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[video] John Seely Brown: Tinkering as a Mode of Knowledge Production “I am what I create” says John Seely Brown addressing the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching – Stanford. [publishing] Giving It Away | Cory Doctorow I’ve been giving away my books ever since my first novel came out, and boy has it [...]

Young People and Emerging Digital Services: An Exploratory Survey on Motivations, Perceptions and Acceptance of Risks young people’s perception of the risks that the new eID technologies may pose and b) young people’s acceptance levels of these risks, and their general motivation and intent regarding the use of these new technologies Henry Jenkins: History and [...]

Excited to be heading off to Vancouver as a speaker at Magazines Canada’s Web Weekend series for Canadian magazine professionals. This is my second year presenting in the series.

If you’re like me and you love exploring richly textured environments, you must check out Shadow of the Colossus – wikipedia. My partner and I started attacking the Colossi at Christmas and I’ve got a few to go. You can get a sense of the look and feel from the video above.

Best. Run. Evar! Worlds collide in the most interesting ways …

I must roll a bigger Katamari for the King of All Cosmos (even though it’s his fault that all the stars have disappeared. How Freudian). My heart’s desire is to make enough beautiful and majestic Katamaris to fill the sky back up with stars so I can  make The King (and the modular Japanese family [...]

Ever envy the birds and their graceful giss? Join them with flyguy! click anywhere on the image below – and make sure your speakers are turned on, the music is lovely: I absolutely love Flyguy! It’s so playful, so inspired, so dharma! A truly brilliant use of flash animation that is both mindfully aware and [...]

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