Archive for December, 2009

‘Allotment Act – Groundwork’

December 14, 2009 by katecorder · Leave a Comment
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Last week on Thursday, it was a good day for digging on the allotment plot at MERL. The weather was perfect, not to cold, with bright sunshine after recent rain. It was a day of excavation, a discovery mission to find out what was buried in the earth (not just worms, also rocks and artifacts). [...]

‘Farmville’ Perception of Virtual Food Growing

December 7, 2009 by katecorder · Leave a Comment
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Arts and Ecology posted a link to the doors of perception today on twitter about “Farmville” the largest game application used on Facebook, 62 million people have signed up to the application since June 2009, 22 million people on average are logging on everyday to see how their crops are growing. The idea behind “Farmville” [...]