I actually got one for Christmas a year or two ago, and it’s one of my favorite gizmos. It’s ridiculous how things like this change the way you perceive media — I was in Best Buy last night checking out CDs, and found myself putting stuff back until I made sure they weren’t available from the iTunes store. Buying music as Mp3s just feels better to me these days — faster, cheaper, and without all the plastic cases and crap to clutter up your apartment.
As far as tips are concerned… iPods are pretty basic. The shiny surfaces do get scratched up pretty easily — you might want to pick up some kind of a sleeve for it if you’re going to be carrying it around a lot — but the actual workings are pretty durable. Mine’s survived long trips in backpacks, being crammed into glove compartments and even being dropped on concrete.
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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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