Jonas Smith has a good introductory article on Computer Game Research 101. It covers types of research and has a good introductory bibliography.
This is on the Games Research site at http://www.game-research.com/.
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Blogs and Humanities Computikng
Matt Kirschenbaumn has a blog at http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/blog/. Neat stuff.
He also references are report that John Maeda and Katherine Hayles participating on Beyond Productivity.
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Soundscapes
The vOICe Sonification Applet – Draw your own Sound. The vOICe Sonification Applet makes sound out of an image. It allows you to draw on a grid and hear the sound pattern.
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Piper Killam Lecture
Martha Piper gave an important Killam lecture called Building a Civil Society: A New Role for the Human Sciences.
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What is a Weblog?
Dave Winer (of Userland) has written a piece on What makes a weblog a weblog?
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Keyword Visualization
Visualizing Keyword Distribution Across Multidisciplinary C-Space is an interesting article on using VisualNet to visualize available titles in a library.
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konspire2b
konspire2b, described here in a slashdot post,A Blog With Unlimited Bandwidth (Beta 1.2), is a peer to peer blog with possibilities for distributed archiving.
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Merlot
MERLOT at http://www.merlot.org/ is a instructional technology review site. It might be a model for peer review of tools. It seems to run on a collaborative model where members review each other’s materials.
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Digital Arts Centre
A new digital arts centre has opened in Montral. See SociÈtÈ des arts technologiquesSAT.
Next Episode
Finished another book from the Canada Reads, Hubert Aquin’s Next Episode. Not sure it is that good. While it has the type of dense allusive prose that can impress people and it deals in an interesting way with Quebec seperatism and terrorism, it was a pain to read. At some point the story wasn’t interesting and characters became codes without much depth.
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