How The World Alive, Swings
How Swing, Jazz, Ritual, Folktales, Pop Songs, DAOs and Virtual Worlds, Weed and the Metaverse are all connected.
August 4, 2022
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World Running 🌐
Posts and notes about the emerging discipline of world running
Pinball Wizard | 2228
Pinball Wizard is the name for a 1970's cyborg. People who first entered a world inside a machine and 'touched' the metaverse.
July 16, 2022
Evenly Distributed | 2226
In 1974 on the PLATO mainframe system there was a 32-player 3D networked first person space flight simulation game.
July 2, 2022
Navigation Styles | 2225
A world has to allow players to change their play style as they learn more about themselves in the context of the…
June 25, 2022
‘Making Moves’ In DALL·E mini | Weeknotes
Learning to make moves with DALL·E mini is about writing prompts that get the best from the subsurface potential in the machine…
June 19, 2022
Win Condition | 2224
The ultimate victory condition in the most popular online worlds right now is to be left alone.
June 18, 2022
Lost Zone. Hiking the Dawn of Metaverse
I just received my contributors copy of Lost Zone. Hiking the Dawn of Metaverse. A book about Active Worlds - the 90's…
June 14, 2022
Brainworms | 2222
'Someone has brainworms', is a recognition that an individual is behaving in a way not congruent with dominant cultural logics.
June 5, 2022
Metaverse as Medium | 2220
Why I think the metaverse is important, MUDs, the web as 30 year long distraction, and why worlding worlds means shaping reality.
May 21, 2022
Marriage in the Metaverse | 2218
8th May 1996, 26 years ago tomorrow. Tomas Landhaus and Janka Stanhope were married in the metaverse. Plus my chapter in the…
May 7, 2022
Wind-up Worlds
Wind-up Worlds, Web3, World Running and the urgent collective pivot we need to make towards Slow Social experiences.
May 6, 2022
Nomic Kennings | Weeknotes
I've thinking about 'Nomic' this week. A game system created in 1982 by philosopher Peter Suber
March 27, 2022
Talking Mechanics and Worlding With Paul Czege | World Running
I spoke with Games Designer Paul Czege abut the emerging concept of World Running. We discuss the end of play as narrative…
September 14, 2021
Power Fandoms | 2134
With Web3 enabled Permissive IP frameworks, Power Fandoms will own, produce and share the value created by their worlds. They are coming…
September 11, 2021