The day after its release, the YouTube page for the song had been viewed over 200,000 times, and over a million times by February 5, 2009. TheAssociated Press called it a "hypnotic dance track", andUnited Press International noted it was "catchy", characterizing it as a "YouTube sensation". Gil Kaufman ofMTV.com described the piece as "a techno-ripping, demonic dance party".Time magazine's website called the track "hilarious", andNine News characterized it as a "raging online success". The director ofTerminator SalvationMcG liked the remix and put a copy of it on hisiPod, and Bale said he had heard the remix and thought "they did a good job".
Cow Clicker is anincrementalsocial network game onFacebook developed byvideo game researcherIan Bogost. The game serves as adeconstructive satire of social games. The goal of the game is to earn "clicks" by clicking on asprite of a cow every six hours. The addition of friends' cows to the player'spasture allows the user to also receive "clicks" whenever the player's cow is clicked. A premium currency known as "Mooney" allows the user to purchase different cow designs and skip the six-hour interval between clicks.
In the wake of a controversial speech byZynga's president at theGame Developers Choice Awards in 2010, Bogost developedCow Clicker for a presentation at aNew York University seminar onsocial gaming in July 2010. The game was created to demonstrate what Bogost felt were the most commonly abused mechanics of social games, such as the promotion of social interaction andmonetization rather than the artistic aspects of themedium. As the game unexpectedly began to grow in popularity, Bogost also usedCow Clicker to parody other recent gaming trends, such asgamification,educationalapps, andalternate reality games.
Some critics praisedCow Clicker for its dissection of the common mechanics of social network games and viewed it as a commentary on how social games affect people. (Full article...)
This map presents an overview of broadband affordability, as the relationship between average yearly income per capita and the cost of a broadband subscription (data referring to 2011). Source: Information Geographies at the Oxford Internet Institute. (fromInternet access)
Image 22The digital divide measured in terms of bandwidth is not closing, but fluctuating up and down. Gini coefficients for telecommunication capacity (in kbit/s) among individuals worldwide (fromInternet access)
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