live action role-playing game

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a Complex System not "overly" dependent on injections of external energy (money), or hidden side-effects (more)

Seth Godin's Tribes book ISBN:9781591842330 is out. The next frontier of Marketing is in leading (Leadership, not Management) groups of people who are working together to get somewhere. Go down the list of online success stories. The big winners are organizations that give tribes of people a Platform to connect. HughTrain, Tribalism, Brand You, True Fan, Subversive, Engagement. (more)

I do consulting work for startups & media companies. https://tomcritchlow.com/

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Brendan Schlagel: Weaving a public web, or, why don’t I blog more? Part 1 of a blogchain with Tom Critchlow on the theme of networked communities. (Virtual Community?) (more)

s07e17: Snow Crash’s Graveyard Daemons and Ethics Testing: There is a thing my brain does where I take a word like, say, ethics and then puts that word next to other unrelated words (more)

Tom Critchlowon Blogpunk. (more)

Forget about smart cities, Playable City ideas – like Bristol’s water slide or its temporary play streets – are a human response to the coldness and anonymity of the urban environment. (more)

Microsoft Intelligent Software Assistant

In computing, an avatar is the graphical representation of the user or the user's alter ego or character. An icon or figure representing a particular person in a video game, Internet forum, etc. It may take either a three-dimensional form,[1] as in computer games or virtual worlds, or a two-dimensional form as an icon in Internet forums and other online communities.[2][3] Avatar images have also been referred to as "picons" (personal icons)[4] in the past, though the usage of this term is uncommon now. It can also refer to a text construct found on early systems such as MUDs.[5] The term "avatar" can also refer to the personality connected with the screen name, or handle, of an Internet user. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar_(computing) (more)

Dan Hon: Episode Sixty Four: Computer Says No, Snow Crashing. Computer Says No: I've started on Daniel Suarez's books[1], which I've been meaning to get around to for a while ever since seeing Daemon come out in 2006 (more)

Dan Hon s06e09: What’s the target? (more)

Dan Hon s07e05: "Leverage-meets-Parks-and-Rec". In the (fictional!) user journey I’ve been working on, we’ve got an after-hours social worker heading out to a police station to pick up a kid and interview his mother (more)

Episode Forty Six: Blame Your Tools. Bret Victor has done a fantastic talk[1] that you really should check out. It's called Inventing on Principle and though it's been out for a while, even if you have seen it, I think it bears and withstands re-watching. Although it's an hour long, the real meat of it is in the first thirty minutes (more)

Tom Peters interviews Eliot Levine and Dennis Littky, the authors of One Kid At A Time about The Met School. http://metcenter.org/ (more)

Shorter than a Thin Book: a Mini Manifesto. (more)

AWS Lambda is an event-driven, serverless computing platform provided by Amazon as a part of the Amazon Web Services. It is a computing service that runs code in response to events and automatically manages the computing resources required by that code. It was introduced in November 2014.[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AWS_Lambda (more)

Up deploys infinitely scalable serverless apps, APIs, and static websites in seconds, so you can get back to working on what makes your product unique. (more)