There’s no doubt there is a lot of harassment on Twitter. The pseudonymous nature of the open platform creates an environment where random bullying can be become the norm, especially in certain spheres. This isn’t the fault of Twitter, the reasons go far deeper into society than one platform, but it is a mirror into […]
2014 – Week 1
It’s a New Year! 2014 is here and has done its best to make its mark with the weather. Reading How to run the perfect marathon by Beer Belly Running. I’m going to be reading a lot more like this as I have no idea what to expect (pain, I know there’ll be pain, but […]
Playful: Bennett Foddy and confusion and frustration in games
Live Blogged – mistakes are mine Foddy’s plan is to talk about suffering in making games. Starts with a lesson from the Olympics. It is one of the only events with billions of viewers. Competing in the games is nothing like playing a video game. it’s about suffering. Running is hard, athletics is hard. You […]
Signing up for Pinterest
A twitter friend sent me an invite to Pinterest, as I’m interested in what it does. However, do far, all it has done is annoy me! Clicking the link from the email, the first thing it offered was the ability to sign in with Facebook or Twitter. There was no alternative way of creating an […]
The Games Maker Application Process
I applied to be a Games Maker for the 2012 Olympics this morning and had to struggle through the application form. Not too bad, but some annoying design and validation issues that just make it hard… They do their best to put you off by asking all sorts of personal questions first. What’s your Passport […]
Twitter Censors
I woke up today to find that Twitter has decided to break itself and started to censor what it shows me. Before today, when I decided to follow someone, I saw all of their public tweets, all of their replies, no matter to whom they were replying. This was a setting in the system, allowing […]
Twitter Frustrations
I’m getting really frustrated with Twitter at the moment and it has nothing to do with the service itself but to the explosion in use. Since the start of the month I’ve received 50 new followers, very few of whom I’ve followed back. Some of it, I’m sure, is because I’ve been on the service […]
BarCampBrighton and SL connections
Aleks Krotoski talking about the social graph. [missed the start] A social psychologist, trying to examine connections Pathways can be mapped across friends and people. Mass friending…impact the data and how the network connects. there are certain relationships and strengths of relationships. You can technological measure strength but difficult as you get to semantics. Adding […]
BarcampBrighton and Cloud Computing
Jeff Barr, from Amazon, was at BarcampBrighton as part of a long European tour, talking up cloud computing. apologised for going to be a little more commercial than others….but taken out the prices so it’s not a sales pitch! been at Amazon for 6 years.  Saw real potential, the first catalog service. they started sending […]
BarCampBrighton and Stories and Games
Adrian Hon from Six to Start talks about Games and Stories Creative Director at Six to Start, make ARGs, but not what I’m going to talk about it ARGs are games that use multiple media or media in interesting ways to tell a story. Email, twitter, newspapers, IM, GPS etc. Â What I want to talk […]
Jane McGonigal Keynote at SXSW
Jane McGonigal Keynote. The Lost Ring Video played. A call for help. Being going a week – are you in? going to talk yo you about alternate realities. instead of trying to make games more realistic, trying to make the real world more like games. we need more alt. realities and the real world needs […]
BarCampBrighton – Slorpedo
This is about Slorpedo – a mixed reality game in Second Life based on an Icehouse game Torpedo. Difficult to play in real world, due to complex rules. so fits well with a virtual world built at HackDay London, uses reacTIVision How it used to work – runs on laptop (server), interacts with SL, via […]
BarcampBrighton – Portable Information
A group panel about portable data and information Jeremy Keith Microformats – semantic web hCard is probably the most popular. there is an existing format called vCard. hCard is a 1:2:1 mapping of vCard. Use of vCard info on a web page. same details as in your address book/phone. the idea behind microformats is not […]
BarCampBrighton – the morning so far
I decided last night to come down to BarCamp Brighton, when I saw there were some tickets made available. A friend was travelling down so I got a lift straight to the campus and arrived just as it was kicking off. The usual introductions were made and everyone did the traditional standup and give three […]
SXSW – ARGS and Games
Dan Hon, Tony Walsh and Dee Cook Tony Walsh, Phantom Compass, Toronto, Games design. Fallen, Regenesis. Dee Cook, working on ARGs, since 2003. Worked on World without Oil Dan Hon, Six to Start. worked on Perplex City, working with Channel 4 education DH: ARGS are a new way of telling stories, using all forms. People […]
Twitters Error Message
Look, a new error image for Twitter. Nice, it’s even got robots, but I wish they would please hurry up and move to the new servers and get it a little more stable.
Advertising or Subscription
I just twittered that I was off to the IAB MIXX conference today and Tom Morris responded, (only partly tongue-in-cheek) that he thought they’d been replaced by Ad Block. Which leads me to my question. If, hypothetically, we all had Ad Block so that no ads were served how much would you pay for your […]
Wikipedia Edits
Many news organisations are busy reporting on how various institutions are editing their own entties, or stuff to improve their standing in others. (here’s the latest from the BBC about the Australian Prime Minister’s office). But the Scottish Sun is hitting the local demographic and is reporting on how Local Firm fans, Celtic and Rangers, […]
Clipmarks and Forbes
Do I believe what it says in the blogs? This time I hope so – Venture Beat is reporting that Clipmarks is being bought by Forbes. The New York-based startup lets you select text, photos or videos on web pages, then use Clipmark’s bookmarking feature to save the URL and your selected information to your […]
New uStream Interface
The new uStream interface was launched yesterday and has a few new toys. It allows you to ‘clap’ the presenter, with a rating meeting – the more people who click the higher your rating. But most interesting to me is the instant poll – the stream owner can create instant polls and get a response […]