Author Archives: Karl

Nurturing A Video Game Industry In Philadelphia

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NewsWorks posted a story, back in December, on “Philadelphia Game Lab”, an organization I’m helping advise led by idea-machine Nathan Solomon whose energy and passion is infectious. Read it: NewsWorks: “Nurturing a nascent video game industry in Philadelphia — NewsWorks”.

Tonight there is a game scene event at Barcade.

Earlier This Month The Commodore 64 Turned 30

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Cheap, accessible, it opened the doors for many children to their careers today and families had a lot of fun a long the way.

The six months I had one, and the time I spent with my friend Steve’s 64, left a long term impression on the course of my life.

reghardware: “The Commodore 64 is 30 • reghardware”

Jonathan Stray: “What should the digital public sphere do?”

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A fantastic piece from Jonathan Stray on “algorithm designers to dedicated curators to, yes, traditional on-the-scene pro journalists, a great many people in different fields now have a part in shaping the digital public sphere”: “What should the digital public sphere do?”.

For Whom The Bell Tolls

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The famous quoted passage from John Donne below has been brought up a few times the past few weeks. Here is the whole: “Meditation 17”:

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were; any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.