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An anthropological introduction to YouTube

By Shamus Posted Thursday Sep 4, 2008

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I’ve been reposting YouTube in lieu of substantive writing for a while now, and I’m starting to wonder how long you’re going to let me get away with it.

Today’s lack of meaningful posts is entirely the fault Rustybadger, who left a comment yesterday with a link to the following:

It’s almost an hour long, but well worth the time. I found it to be deeply compelling. It’s a presentation by anthropologist Mike Wesch before the Library of Congress. (Mike Wesch is also the guy behind the now-famous Web 2.0 video, which is less about technology and more about how people use it.) It’s a discussion on both the culture of YouTube and YouTube’s effect on the culture.

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See Next Month’s Minimum Requirements

By Shamus Posted Wednesday Sep 3, 2008

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The dire fate I predicted here is coming to pass:

It’s a new graphics card from NVIDIA. Let’s see:

  1. It takes up the space of 2 internal expansion slots. So, you’ll need to use up a PCIe slot, and one beside it.
  2. It’s numbered all crazy. There’s little new technology or functionality. It’s actually an 8800 series chipset with some different tweaks to the production and clocking, but they renumbered it as 9800.
  3. It’s designed to be used in conjunction with additional cards, so you could put two of these things together. (Assuming you have room for a couple of these space heaters in your computer case.)

I can’t wait until game developers have to list this stuff on the side of the box. We already have stuff like this: Continue reading ⟩⟩ “See Next Month’s Minimum Requirements”

 

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Don LaFontaine

By Shamus Posted Wednesday Sep 3, 2008

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In a world with no Don LaFontaine…

Don LaFontaine, who has done the voice-over for almost every movie in the last quarter-century, has died…

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Spore Leaked?

By Shamus Posted Wednesday Sep 3, 2008

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People have been messaging me since yesterday, letting me know Spore has been leaked and is now available to pirates.

It’s enough people that I do not doubt it, but I’d like to have some sort of proof to hold up. Would someone mind sending a screenshot of (say) the title menu or some other obvious aspect of the final game? (As opposed to the creature creator.) I need something that is obviously not a pre-release screenshot, and preferably something that wouldn’t appear in the Wii version. Perhaps an options menu or the dialog where you adjust the screen resolution.

shamus at shamusyoung dot com

If you don’t want to email the screenshot, put it up on photobucket or something and let me know where I can grab it. I’m going to write about this, but the first charge to get thrown into my face will be that it’s a lie.

Thanks.

 

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OurTube

By Shamus Posted Tuesday Sep 2, 2008

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This site turned three years old yesterday.

Looking back, I see a lot of posts that I’m proud of. There are posts from that first year that I still point to and talk about. But there are also goofy posts where I was amusingly wrong about things, and those can be fun to read for completely different reasons.

Two and a half years ago I stumbled on a site called “YouTube” or somesuch. I wrote about it, and how I couldn’t wrap my head around it. It looked like like a thin coat of respectability over the old filesharing model, spiked with a bit of dot-com foolishness – here was a site that was going to consume massive bandwidth (money) with no real way to make money.

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Stolen Pixels #17:Bill of Limitations

By Shamus Posted Tuesday Sep 2, 2008

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We’ve seen Stardock’s version of the Gamer’s Bill of Rights. But what would the list look like if it had been written by EA?

 

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Gamer’s Bill of Rights

By Shamus Posted Monday Sep 1, 2008

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Thanks to the dozens of people who sent this along. Sometime around the eighth or ninth email it dawned on me that people weren’t sending this so that I could read it, they were sending in the hopes that I would read and then comment on it.

Stardock president Brad Wardell wrote the following for Edge Magazine. Do go and read the whole thing for context.

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