February 2009
23 posts
The new marathon: The 100-mile run →
“Music games are proven earners—Aerosmith has reportedly earned more from Guitar...”
– Is this true? (From an interesting analysis in Wired by Jeff Howe)
How to give a presentation when your audience is... →
The future of the comic book? →
Somebody *really* doesn't like Dubai. →
The Stream, Not The Inbox
Stowe Boyd, an incredibly smart guy who thinks about the fate of attention and messaging, wrote a great post noting the differences between traditional email and “flow” applications like Twitter. He argues that communications are drifting away from email to “flow” applications, and that’s a good thing. As he breaks it down:
Streaming applications are involved in...
“Crashing like Windows”
– Terrific new metaphor I heard from — created by? — my friend Misha
“Quest supports a dynamic curriculum that uses the underlying design principles...”
– Whoa: A new grade-6-to-grade-12 school is opening in NYC this fall that aims to teach kids using the principles of ludology.
Fidel Castro, blogger. →
I found this via Rachel Sklar’s Twitter stream!
The perils of prosthetic memory devices,... →
I’ve written a lot about the promise and perils of outsourcing your memory to silicon devices, but I’d forgotten the paper precursor to the hard drive: the humble Filofax. Turns out an early J.J. Abrams movie hinged on the ability of a Filofax to essentially contain someone’s identity: When a millionaire loses his Filofax, he “spirals into the gutter”, whereas when a...
“I have now spent two days with Twitter, and I have decided that it is basically...”
– Pioneering game designer Raph Koster explains Twitter.
“In the cloudy zone of blue feathers, the melanin and air cavities are so close...”
– Dig it: The reason blue jays are blue isn’t because of pigment, but because way nanoscale-tiny effects inside the feather affect light. (via a Tweet from Debbie Chachra)
“Snow is transformative. It changes everything. Speed of travel, acoustics, the...”
– Why snow creates play — one of the best pieces on game-design I’ve read in years! (via Yishay Mor’s Twitter stream)
“When you Google for something, by contrast, you’re imposing the severest...”
– Interesting essay on the dangers of homophily in the age of the Internet.
