Virtual Heritage and Interaction

digital history blogs worth digging

ErikC — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:01:07 +0000

so many links so little time to explain them

http://digitalhistoryeducation.blogspot.com/2009/04/history-canada-game.html

http://digitalhistoryhacks.blogspot.com/ it is dead, it is buried, but it still smells good

and one day must try the sketchup tutorial

http://niche.uwo.ca/programming-historian/index.php/Main_Page

and slightly left of field http://www.robmacdougall.org/

First Issue of the International Journal of Role-Playing

ErikC — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:11:52 +0000

The first issue apparently went live on 31 December 2008. I wrote mine so long ago I cannot claim it will astound but the other articles really do look good. Congratulations to the editorial team!

New blog address

ErikC — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:50:15 +0000

I will only post on http://erikchampion.wordpress.com in the future, no more on this derelict website!

US universities and their funding

ErikC — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 02:25:18 +0000

This news about Hewlet Foundation grants to Berkeley has some interesting figures:

“While UC Berkeley’s endowment has more than doubled to $2.46 billion over the past decade, its growth has been dwarfed by the surge in endowments at peer private institutions. Harvard University’s endowment is nearly $30 billion, and Stanford University’s is about $15 billion.”

I hope that means they can now get Berkeley faculty salaries on an equal footing!

$200 Ubantu Linux PC at Walmart

ErikC — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 02:17:15 +0000

Hmm not sure if Walmart is the huge company about to take over Australia, but should be able to order this linux box for just over $200 US dollars (today 92 cents US is 1 Australian dollar).

Sounds like a great idea but not suitable for geeks (why a full case? small is beautiful!) and not sure why it is “green” but if I can add memory and swap cards this sounds a tad interesting. Zonbu may be similar (and cheaper and greener) but seems subscription based? The Dell XP PC competitor(?) for around $340 is mentioned here.

Now I just need to see which VH projects could run on it and send them to less developed communities with a license similar(?) to Architecture for Humanity.

Hmm, these people sound interesting too, should talk to them about croquet and blender 3D.

And I am still grumbling people think PC=Windows. Grr.

What’s up in Japan

ErikC — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:07:20 +0000

..some really lovely interaction devices and metaphors

Brand new styles for the architectures of videogames and virtual worlds

ErikC — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:42:22 +0000

“we cannot use terms as Romanic, Baroque or Postmodern to talk about the architectures of videogames and virtual worlds. For this reason, here are some new definitions.. “Esoteric Steampunk (Myst, Riven, Uru, Schizm)…Classic Steampunk…Technoromanticism..”

Oh but we can! A good post for me to chew on. I still wonder why so we have a fascination for labels, especially for emergent ‘styles’ that aren’t exactly the same as what they appear to represent. Hmm.

Commentpress and Thoughtmesh

ErikC — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:01:43 +0000

sorry for the long break, anyway, here are some more ideas:

–I wonder if commentpress could work for a conference website themes page where people could add their comments

thoughtmesh with video makes me think of using this in my narrative and gameplay course next year for a form of interactive storyboard editing (if it can be modified!)

If there is a way of combining say youtube video splices with text systems like the above that may make an interesting/useful instructional system.

Update on website for 2007

ErikC — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 06:16:05 +0000

http://nzerik.googlepages.com/home is my new personal website.

http://www.unswasia.edu.sg/staff/sp_echampion.html is my workplace website where I started employment 8 January 2008. A new university, campus, department, everything!

adventure maker

ErikC — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 10:27:45 +0000

Well so much is happening with handhelds lately.

For example, PSP games (point and click, possibly panoramas)

using adventure maker.