Spending day at Game Developers Conference #GDC #GDC11 My schedule is open if any one wants to chat about iPhone or iPad dev or RPGnet.

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iPad 2 with Garage Band adds the accelerometer to the piano keyboard, allowing different dynamics based on the force you hit the keys. Wow!

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Anyone know an illustrator that has done an “infinite canvas” comic? I’m seeking one to use in demo of our upcoming iPad app Griddler.

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Made good progress today on Griddler, our iPad content authoring tool that I’ll be showing at SXSW next week.

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Replying to @kevinmarks

by “@psd’s wonderful web” do you mean http://www.flickr.com/photos/psd/1805709102/sizes/o/ ?

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Replying to @kevinmarks

Thanks, I think I will add @psd’s ‘web is an agreement’ illustration to the griddler showcase.

x-icon Wed Mar 09 07:12:34 +0000 2011


Received today some “Showcase” files created by artists to demonstrate Griddler, including an annotated Heronymous Bosch painting—thank you!

x-icon Thu Mar 10 00:57:47 +0000 2011


Heading to #SXSW Austin TX. Staying with @adonoho — long-time mac developer, SmartFriend(tm), and developer of iPad app Cha@ter.

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Anyone know an iPhone twitter app that will search for hashtags only from those that you follow? I don’t always want all #SXSW, only some.

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Good CNN article on why #SXSW is important to social web innovators. http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/innovation/03/10/sxsw.tech.trends/ This is why I’m bringing Griddler iPad app there.

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I can’t attend the Coworking Unconference right now, but it does have a livestream http://bit.ly/hB7EGd #coworksxsw #sxsw /via @leifutne

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Anyone interested in a friends of #iOSDevCamp meetup at #SxSW? Can someone local in Austin help find a venue and pick a time?

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RT @AlaskaAir: Starting today, we’re offering free Wi-Fi on all flights to/from Austin in celebration of @SXSW! Enjoy free @gogoinflight …

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RT @jowyang: SXSW is a Manifestation of Twitter: Many Connections, a Stream of Conversations, and that ill-Feeling of a Intoxication

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RT @dhinchcliffe: “Start on the edge. The core of businesses have antibodies that are effective at throwing off & resisting change.”- @j …

x-icon Fri Mar 11 01:22:38 +0000 2011


In line at an impromptu “pop-up”
Apple Store at #SXSW—Lots of social media folk promoting apps including @whrrl Also saw @1timstreet in line

x-icon Fri Mar 11 21:33:03 +0000 2011


Twitter tells devs to stop mimicking the mainstream client experience http://tnw.co/eK8QRX Where is the line between mainstream & value ad?

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Until this moment there was no official word that the long line we are standing in is an iPad line. Until the reveal… http://twitpic.com/48koop

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Pop-up Apple Store crew has been giving out water to the people wearing street clothes. No Apple logos until just a few minutes ago. #SXSW

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RT @dsearls: @CShirky speaking at #sxsw. How can one not quote this guy? e.g.”The documentation of the event becomes the thing that peop …

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RT @jenny8lee: We have greatly overestimated value of access to info and greatly underestimated value of access to each other — Clay Shi …

x-icon Fri Mar 11 23:47:26 +0000 2011


At #Ignite Austin #SxSW. @whurley is here somewhere :-) (@ Ignite SXSW w/ 17 others) [pic]: http://4sq.com/hHKoRa

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Best tsotchke at #SxSW so far—my iPhone was almost out of power and PowerMat gave me a free, fully charged battery: http://twitpic.com/48mdbq

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I’m at #IgniteSxSW and they are live streaming at IgniteAustin.com - I like the creativity created by constraints in the #Ignite format.

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@leifutne: “where is #ignitesxsw?” Austin Music Hall, Nueces & 3rd.

x-icon Sat Mar 12 01:41:03 +0000 2011


#ignitesxsw @blanu beats gov censorship in 2021 with kickstarter-launched satellite internets, laser modems, mesh networks, etc. Cool!

x-icon Sat Mar 12 02:02:30 +0000 2011


Again! :-( RT @PrivacyPartners: Facebook’s Proposed Privacy Plan Puts Users at Great Risk - Huffingtonpost.com http://tiny.ly/T3xu

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A truly electric performance at #IgniteSxSW #SXSW (a movie): http://yfrog.us/nh2m1z

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After #IgniteSxSW last night and short movies at The Alamo Lamar #SxSW I’m gaining a real appreciation for the value of constraints.

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Good idea! “@debs: technical solutions to trolls: disemvowelling, making their comments only visible to them” /via @kevinmarks #SxSW

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In a huge a huge line around entire block for the #SxSW movie “Super” w/Ellen Page, Liv Tyler, Rainn Wilson, etc. Not an indie but looks fun

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Full house at Austin’s Paramount Theatre for “Super” #SxSW http://twitpic.com/48zqtj

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I’m enjoying #SXSW but do miss not being part of the intensive at #BGIedu this week and seeing my social web students’ latest projects.

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Best description I have for Super is that it is a psycho comedy splatter romance superhero movie. #SxSW http://twitpic.com/490u4p

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I was wrong, @JamesGunn’s movie Super is an indie even though it has @Rainn_Wilson, Ellen Page, Liv Tyler, Kevin Bacon, etc. #sxsw

x-icon Sun Mar 13 06:27:09 +0000 2011


Had a great lunch with my long-time friend @KelvyBird, who is now a graphic facilitator in Boston. http://twitpic.com/496uvs

x-icon Sun Mar 13 18:58:27 +0000 2011


@sxsw -> You should tweet something official on your account about proceeds of SxSW to Japan so we can RT.

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Too loud at Halcyon Cafe for Jerry’s Retreaters— crowd is leaving to try Vince Young’s Steak House http://4sq.com/eXJsdW

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Great conversation with @davegray about the possibilities and challenges of #GameStorming online http://twitpic.com/497yzr

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In tribute to my bicycling #BGIedu pals — I’m being green at #SxSW by using pedicycle taxis: http://twitpic.com/4999a2

x-icon Sun Mar 13 23:14:42 +0000 2011


Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s new movie “Paul” is a nerdvana of geek references, surprise cameos, and Klingonese. Out of this World! #SxSW

x-icon Mon Mar 14 04:57:25 +0000 2011


@feliciaday Thanks for the passion about collaborative creativity you shared in your #SxSW keynote today.

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@feliciaday Advance question for your 5pm panel - do you like the emergence of the term of transmedia? You airquoted it twice in keynote.

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RT @brainpicker: “Mainstream is nothing anymore. Mainstream is whatever you’re interested in.” @FeliciaDay Keynote #SXSW

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RT @brainpicker: “Today, no matter what you’re doing – music, art, comics, gaming – you have an opportunity to create our next reality.” …

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Good discussion on world creation #SXNewWorlds with panelists @FeliciaDay, Craig Engler @SciFi, Ryan Copple @rwcopple & Chris Prekstra #SXSW

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I’m at green media party at Clive Bar #SxSW - lots of people here are aware of sustainable MBA at #BGIedu

x-icon Tue Mar 15 01:16:33 +0000 2011


At #GameStorming session with @DaveGray, @SunniBrown & @MacGeo — they are going to try my #MemeMachine — looking forward to it!

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RT @GoAnalog: Find ways to get a meeting’s energy into the right flow. The difference between a campfire and a forest fire is structure. …

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RT @mrosas: Audience turned into a human sorting machine of ideas – seriously awesome, funnily awesome, seriuosly lame, or funnily lame …

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RT @missmilla2u: #Gamestorming session just awarded the most seriously lame idea. Incomprehensible. Seriously awesome idea was an epic f …

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RT @harveyt: partaking in the “meme machine” - the y axis of awesomeness :) #gamestorming #sxsw

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RT @greglinch: #gamestorming game was awesome bc it got people up, moving around and talking with each other. #sxsw

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RT @davegray: The massive parallel-processing meme machine, running the awesomeness app designed by @christophera #gamestorming http://t

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RT @bencarey: Playing a new #gamestorming game with a few hundred people. Great experiment. Needs some tweaking - but good approach for …

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RT @rawn: #gamestorming – funny but lame idea from the game: Boots that type/stamp out letters as you walk (I think): e.g. you can stam …

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RT @cjamesbarlow: #gamestorming @ #SXSW - Best 2011 session so far for me, fun, engaging makes me want to learn more. Nice mix @davegray …

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RT @mjbroadbent: +1 the power of real engagement and visual thinking RT @toneEsharpe: #Gamestorming #SXSWi most fun I’ve had at the conf …

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RT @jedo: Nodes should have a sheet of sticky stars and the can star on the ones they like as they pass them. Let ideas gain momentum. …

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RT @swyner: Loving the #gamestorming panel- gonna try the meme machine thing back at #umsi for sure!

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RT @greglinch: vizthink is a network of local communities that engage in #gamestorming. #sxsw

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RT @mjbroadbent: Finished recording of #gamestorming panel from the talented @ImageThink team #sketchnotes #VizThink http://yfrog.com/h

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RT @dweinberger: Twitter wants to be an app. We users wish it were a protocol. @davewiner is right: http://bit.ly/hVtJdH

x-icon Tue Mar 15 21:28:23 +0000 2011


Twitter just made available option for always on SSL. Go to your settings and check the box next to “Always use HTTPS”. Do it now!

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RE: “@mrslaine: Does anyone have experience/ideas on #gamestorming with remote teams?” I’ve been working on adapting F2F to online at BGIedu

x-icon Wed Mar 16 02:39:19 +0000 2011


Austin local fave Emily Hagins (@CheesyNuggets) has a very cute vampire movie in “My Sucky Teenage Romance”. Real promise in this filmmaker.

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Nice to see real teenagers cast in a teenager movie “My Sucky Teenage Romance” @CheesyNuggets also used #indiegogo #SXSW http://twitpic.com/49x6fa

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Guy (@jfourgeaud) playing game on his phone while projecting it on car in middle of street at #SXSW: http://twitpic.com/49xhr1

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It is interesting to watch how the clothing & hair style gestalt is changing as the #SXSW interactive folk head out and #SXSW music arrives

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RT @DalLaMagna: Today I bought Apple, Google, Netflix, Amazon and AOL stock as it was all falling. I’m investing in companies and holding.

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I like all the different street musicians along 6th St in Austin during #SXSW — these girls are “supercute!”: http://twitpic.com/4a5w57

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Photo of Austin skyline after sunset & #SXSW crowd on 6th Street: http://twitpic.com/4a64ju

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.@davegray: “Design is thinking ahead.” Definition seems too simplistic to me: no aesthetics, no emotions, no system thinking.

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A fascinating things to me is that almost every time I’ve stood in a line at #SXSW I’ve been next creative types—editors, screenwriters, etc

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I love this innovative portable drum set that fits in a suitcase (that also serves as the bass drum) @FoxtailsBrigade: http://twitpic.com/4ae092

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Interesting way to think about conferences: RT @jakemckee: Blog Update: SXSW as an API for industry collaboration http://bit.ly/gD6zaa #SXSW

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RT @Kurt_Vonnegut: Human beings will be happier, not when they cure cancer or get to Mars, but when they find ways to inhabit primitive …

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RT @stoweboyd: Why I was Wrong About SxSW http://sto.ly/i8QAgU SxSW: coincidensity carried to its logical extreme, a mini-city of techno …

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“I realized that I should have come like an ethnographer…SxSW is a petri dish for the social, mobile future.” @stoweboyd http://sto.ly/i8QAgU

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RT @cdespinosa: “Overpaid public employee”:2010::”Welfare queen”:1976. Demagoguery to distract from redistributing wealth to the wealthy.

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Lessons: “Fred and the Airbnb founders have generously agreed to let me publish this email exchange” http://bit.ly/h4dCMU @paulg @fredwilson

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RT @davegray: In 15 minutes we generated 300 new product ideas #Gamestorming #sxsw2011 #sxsw http://www.flickr.com/photos/davegray/sets/

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At @davegray’s #GameStorming #SXSW session we generated 300 new product ideas in 15 minutes using my Meme Machine—pics: http://bit.ly/hPKuHb

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RT @davegray: What I learned from the #sxsw Awesomeness App: whoever figures out the mashup between bicycles and the Internet will make …

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RT @davewiner: Larry Page Wants to Return Google to Its Startup Roots. http://r2.ly/dnez

x-icon Sat Mar 19 01:15:29 +0000 2011


Another #SxSW recap by @missrogue: There’s Something about SXSW http://bit.ly/i9BBy8

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I like my new profile photo at http://about.me/ChristopherA — what do you think?

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RT @jowyang: If you alter your mindset just slightly, everyone is a CEO and your boss is actually your client.

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RT @alevin: my experience is that question-only isn’t community or conversation, thus less socially compelling—but maybe just me? // me too.

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RT @gorenflo: Sharing made Time’s 10 Ideas That Will Change the World: Today’s Smart Choice, Don’t Own. Share. http://ow.ly/4hP6Q Congra …

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RT @feliciaday: Great weekend watching: 10 Awesome Videos On Idea Execution & The Creative Process :: The 99 Percent http://bit.ly/dPMaZG

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RT @wisdomuniv: The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems~G …

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RT @sebpaquet: Khan Academy lets teachers flip the classroom: assign lectures as homework, and do homework in class with coaching. http: …

x-icon Mon Mar 21 18:20:50 +0000 2011


Back in Berkeley after #SxSW — returning to less frequent twitter output.

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RT @paultrevithick: @dsearls says markets are conversations. Facebook says conversations are markets http://bit.ly/eLJazE //I prefer @dsearls

x-icon Thu Mar 24 18:33:56 +0000 2011


Good analysis: RT @ErikLove: The filibuster ruined the ancient Roman Senate, and it’s ruining the modern United States: http://j.mp/eBQcXS

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RT @eekim: Happy Sweet 16, Wikis, and thank you @WardCunningham for everything that you do! http://bit.ly/gQPQMD

x-icon Fri Mar 25 16:17:51 +0000 2011


29 Social Networks That Have At Least One Million Visitors Per Day http://royal.pingdom.com/2011/03/25/social-networks-one-million-visitors-per-day/ via @ziteapp

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