06 May 2010, Posted by Matthew Reinbold in PowWow, 0 Comments

Work as Play, Activity Capture

On April 1st Vox Pop Design was pleased to host yet another Pow Wow. These are events where the friends and associates of Vox Pop’s distributed software development model meet and share what they know. In this round table excerpt the conversation finished up with a lengthy discussion on work as play, and just how that might be achieved.

19 Mar 2010, Posted by Matthew Reinbold in Events, 2 Comments

Ignite ‘Tribes Talk’ Recap

The videos to the fourth Ignite, Salt Lake event have been posted. Here, yours truly, wades into the minutia and comes back with super-tribal-something-err-rather. So what is all the fumbling bluster about?

04 Feb 2010, Posted by Matthew Reinbold in Die Bucher (the books), 1 Comments

die Bücher (the books) – Suarez’s Freedom

Freedom is the just released sequel to Daniel Suarez’s Daemon. Given how much I enjoyed the author’s debut novel the expectations were tremendously high. After an automated software task co-opts much of the world’s wealth and information infrastructure, how much more could there be to say?

Turns out there’s more. Much, much meme-creating more.

14 Jan 2010, Posted by Matthew Reinbold in Die Bucher (the books), 1 Comments

die Bücher (the books) – Suarez’s Daemon

Descriptions of Daniel Suarez’s Daemon might remind you of Charles Stross’s novel, Halting State. Both start with a misbehaving MMORPG. Both have autonomous software agents wielding influence in the physical world. Both have broken protagonists fighting not only to keep the virtual world at bay but their own shadowy pasts.

The difference is that Daemon does it terrifyingly, realistically, fabulously *better*.

08 Jan 2010, Posted by Matthew Reinbold in Wunderkammer (the links), 0 Comments

Wunderkammer: Jan 8th, 2010

Branding, bots, and underwear bombers, oh my! It’s another roundup of curiosities from around the web which I affectionately call… THE WUNDERKAMMER!