ProphecyBoy

The term "rally" as applied to stocks and shares is amusing to me. It makes me think of stock certificates trying to hustle up a steep hill. - more on Twitter

Cow Abduction

The California Milk people have an awesome ad campaign online at CowAbduction.com. I love the "cowmoflage"! I'd love to see this turned into an alternate reality game, with witnesses you could call, Cow Crows installed on farms, and actual abduction clues scattered around the state. I'm not sure what ...

Media Zen

Xeni is co-hosting On the Media today - one of my favorite media personalities on one of my favorite NPR shows. This almost makes up for her not having a podcast of her own.

The Regional Gossip arm of Gawker Media finally gets a San Francisco outpost - Valleywag - focused on, of course, the Silicon Valley brat pack. It's being written by ex-(?)Blogebrity writer Nick Douglas, which seems appropriate. I like that Gawker's metro gossip blogs are themed after their cities (though, really ...

Newsvine

I just got my beta account for Newsvine. It's very slick, despite some performance issues, and I think it has a lot going for it in the citizens-media realm. (I'm even more convinced after hearing last week's Inside the Net interview with Mike Davidson, who claims they're working on rich ...

Google Automat is what they said Base would be

When everyone was all agog a couple of weeks ago over the ephemeral appearance of Google Base, I have to admit, I just didn't get it. People kept getting their panties in a bunch over a Google-run, user-defined database, that it would somehow compete with Craigslist or eBay. At the ...

Going Places

Going Places Originally uploaded by Mr Lunatic Fringe. In cleaning out my "to blog" folder, I found a link to this photo. Back in the summer of 2001, when I was on the Alaska AIDS Vaccine Ride, I rode my bike down ...

It should have been obvious

43Things, 43Places, and soon 43People. Josh Peterson explains: Early on when we started brainstorming the idea for 43 Things we came up with the triumvirate of 43: people, places, & things. We decided to start with 43 Things as it was the most unique and out there part of the trio. ...

I’m rather overwhelmed

with all the interesting ideas Dave Rogers brings up in his criticisms of the Cluetrain Manifesto, but I had to get one thought out of my head and caged in cyberspace before it could run away with the circus. This quote leaped out at me: The problem is that more and more ...

Mirrormask

Check out the trailer for Mirrormask. I had no idea that Dave McKean was directing. It looks amazing. One of the quotes at the top of the trailer says something about a Wizard of Oz for the 21st century, but it honestly looks much more like Labyrinth mixed with City ...

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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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, ...

Socialbomb was at ETech

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Socialbomb unit, originally uploaded by doryexmachina. Last week we took Socialbomb to O'Reilly's Emerging Technology conference. We held a BoF session on getting social games away from the keyboard, and ran ...

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