dcinput daily for Sun 19th March, 2006
Michelle Conlin of Business Week Online warns about the dangers of blogging: “Today there are two of you. There’s the analog, warm-blooded version…” “Then there’s the online you, your digital doppelganger; that’s the one that is growing larger and more impossible to control every day”.
Heather Green looks at the claims that Digg is being used for stock manipulation.
Jenifer Lopez to star along side John Travolta in Dallas feature film.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone: “So, Scientology, you may have won THIS battle, but the million-year war for earth has just begun”.
The future of motion pictures as seen by Dolby. Quite a slick looking demo.
Cory Doctorow: “Marvel and DC comics jointly filed a trademark on the word ’super-hero’”. For god’s sake, where do these guys get off?
I listened to a podcast by Will Wright, the creator of the Sims video game, on IT Conversations about a year ago. I think it might have been this one. He seems like a real interesting guy. At the time he was talking about a new game he was developing based around evolution, where you started out as an ameoba and then evolved to land animals, tribes and eventually get out into space to discover how big the Universe is. Here’s a google video of a presentation of this new game which is called Spore. Thanks to Kosso and Doctoe for the link. I’m not a massive games person but this I could get into.