Since one thing Technorati likes when ranking blogs is a count of incoming links in the past six months, here is a mass ping for all of the sites in my Google Reader OPML file. In lieu of cash, my thanks to all the sites I follow daily through RSS is a ping.
Oscar-worthy Machinima
My favorite machinimographer, Douglas Geyton, has turned his great documentary series into a six-figure HBO option. Maybe it explains why I haven’t seen any other episodes since the March release. Congratulations on helping the art find some legs in the industry.
Blog Fatigue
BlogSchmog serves as an academic and family archive for the Makices, the primary consumers of this site. We love the idea of people sharing our lives and our ideas, but we are motivated to write as a way of processing the bits and pieces going through our lives. While some may experience blog fatigue as an aversion to the daily grind of publication, my fatigue comes from the overwhelming amount of information I can’t process.
Intertubes 1.0
Clearly, Patrick Marshall of GCN is someone who is critiquing the shadows on the wall. Read an excerpt from the Insider for “the leading provider of integrated information and media for the government information technology market.” Perhaps after adding a Blink tag.
A Philosophy of Teaching
As a professional artifact, my limited encounters with teaching philosophy documents as a consumer have been disillusioning (read: the philosophy and the practice are rarely in sync). As a personal exercise, though, constructing and iterating a philosophy statement is a valuable form of reflection. I posted an early draft of my own statement on teaching.
Re-mediated Movie Trailers
About a year ago, some amateurs started publishing remediated videos on YouTube. They took existing movie trailers and re-edited them with different background music, custom voiceovers and interstitial text to tell a much different story than what the movie was actually about. The first of these to pass through my email in-box was a recut of The Shining, Stephen King’s horror novel turned Jack Nicholson vehicle about a mad, murderous writer. The remediation turned it into a feel-good discovery film about relationships, complete with a Peter Gabriel soundtrack.
WhatIfSports Widget
WhatIfSports.com is making use of their FOX Sports resources to dive into Web 2.0, introducing a widget this week that will show weekly predictions for upcoming pro games. The new tool—which can be integrated with MySpace, Blogger, Xanga, Facebook, and other social networking platforms—is updated weekly to provide our NFL projections, including game matchups and fantasy standouts. The information is based on their simulation engines, which utilize previous performance and injury updates to generate realistic games.