One of the things at stake–in the debate about internet privacy, say–is whether or not people will be able to be whole people, real people, on the Internet.
This is related to the question of whether or not people can be whole people, real people, in public.
A difference between living in a city and living in [...]
Category Archives: Idea
some thoughts on Internet privacy and identity (city vs. village)
November 13, 2011 – 8:37 pm
Community neuron thought experiment #1
October 18, 2011 – 1:35 am
The results of the first community neuron thought experiment are disappointing. I chalk this up to lazy experiment design.
If the function of nodes is a mere blending of the information that they consume, then convergent nodes will lose information. Everything tends toward gray.
Rather, it is important that some information be rejected. But [...]
Jetsam: WHAT IS THE DYSTOPIA I’M REALLY AFRAID OF
July 18, 2011 – 6:33 pm
As I’ve said, everyone was always talking about hipsters. And gentrification.
WHAT IS THE DYSTOPIA I’M REALLY AFRAID OF
The world moves so fast the only people who can stay on top of it are plugged into it all the time + are controlled by it.
Leaving a lot of things behind [People behind] which [...]
Go Variants
March 15, 2011 – 12:11 am
Some ideas for variants of the game Go.
Any Graph is a Board
Though not a novel insight, it is cool that Go can be extended to use any graph structure as a board. Some people have experimented with this already, such as the maker of Freed Go.
But it should be possible to extend this to [...]
When the internet goes out
December 29, 2010 – 11:50 am
When the internet goes out we’ll spend a month shuffling from shop to shop in search for a decent wifi signal.
Curation Virtuosos
November 28, 2010 – 5:41 pm
In the future, there will be web curation virtuosos who are patronized by governments and billionaires similar to the great artists of the Renaissance. They will sift through the vast seas of content available to discover the choicest videos, the most esoteric music, the finest short prose. They will have public performances of [...]
Diximus: A Storytelling Game
August 29, 2010 – 6:21 pm
Diximus is a game of storytelling for four or more people that can be played with just pens and paper. In it, players write short narratives based on a prompt, and then compete to guess who authored the stories.
It is a generalization of the 2010 Spiel des Jahres Winning game Dixit. I’m making it [...]
