Sigh, I wish we had something like this in the Philippines.
Check out “Gold Rush,” the groundbreaking interactive reality game from reality TV king Mark Burnett. It’s now live on AOL.com.
It’s a game that tests your pop culture knowledge, offering clues by pointing you to TV episodes you can watch and magazines you can read.
See, Mark gets it — it’s his first time to produce an online competition, and the level of integration of New Media with print and TV is amazing to see. Let’s see if this online competition can get more people to watch those shows and read those magazines, and if it will encourage more Netizens to explore AOL.
You need to be a US resident to register for the actual “Gold Rush” competition and get the chance to win the US$1, 000, 000 grand prize. Of course, you can still explore the site and enjoy the online games and other interactive content even if you can’t participate in the competition.
Here’s an excerpt from my CNET Asia tech blog post:
CyberPress (Information Technology Journalists Association of the Philippines) elected its 2006-2007 board members last night in a general assembly held at STI‘s iAcademy office in Makati City.
Founded in 1996 by then tech journalist and now Microsoft Philippines official Sam Jacoba, CyberPress is the country’s pioneering organization of IT journalists.
The idea behind CyberPress is that even though we work for competing publications and naturally want to outscoop each other when it comes to IT news, we could cooperate to achieve the common goals of making technical information accessible to more readers, educating the public on IT issues, and using technology to make a difference in the lives of Filipinos.
Read the full story.
The “State of Play IV: Building the Global Metaverse” site is now online. I’m one of the invited speakers at this conference that will be held in Singapore from Jan. 7-9, 2007.
Here’s the current list of confirmed speakers:
Confirmed speakers include, but are not limited to:
- Joey Alarilla (Founding President of Asian Gaming Journalists Association)
- Peng Hwa Ang (Chair of School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University)
- Richard Bartle (co-designer of the first MUD)
- Betsy Book (Makena)
- danah boyd (UC Berkeley)
- Greg Boyd (Kenyon and Kenyon)
- Erik Champion (University of Queensland)
- Vivien Chen (Nanyang Technological University)
- Kevin Collins (Indiana University School of Law)
- Aaron Delwiche (Trinity University)
- Julian Dibbell (Play Money)
- Cory Doctorow (Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom)
- Kjartan Emilsson (CCP Games — Eve Online)
- John Erskine (Vice President, NCSoft Austin)
- Steve Goldstein (Flagship Studios)
- James Grimmelmann (Yale Law School/New York Law School)
- Ge Jin (Director of Gold Farmers)
- Yehuda Kalay (Center for New Media at UC Berkeley)
- Raph Koster (A Theory of Fun)
- Greg Lastowka (Rutgers School of Law)
- Pathfinder Linden (Second Life)
- Peter Ludlow (Only a Game: Virtual Worlds and the Journalist who Knew Too Much)
- Thomas Malaby (University of Wisconsin Milwaukee)
- Jeff Malpas (University of Tasmania)
- Jane McGonigal (42 Entertainment)
- Jessica Mulligan (Developing Online Games: An Insider’s Guide)
- Joshua Fouts (Director of USC Center for Public Diplomacy Annenberg School for Communication)
- Eric Nakamura and Martin Wong (Giant Robot)
- Beth Noveck (New York Law School)
- Cory Ondrejka (Linden Lab)
- David Post (Temple Law School)
- Ren Reynolds (Terra Nova)
- Constance Steinkuehler
- Neal Stephenson (Snowcrash)
- Alice Taylor (BBC Worldwide)
- Mark Wallace (Second Life Herald)
- Sue Yang (Shanghai University of Sport)
- Nick Yee (Palo Alto Advanced Research Center)
- Judge Unggi Yoon
- Frank Yu (Microsoft Research Asia Advanced Technology Center in Beijing)
- Jonathan Zittrain (Oxford Internet Institute)
You can also check out Terra Nova, the conference’s official blog.
It’s truly an honor to be part of this. Somebody pinch me, I think I’m dreaming, heh.
