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Gaming Amazon Reviews

By alex | Published: 11/27/2012

I will readily admit it: I trust Amazon reviews. I just bought a toy at Toys R Us for my eldest son for his birthday. It kind of sucks, though he’s a bright kid and can make sucky things work. If I had read the Amazon reviews, I would have found this out before making [...]

Posted in Research | Also tagged amateur detective, Amazon, Amazon.com, collaborative filtering, David J. Rosen, Digital literacy, Electronic commerce, fiction writer, Howard the Duck, Huffington Post, KashCopy Inc., MTV, online reviews, Toys R Us, TripAdvisor, Viacom | Leave a comment

A Wedding

By alex | Published: 10/11/2012

Last weekend we returned briefly to New York City to attend the wedding of my godfather, Glen, and his partner of nearly two decades, Gino. It was a beautiful ceremony, and a wonderful reception at the Loeb Boathouse. It felt very traditional to me, though in one way, I suppose, it was not traditional. To [...]

Posted in General | Also tagged human rights, Jasper, Loeb Boathouse, marriage equity, New York City | 3 Comments

The Coming Gaming Machine, 1975-1985

By alex | Published: 7/13/2012

Was going through old backups in the hope of finding some stuff I’ve lost and I ran into this, a draft I was working on around the turn of the millennium. Never went anywhere, and was never published. I was just pressing delete, when I realized it might actually be of interest to someone. It [...]

Posted in Research | Also tagged A. Richard Immel, Andrew Pollack, Arcade games, Atari, BASIC, Broderbund, Business Partnership, communication device, computer software, computer technology, Computing, console systems, Creative Computing, Donald A. Thomas, Douglas Carlston, Douglas Englebart, Douglas G. Carlston, eBay, educational products, Electronic Games, Electronics, game designer, Gaming computer, Home computer, home computing, home-based laserdisc systems, Information Society, Jack M. Nilles, Ken Uston, large-scale on-line gaming, large-scale scientific computing, laserdisc technology, Lucasfilm, machinery, Magnavox, Martin Campbell-Kelly, McGraw-Hill, media appliances, Microsoft, MIT, Mitchell C. Lynch, Movie Release, multiplayer on-line role playing, Multiplayer video game, networked computing, New York Times, Nolan Bushnell, Odyssey, Odyssey system, Otto Friedrich, PDA, persistent on-line worlds, Personal computer game, personal computing, Playstation 2, Pong, portable gaming technologies, Prentice-Hall, Ralph Baer, Ralph Lombreglia, RAM, Seattle, Sim City, single gaming author, software industry, Stanford, Steve Russel, telephone distribution, telephone networks, television gaming devices, The Last Starfighter, Toronto Star, Tron, United States, University of California at Irvine, Video game, Video game conversion, Wadsworth Publishing, Wall Street Journal, WarGames, Warner Communications, Washington Post, William Aspray, William Higinbotham, Xerox | 2 Comments

Review: Planned Obsolescence

By alex | Published: 4/12/2012

It is rare that how a book is made is as important as its content. Robert Rodriguez’s El Mariachi stands on its own as an outstanding action film, yet it is a rare review that does not mention the tiny budget with which it was accomplished. And here it is difficult to resist the urge [...]

Posted in Research | Also tagged Academic Publishing, author, El Mariachi, Electronic publishing, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Library and information science, media forms, MediaCommons, New York University, New York University Press, NYU Press, online journals, Open access, Peer review, Peer-to-peer, Planned obsolescence, review, Robert Rodriguez, Scholarly Communication, Scientific literature | Leave a comment

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