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Podcasting and Intimacy

I feel awful for posting about this a week late, but I still feel like I need to say something, so here goes... Last weekend, Richard Bluestein, the man behind Madge Weinstein, the queen of queer podcasting, lost his partner Juan Montealegre to cancer. Until last week, Juan was known only ...

Hurry up-Date ™

I've been delaying posting an update to my speed dating adventure in the hopes that I'd have something a bit more exciting to report, but at 3 weeks out it appears that the Hurry Date (tm) story is pretty much a closed case. Keep in mind that the excitement of ...

Speed dating wrapup

So, as I said, I went speed dating last night through Hurry Date (tm). After much nervousness on my part, I'm happy to report that it was really fun, and not at all the disembowling trainwreck that I had feared. Well, no trainwreck yet, anyway. As you'll see, the results ...

Two things that I’m doing that are out of the ordinary (for me)

1) Tonight, I'm going speed dating. 2) Next week, Erwin and I are starting Barry's Bootcamp. As you'll note, talking to strangers and regular exercise are out of character for me. I'm trying to reboot my 2006 by fooling it into thinking I'm someone else. You know, someone who exercises regularly and ...

ITP

After mulling it continuously for the better part of two years, I finally broke down and decided - a week before the deadline - to apply to NYU's graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program. It's a two year graduate program in media technology / social technology / art and technology / etc. ...

Google Print and new models

O'Reilly Radar has a roundup of some very smart people (including Tim O'Reilly, as a publisher) debating the issues surrounding Google Print and the notion of whether it's fair use or not, and whether the Interweb has really become lawless or not, and how publishing is quickly following the music ...

It’s not true, but…

The Washington Post prematurely posts its obituary/retirement package for Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist It made me pause for a moment to think that, for some people, the line between retirement and death is just a slash.

“When we started to get interactivity back.”

True brilliance is when you say something that makes others think "yes, of course; why hadn't I thought of that?" I just read an amazing article on Douglas Adams' site, How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet, published in 1999, that is amazingly prescient in regards to a ...

Pulling Out

Well that was fast. After just three weeks, I have pulled out of FleshBot (so to speak). Suffice it to say that I'm extremely busy, and the research and writing was weighing me down. I just don't think that porn is my destiny, in any form, tho I'm wondering if ...

Things I saw at lunch today

The ocean, for the first time since I've worked within walking distance of it (2 weeks). It was absolutely gorgeous - sunny and windy, creating really nice waves. Seagulls playing in the wind. There were a few who really seemed to like flying into the wind, which would cause them to ...

Colophon

Turning coffee into feats of intellectual derring-do since 2001

Hi there, I'm Adam Simon. I'm the Creative Director and Co-Founder of Socialbomb, a social gaming startup in New York City. I recently graduated from NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), doing research in large scale game design, social networking, urban computing, performative technology, and networked objects. You can find info on my thesis here, and a big list of all my ITP-related posts here

I sometimes work at area/code.

Projects that I've been a part of which you might have heard of include BootyDialer, The Invention of Murder, Rumplestiltskin (An Aretefactual Performance), & Sharkrunners

You can email me at adam @ [the name of this website].

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Social Heroes: Games as APIs for Social Interaction (aka, my ITP thesis)

Because I've been busy/lazy and off the blogging habit, here, at long last, is my thesis for ITP, almost a year late. Comments and such are still more than welcome, as many of the ideas are still being worked on in my current projects, and Social Heroes itself is likely ...

Crazy Blind Date: A Quintet for Human & Computer

The appeal of Crazy Blind Date\ is immediately apparent, and seems custom-designed for busy city folks: “on very short notice we can set you up on quick dates with total strangers at public places like bars and coffee shops. You're not allowed to see their picture or even communicate.” Created ...
March 29th 2008
Tags: Social Software Studio, Thesis 2 Comments

Social Heroes

My thesis has split into two ideas, something which was foreshadowed at the end of my midterm presentation. I mistakenly assumed that one of the ideas would seem obviously better than the other, but that hasn't happened. Rather, I'm stuck with two ideas which I think explore the ideas I'm ...
March 16th 2008
Tags: ITP One Comment

PCBs from Eagle to Production

In this post I'm going to explain how to output files from Eagle PCB in order to send your designs off to be professionally fabbed. There are two major steps before this in the process: creating the electrical schematic, and moving from that schematic to a board layout. I'm not ...
March 14th 2008
Tags: Social Software Studio, Thesis One Comment

Thesis: midterm presentation & playtest

| View | Upload your own ITP Thesis: Midterm presentation (with notes) (PDF) Here's the midterm presentation I just gave in my thesis section (the PDF includes the presenter notes, and is perhaps more comprehensible). I felt like this presentation was a return to form for me - lots of photos, ...

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