Why do all apps and websites look the same today? Medium
Why do all apps and websites look the same today? Medium
Oh my word so much to do… need to find a way to have a proper break soon.
Thieves of Experience: How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism - The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Review via @artkavanagh 📚
O.K., Google: How Much Money Have I Made for You Today? New York Times
The Future of Rock is Female. Thanks @apulianas for video YouTube I made Apple Music version of playlist in case like me you don’t do Spotify. If you do it’s this one
‘The goal is to automate us’: welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism - Guardian
The big match
VAR wasn’t brought in for this
I’m not a fan of VAR (video assistant referee) and this is one a few reasons why. Fans also again chanting VAR is just rubbish and wrong.
Basecamp leaves Medium. Instagram destroyed by facebook. Twitter is a horrendous place to be.
Simple answer own you photos and text, on your own domain.
Easiest way to start is get a micro.blog. Does blog, does photo, does social!
Instagram was always going to be destroyed by Facebook. That’s why the owners left perhaps they realised there mistake like others.
That 2009 / 2019 photo thing sweeping the nations maybe a backwards way of data-mining even more data about you via Machine learning when you post onto Google / Facebook et al.
Facebook Doesn’t Need to Fool You
#conspiracytheoryperhaps
A great set of images, text and videos from a visit to DymanicLand, (theBret Victor related research lab).
a new computational medium, where people work together with real objects in physical space
You can run a profitable company — which we are — without using a surveillance business model.
Nothing Can Stop Google. 🦆 DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway.
I tell you the 2018 iPad Pro chips are through the roof. This is what excited me about the iPad launch. The power. Now we just need them in macOS. I predicted the new Mac Pro would be where we see the first ARM Mac. However the guy reckons a gaming console from Apple! I mean the chips are awesome but Apple doesn’t innovate anymore does it…
Did my pro Microsoft post go missing hahaha I hope not. I meant it, honest. Maybe iOS is trolling me.
I am in fact quite liking Office 365, Sharepoint Online team site and Teams at work atm. Generally if you do the right steps in setting it up, people are able to just get on, communicate and collaborate. It’s a little shocking. 😂
Added ESLint and Prettier to my spatial UI Vue based project. Should help a little… at the very least it tidies up behind my mess.
Finally got around to “playing” Bandersnatch. Frustratingly boring, clearly linear, obvious “choices”. Became stupidly frustrating and just plain stupid at times. TV trying to be a game perhaps? Not going to “play” again. Perhaps still a semi interesting format…
Never had to be in charge of a minutes applause tribute before but we (games staff and students) did that today for Ashok 👏 ☹️ it was a moving moment.
Ashok Ranchhod 1948 - 2019
It was with great sadness that I was informed that Ashok Ranchhod had passed away on January the 3rd 2019. I didn’t know Ashok outside of work but he was a kind, funny and interesting person. Ashok had been at the School of Art since 2011.
Ashok was really an unsung hero of the BA (Hons) Games Design & Art programme.
Ashok was a staff member that was always present at our events and was always up for providing feedback on student projects, he loved to get involved and played all the games we showcased over the last few years.
Ashok was a regular contributor to the programme since its inception giving specialist talks around gamification and the history of games along with popping by the studios to discuss student projects. Ashok was also very involved in the PhD work of two of the current staff team within Games alongside a lot of work he did in relation to the Games Design Hub and Serious Gaming Hub which connected the staff team and students to different projects in computer science, healthcare and more.
However what would not be obvious is that if it wasn’t for Ashok the BA (Hons) Games Design & Art programme would not be here today. The original team that worked on creating the programme in 2013 included Ashok, Gary Wills, James Stallwood and a number of industry advisors, the industry advisors where all contacts via Ashok. My main role was to work out what a current games programme would need from all these inputs and to pull together the programme documentation and design the curriculum. It was Ashok that represented the new programme at the validation panels and supported connections within Computer Science and without his action at these panels, the programme may never have been given the green light.
Ashok’s connections within the Games industry, Serious Gaming and Gamification gave gravitas to the programme documentation. The initial membership with TIGA and a number of the guests within the programme come from Ashok’s connections specifically in the first year he organised guests that included Rod Cousens.
I am aware that Ashok has spoken highly of the programme both internally and externally and that numerous contacts we now have would not have been without Ashok. I suspect many opportunities for the programme have come from the work Ashok did on our behalf, both directly and indirectly. If it was not for Ashok’s support and help I would not be leading a successful Games Design & Art programme, I love my work and the programme we run here so for this I am eternally grateful.
For the revalidation of the programme in 2017/18 Ashok wrote for us a brand new module The Business of Games, something the programme really needed, the module will run in the 2019/20 Academic year. I can’t believe he will not be here to deliver it. Ashok will be missed in more ways that he may have known.
This year we lost one of the GDA Family.
You can donate towards cancer research in Ashok’s name and read more about his life here
Yeah! Just been sent this by my friend Mathew happy days.
Right back to reading my old favourites
Right back to reading my old favourites
My clarified research statements and question for my PhD going forward is;
Design School (project based learning) education is awesome!!
Blackboard LMS is 💩
I reckon we can do better? (for design school education)
😂 #procterphd 👨🎓 😜
Super useful PhD upgrade event today ! Wow a lot of amazing feedback