{"id":1253,"date":"2004-07-16T21:31:34","date_gmt":"2004-07-16T21:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2004\/07\/16\/street_talk_and_jane_mcgonigal.html"},"modified":"2004-07-16T21:31:34","modified_gmt":"2004-07-16T21:31:34","slug":"street_talk_and_jane_mcgonigal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2004\/07\/16\/street_talk_and_jane_mcgonigal.html","title":{"rendered":"Street Talk and Jane McGonigal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It only took three years of hearing about <a href=\"http:\/\/avantgame.com\/\">Jane McGonigal<\/a> before we were finally in the same room together at Intel&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban-atmospheres.net\/StreetTalk\/\">Street Talk: An Urban Computing Happening<\/a>.  The conference was most magnificent because it was a gathering of some of my favorite researchers, all talking about what urban life meant, how pervasive technologies were evolving, gaming and other constructions of sociability in a digital world.  Fun fun fun.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, meeting Jane was just such a pleasure &#8211; it took far too long and too many misses.  Everyone out there who was determined that we should meet was right-on.  She&#8217;s got immense amounts of spunk and she puts together creative public games; she studies performance and bridges the digital\/physical divide in a total complementary way to me.  Even better: she has a pet word that is awfully similar to my own. <a href=\"http:\/\/skepdic.com\/pareidol.html\"><i>Pareidolia<\/i> is &#8220;a type of illusion or misperception involving a vague or obscure stimulus being perceived as something clear and distinct.&#8221;<\/a>  [My favorite word is apophenia: &#8220;the spontaneous perception of connections and meaningfulness of unrelated phenomena.&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It only took three years of hearing about Jane McGonigal before we were finally in the same room together at Intel&#8217;s Street Talk: An Urban Computing Happening. The conference was most magnificent because it was a gathering of some of my favorite researchers, all talking about what urban life meant, how pervasive technologies were evolving, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}