You may want to think twice before looking at the profile of an ex for the 10th time in a day. Apparently facebook employees know you're doing it. Valleywag is reporting that a job perk for facebook employees is checking to see what profiles people view and how often they're looked at. Basically facebook staff know who I'm stalking at any given moment...so much for privacy
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Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Check This Music Out: Monster-0
My taste in music is... eccentric to say the least. I tend to listen to artists nobody has ever heard of and I'm a big fan of indie guys who are using the internet to make a name for themselves. Also being a huge videogame dork it was only natural that I cam across music by Monster-0 aka Daemon Hatfield of ign fame. I downloaded the free tracks from his site and had a listen and found mysyelf surprised by what I heard. Described as synthpop Hatfield's music ranges from catch lyrical tunes to a piano played piece. It is still too early to tell whether or not he will become a break-out hit but I plan on downloading his EP off of iTunes tonight so expect more tomorrow. Also check out his site here to download some sample tracks.
Web 2.0 and Politics
Found this on eWeek. Not sure if I agree with all of it. There is a big difference between people who use just facebook and myspace and people who are more invested in 2.0 culture (blogs, twitter, youtube) What do you think?
Joe Trippi, senior advisor to the John Edwards presidential campaign, and Cyrus Krohn, the director of the eCampaign division of the Republican National Committee, both spoke of how social networking has changed the face of politics on a panel at ExecutiveBiz's The New New Internet conference here.
Writer's Strike: Videogames
IGN's Daemon Hatfield is reporting that the writer's strike will not affect videogames as only a handful of videogame writers are in the WGA. You can take this either way, yay for no videogame delays or anything and not so good as it tells us just how separate videogame storytelling is from other storytelling. hmmm
via: ign.com
Gamers have skills. Let's tap 'em.
Gamers as a collective intelligence? It makes sense to me, go on any game site's message boards and then try to argue that gamers aren't a social people with similar ways of thinking. Anyways this article at the Christian Science Monitor looks at this phenomenon a bit further:
These gamers' collective knowledge-building projects represent one of the most important aspects of contemporary video game culture, but also one of the most overlooked. Despite stereotypes of antisocial gamers who prefer to consume rather than create, most video-gamers are in fact engaged in a highly collaborative effort to exhaustively understand their favorite games. The video-gaming community is, quite simply, engaged in intense and highly successful "collective intelligence."
When the Space Age Blasted Off, Pop Culture Followed
I found this article in the New York Times which examines the effects space travel has had on popular culture. Worth a read even if it is a bit dense:
It was not the most eloquent line uttered in movie history, and it may have been one of the silliest: “Greetings, my friend. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our
lives.”
Rumor Mill: Have a Little Faith in Death?
Doctor Why Bother
I'm hoping someone else caught The Big Bang Theory last night, when Sheldon mentioned that every Saturday morning at 6:30 he wakes up, turns on BBC America, and watched Doctor Who I about spit out my pop, only because I have the exact same routine on Sunday mornings...my parents just shook their heads, more in defeat than disapproval. Hilarious episode as usual.
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