Andy Baio of waxy.org fame digs into his old server logs to chart the spread of the classic Star Wars Kid video and subsequent remixes. This is a fascinating analysis of how a viral idea - or meme - makes its way across the internet.
Outside, The First Massively Multiplayer Game
Iain / April 3, 2008, 8:31 am
An excellent review of Outside, billed as the the first massively multiplayer game.
The physics system is note-perfect (often at the expense of playability), the graphics are beyond comparison, the rendering of objects is absolutely beautiful at any distance, and the player’s ability to interact with objects is really limited only by other players’ tolerance. The real fundamental problem with the game is that there is nothing to do.
Google Zeitgeist 2007
Iain / December 13, 2007, 5:58 pm
The yearly Google Zeitgeist is always a great read (in a dorky sort of way).
David Byrne On The NY Times
Iain / December 11, 2007, 6:22 pm
Posts like this are one of the reasons David Byrne is one of my favorite bloggers.
HTML5 Preview
Iain / December 5, 2007, 1:10 pm
A List Apart has a great writeup on the forthcoming HTML5 specification.
Goodies include customizable inline audio and video players built right into the browser (goodbye, flash video players), and much cleaner HTML due to the use of new tags (HEADER, NAV, ARTICLE, SECTION, ASIDE, FOOTER = goodbye DIV).
The bad news? It’s still 10-15 years from fruition.