My notes from this week’s Marketing and A&R meetings.
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I did this project last fall for an independent study that I took, and have been sitting on the code since. Since locked up code that no one (including myself) is using does even fewer people any good, I opened up the project on GitHub. Maybe this can be of use to someone. I really like the concept, but haven’t had the time to take it any further.
The source is here:
It’s a Rails project. Info from the README follows…
This is a proof of concept project built to support conversation threading based on Twitter hash tags. It was built to provide a saner forum for continuing Twitter hashtag conversations, which can be hard to follow and where lots of good info ends up getting lost.
MSTP (a terrible working title which stands for “MediaSpace Thought Pool”) attempts to improve the situation by watching Twitter for particular search terms, and then automagically starting a Reddit style thread with any tweet that matches those terms. The tweeter is notified that their tweet has been turned into a thread and given a link back to the board. Having an off-Twitter thread and board is meant to enable deeper, more persistant conversations based on ideas posted to Twitter.
I imagine the primary use case for this being classroom and conference conversations. Basically any situation where a bunch of folks are tweeting ideas about a similar topic, but having a hard time furthering specific conversations.
A live demo of the project can be seen here:
http://young-mountain-21.heroku.com/
TODO:
This was thrown together as a bit of a proof-of-concept hack over a week or two. So there are lots of improvements to be had/made for the project to be used in production:
An essay that I wrote last year has been included the inaugural issue of the Four Peaks Review. The journal collects long-form writing on digital media primarily from the University of Washington’s MCDM program (from which I’m about to graduate). The journal is available here:
https://digital.lib.washington.edu/ojs/index.php/FPR/issue/current
I think my article (on historical disruption in the distribution of music) may well be the least exciting of the bunch. But it’s there!
Happy 15th, Dinky D! You are a wizard master.
Little Richard’s House of Donuts
‘n dunes.
Beaches.
I’ve been working for some time on a new project. It’s a location-based social game called Sprouting. My pet peeve with most location-based services and their “gamifaction” is that the gameplay elements feel bolted onto services that seem primarily focused on marketing and market opportunities.
My goal is to do better than that with Sprouting. With it, I hope to create a space for imaginative, artful, social play. To that end, Jesse Ledoux has contributed some amazing art, and I’ve been working on the code (in various forms) and gameplay for the better part of a year, hijacking school projects for research whenever possible.
It’s not quite ready for the world, but it’s getting close enough that I ought to start trying to pull in some beta testers. Please sign up! I’m going to need feedback from players to make this an interesting community and game. The form for beta testing is here:
I’m also looking for help coding! Contact me if you’d like to get involved; I’m looking smart collaborators with a deep understanding of internet services, Ruby, Javascript, iOS/Android development, and (maybe most importantly) a passion for games.
tj:
Every time I see people arguing on the Internet…
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