This almost makes me want to buy Grand Theft Auto V: the in-game version of Twitter called Bleeter. Here's the description: Information isn't about imparting knowledge anymore. The
Alexis Madrigal has a long, thoughtful piece in The Atlantic about something I've remarked on a couple times: the flow-like, yet addictive, experience that we often have when
”Everyone talks about deleting their Facebook account, but we rarely take action," Social Roulette co-creator Kyle McDonald says. "Sometimes we need a simple game to help take the
A friend responds to my last post, suggesting that Bruckman goes too easy on Zygna: they should be recognized as aggressively trying to colonize our attention, not accidentally
Amy Bruckman, who did some of the first serious academic work on online communities, has a thoughtful post about giving up Words With Friends. "It’s a fun game,
Benjamin Jackson, a New York-based game designer and writer, has a terrific essay in The Atlantic arguing that "too many video games treat players like rats in a
The concept of the digital native bothers me for some reason. A tiny little bit of it might be "you kids get off my lawn" curmudgeonliness. Mainly it's
As always. The underlying point that today's parents (like me) grew up with MTV, video games, computers, and other weapons of mass distraction is a good one. For
From the opening pages of Susan Maushart's The Winter of Our Disconnect, a book I picked up this winter in Cambridge (thank you, Waterstone's 3 for 2 mix and
From his 1972 article on the early videogame: Spacewar as a parable is almost too pat. It was the illegitimate child of the marrying of computers and graphic