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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.
Posted in Los Angeles, New York City
Tagged e3, Los Angeles, New York City, not a f*cking waitress anymore
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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
Posted in Seattle
Tagged China, gameplay, games, pretending to be an adult, Redmond, Seattle, Serious Play, Serious Play Conference
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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
Posted in My Other Writing, New York City
Tagged chinesepod, my other writing, New York City, OpenStudy
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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
Posted in New Jersey
Tagged Alistair, As seen in New Jersey, Colron, grocery store adventures, high school friends, New Jersey, ramen, Roy, Willem
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