Wow, all kinds of good new stuff are showing up today. First, hot on the heels of the Mac OS X 10.2.5 update we saw last week comes the public release of the new Safari beta, which introduces tabbed browsing. I’m not sold on this whole thing yet. I’m the kind of guy who browses with multiple windows all the time, and I appreciate how tabbed browsing will clean up my desktop, but I’m still not 100% convinced that this is as earth-shattering as people are making it out to be.
What’s much cooler, in my opinion, is yesterday’s unveiling of Metafilter Music. There’s some beautiful music on there, all by Metafilter members and programmed for nice and easy streaming through iTunes. So far I love Adrober’s ‘Praxis’ and Jazon’s work as Cannery Row. Go to, go to.
Feel that? Feel that stirring? That creative rumbling? I love that feeling.
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I'm the Director of the Games and Simulation program at Miami University in Ohio, where I am also an Assistant Professor in the College of Creative Arts' Emerging Technology in Business and Design department. I'm also the director of Miami's Worldbuilding and Narrative Design Research Laboratory (WNDRLab). I have a Master's in Comparative Media Studies from MIT and a PhD in Media Arts and Practices from the University of Southern California.
In past lives I've been the lead Narrative Producer for Microsoft Studios and cofounder of its Narrative Design team, working on projects like Hololens, Quantum Break and new IP incubation; in a "future of media" think tank for Microsoft's CXO/CTO and its Chief Software Architect; the Creative Director for the University of Southern California's World Building Media Lab and the Technical Director, Creative Director and a Research Fellow for USC's Annenberg Innovation Lab; a Visiting Assistant Professor at Whittier College and director of its Whittier Other Worlds Laboratory (WOWLab); the Communications Director and a researcher for the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab; a founding member of the Convergence Culture Consortium at MIT (now The Futures of Entertainment); a magazine editor; and a award-winning short film producer. more »
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