Jun 25 2010

5 BS facts about games that everyone thinks are true

Categories: Humorous,web 2.0 Tags: markdangerchen @ 12:21 pm

Sorry, you fell for linkbait. :)
Check out Linkbait Generator.

But now that you’re here… maybe a new game could be to take the headline generated by Linkbait Generator and then actually write something on that topic…

So, here goes:

  1. Games are a valueless activity.
  2. Games promote violence.
  3. Games are addictive.
  4. Games drive new technologies.
  5. Games are not serious.

Actually, that was very, very easy.


Jun 22 2010

Mark’s job talk: Expertise and Collaboration in Online Games

Categories: Academia,Games Research,web 2.0 Tags: markdangerchen @ 3:24 pm

This is the job talk I gave for an interview last week at the American Institutes for Research. It only took 6 hours to figure out how to record audio, edit it, upload it, and tweak it… but… now I know how to do it! Hooray, slideshare.net!


Feb 01 2010

wow, multitrack acapella Starlight – Francois Macre

Categories: Misc.,web 2.0 Tags: ,, , , markdangerchen @ 8:21 pm

via Urlesque:


Jan 05 2010

mini game reviews… er game mini reviews.

Categories: Misc.,web 2.0 Tags: ,markdangerchen @ 12:18 pm

This post is just to test Twitter Tools to make sure it auto-tweets whenever I post a new blog entry. Read the mini-reviews of games in my previous post and why I’ve decided to write them in the post before that. :)


Dec 01 2009

Catching up on my rss feed, finally saw what the danah boyd controversy was all about…

Categories: Academia,web 2.0 Tags: ,, , , , markdangerchen @ 9:54 am

Here’s danah’s response and Jenna’s commentary.

I said it at IR10 and SoP, and I’ll say it again. 1. Twitter is a horrible backchannel tool since it is too open, too 140 character limited, too persistent, and 2. it’s NOT a backchannel when you project it behind the speaker!!!

Personally, I think snark and irreverence is perfectly fine in a backchannel, so long as it’s also constructive, productive, informative, and on topic. I think their reactions to the content of the bc is overreactionary, but it’s all besides the point because the conference organizers shouldn’t have been broadcasting it in the first place. It’s a BACKchannel!


Aug 19 2009

posting / consuming

Categories: Life,web 2.0 Tags: markdangerchen @ 8:23 pm

I just got the wordpress app for Android devices and am posting this w my phone. It seems I haven’t posted in a while but that’s just part of what seems like my general cyclical pattern. I’ve been here before. I will be here again.

I seem to continually go back and forth from consuming to producing. or maybe it’s just that I’ve been working a lot on my dissertation stuff and that’s filling my productivity needs to stay happy. or maybe I keep finding cool feeds to subscribe to so that my time has to continually be spent on consumption. or maybe I’m in a rut.

whatever. here’s a post. from a phone! ironic that I keep finding ways to be connected yet instead of saving me time or letting me be more productive, I end up consuming more. yet… maybe consuming more means I *am* being productive in a general self-improvement sense.

I’m rambling now. there’s a new post by someone I follow that needs reading. back to sporadicity. email or comment if u want tips for some good feeds to follow / consume.


Jul 18 2009

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Categories: web 2.0 Tags: markdangerchen @ 2:16 am
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Jul 11 2009

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Jul 04 2009

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Jun 27 2009

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