginals - Authenticity as consensual hallucination”
including a collaborative piece Heath Bunting vs. UBERMORGEN.COM:
”dayplandrugblog. two ways to live your life as a (former) net artist”
Opening, June 14, 2006
I wrote this several months ago attending the Transmediale in Berlin. It somehow stayed stuck in my drafts folder. Well here it is, some random notes on the grand old man of electronic music:
Presentation by the pioner in electronic music the Frenchman Jean Jacques Perrey. A very joyful elderly gentleman.
He was a musician already at the age of four - the accordion. French chanson kinda stuff. He shows pictures of his childhood and youth. There is a picture of him meeting the creater of the ondioline. And we hear an example. He played three shows on the luxury steamer France on the Atlantic on the way to USA. He made a record to put people to sleep “and it worked”.
He was also a friend of Django Reinhard.
Around the world in 80 ways was the name of Perrey’s show. His friend Edith Piaf told him to go to America to get the success he deserved. Piaf found him a sponsor. Two weeks later he received planetickets by mail. He had a studio with 4-track recording equipment in New York and his sponsor gave it to him. In 1962 he met Walt Disney. Also Angelo Badalamenti in the sixties, they worked together on doing a commercial for Esso. In two channel stereo.
The In Sound From Way Out. His most famous record. Harry Brewer.
Perrey wanted to be the Spike Jones of electronic music. He did a tour with Bob Moog in Scotland. Lots of humor and he taught Perrey to play the Moog. He did some records with it.
Elektronics. His first sampler was analog. He cut up tapes with a razorblade and spliced them together to construct loops. a full node 8 centimeters.- halfnode four centimeters etc. And then he played along with the loops. The loop made the rhythm.
Trine-Maria skriver om selvcensur. Har vi den ikke alle? Og handler det ikke blot om at få sig et alter ego i blogosfæren, hvis man absolut VIL fortælle alt. Minder mig om John Perry Barlow fra Electronic Frontier Foundation, da vi interviewede ham i Harddisken way back: Jeg fortæller alt, sagde han. Om stoffer og det hele. Jo færre hemmeligheder du har, desto mindre kan “de” ramme dig.
Total åbenhed, men hvis man skal tro Trine-Marie og artiklen i New York Times, som hun refererer, så lukker det i den grad også døre at være SÅ åben og ærlig.
Læs i den sammenhæng interviewet med forfatteren Knud Romer Jørgensen i Berlingske M/S fra i går søndag. Han fortæller, hvordan han begik kommercielt selvmord i den danske reklamebranche for at få frihed til at kæmpe mod sine indre dæmoner. Interessant. Og i øvrigt hamrende velskrevet interview.
Din kommende chef bruger Google og læser din weblog!: “
New York Times skriver i artiklen: For Some, Online Persona Undermines a Résumé , at flere og flere rekrutteringsfolk i større virksomheder søger efter ansøgernes profiler på nettet i sociale netværkstjenester som My Space og Facebook.
Mange af ansøgerne er færdige studerende, som indtil for en måneds tid siden har levet et helt almindeligt kollegie-liv, med alt hvad det indebærer af larm og druk.
Desværre forstår rekrutteringsfolk ikke altid, at bare fordi man kører 2 på en cykel ned ad en trappe fra 2. sal (for at checke, om man egentlig kan, efter 12 Bacardi Breezers) betyder det ikke nødvendigvis, at man vil gøre det samme på lederseminaret i næste måned:
At New York University, recruiters from about 30 companies told career counselors that they were looking at the sites, said Trudy G. Steinfeld, executive director of the center for career development.
‘The term they’ve used over and over is red flags,’ Ms. Steinfeld said. ‘Is there something about their lifestyle that we might find questionable or that we might find goes against the core values of our corporation?’
Det sjove er at rådene i artiklen IKKE handler om, at de unge mennesker skal holde op med at ryge og drikke, men om, at de skal beskytte deres profiler/weblogs med adgangskoder - eller holde op med at skrive om alle de pinlige ting.
Man kunne vel også argumentere for at rekrutteringsfolkene skulle vænne sig til, at det de ansætter, er mennesker? Gad vide om de ikke selv har været unge og boet på kollegie og drukket en øl for meget og pralet af deres tømmermænd?
Og hvis man ikke tør skrive om sin egen idioti på sin weblog, så tør man vel heller ikke skrive om de virkelig alvorlige former for idioti man møder senere? For eksempel den tåbelige chef og de bureaukratiske strukturer, der dræner virksomheden for kreativitet og gør, at man har mere lyst til at køre på cykel hele vejen ned fra 13. etage, end at deltage i næste afdelingsmøde?
Læs selv resten af artiklen i NYC her.
“
(Via hovedetpaabloggen.dk.)
Well, at the end of the day, how much freedom did Robert Scoble actually have as a corporate blogger at Microsoft? I have always been sceptical.
But reading this I remember the words of a former colleague: “TV fucking rules”. What he meant was in fact that TV is the mother of all media. And apparently Scoble has found out, though he is starting out with videoblogging. Good night and good luck…
Via Ken Ley
Min mediekommentar fra Information fredag d. 9. juni 2006
Den digitale tidsalders ophavsret lanceres omsider også i Danmark
Forrige weekend beslaglagde det svenske politi en større mængde computere fra det svenske website The Pirate Bay, der fungerede som distributionscentral for film, musik-software, computerspil og andre digitale kulturprodukter.
Man kan hævde, at det kun er ret og rimeligt, at musikere, instruktører, forfattere og andre med ophavsret får betaling for deres produkter. Men i en tidsalder, hvor alle kan både forbruge, kopiere og producere digitalt indhold på deres computere, kan man også hævde, at 1800-tallets tankegang om ophavsret i dag er stærkt forældet.
De svenske pirater mener, at alle skal have ret til at tage del i den digitale kultur, fordi det det ikke koster en bøjet fem-øre ekstra at give alle adgang til den. Piraterne mener, at der findes andre modeller til at betale musikere og forfattere. Pladeselskabernes rolle som distributør er overstået, de skal blot talentspejde, producere og markedsføre. Piraterne ønsker ikke at snyde kunstnerne, men at give befolkningen adgang til en moderne variant af folkebiblioteket. Læs også det svenske magasin ETC.
Beslaglæggelsen af The Pirate Bays servere rammer desværre også en gruppe kunstnere, der ikke ønsker at blive omklamret af den internationale underholdningsbranche. En hel del musikere uden for mainstream - altså folk uden pladekontrakt eller aftale med deres nationale udgave af en ophavsretsorganisation, der publicerer deres musik på nettet. De arbejder helt i tidens trend om nettet som et socialt medium, der består af personlige relationer og fri udveksling af kommunikation. Flere af disse kunstnere brugte The Pirate Bay som distributionscentral, men deres produkter blev også beslaglagt af det svenske politi. Uden at de havde brudt loven.
Nu er ophavsret en indviklet affære. Men der findes en løsning, fordi en gruppe jurister fra Stanford University i Californien faktisk har skabt et nyt globalt bud på ophavsret i internettets tidsalder under navnet creative commons (CC). CC er en udvidelse af den traditionelle ophavsret, og denne weekend lanceres en dansk version af licensen.
Selv om man udgiver sit materiale under CC, så har man stadig samme muligheder for repressalier eller søgsmål som ved normal ophavsret. Fidusen er, at en CC-licens er nemmere at forstå for lægmand. Og at den fungerer globalt, fordi den i hvert enkelt land er tilpasset den nationale lovgivning.
Normalt påhviler det brugeren at finde frem til rettighedshaveren og bede vedkommende om tilladelse til at bruge materialet i en anden sammenhæng. Det kan være meget svært. Men hvis vedkommende har valgt en CC-licens fra begyndelsen af, så er det klart, hvad man må og ikke må.
Det gør den yderst velegnet for folk, der publicerer tekst, musik, fotos eller film på nettet.
Hvis man f. eks. ønsker at have styr på ophavsretten til ens fotos på nettet, så de ikke ender i et ugeblad uden ens samtykke, kan man gå ind på http://creativecommons.dk og hente en standardformular til ens hjemmeside. Så har man kontrol over sin egen ophavsret.
Og så kan CC også bruges på film eller bøger i den fysiske verden.
Piratparti og politiske selvmål
Fortalerne for CC mener, at det er en god måde at blive kendt på, hvis ens bog eller film også ligger til gratis download på nettet med en CC-licens, der forbyder kommerciel videreudnyttelse. Et gratis kig kan med andre ord betyde flere solgte bøger i butikken.
Men det er ikke sikkert, at vi taler mainstream produkter. Og tak for det. Det amerikanske magasin Wired havde i maj et sjovt regnestykke. Apples musikbutik iTunes har på tre år solgt én milliard sange. Samtidig har Apple solgt 42 millioner iPods. Wired sammenligner harddiskpladsen på de 42 millioner iPods med antallet af solgte numre og når frem til, at de kun fylder cirka én procent af pladsen. Hvad bruger vi så resten af vores harddiskplads til? Alternativ musik eller digitalt folkebibliotek?
Ifølge Wired bliver der udvekslet næsten én million sange på P2P-netværk, som dem Pirate Bay henviser til - hver måned. Pirate Bay stod for 40 procent af al internettrafik i Sverige. Og i skrivende stund - en uge efter lukningen - er sitet oppe at køre i fire andre lande. Og så har Sverige i øvrigt Piratpartiet, der kæmper for fri ophavsret. Det stiller op til Rigsdagen, og i denne uge fik de 25 procent flere medlemmer på grund af politiets aktion mod The Pirate Bay. Det kan man da kalde selvmål.
P.S. Denne klumme blev i øvrigt skrevet, mens jeg lyttede til svensk elektronmusik fra min iPod udgivet under en åben ophavslicens og downloadet fra Burnstation. Det eneste, den internationale underholdningsbranche har mistet i den sammenhæng, er min tid. Og den er stadig min egen.
Download også podcast med mit interview med folkene bag Burnstation.
Samvirke har udsendt Danmarks første anden bog under en creative commons licens. Peter Hesseldahls fremtidsscenarier “Snapshots fra Fremtiden”. Du kan købe den på samvirke.dk. Bogen er henvendt til de ældste skoleklasser, gymnasieelever og erhvervsfolk med udfordringer at løse.
Hvordan ser verden ud i 2030? Det spørgsmål har journalist og videnskabsformidler Peter Hesseldahl stillet om vores fælles fremtid gennem en artikelserie i Samvirke. Nu er artiklerne om fremtidsarkæologi samlet i bogen »Snapshots fra Fremtiden« en række scenarier – snapshots – af en mulig fremtid. Alle scenarier er præget af en heftig teknologisk udvikling, som vi allerede i dag ser små flige af. Og det er disse brudstykker af teknologi, som Peter Hesseldahl tager fat i og bygger videre på i en række fængende og futuristiske artikler – skabt med baggrund i skribentens arbejde med fremtidsscenarier for både Lego og Danfoss Universe.
»Det er ikke det rene pjat, når der tales om, at vi skal være parat til omstilling«, fortæller Peter Hesseldahl i bogens forord.
»Tværtimod, det er vigtigt at forstå, at hvis man ikke hele tiden fornyr sin viden, og hvis man ikke er indstillet på at bruge de nye muligheder – ja, så risikerer man meget hurtigt at blive lige så forældet i forhold til resten af samfundet, som skrivemaskinen eller pladespilleren blev.«
»Snapshots fra Fremtiden« lægger op til at blive brugt både som debatoplæg, som inspiration for elevernes eget arbejde med scenarier for fremtiden samt i større forløb om utopiske og dystopiske fremtidsfortællinger fra litteraturhistorien. Bogen kan anvendes i flere fag, herunder dansk, samfundsfag, naturfag og historie samt i flerfaglige forløb.
»Snapshots fra Fremtiden« er et nyt undervisningsmateriale til gymnasie- og ungdomsuddannelserne, men kan også virke inspirerende for folkeskolens ældste klasser. Materialet er udviklet i samarbejde mellem FDB Skolekontakten, Samvirke og Danfoss Universe.
Creative Commons Danmark launch på Lørdag d. 10/6, kl 14
Dette er en enestående chance for at høre blandt andre Prof. Lawrence Lessig, den nok eneste jurist der har rockstjerne-status på nettet, samt for at smage de allerførste flasker af kunstgruppen Superflex’ Creative Commons-licensierede øl, FREE BEER.
Mere information: http://creativecommons.dk/launch/
Jeg skal gøre opmærksom på at at arrangementet er flyttet fra Politikens foredragssal til Pressen, Vester Voldgade 33. Ingang er gennem porten.
Jeg er egentlig relativt positivt indstillet overfor en medielicens, selvom jeg mener, at man principielt burde lave en husstandslicens. Men nu er det altså en licens pålagt mine digitale redskaber. Og så er det jeg spørger:
Jeg er Mac-bruger, og som sædvanlig har DR lavet et produkt (jeg tænker på deres nye tilbud om streaming af tv), der er skræddersyet til et Microsoft-univers. Burde man ikke fritage Mac-brugere for licens, da DR konsekvent ignorerer os? Medmindre man taler podcasting, hvor Apple jo spiller en central rolle med video-iPodden. Og her kan DR så få et figenblad at dække sig ind under: Jeg har jo tilbuddet om at downloade videopodcast, som jeg kan se på min Powerbook…= betal licens, tak!
Det hele er lidt hypotetisk, fordi jeg i forvejen betaler licens for mit tv. Som gammel DR-medarbejder føler jeg det nærmest som en pligt. Jeg tror på public service. Derfor bliver jeg også sur, når jeg gang på gang skal have et inferiørt produkt som Mac-bruger. Jeg blev ellers lige så glad over DRs alternativ til TV2 Sputnik, der er det mest irriterende, lukkede MS-Univers. Men ak nej…..
My artistfriend Mogens Jacobsen http://mogens.info has a seat on the programme committee ofthe i/o/lab art festival in Norway this fall:
i/o/lab » Article - Call 2006: “Article - Call 2006
- a nordic biannual exhibition for unstable and electronic artforms
Call for artistic contributions
i/o/lab and the curatorial team of Article hereby invite you to submit proposals for artistic work and conference talks to be included in Article 2006.
We are interested in productions from areas including but not limited to:
interactive objects
work for mobile devices
video or concepts for broadcast television
internet-based work
installations for public spaces
installations for gallery spaces
public actions
social events
workshops
We are primarily interested in completed productions but willgive equal merit to incomplete/suggested work and proposals in the evaluation of applications.”
(Via READ MORE.)
370 laptops online at the same time = 75% of the participants were online during most of the talks. Hypertasking?
The last speaker - Euan Semple - wrapped the whole thing up by quoting Dalai Lama - talking about being social, taking care, LOVE.
…who said hippie? And yesterday Patrick Damsted claimed that Reboot was like the DIY punk culture.
Well - I’m sort of a “closet-buddhist” anyway… and a leftover punk.
See you all next year!
Quick and dirty notes on a session on investigative journalism. Good advice that might work for people in other fields:
Mark Hunter INSEAD
How do I:
- find info on situation/person
- organize it for myself
- SELL IT TO MY EDITOR!
WHAT am I looking for?
WHY am I looking for it?
WHERE is the OPEN DOOR?
If you can’t answer all 3 questions: you’re finished before you start…
THE OPEN DOOR
Something that provides access to you – not necessarily hard to find
= START OUT EASY
Think of information as a story from the moment you start your research
Take this into account:
- the available facts
- expose and reconcile the contradictions btw. the facts you find and what you know
What are you looking for….: Test a hypothetical story:
- the best info
- facts can be verified
- can be written in 3 sentences….or less!
NOW – WHERE IS THE OPEN DOOR?
= any source of information you can freely access – a document, an individual, a database
ALWAYS GO THROUGH THE OPEN DOORS FIRST!
Create a chronology
- keep track of data
- suggest relationships btw data
- tell what you are looking for next
= you’re making a database!
THE DATABASE:
Always use the same format to mark your info, eg. a date
(date, names, what happened, supporting documents, list of people) In Word, Excel etc.
The chronology helps you to fill out hole = ask the questions that they can’t avoid answering. When you open the doors you become part of their world and they won’t lie to you. Why? Because, why lie to somebody, who knows the truth?
Hunter made a chronology of 250 pages = a book was written in a moment.
Tips:. Bliv ven med en bibliotikar på Cph Bizz School… You have to have a relationship with a librarian!
Tools:
Make a map of human sources…. circles distributed on paper people, companies etc. With hyperlinks to documents etc. (my idea)
Look for secondary facts = ask someone else.
- Make you hypothesis in 3 sentences; if you can’t – it’s not a story!
- if you can’t tell people what you are doing – they won’t tell you either
- always go through the next open door (don’t follow a list of research slavishly)
- if the facts don’t add up = it’s not a story
- save the moment when you have to confront somebody = you have to be well armed
Good sources:
Sec. Gov – Edgar DB
Lexis/Nexis
Bloomberg
Factiva
Investor texts – financial and market analyst reportage
Unions: treaty, newsletters, web
Shareholder activists
European case clearing house: ecch.co.uk
= bizz case studies – public domain – goes back 40 years
Your two roles:
The candide = stupid questions
The expert = the informed interviewer
- a mix of the two can be good…
INSEAD makes a seminar for journalists every January – non-profit for INSEAD
Notes quick and dirty - lots of misspellings maybe even misunderstandings:
Jesse James Garret Adaptive Path User Experience. Co founder MS, Google, Flicker, BitTorrent, author of The Elements of User Experience
the Ajax Guy
We can’t always know the words people will use
we can’t always know the groups people will prefer
Technique: the card sort - text - sort them in piles - set of things that you think are related - how will you describe this relationsship and label it.
the problem on what tag to use: Jargon, and terms is it Reboot, Reboot 8 or Reboot 2006?
Tagging relies on the good will - to help each other - not undermining the system.
Users have to participate - as a reader you can’t - you have to take part.
The architecture of the system evolves as the use of the system evolves.
Hard to be an architect when you can’t see the end result.
Amazon’s architecture is algoritmic in nature but usergenerated.
amazon knows all about you and your use of amazon - databases
connecting content with users.
usability testing is best by now but not good enough.
Instrumented interfaces is the answer. What if the products that we build tel us about the use of the procuts? Every session becomes a test session.
anatomy of an amazon url
every link on Amazon has a unique tag
every link tagged with a query id
jjg.net/ia adaptivepath.com
JF Groff
Quick and dirty - misspellings? YES 
WOrked with Tim Berners-Lee at Cern on creating WWW.
Fathers of hypertext:
Ted Nelson coind the word hypertext in 1965
Dr. Vannevar Bush, 1945 - advisor to pres Rosevelt, he imagined docu on microfilm could be linked and retrieved mechanically via clicks.
Paul Otlet, 1903. Belgian professor. Passionate on organisating info, invented librafry index syst. index milions of files and 40.000 photos. The offerede a search service, you could write them in a letter and they would look thourght their files. Too many files = letter back “sorry to many wueries etc”
1989 - Berlin Wall down. Many people had computers but IBM could only talk to IBM, DEC to DEC, Mac to Mac.
a common protocol - the internet protocal. But you do not speak inet protocol when you read a page.
Tim Berners-Lee - a geek or a renaissance man
CERN - a fertile enviroment. Pioners in many areas. Huge computersystems.
1989 - a proposal - Tim had been thinking of hypertext - in 1988 he had written a small system for himself.
THE NEXT - the first easy to use computer, strong. the software most important - fully objectorientated software system.
Tim got a couple of these computers and wrote the code for WWW.
Hypermedia browser/editor - why has this never been built into your browwser? after 15 years.
But you had to have a NEXT computer = very expensive
extremly simple and dumb protocol.
We decided to write software that would show all the glory of WWW. We had no money and no manpower. We decided to do it open source - releasing libwww in august 1991 on the net: write software
Viola: a browser written by a man in Taiwan - java-like.
One day Marc Andresen wrote yet another browser, but it had 2 details that the others did not have:
- user orientated
- for 3 diff syst ( x window, apple mac, ms windows) and a server
MOSAIC
Nobody wrote a read/write browser - why? Web 2.0 is a read/write renaissance.
webhistory.org
Marc Weber - here filming. The Web History Center.
Quick and dirty notes - misspellings and maybe hard to understand….
Doc Searls
Markets are conversations but also relationships. + transactions.
relationships are the killer app
we search for sites = THE STATIC WEB
but where do you find the live web?
blogsearch.google.com
Technorati comes from the live web
Google comes from the static web
space vs time
looking through billions vs listening to millions
static web about spaces and places
live web is about time and people
on the live web the demand side i supplying itself - slashdot, flickr, boingboing etc
Quick and dirty - misspellings and strange notes:
pledge.com
Headshift
ross.typepad.com/blog/2006/04/power_of_law_of_pa.html
customerevangelists.typepad.com/blog//200/05/charting_wiki_p.html
the 1% factor - bullshitters - trolls
scale and common purpose
within companies you don’t get the rubbish on the wikis because everyone knows everyone
who has power and will they share it?
is it dispersed in a network or protected at the center
control of language and tools should rest with participants not the system.
participation btw networkmembers more useful than part in someone else’s system
peopel want to participate cost is lov or benfits high enougth
huge potentil of read-wirte web
power scale purpose and turst inmportant
think in terms of blended solutions that cover a range of interaction modes form low- to high-engagemeent
Bruno Giussani guissani.typepad.com
When a mag marries a mag what color will the baby’s eyers be?
Quick and dirty - misspellings etc:
He is tired of al the talk about new media killing old media.
Example: riots in Paris
l’Hebdo - swizz magasine 200.000 readers. wanted to this story different than other media and the way you do.
THey sent almost everyone in the newsroom to niebourhood in Paris. One at the time. They rented a small studio in the neighborhood. 14 af dem tog derhen og i alt var de der i 16-20 uger.
They wrote articles for the magazine but they were also blogging. 3 months = 250.000 words on the blog.
Skeptisism but also meeting recognition.
They brought back people from the neibourhood Bondy teached them how to write do interviews etc and how to blog - they gave them the tools for the blog and they went back and created their own local newspaper.
Finance? The content is published in a book (what the journalists first wrote) and this book is financing the running of the blog.
other people in other places want to do the same.
there is no old and new media - it’s tools and interaction with readers - they all come together to tell a story.
Wikipedia was the 18th most popular destination website on the web in March 2006, with some 25 million visitors that month alone. But the number of people who actually contribute content to Wikipedia is about 1-2 percent of total site visitors.
10 rules. This is no. 8: beta is evolution. Small gradual changes. Suddenly they may seem like giant leaps.
Read them all and vote.
My notes:
Interesting talk by T.L. Taylor Center for Computer Game Research
MMOG massively multiplayer online game
Ultima Online 1997
Everquest 1999
WoW 2004 (Europe 2005)
Most of her examples comes from Everquest
Social spaces. An interessant mix of on- and offline contacts.
The work of a game community is about teaching people how to play the game = it is a work of socializing - how do you become a player and a good player?
It happens mainly through guilds. Trust, responsability, reputation. Hundredes of people work on managing this organization. The guilds go through the game to find tools to manage the social life.
Get socialized in the game and participate in the structures.
Many players in a guild but they are often connected through off-line connections too.
People have multiple realtionships to different characters. They have different characters and some of them they share characters with others though they are not alowed to share a subscription.
Collaboration and teams.
WoW: 40 people coordinated in a guild through collaboration and teamwork. 3rd party websites and databses that change the game in important ways. it becomes fundamental to how it is playable - fanfiction art - creative participatory ways -
user produced modification, tips, databases changed the official look - players change the products in deep ways.
How do we go from the artifact that you bought off the shelf? There are a lot of other things that have changed the game into what it is now.
WoW really opened up their UI.
Communities are often in disagreement of what they should be doing.
massive participation, co-creation of spaces, huge formal organisations - intellectual property: who is the designer and who is the player?
Sell your avatar on eBay - but the gamecompany says you don’t own it - but the player sees it as his embodiment. The line is drawn….
IGE - hire people to go harvest gold. Big debate over what to do and not. Everquest - people used it for writing fan-fiction. Sony did not want it.
Level 1 dwarfs met at the Iron Castle in WoW to protest and the company made a message like “Go Home”! because they overloaded the site by being in one place at the same time. Some players were banned from the game for a couple of hours.
Do we have to think about this as a public space?
Difference btw whatt the designer thinks the players should do and the players actually want to do. And do…..
Try to make the distinction btw work and play.
End is defined by the player - there is really no end. When players reached the technical end - they still play for the social part to help others and find new things. People tend not to close their accounts - they keep them. = continue to pay subscription.
Teenagers learn management skills or….?
Examples of guilds travelling through WoW killing all “farmers” = 3rd world gamers working on training characters to a higher level for rich westeners……..
Down memory lane - I was there - and I am still here and I just met Tveskov:
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A brief history of Reboot
100% personal and biased. It’s been a blast every single year.
R1 Beginning
What hell is Reboot? Justin Hall kicks off. Carl Steadman. Opasia. Huge gap between US gurus and danish early netrepreneurs. First and last time I ever experienced groupies.
R2 Bizz
OMG this is a ‘real’ industry. Dot-com. Kawasaki sez don’t worry be crappy. Smug americans revisited. Startups. Sunshine. Show-me-the-money.
R3 Bubble
3000 people. Pundits. Rageboy. Limos. Drugs. Money. Boo.com closes same day as Reboot. gaab.dk also closes down.
R4 Blog
Post-bubble-semi-depression. Personal publishing iz da hot shit. Rushkoff delivers perhaps the most memorable Reboot talk ever, the theme of new rennaiss (can never spell that one) still echoing in this years theme.
R5 Beer
A-little-too-Selforganized a-little-too-open space. Circlejerk conversations. If you open your mind too much, your brain might fall out. Rheingold, Doctorow. Tragedy of the commons indeed. Africa. Peer-to-peer religion.
R6 reBirth
Small cozy crowd. Back to basics, usability. Liveblogging, live documentation to the max. Semantic web. Blogging makes the world go around.
R7 Broad
First ‘European’ Reboot, before R7 the main model was americans-flown-in-to-tell-danes-new-stuff. Now new crowd, new dynamics. Backchannel. Conversations.The highest concentration of 12′ PowerBooks ever recorded in Copenhagen.
R8 Brainy
OK, so now your mom and has a blog, now what? All the shiny and/or revolutionary tools are now free or cheap commodities, now what? The money is creeping back in. Use your brain, Luke.”
Reboot 8 has started. Have a look: 23hq.com/photogroup/reboot8/photos
