Our Minds on Media

This is somewhat off-topic but then it is about blogging and this site (if you didn’t know) is a blog. So I’m joining in the fight to googlebomb the phrase online poker in order to keep those damn comment spammers off the top ranking on google. I spent hours clearing out Texas-Holdem-whatever comments from this blog. Down with spammers!

Over on Terra Nova, I found this note from Dave Hunter about the Canadian Red Cross getting uppity about videogame designers using a red cross as an icon for health. Apparently they don’t want to be associated with all of these shoot ’em up games the…

In this article, “Fooled by a chatbot” the author discusses the fact that chatbots remain an interesting study for AI because people aren’t always using the maximum of their intelligence and that chatbots can pass a Turing Test in which the participants aren’t “on guard”…

Advertising Age named Crispin “Agency of the Year” this week. *YAWN*. Considering the fact that I think advertising is a dying animal I wouldn’t normally be too concerned about this particular announcement — except for the fact that Crispin is apparently responsible for just about…

Well, this little meme seems to be popping its head up everywhere: Omnium Finis Imminent. So far it’s been speculated that this is some kind of alternate reality game similar to Ilovebees. I decided to participate just for fun. [04–05–2005 Update: This didn’t turn out to be much of a culturejam after all. It was just advertising for the TV show Revelations. Phooey.]

It’s odd because even though I read about culture jamming all the time, I haven’t really found anything that motivated me to make an entry about it on the blog. So, rather than wait for someone else to do something in regards to it, I made my own contribution. Enjoy. And write…