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The Cartoonist, our winning entry in the 2010 Knight News Challenge, emerged from two research programs. For the past two years, my research group at the Georgia Institute of Technology has been cataloging and analyzing the burgeoning genre of "newsgames" -- videogames about current and past real-world events.

A new mission-based, alternate reality or big game, called Pheon, will debut September 18 at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. A variation of Capture the Flag, Pheon is a competition to obtain the game’s virtual talisman, the pheon, which will occur online and at live events during the course of a year.

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With the real time web, the amount of information we have to handle is changing the Now,” he said. “Now is becoming a lot denser. There is a lot more information in per unit of Now. The Now is getting shorter. The horizon is getting narrower. Now has gone from days to hours to seconds. via gigaom.com