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/ 8 February 2008
In a nutshell, <i>Turok</i> is a first-person shooter in which you have to shoot and slice your way across a planet teeming with dinosaurs and hostile humans. If this doesn’t excite you, then let me explain further: the dinosaurs don’t like you or your human enemies.
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/ 25 January 2008
"No longer are you a rogue street racer competing for pink slips or dodging cops and oncoming traffic at speeds in excess of 200km/h. You are now Ryan Cooper, an underground street racer recently gone legal and legitimate." Vincent Maher reviews <i>Need for Speed: ProStreet</i>.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu recently entered a thriving virtual world called <i>Second Life</i> to be interviewed by Reuters bureau chief Adam Pasick. Somehow this doesn’t seem as strange as it would have a few years ago. Pasick explained that <i>Second Life</i> has a real economy and real culture, and therefore real news.
The announcement of a $3,5-billion takeover of Macromedia by Adobe Systems has sent a shockwave across the web development community. It would seem, on the surface, that this is a match made in heaven — two of the most powerful companies in the industry finally pooling resources, skills and strategies. But as one scratches the surface, it becomes clear that Macromedia product users should be concerned.
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/ 19 October 2004
The beheading of Kenneth Bigley was made public via the internet, as have many of the previous beheadings in Iraq. This story is a summary of the many discussions I have had with online editors, journalists, journalism students and academics on the ethical, political and emotional questions regarding links to such video footage on news websites.
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/ 30 September 2004
Last week users of the Wikipedia.org published its one-millionth article, making it the world’s largest and fastest growing encyclopedia according to the Wikimedia Foundation. A "wiki" is a website that allows users to edit and contribute to its contents with no limitations. This means, practically speaking, that any person can go onto a wiki and change the pages and save them with little or no technical knowledge at all.
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/ 23 September 2004
"Last week, close to 500 African journalists and information and communication technology (ICT) policy-makers gathered in Grahamstown at the annual Highway Africa conference. In the run-up to the conference, I had the opportunity to teach two groups of mid-career journalists about the broader issues around reporting on Open Source Software. I must admit, it was an eye-opener," writes Vincent Maher.
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/ 22 September 2004
The new breed of citizen journalist, the person who blogs, takes photos on their mobile phone and uploads them to a mobLog (mobile weblog), records video, sends it to a video blog and participates in what is commonly becoming known as the "We Media", relies heavily on Open Source Software, often running on Linux servers.