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This is a random collection of thoughts or notes that I’ve decided to collect here. Continuity is not my friend.

Archive for the '(dis)continutity' Category

A Blast from my Academic Past…

Sunday, January 4th, 2009

My Google Alert for “Casey O’Donnell” or Google Ego Monitor notified me this morning of the re-emergence of my essay for the IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication. I wrote an essay entitled, “Making an Open Source Case for Offshoring.” Because the essay was shorter, short on data beyond my own observations, and a bit risque, [...]

Has Atari Changed Phil Harrison or Phil Harrison Changed Atari?

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

The unfortunate thing about my first semester teaching was that I felt as if I was never going to come up for air. The fortunate thing about that process is that it means I’ve been sitting on a pile of thoughts on a variety of videogame development and game industry issues that I’ve been following [...]

Facebook Girl Online…

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

One of my other favorites from Gradyfest was this little gem, which one of my TELE 3310 students was a major part of:

The Definition of Remix/Fan Culture and Co-Production

Sunday, December 21st, 2008

Several folks from the Grady College at UGA pulled together a fantastic assortment of student work Thursday of this last week called “Gradyfest.” I went in with very little in the way of expectations, but I was simply blown away. Not only was I blown away, I found myself thoroughly enjoying the evening. What perhaps [...]

The Dissertation is Live

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

My dissertation is now officially online. I’d not posted the file directly, because I assume that RPI’s servers are doing some sort of tracking that I will likely be less inclined to do. It also makes sense to encourage people hoping to download the document should be getting it from a single source, rather than [...]

A New Breed of Spam? Or Just a Wrong Address?

Monday, December 1st, 2008

I’ve recently received a couple of strange emails. Initially I thought that they had simply been sent to the wrong email address, mistaking me for someone else. But then, as I read them a bit more carefully, I got the sense that they were simply too vague, that there was something wrong with them. Is [...]

Post GGDA Meeting Follow-Up

Friday, November 14th, 2008

After the break you can read the text of an email that was sent out to Clinton Lowe and the attendees of our first Athens GGDA/IGDA meeting. Overall the event was very successful. I think we came away with a core group of people interested in making the chapter a success. I think the chapter [...]

Some New House Photos

Friday, November 14th, 2008

I’ve been meaning to post these for a while, but we only recently got DSL up and running at the new place, so it has been difficult to get these posted somewhere. The full album can be seen here. We’ve posted some photos of the new house. Now keep in mind that this is pre-cleaning [...]

Inaugural Athens Chapter GGDA/IGDA Meeting Today

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

The Inaugural Meeting of the Athens Chapter of Georgia Game Developers Association (which I’m hoping will be co-branded as an IGDA chapter as well) will be today, November 11th, at the Pub at Gameday. The full annoucement of the event can be found on the GGDA website. The synopsis listed on the site is:

The [...]

Cards as a Meditation…

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Perhaps I’ve simply listened to too much Sting as of late. But my meditation has, as it often has of late, settled on the game, the geometry of chance.
I know that the spades are the swords of a soldier
I know that the clubs are weapons of war
I know that diamonds mean money for this art
But [...]