Category Archives: Intellectual Property

Liveblogging State of Play, Day 2, Lunch Session

Posted on June 20, 2009 by Timothy Burke

Talking about new media reporting and games. Julian Dibbell: the hook of these stories is maybe completely done in the terms that we’ve seen so far (e.g., “this is the future! there are people with stores in Second Life!!!!” but … Continue reading →

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Liveblogging at State of Play, Day 2, Session 2

Posted on June 20, 2009 by Timothy Burke

Session on kid and tween worlds. Joost van Dreunen. Stepping away idea of designer as author, moving towards the idea of supplying tools to players or participants. Video games as meaning-making experiences. Interested in how kid worlds/tween worlds actually make … Continue reading →

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Liveblogging State of Play, Day 2, Session 1

Posted on June 20, 2009 by Timothy Burke

I’m at the developer roundtable. Dan Norton, Raph Koster, Jesse Houston, Nick Fortugno, Mike Sellers [Me: Thank god for these guys, just as an aside: developers interested in exploratory conversations about the form, who don’t just stare at people and … Continue reading →

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State of Play, Day 2

Posted on June 20, 2009 by Timothy Burke

Trying to think about yesterday’s sessions before we get started. What is sticking with me is this: 1. No application, design or game can live up to the utopian imagination of potential users or players, and that utopian imagination is … Continue reading →

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Liveblogging From State of Play, Session 4

Posted on June 19, 2009 by Timothy Burke

On Virtual Economies Julian Dibbell’s introduction: maybe virtual economies were not so important, or not as important as we thought in the way that we thought they were. Maybe RMT doesn’t have to be quite the battleground that it was. … Continue reading →

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Liveblogging From State of Play, NYC, Session 3

Posted on June 19, 2009 by Timothy Burke

“Breaking the Magic Circle” We had a prior discussion at my table about whether there’s anything much left of use in “the magic circle” as a concept, and someone mentioned a recent discussion by Jesper Juul on the issue. Jerry … Continue reading →

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Liveblogging From State of Play, NYC, Session 2

Posted on June 19, 2009 by Timothy Burke

Government and governance in virtual worlds panel. Tori Horton, description of how virtual worlds can link to public diplomacy, reviews weaknesses and strengths of virtual worlds for servicing public diplomacy. My comment: same issue as with Raph’s framing of Metaplace, … Continue reading →

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Liveblogging From State of Play, NYC

Posted on June 19, 2009 by Timothy Burke

Raph Koster, “A New Kind of World”, keynote Focused on Metaplace. Had to ban his own brother from UO. Brother is now cyberactivist. But virtual worlds don’t have that relevance, really. Nothing has happened in them that matters by comparison … Continue reading →

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Textbook Costs

Posted on February 12, 2009 by Timothy Burke

Lots of cross-blog talk on this subject at the moment: why are textbooks so expensive? The answer is mostly that it’s a racket with some resemblance to some of the weird pricing that happens inside the health care system. The … Continue reading →

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The Visual Bottleneck

Posted on January 14, 2009 by Timothy Burke

So I finished a short movie on the third day of the Digital Storytelling workshop. I’ve got a number of reactions to the experience, which has been really interesting and useful in a variety of ways. For one, I’m struggling … Continue reading →

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