Nieman Journalism Lab: Play Paywall!, the new web game sweeping the newspaper industry
Tuesday, 26 January 2010, 17:49
Genius way to illustrate the conundrum facing every news executive thinking of raising a subscription barrier: "Paywall!, our revenue game … allows you to explore the situation at the [New York] Times or at any other news site. …"
Mashable: 10 News Media Content Trends to Watch in 2010
Tuesday, 29 December 2009, 10:21
"A look at several trends in content distribution and presentation that we will likely see more of in 2010. … 1. Living Stories … 2. Real-Time News Streams … 3. Blogozines … 4. Distributed Social News … 5. News Goes Mobile … 6. The Year of Geo-Location … 7. Story-Streaming … 8. Social TV Online … 9. Marketers as Producers … 10. Social News Gaming."
Fast Company: Can a Game Be Journalism? Play ‘Six Days In Fallujah’ to Find Out
Thursday, 9 April 2009, 07:00
"For their gut wrenching simulation of that infamously bloody battle, the developers at Atomic Games drew on interviews with over three dozen soldiers who fought there."
Charlie Beckett: Beeb Camp III: Twitter is only 1% but it’s massive (and Gaming matters, too)
Thursday, 19 February 2009, 07:09
"[Jem Stone] said something along the lines of how only 1% of listeners have even heard of Twitter, let along used it. And he said that SMS is still vastly more popular as a way of interacting with BBC Radio. But it doesn’t matter because it is creative. Indeed, it may be that Twitter works better because it is a series of interconnected small networks with short messages."
Tuesday, 22 January 2008, 12:50
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"Electronic Arts, the computer game publisher, has signalled its intent to embrace new, internet-based business models, announcing a version of its popular Battlefield title that will be distributed free online."
