What Real Time Strategy game must I play?

So you like Real Time Strategy games and want to find new games previously unknown to you, but potentially worth playing? The first thing you should do then is look for a list or index of items in the topic. But, what games are worth buying next? How will you choose from this list? The “TELL ME WHAT TO CHOOSE!” method will assist you in doing just that!

After compiling the topic list, you must now make a list of websites containing plenty information on the topic. A simple Google search can give you relevant URLs. Or you could use Technorati to find the top blogs and news sites of specified categories. To easily harvest all the URLs from Google (or URLs from text bodies) follow these steps:

• Query Google for your keyword (select 10, 20, 50 or 100 results per page, depending on how many URLs you would like to analyze)
• Copy the page source of the site
• Paste the copied source into the Harvester
• Specify harvesting preferences and harvest
• Harvest

Now you have a list of websites (here the URLs I used) that can potentially provide information about the items in your topic list. What the “TELL ME WHAT TO CHOOSE!” method will do is basically check how many times each item in your topic list is found by Google within each URL in your websites list. This is what you do now to start automating advice for your decisions:

• Run the Google Scraper tool
• Copy the websites list and paste it into the top form. Be sure that every URL is on a separate line.
• Copy the topic list and paste it in the bottom form. Be sure that every item is on a separate line and preferably between brackets (e.g. “Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos”)
• De-select the “only query discrete sites” checkbox
• Name your results file for archiving
• Scrape Google

Now you wait till the tool is done scraping. How long it takes will depend on the size of your 2 lists. When finished, the scraping tool provides a nice overview of the amount that the items in your topic list are found within the URLs of your websites list. According to these crowd-sourced / Google-sourced results you can now finally CHOOSE!

Tagcloud real time strategy games

Tagcloud real time strategy games alphabetically

PLAY THOSE GAMES ON TOP TO SEE WHAT IS SO GREAT ABOUT THEM!
Or
PLAY THOSE GAMES IN THE BOTTOM TO FIND OUT HOW MUCH THEY REALLY SUCK!

Watching You Watch Me!! (…on Facebook)

The Web 2.0 application FACEBOOK analysed through FOUCAULTS PHILOSOPHIES ON SOCIETY.

WARNING|DANGER: With this knowledge a consciousness is created with which people become aware about the possibilities of people watching/observing/monitoring people, both virtually as in the real world.

Theory: FOUCAULT

Michel Foucault described an obvious change in society where individuals are increasingly formed into an object of knowledge, and governments regulate populations through the use of “Bio-politics” and “Bio-power”. Foucault describes the notion of these terms as “a set of materials, elements and techniques that serve as weapons, relays, communication routes and supports for the power and knowledge relations that invest human bodies and subjugate them by turning them into objects of knowledge”(Foucault, Discipline and Punish, 1977). He sees the increasing documentation of individuals as a form of this power, which serves the purpose of chronicling past and present tendencies and essentializing them to the individual, in the service of predicting future tendencies (Humphreys, The consumer as Foucauldian object of knowledge, 2006). By noting this change in society he uses Jeremy Bentham’s panopticon model, which is a prison design that allows an ‘omnipresent’ observer to observe all prisoners without the prisoners being able to tell whether they are being watched or not, as a metaphor for society. In short, individuals are increasingly being documented and thus turned into objects of knowledge, with a panoptic society in which these objects of knowledge are potentially under constant observation, as a consequence.

An Easy Way to Meet Hot Chicks…Using ‘Tagged’

Lot’s of research has been done on “new” digital environments, also known as Social Network Sites (SNS), which enable people to display themselves publicly through the use of personal profile space. Danah Boyd, a well respected researcher on this defines these sites as:

Web-based services that allow individuals to (1) construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system, (2) articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection, and (3) view and traverse their list of connections and those made by others within the system.

Scholars from a variety of disciplinary fields have examined Social Network Sites in order to understand the practices, implications, culture, and meaning of the sites, as well as the users’ engagement with them. One thing is sure and instantly noticed from whichever angle or disciplinary field you look at the sites. SNS’s have a very promising feature for everyone who uses the software; that is the ease to search for, find and meet other people. Whether searching for a friend or a complete stranger, SNS’s enable individuals to locate others online. Whether looking for old classmates, people who share interests or just simply searching for hot chicks, these digital environments make it possible in an easy and sometime fun way.

Twitter, The Aphorism & Semantic Analysis

Twitter
What are you doing?

Twitter allows us to broadcast (“Tweet”) the answer to this question for the rest of the world to view. Using 140 characters or less, twitter users can communicate their thoughts, ideas, links to external web pages or just any type of message or any form of textual expression to a global audience. This form of “microblogging” has increased in popularity dramatically since its release in october 2006. Thanks to its ease of use and its ‘addicting’ factor, countless users in a wide variety of countries use twitter to generate an ever increasing amount of information on thoughts, opinions and occupations, creating a fluid network of information exchange in real-time. Because of these properties twitter holds the ingredients to be(come) a reliable platform for doing research stretched across multiple disciplinary fields. In this blog post i’ll discuss certain approaches for doing research on microblogging and aspects associated with microblogging.

Line Tower Wars 7

Line Tower Wars 7 is a custom Warcraft 3 game hosted on battle.net, in which 7 players battle it out to claim victory for their own.