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  • Lifestream Digest for April 14th

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    Shared 2 links. Protecting creativity: Copyright and wrong | The Economist Protecting creativity: Copyright and wrong | The Economist inbox inspires only angst [caseyodonnell]

  • Lifestream Digest for April 7th

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    Peabody redux – Judging = Fun, Results: http://bit.ly/c8WpSl and Colbert on not getting the Peabody this year: http://bit.ly/daSDzh [caseyodonnell]

  • Protected: After the Grandmas’ Visit

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  • Lifestream Digest for March 31st

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    via @melcef on Facebook: "Very sad to pass on the news of the passing of Susan Leigh Star." Very sad indeed. 🙁 [caseyodonnell] Published Don’t Quote Me…. Published Work/Play and “Turning Work into Play”. After the Gold Rush: Nervous about the future of funding for games that don’t suck, but are serious/educational… http://bit.ly/aSp0WI [caseyodonnell] Published…

  • This is Precisely What I Meant by Maleable Domination

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    I gave a talk at 4S in Washington DC this fall entitled, “Software/Code is Society Made Malleable.” It was a riff off of an essay by Bruno Latour titled, “Technology is Society Made Durable.” In that talk I was exploring the shifting field of technology as numerous devices integrate hardware/firmware. I’ve put the abstract of…

  • Work/Play After the Gold Rush

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    There has been a sudden surge in folks talking about this whole “Work/Play” thing. I talked about it in my dissertation quite a bit, but mostly felt that it was already kind of overdetermined. Too many people have written about it in a way that I think is neither well rooted in empirical work or…

  • Don’t Quote Me…

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    Andrea says that I’m simply too nice, but I do probably talk to too many students. It doesn’t help that I’m probably more opinionated than I ought to be. Combined with working in a journalism school, I find myself saying things that frequently find their way into print. Of course, I often wonder if anyone…

  • Lifestream Digest for March 24th

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    Published Lifestream Digest for March 17th. Soup and old clothes at 11:30AM. A (not) new Friday ritual I’ve grown quite fond of. [caseyodonnell] Shared Apple Bans Game, Days After Developer Publicly Trashes App Store (Stephen Totilo/Kotaku). Published Whither Mario Factory?: The Downside to Academic Publishing. Whither Mario Factory? Still unpublished. But, if you’re curious about…

  • Whither Mario Factory?: The Downside to Academic Publishing

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    I’ve been sitting on this material for a while. Many of my informants would recognize it as coming from back in 2006 when I was passing the PDFs around Vicarious Visions. Starting in 2008, the essay has been reviewed well and reviewed poorly and still not accepted. One interesting thing has been that despite good…

  • Lifestream Digest for March 17th

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    Sounds like #Sony #Move is getting the same developer response that #Home had at #GDC in 2007… and boy is home AWESOME. [caseyodonnell] Published Lifestream Digest for March 10th. Shared CfP: Meaningful Play 2010. Shared GDC: Refenes’ & Saltsman’s Baffling $350 App Store Success. A blast from my coding past… wxCURL gets it’s first birthday:…