Digital : Analog

“…and then I had a really productive telephone meeting about the magazine, and what direction we’re taking it in.” Marcus told me. “Well, actually it wasn’t on the phone, we were talking on Vent, while playing WarCraft.”

I usually make fun of Marcus’ non-digital lifestyle and lack of technical familiarity, so I was pretty pleased to hear this, and I wanted to blog about it. I found a pen in the litter of nail polish and lipgloss next to my bed, but didn’t have paper available, so I wrote a couple notes on the back of my hand.

Marcus. WarCraft. Vent as phone.

Then I hung up and went to sleep.

The following morning did not begin with me adding a clever post to my blog. Instead, it began with me frantically trying to scrub enoph sa tnev tfarcraw sucram off my face.

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Complimentary?

Boss: Your <project> looks amazing! How did you manage that?

Meg: I don’t drink coffee and flirt with boys ALL DAY, you know.

Boss: Could have fooled me.

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Entirely Different

“I gotta hang up and get back to work,” I told Marcus the other day.

“Right, you have to slay monkeys and rescue new players.”

“No, no, the boars are killing newbies in this area. The talking monkeys have capitalization problems. Entirely different issue to deal with.”

“Go play your videogames, woman.”

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How To Tell If It’s Snowing

snowy tangerines

Wait until someone asks you if you’re going into the city tomorrow, and then, just as you begin to go into your Hulk rage, because obviously you go to the city for work every day (and twice on Sundays, as Figment would say, in his inimitable Hollywood/Midwest way), look out the window and see if there’s a blizzard.

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Internet Famous

I didn’t usually post work press here, but Default Prime just did a story on Next Island, and mentioned me.

Next Island itself was demonstrated at length by Neverdie Studio’s developer Michael Ray, who answered journalists’ questions and showed character highlights, when he wasn’t bantering with Next Island’s social media consultant, Meg Stivison. Although Next Island doesn’t open for the mainstream audience until next month, the dedicated game forums and popular Facebook page are filled with advance players talking about the game.

I’m awesome on the internet!

Via Monday Musings: Attending the Next Island media launch event | Default Prime | Default Prime

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Wicked Awesome

Boss: What’s our login for <site>?

Meg: Oh, you can sign in as MegIsWickedAwesome.

Boss: Was <company name> taken?

Meg: No. Why do you ask?

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Angry Birds

“Ever since we played Angry Birds in Maine,” Marcus said on the phone the other night, “I’ve been seeing it everywhere. I guess it’s becoming pretty popular.”

I just barely restrained myself from pointing out that Marcus is hardly the barometer for what’s hot in recreational tech. Other cutting-edge tech products to which Marcus has recently been introduced include Pandora, Twitter, Facebook games, and Skype.

“I’d heard of Skype before,” he insisted, “but it hadn’t really been contextualized for me.”

“And you didn’t type it into Google? Wait, you’ve heard of Google, haven’t you?”

“Go play your videogames, woman.”

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When Contextual Ads Attack

Sometimes Facebook gets a bad rap. But I love Facebook, I mean, I defended Facebook back when MySpace looked like an actual competitor (That links to my old Rolling Dice column in the long-dead Faster Than The World mag). I defended Facebook’s first privacy oops over public feeds. I’m fascinated by what Facebook and social media are doing to society, and to romantic relationships.

But Facebook hasn’t been returning my love recently. This was not my favorite targeted ad ever.

Ouch.

That one got me thinking about search terms and ad targeting, and I didn’t really like where that was going.

But after this, Facebook, I don’t know if we can be friends anymore.

I'll have you know, Facebook, that I'd spring for the full price boob job.

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Prima Porta Augustus

Prima Porta Augustus

Not saying I talked on and on about Venus imagery and the return of the Parthian standards, but this statue of the Prima Porta Augustus was later used as a landmark, as in “Hey, Meg, I’m back at the statue you like.”

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Digital Experience

Presenting Next Island at Pepcom.

Via my work blog, Next Island at Digital Experience » Next Island News

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