tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76374234905186302842012-01-30T12:07:20.289-08:00Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17581351884044064053noreply@blogger.comBlogger61100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7637423490518630284.post-78929179051210284722012-01-30T12:07:00.000-08:002012-01-30T12:07:20.299-08:00<a href="http://fortressat.com/index.php/articles-analysis/3005-depth-versus-variety-a-fundamental-change-in-game-playing-in-the-past-30-40-years">Depth versus Variety: a Fundamental Change in Game Playing in the Past 30-40 Years - Boardgame Analysis</a>: Not only responsibility for your actions but the fear of death has been removed from electronic RPGs, and with it most of the gameplay depth has been removed.� If it doesn’t really matter whether you die, if you can try again when you fail, then your decisions no longer make a difference to what happens in the long run, so they are no longer significant in the gameplay depth sense.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7637423490518630284-7892917905121028472?l=technoliteracy.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17581351884044064053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7637423490518630284.post-85726683896006719632012-01-27T13:34:00.001-08:002012-01-27T13:34:44.229-08:00I think my plan was to write something about digital literacies in this space, but I've been thinking about it for twelve years and I'm ready to let someone else worry about it for a while.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7637423490518630284-8572668389600671963?l=technoliteracy.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17581351884044064053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7637423490518630284.post-22506941710802240882011-11-07T07:47:00.001-08:002011-11-07T07:47:40.810-08:00"We seem to live in a world now where all thoughts are focused on the idea of prevailing, of imposing one's beliefs on others, and no thoughts, no thoughts are given to the costs of prevailing, or even what it means." --Jane Smiley, <i>Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Novel</i>&nbsp;pp. 175.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7637423490518630284-2250694171080224088?l=technoliteracy.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17581351884044064053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7637423490518630284.post-23045442727004302162011-10-12T09:15:00.000-07:002011-10-12T09:15:02.177-07:00<a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2011/10/11/_marriage_market_theories_are_simply_inadequate_to_explain_the_s.html">"Marriage market" theories are simply inadequate to explain the surge in the number of single people.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7637423490518630284-2304544272700430216?l=technoliteracy.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17581351884044064053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7637423490518630284.post-60256985873198076572011-05-24T17:42:00.000-07:002011-05-24T17:42:00.819-07:00The entries that used to be at this URL are here:&nbsp;<a href="http://technoliteracy4.blogspot.com/">http://technoliteracy4.blogspot.com/</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7637423490518630284-6025698587319807657?l=technoliteracy.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17581351884044064053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7637423490518630284.post-58337845512036817442011-05-24T16:44:00.001-07:002011-05-24T16:44:40.867-07:00I had ten years of bookmarks in this blog, but not a lot of writing, so I exported it all then deleted it. I hope to write a little more in this space.<br /><br />Right now I'm thinking about the recent Computers and Writing conference in Ann Arbor, and the tension between open source and commercial software.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7637423490518630284-5833784551203681744?l=technoliteracy.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17581351884044064053noreply@blogger.com0