Greetings, mates! A quick update from the Captain’s Desk:<\/p>\n
* Tomorrow Thursday October 2nd I am going to Startonomics<\/a> which looks really good. <\/p>\n * Penny Arcade were daft enough to ask me to write a piece on DRM, which I titled ‘Put down the pipe.’<\/a>. As Tycho points out<\/a>“… the conversation is wholly the domain of psychotics, dead-enders, revolutionaries, and sophists.” Your vote please as to which bucket I fall into. For the record, I am merely a part-owner of Three Rings, which has many shareholders including our employees and investors<\/a>, I just have a big mouth and my colleagues extend me unusual freedom to exercise it.<\/p>\n * This is a great post on the role of the CTO<\/a> on Eric Reis’ blog. <\/p>\n * I was in Austin for the Austin GDC<\/a> and on a funding panel<\/a> with Saar Gur, Susan Wu and David King of (lil) Green Patch<\/a> I waffled something about how a strong CTO should be a member of the founding team. I was on another panel regarding open source<\/a> and at the Worlds in Motion summit<\/a> Nabeel Hyatt<\/a> and I had a rocking session on user-generated content with special guests Merci Grace PMOG<\/a>, Curt Bereton of Playcrafter<\/a> and Nicole Lazzaro of Xeo Design<\/a>. These are all awesome rabbit-holey sites of awesome, visit them. It was a fun session and we didn’t even have to serve drinks. Thanks to those bloggers present for not blogging my (too big-mouthed) presentation!<\/p>\n * I spoke at Siggraph<\/a> (note to conference operators, please make individual links to talks, so we can uh link to them) on Jason Della Rocca’s panel on user-generated content in games. It was weird; a huge hall with maybe a hundred brave souls after the first hour(!) but I think we said a lot of clever things, aided by ‘user created’ sketches and a guest audience-member from Microsoft flight sim. Siggraph felt kind of sad, rattling around in the giant LA convention center. <\/p>\n * I spoke on virtual worlds on the web<\/a> at the Virtual Worlds Expo. A lot of folks are betting on corporate applications for VW’s and maybe the time is finally right. Certainly if fuel prices continue to rise flying will become unfashionable. I’m not a huge fan of hurtling through the sky in a tin can, but it will be sad to see less of distant friends and family.<\/p>\n * As a teenager in the ‘duck and cover’ early 80’s I was an avid reader of John Wyndham<\/a>, and I have a weakness for apocalyptic contemplation. This is an excellent analysis of the credit crisis by Douglas Rushkoff<\/a> and I like his conclusions; move close to your friends and family (or move them to you, nudge nudge). See also other links from Marc Hurst’s awesome newsletter<\/a>. It remains to be seen what the effect of the economy throwing a wobbly will be on our business and the small group of generous players who make our games possible. Thanks, and may the force be with us.<\/p>\n * In other portents of the end of the world, the Nautilus was attacked by a motley band of hideous pirates known as the Instructables<\/a>. After some consideration, the appropriate fiendish rites and a short spell underhill to molder, we performed our Corpse-Craftian Zombie attack on Instructables<\/a>. Be sure to watch the second half. On the way back I led a small deputation of undead to maraud Eunice and co. at Hello Lucky<\/a>. <\/p>\n * Hot Facebook news this week as Eunice and I updated our profiles to say ‘Engaged’ and received a slew a congratulations. I actually popped the question back on August 10th, at sundown at the top of Buena Vista Park. We’d been throwing a muddy, drooly ball for Indie and Eunice’s hands were mucky, but she gamely popped on the ring. Hurrah! <\/p>\n * Back to Penny Arcade, Tycho writes that Corpse Craft<\/a> is “… fucking banging, and may even bang off the hook.”<\/a> Timothy Conkling and Jon Demos did an fantastic job with this game and are working on an expansion.<\/p>\n * Whirled is really picking up<\/a>. Something good is happening when every time I login there’s new cool stuffs and when I browse ‘the graph’ (groan) I find pockets of new high-level peoples. More on this in due course, not least when Andrew Chen<\/a> and I talk about ‘Metrics for Virtual Goods’ at the Virtual Goods Summit<\/a> on Oct 10th. Apparently he is bringing the brains and I am bringing the data. Mmm, brains.<\/p>\n Having not even begun to catch you up on the last few months, I am afraid that that will be all for this evening. I will endeavour to return soon with more linkage on farming, sewing, bee-keeping and the best spots to establish post-apocalyptic enclaves of right-thinking folk, free of DRM and marauding zombies. 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