tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36597772009-10-14T17:15:02.875+11:00Chris Chesher's New Media DiaryRandom insights and reports on new media from Sydney and beyond.Chris Chesherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09361574144765718981noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659777.post-90566338370305256502009-03-18T19:53:00.004+11:002009-03-18T20:00:53.749+11:00Seminar: Digital Cultures, March 20 2009, University of SydneyDepartment of Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney.This seminar will feature presentations from Chris Chesher, Kathy Cleland and John Tonkin.Friday, 20 March, 2pm.Kevin Lee Room, Level 6 Lobby 14, Main Quadrangle, University of Sydney.(Take the lift near MacLaurin Hall stairway to Level 6 and the Kevin Lee Room is to your left).The seminar will followed by drinks at Manning Bar. All Chris Chesherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09361574144765718981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659777.post-83682289876406143712009-01-09T17:35:00.001+11:002009-01-09T17:35:59.747+11:00trying a Mac utility called GrandPerspective, because I have to get oneChris Chesherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09361574144765718981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659777.post-32721515105879006772009-01-09T17:21:00.001+11:002009-01-09T17:21:23.549+11:00trying out a free Mac disk utility called GrandDesignChris Chesherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09361574144765718981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659777.post-86755794025503091632008-07-09T09:51:00.001+10:002008-07-09T09:51:55.585+10:00Our Nic gave up marriage with Tom Cruise for a Sunday Roast... I mean Rose: (Remember http://ping.fm/jYdY7 ?)Chris Chesherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09361574144765718981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659777.post-80803953818318661542008-07-07T15:23:00.001+10:002008-07-07T15:23:17.882+10:00posted the first post to Blogger since 2005 ('Grand Theft Empathy'): http://ping.fm/ZNS68Chris Chesherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09361574144765718981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659777.post-19730350950286343842008-06-28T19:47:00.007+10:002008-07-07T15:19:26.216+10:00Grand theft empathyAfter playing Grand Theft Auto IV over a few weeks now, I feel mean, stressed and empty. The initial sense of awe at the detailed gritty realism (and extraordinary visual richness) of Liberty City has receded, leaving me gradually to descend into an uncanny valley of grim, money-grubbing and compromised characters. I really don't like myself as Niko Bellick.The inhabitants of Liberty City live inChris Chesherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09361574144765718981noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659777.post-1116925181617176002005-05-24T18:42:00.000+10:002005-05-24T21:42:29.936+10:00CEBIT 2005I popped in the CeBIT in Darling Harbour (24th-26th May 2005) for a quick look around... four hours later I completed the circuit, and there will still things I didn't get to see. This is the biggest CEBIT yet, and you really feel it. Every year in exhibitions you tend to get a different emerging technology that has prominence. This year's offerings manifested the emergence of broadband Internet,Chris Chesherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09361574144765718981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659777.post-1111106182639082322005-03-18T11:29:00.000+11:002005-03-18T12:16:56.313+11:00Interactive television presentationThis week's Technocultures class featured a talk from Justin Hewelt, who manages the Broadband Bananas website, and works as a consultant. Interactive TV seems to be reaching a threshold point. The most compelling applications he showed used IPTV set-top boxes, the standard that seems closest to delivering video-on-demand. It runs over IP and ADSL to the home, but is not the Internet as much as aChris Chesherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09361574144765718981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659777.post-1086031208347948612004-06-01T05:09:00.000+10:002004-06-01T05:20:08.346+10:00Notes from Film and Games seminar,
Australian Film, Television and Radio School.
MAY 22, 2004.
10am INTRODUCTION
Film School needs
-eg Battlestar Galactica: watch new episodes and play games on XBox
• Mark Pesce
- computer games & blockbusters emerged at same time
- sibling rivalry betw game & film
David Giles
• write for the driver not the passenger
- came from film - moved to qames : Chris Chesherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09361574144765718981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3659777.post-1086030488183736042004-06-01T05:07:00.000+10:002004-06-01T05:08:08.183+10:00Not much blogging going on yet. It's five o'clock in the morning and I think I've caught Cathy's insomnia. Chris Chesherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09361574144765718981noreply@blogger.com0