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(via Remains of the Day: The FTC Requires Opt-In for Facebook Privacy Changes)
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dinosaurparty: (via Museum 2.0: Getting in on the Act: New Report on Participatory Arts Engagement) And if the graphic wasn’t excited enough, there’s a whole report from the Irvine Foundation! Our Mini-game-jam at the Denver Art Museum, April 16 & 17 of 2011 follows this pattern, most especially Audience-As-Artist. The education and young-adult outreach officers…
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emergentfutures: Games’ Scoreboard Once, playing computer games required some forethought and effort: you had to go to a video arcade, purchase a game console, or buy and install software for a personal computer. But with the advent of mobile devices such as smart phones and the rise of social websites, choosing and playing a game…
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Strategic Science Fiction Reader Caucus with a Splash of Transformative Justice
I got to be a part of this team, which included Leah, Jenna and Alexis. We started by geeking out, and brainstorming all of our favorite radical science fiction materials and creators. Here’s the list of works/creators, followed by the full collective notes from the session (taken on a collective notepad!) Creators: writer Iain Banks,…
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Classroom discussions are everywhere…
More and more recently it seems our topics from class are reitterated within a 24 hour window (+/-). Bits and atoms? Atoms and bits? Oh my! How can “Atoms are the New Bits” (me) and “Bits are the New Atoms” (Andreessen) both be right? http://t.co/eHAG6W41 Original Tweet: http://twitter.com/chr1sa/status/134265436375232512
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austinkleon: Jonathan Lethem, The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc. I had no idea this was coming out. The original 2007 essay—a “plagiarism” woven together from passages from other writers—was a huge influence on me and Steal and probably a bunch of other people. (Heck, David Shields took the idea and turned it into a whole…
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Storyboards and Segues makes it really easy to design and prototype iOS apps at the same time
Storyboards and Segues makes it really easy to design and prototype iOS apps at the same time immerseyoursoulincode: When I worked on the XBox 360, all the Interaction Design was documented in Visio diagrams which were manually translated into Flash prototypes for usability studies. I had wanted a solution like what XCode now offers with…
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thenearsightedmonkey: Meet me by the weeping willow tree. The Near-Sighted Monkey’s favorite cartoonist, Bil Keane, has died. “He was just our dad. The great thing about him is he worked at home, we got to see him all the time, and we would all sit down and have dinner together. What you see in the…
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nevver: Dead at 89, “Family Circus” creator Bil Keane
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thenearsightedmonkey: I was a kid growing up in a troubled household. We didn’t have books in the house but we did have the daily paper and I remember picking out Family Circus before I could really read. There was something about the life on the other side of that circle that looked pretty good. For…