A recent Communications of the ACM has this article showing the intersection of informatics and The Lord of the Rings. The link is most likely only accessible from the IU campus or through the VPN. There is a wealth of informatics content in this article:
1. The fact that new economy companies are running virtual worlds for profit.
2. That archiving such material is a complicated problem at the intersection of information systems, library science, computer science, etc. It's an informatics problem.
3. A lot of academic researchers (e.g. professors) may be interested in researching the social aspects of how people use these virtual worlds. Depending on the methods used, that could be sociological research or research in social informatics. What would the difference be?
This recent L.A. Times article shows a potential new use for BD Live Blu-ray content. Why is it posted here? What does it tell us about the New Economy or increasingly accelerated change in a digital world?
If you didn't know it before, it's official! The N.Y. Times has reported that Facebook is in a better position than MySpace.
Finally, this recent Wired article talks about the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Finding new ways to use, visualize, and learn from this information and deal with the large amounts of data is the domain of astronomers, astro-informaticists, and computer scientists.
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