Monthly Archives: August 2011
Industry
Today I got a LinkedIn request from a professional contact that began “Hi Meg, we played Kinect wearing wigs at E3…”. This industry is pretty freaking awesome.
Chinese Bingo: Using Games for Cross-Cultural Education
So, I was recently invited to speak at the Serious Play Conference out in Redmond, where I totally tricked everyone into thinking I knew stuff about China and gameplay. It was pretty nerve-wracking, I spoke on the third day on … Continue reading
Some Indecipherable Code
Today I sent my dad a quest flowchart I’ve been working on, because it was a perfect mix of snarky dialogue, programming logic, hours spent playing Monkey Island, and some of my other random interests. My dad wrote back with … Continue reading
ChinesePod, OpenStudy and Education
I’ve got a new piece over on Dialect Magazine, talking about ChinesePod, OpenStudy, education for its own sake, and the most annoying website add-on I’ve seen since autoloading music (No, it’s not ChinesePod or OpenStudy). Tech-enabled students set their own … Continue reading
Overage, Anti-social, And Completely Owning It.
Caitlin, my college age co-worker, asked me about Tweetdeck, so I showed her some of the ways I sort incoming social information, and what I do with it. I stopped just short of admitting that sometimes, at work, I pretend … Continue reading
Sonar: Tech-enabled Telepathy
I have a new piece up on Dialect Magazine, chatting about social media, location-based apps and live-action friendspam, and anticipating future interactions of tech and society. New location-based social app Sonar.me, though, takes that into account and works as an … Continue reading
Ramen Candy
Last weekend was Alistair’s pool party, an annual tradition for a growing circle that includes a lot of my high school friends. When I moved back north last fall, I felt strange picking up with my friends from ten or … Continue reading
