Tag Archives: New York City

Human Innovation

Posted on May 2, 2013 by Meg

I spent the last few days at TechCrunch Disrupt, checking out amazing cyberpunk tech to improve every possible aspect of our lives, like BitPonics, to automatic hydroponic gardening,  InBetweenJobs, to gameify job hunting, and Magisto, an artificial intelligence for automatically editing videos. … Continue reading →

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Greenheart Games On Game Piracy

Posted on May 1, 2013 by Meg

My Geek Insider colleague, Mohseen Lala, covers the fantastic story about Greenheart Games’ Game Dev Tycoon‘s anti-piracy message in the pirated version of the game. Game Dev Tycoon allows players to run a virtual game studio, hiring devs and trying to … Continue reading →

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Please Get Ready For Your Arrival

Posted on May 1, 2013 by Meg

I really like getting the chance to help Chinese visitors find their way. First, it’s a nice karmic balance for all the times kind Beijing and Yantai folks helped get me where I wanted to go, despite my awful Chinese. … Continue reading →

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Redress Raleigh

Posted on April 30, 2013 by Meg

I was really excited to interview Mor Aframian from Redress Raleigh for arts mag thalo. Mor and I worked together a few years ago at a fashion-meets-tech startup called Thimbler, and I am so pleased with her success! RALEIGH, NC … Continue reading →

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East Coast Game Conference

Posted on April 29, 2013 by Meg

I first attended Raleigh’s East Coast Game Conference in 2010, when it was Triangle Games Conference. (I’m a gaming convention hipster, apparently.)  Now in it’s fifth year, ECGC offers seven programming tracks, allowing attendees to focus on Design, Programming, Art, Writing, Serious … Continue reading →

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Motherlode

Posted on April 27, 2013 by Meg

When the new SimCity came out, and crowds of gamers leapt to vilify EA for the problems with a new always-online “feature”, I kind of laughed at players getting so wound up over launch-day issues. I even snarked about how worked … Continue reading →

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My Internal Monologue, #5

Posted on April 19, 2013 by Meg

How many F-bombs do I get to use? -Was not actually what I said when my editor asked if I’d be interested in writing an editorial discussing the massive layoffs in the games industry.

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This is Why I Don’t Want To Connect Submittable To Facebook

Posted on April 14, 2013 by Meg

This picture is for my returned expat friend Gabrielle Olexa, who’s currently chronicling her rejection letters on her blog. These aren’t actually all my Submittable rejections but trying to shrink the font size to fit more rejections in the screencap … Continue reading →

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Slow Boat

Posted on April 8, 2013 by Meg

Got a review copy from an editor today. Sometimes Harold tells me that Brooklyn isn’t all that far away, but seeing a book that took two weeks to come from New York, and somehow got smashed, creased, and water damaged on … Continue reading →

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Beijing Tech Report

Posted on April 5, 2013 by Meg

Really excited to hear about my former student presenting her start-up pitch at Beijing Tech Hive!  My old student is, of course, the woman in front. Via Beijing Tech Report 

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