Category Archives: New York City

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.

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Acts of Stunning Maturity

Next Island moved to a new office today, and my first act of stunning maturity was to call Harold’s desk from my desk to tell him I have a phone now. (I am not entirely sure why he puts up … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Casual Success

For questwriting at work today, I needed a map of the Next Island tropical continent. We don’t have a giant printer, so I printed out pages of map sections. Then, I looked at the unlabeled squares of terrain that I … Continue reading

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Unconventional Dating

  There’s my article in the summer issue of Kraze magazine! Unconventional Dates, that is. I don’t think we need any further comments on this. I’m really proud of this one. You can find Kraze in (most) Barnes & Noble … Continue reading

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Further Uses For SCVNGR

“Have you noticed that by the time we sit down in a restaurant, you’re always starving?” I asked Harold. “I point this out only because I thought if I didn’t order quickly enough, you might stab me, and also, the … Continue reading

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Fish Fountain At Classon

When I think about this summer in the future, this is the picture I want to have.  

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