Category: (mo)bile blogging
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There is a Freaky Mushroom in the Backyard
I’m not fully sure when it began to grow, but it has now been a staple curiosity of the backyard ecosystem for several weeks now and has even spawned several unsucessful artistic forays. Behold something straight out of my imagining of Lewis Carroll’s imaginings.
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The Definition of Remix/Fan Culture and Co-Production
Several folks from the Grady College at UGA pulled together a fantastic assortment of student work Thursday of this last week called “Gradyfest.” I went in with very little in the way of expectations, but I was simply blown away. Not only was I blown away, I found myself thoroughly enjoying the evening. What perhaps…
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iDMAa 2008: Keynote Day 3 – Pat Aufderheide
Day 3 began with Pat Aufderheide of the Center for Social Media at American University delivering a keynote entitled, “Why the Digital Future is More Copyright Friendly than You Think.” The two words that she believes makes this difference are, “Fair Use.” It was an excellent talk, hoping to connect the worlds of digital media…
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iDMAa 2008: Gaming and Virtual Worlds – Day 2
What was perhaps most interesting about this panel was actually what was not said. The panel in many respects represented the (dis)connect between departments and disciplines surrounding (video)game development. One presenter seemed to even embody the kind of (inter)disciplinary divide. One panelist actually said they didn’t understand why they were even on this particular panel,…
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iDMAa 2008: Keynote – Social Experience Design
Day 2 started off with Ruben Steige of Millions of US talking about Social Experience Design. I think one of the key takeaway elements of this talk is that, “entertainment has always been social.” In part because of a second shift in how people interact with media Ruben spent the majority of his talk examining…
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iDMAa 2008: Reflections on Day 1
iDMAa certainly started things off on the right foot. Though I gained membership in the organization when I joined the University of Georgia and the New Media Institute, I didn’t know much about the organization until Scott Shamp sent me his Podcast talking about last years events. It of course helped that the event was…
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Moving 2.0
Moving into our new pad and hemoraging money. The closing went well, although the now separated couple across the table definitely made the experience tense. On the upside, since it was Halloween, there was a giant bowl of candy. The new place is great, though we have been cleaning for nearly two days straight. The…
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Live from SEIGE: DRM, Region Lockout, Format Wars, …
Last night’s plenary session seemed to set the benchmark for talking about the state of the videogame industry more broadly, but also in the state of GA. In part, that is what has made the conference so far a particularly interesting one it demonstrates the kinds of intersections that occur between local activity and creative…
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(Mo)bile Blogging SEIGE in ATL
Andrea and I will be heading down to Atlanta tomorrow for SEIGE at the Marrietta Hyatt. It should be a great introduction for me (and those students of mine in NMIX 4200 who are planning to head down for the event) to the GA game development scene. What I’m hoping to find is a new…
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Who toss(?) the totr…
Who toss(?) the totra(?). listen I’m actually impressed by Jott’s inability to translate this one. 🙂 I mean, who does toss the totr? The amusing thing is that I Jott’ed, “Who tows the tow-truck?” As we were driving down Powered by Jott