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ITP and Me

Everyone's been asking me about ITP (for obvious reasons), but I've yet to come up with something succinct. Here, then, is the best I've done thus far, plus a moment of surprising clarity on the scope of my life, from a MySpace message to a friend who found out that ...

Cubes, Water, and Gaming

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 ...

Explode your TV Channel

Here are my notes for the here! meeting, most of which we never covered, but that form a geneal outline for how I'd explode a television channel, were I ever granted such powers. Interestingly, after writing all this out, I'm a little less interested in actually doing it. While it's ...

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. ...

The Media Middle Class

The glory days of becoming uncomprehendibly wealthy by producing content are coming to an end. The internet is fostering a large group of writers, DJs, and filmmakers who will live comfortably by entertaining and informing themselves and everyone else. While many are beginning to make media more often, a growing ...

Palm in the Apple Grove

Palm store coming to the Grove Originally uploaded by Prophecy Boy. So, it seems Palm has decided to move into the retail space, just a stone's throw (and a backalley) away from Apple's LA flagship store. I'm sure that's not a coincidence ...

My real Webzine 2005 vlog

Here's my Webzine 2005 vlog, for real this time. And, really, the first thing I'd actually consider a vlog that I'm sending down this pipe: it's the first time I've made video specifically for this purpose, as opposed to appropriating something that was intended for another purpose. After making this, I'm ...

CTG cutbacks

For those of you outside of the LA area, or who have managed to avoid the firestorm around this already, you might be shocked to learn that Center Theatre Group, LA's largest theater producer, and operator of the Ahmanson, the Taper, and the Kirk Douglas theaters, announced sweeping layoffs last ...

Blog Debutante

It's a big launch day for new blogs: Gawker Media is launching Lifehacker, a productivity tools kinda blog, and Gridskipper, an urban travel blog. After a first-day perusal of both new Gawker sites, I have to say I like Lifehacker as a low-carb complement to the excellent 43 Folders. It's not a ...

Salon on SA/LJ merger

Salon has a piece by Danah Boyd on the SA/LJ merger - the first article (as opposed to announcement) that I've seen by a non-blog publisher. Salon is not exactly MSM, but it's as close as it appears this story is going to get. Rather than utilizing the long lead time ...

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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