Archive for the ‘game’ Category
Monday, January 19th, 2009
After my last post, a friend pointed me to usability big guy Jakob Nielsen's online writings on Heuristic Evaluation, and I looked them over and passed specific links on to Mike Lee, organizing our "Code Jam". I've mentioned Nielsen here before. I think the ideas they had did ...
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Saturday, January 10th, 2009
I'm going to my first-ever Code Jam next Saturday. We'll be rating NASA Etoys for One Laptop Per Child. These NASA distance learning activities for children exist already, and the author has offered to adjust them for OLPC if we just step through them on the XOs and ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Due to unavoidable circumstances, I was unable to make it to the con (in Michigan) until Saturday night, but I did make it to the Giant Singing Tesla Coil and the Hampster Dance, and then was able to assist with the making of 6 liquid nitrogen ice cream flavors that night. From midnight until past 2 am :
mint irish cream
triple chocolate
cinammon orange creamsicle
vanilla raspberry
another chocolate
soda slushies
Sunday, ...
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Saturday, January 26th, 2008
When you want lots of people to contribute specific kinds of content, how can you encourage them?One can always try to influence the culture (storytelling, glory boards, begging). One can give individual incentives (rewards for best contributors, points systems). One can send out reminders ... or put reminders ...
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
I'm interested in games and game theory, and poker can be used for illustrating points about human behavior, but as of now, any comment containing the word "poker" is now headed to /dev/null. I won't even see it. Next month I may get around to updating my blog software to ...
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Tuesday, July 17th, 2007
I took a longer break from blogging here than I'd anticipated, but I'm cranking back up again.
Recently I noticed that Pieter Spronk, the author of my favorite PalmOS game, Space Trader, is the Director of Studies of Knowledge Technology at Universiteit Maastricht. He also teaches Logic and Games & ...
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Wednesday, April 11th, 2007
I've been getting ready for Penguicon coming up next weekend, putting Knowledge Gardening slides together and re-working them after a dry run, looking at other slides/presentation technology (S5) for later consideration, and so on.
If I weren't going there, though, I might be tempted to run down to NC for ...
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Monday, March 26th, 2007
I came up with this term when I was discussing knowledge management (and where I come in) with Joe McCarthy in comments on my January entry "Learning". I was trying to come up with a term to describe where I fit in knowledge management (at the practitioner/encourager end rather than ...
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