Well, I just submitted my first conference proposal ever. It's for O'Reilly's Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego next March. I knew I wanted to submit something, if only to get in the habit of such things, but in the past two weeks it solidified for me that I want ...
September 22nd 2006
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Gaming,
ITP,
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The Come Out and Play Festival is this weekend in New York, and if you don't come out and play, you might be classified as an Enemy of Fun. It's a big game / urban game / pervasive gaming festival. What does that mean? Lots of people playing games in ...
June 6th 2006
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Gaming
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The heat has kept me from getting a decent night's sleep in days, with the side effect that I've been a little ADD since yesterday. While that helped me write a bunch yesterday, it also meant that I didn't have the attention span for reading, and my brain was only ...
June 5th 2006
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Gaming
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In my E3 wrapup from last week, I said that I think gaming is becoming both more mainstream and more engaging, with Nintendo leading the charge toward a different kind of entertainment. That's great, and I know we're all looking forward to wearing our Wiimotes on our heads, but what's ...
June 1st 2006
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Gaming
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It's been three weeks since E3 (photos), and I feel like a slacker for not having posted anything about it yet. But, the truth is E3 and my trip to the Nintendo World Store (photos) just fit too well into an epic cycle of thought that had been percolating since ...
This Business Week article suggests that Google might be developing their own currency, making an end-run around PayPal (and just about everyone else). This is fascinating when taken together with the economies of MMOGs, especially Second Life, whose Lindens are easily converted to and from real-world currencies. If Google starts ...
As Erwin spotted, the LA CityBeat article on StreetWars came out yesterday, with the recounting of my assassination right in the first paragraph:
"It was only 6:15 a.m. when Special Agent DB* dragged himself out of bed and joined the other two members of his team, who’d been lying in wait ...
March 22nd 2006
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I may be so soaked that I missed Drinks for the Dead, but StreetWars keeps on spreading. It will be featured on CNN tonight, and I just got an email from a CityBeat reporter asking to interview me. Me! The guy who got wetted outside his gym on Day 3!
I'm ...
March 15th 2006
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My brief stint as an assassin has come to an end. This morning, leaving Bootcamp, I was smoked by a gang of three just outside the door. I smelled trouble as I was leaving the building in the form of a red-bearded fellow who looked not sore enough to have ...
As of last night, I've officially upped the ante: not only have I begun playing Perplex City, but I'm now enmeshed in StreetWars, as well. I'd call them both Alternate Reality Games (ARGs), tho they're quite different. I won't go into all of that now (more after I've progressed a ...