Archive - 2006
June 27th
Funding Perspectives: New Initiatives
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Tue, 06/27/2006 - 15:09Connie Yowell: MacArthur Foundation
Franklin Madison: ITAC
Chinwe Onyekere: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Jim Kim: Surdna Foundation
Brad Lewis: Learn and Serve America
Brad Lewis: First type of funding: Every three years a national competition. 110 organizations who have been funded will be making subgrants.
Find out about subgrants at http://www.nationalservice.gov, scroll down and see what is going on in your state.
Framing the dialogue: A conversation between Ian and Heather.
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Tue, 06/27/2006 - 13:04Ian Bogost CEO of Persuasive Games… Associate professor at Georgia Tech
Ian is interested in games as a literary style.
Heather Chaplin, author of Smart Bomb
Heather got into games when her husband brought home a Playstation. Her background is as a business writer and is interested in the business of games.
Ian: How do we ask more interesting questions, other than “are games good or bad”?
IRC log from the first part of Games for Changes
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Tue, 06/27/2006 - 12:34* Now talking in #06-g4c
Break and Big Media’s interest in Social Change Games
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Tue, 06/27/2006 - 12:28During the break, I had a nice chat with Gus Andrews. She is in the IRC chat and will also be going to Media Giraffe. I also spoke briefly with Beth Kanter, whom I know from nptech. She filled me in a little on what is going on with Tech Soup and Second Life.
Note: As the IRC backchannel gets active, my note taking seems to be slipping a little.
“Tessie” representing MTV, per se. (not the person on the program… I missed the name)
Peace, Games, and International Efforts
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Tue, 06/27/2006 - 11:25“Does comedy on television lead to comedy on the streets?” – Dick Cavert.
First speaker: Doug Thomas USC, Center on Public Diplomacy.
When you talk with people on European servers, he asked what people think of Americans. The response was, “They’re not that bad once you play with them.”
