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New source of radiation

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

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Arrived yesterday, haven’t installed it yet. I think the idea is just wonderful and I really hope that lots of people will use this and thus make networks available where the telcos succeeded in persuading café-owners in charging 8 € per day. I really hate this pseudo South-American revolutionary attitude that they wrap the whole thing in, though.

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AA in SL

Monday, December 11th, 2006

I took some time today to play around with, or rather in Second Life. I actually went to the American Apparel store and bought some underpants since I was naked, somehow I had managed to lose all my clothes. It’s very well designed, kind of modernish. There’s even free beer (didn’t know what to do with it though).

I spent a few L$ on that and then went on exploring a bit more. I still don’t really know what to make of this, but I can’t really shake off this creepy feeling which SL gives me. On the one hand, it is truly amazing what people build and how much effort they put in there. As a whole, SL is probably the most astonishing thing around these days. On the other hand though, there’s so much weird things (and I mean really weird) around that it makes the whole thing like a giant dream to walk around it. It’s as if people use 3D and scripting to materialize some kind of collaborative subconscious and then charge you for renting real estate in there.

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AA goes Bauhaus in SL

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Interesting proposal

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Need clothes

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Much better

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NEXT notes

Wednesday, December 6th, 2006

Back from Copenhagen. Enjoyed it a lot! Some snippets and quotes from the conference, also a try in a public scrapbook –

Secrecy is the enemy of innovation (George Dyson)

Google is allegedly trying to optimize their server farms in a way that they will never be idle but constantly optimize the databases – they will dream.

In Africa, it often is the case that you get perfect reception in the middle of nowhere but you will have to drive for hours until you can recharge your phone.

There’s a Science Fiction Handbook which is supposed to be wonderful for designers.

In Romania there’s a village in which several of the houses from the TV-show Dallas have been recreated.

Places need stories.

Since the introduction of the computer, we had been playing alone for 30 years.

ASCII-art was allegedly invented by teletype-operators in the 1920s who were sending graphical Christmas-cards.

The IGDA published a white paper about alternate reality games.

Social is the new God. (Charles Leadbeater)

The industrial way of value exchange is going to disintegrate rapidly.

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Another day

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006

This morning I received two SMS-messages from Day of the Figurines. One read “you put down a defibrilator. you collapse to the ground. you’re unable to move.”, the other “you start to shake with cold and find it hard to decide what to do.”

It’s been a few weeks since the game ended and I guess they turned on the server in another location which then started to fire off some more messages by mistake. Either way, I found that really, really uncanny and it gave me an idea why alternate reality games might not seem too inviting to many people.

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Go Constance!

Friday, September 29th, 2006

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Blast Theory kicked off their Day Of The Figurines yesterday at Hebbel Am Ufer in Berlin. Part of the players: Constance, my gender-bending Miss Marple.

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blog.plugimi.com

Monday, August 28th, 2006

Hi there, glad you made it. From now on you can find the blog here and the feed at: blog.plugimi.com/?feed=rss2.

There’s more nifty news coming but that requires a bit more hacking on my side.

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Amerika

Monday, July 31st, 2006

I’m gonna be in the states for the next two weeks. First for SIGGRAPH to which I have been invited to do a presentation of Eavesdripping. (The panel is called Dangerous Displays!) Find the details here.

Then I will fly over to San Jose to check out ISEA and meet some nice people. If you happen to be at one of the events please get in contact with me. I will try to blog as much as possible on WMMNA as well.

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Up again

Wednesday, March 29th, 2006

After having been taken down by spambots, the server is finally up again, thanks for hanging on and thanks Tim for fixing it.

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