World Running 🌐
Posts and notes about the emerging discipline of world running
Cultural Fracking | CMF 2023 Annual Trends Report
I was interviewed by the Canada Media Fund, as they have included a *whole chapter* on Cultural Fracking in their 2023 Annual Trends Report.
Good Taste Online | 2303
Given the affordances of different social media platforms. How does one demonstrate taste in the digital realm?
Geocity and the City | 2302
This episode is about what happens when the metaphors we use change. But mostly it’s about Geocities.
Unstoppable, Infinitely Moddable, Autonomous Worlds
Unstoppable, Infinitely Moddable, Autonomous Worlds are coming.
Goncharov’s New Dabloons | 2242
It’s not the truth of a cultural object that matters. But the collective truth that arises from consensus of interpretation.
Metaverse: As Good a Word as Any | 2239
In the twilight age of Web 2, Metaverse is as good a word as any for people who wish to re-imagine the future of the internet
Mickey in the Metaverse | 2235
As a symbol of the copyright regime of the 20thC. A permissive Mickey in the metaverse seems like an interesting experiment to try.
In the Other Room
After a few minutes of careful listening I said ‘It sounds like a man peeing into a bucket standing up next to a washing machine’. The ‘correct’ answer was ‘A field recording of jungle cicada’s next to a stream’.
Metaverse & Monsters | Thoughts on One D&D
For nearly 50 years D&D has been container for managing how people should interact and behave with one another, together, In a shared place.
How The World Alive, Swings
How Swing, Jazz, Ritual, Folktales, Pop Songs, DAOs and Virtual Worlds, Weed and the Metaverse are all connected.
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.
Evenly Distributed | 2226
In 1974 on the PLATO mainframe system there was a 32-player 3D networked first person space flight simulation game.
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 world.
Win Condition | 2224
The ultimate victory condition in the most popular online worlds right now is to be left alone.
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 metaverse project.
Brainworms | 2222
‘Someone has brainworms’, is a recognition that an individual is behaving in a way not congruent with dominant cultural logics.
