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theorycast.66 :: On 938Live’s Raw & Ready with Sarah Cheng by brainopera Thanks to digerati Preetam Rai, I was recently introduced to 938Live’s multi-talented radio presenter, Sarah Cheng-De Winne (aka @SarahCDW). As part of her youth talkshow, Raw & Ready, she interviewed me as a blogger, social cyborg, cyberculturalist, and on my most recent role ... 
View more presentations from Kevin Lim.As promised at Singtel Accelerate, the game mechanics slides I presented today are now on Slideshare.net. It’s also downloadable as PDF :)I met a lot of interesting folks there, from academics to developers, and the general sentiment I’m getting is: “At long last!”. While game mechanics isn’t new or …
Last Saturday morning, I was invited by Wayne Soh of The Digital Movement to speak about game mechanics at their new conference series, TertiaryTech.As you can tell, this conference was geared at students interested in breaking into the web startup industry. I must say that from what I saw, I was very impressed. The ideas ... 
Game mechanics is quite the rage across disciplines and industries. Since 2009, I’ve delivered variations of my talk at SOLsummit 2009 (Syracuse, NY), Barcamp Buffalo, ICA 2010 conference, WebSG meetup, IGDA Pecha Kucha Night III, and soon, SingTel Accelerate conference. This Saturday at TertiaryTech I’ll be helping interested students understand the basic …
In case you don’t know, I recently got serious about cycling. Ever since Siva and the ZenDogs took me to Pengerang, Malaysia for my initiation ride, I’ve been hooked. Mind you they’re not some easy-peasy cyclists… they really put their feet to the metal, so I had trouble keeping up the first time round.Thanks to ...
Early Saturday morning, Siva and the Zendogs cyclists take on Pengerang, Malaysia, on a 40km cycling trip along the coastal kampong route. An hour boat ride from Changi Point to the Pengerang jetty, followed by two hours of cycling towards the seafood town of Sungai Rengit 20km away for lunch. After which we U-turned and ...
Rushing over from work, I made my way down to Blu Jazz where BlinkBL-NK was at it’s fifth installment. Having been to earlier speaker sessions in the past two months, I liked the diversity in speakers and the easy-going atmosphere.This time it was my turn to hit the stage, so I thought I’d don the ...
Friday evening after work, I grabbed a quick dinner then headed to the museum district to check out the Night Festival: New World 2010. Just me and my Sony NEX-5, absorbing the electrifying experiencing of the numerous unique performances downtown.While there were several fringe art activities, I spent most of my time checking out the ...
Ever since returning to Singapore, this seemingly innocuous question I’m often asked is probably best answered by the late (and eternally great) Rodney Dangerfield. ‘Nuff said.Similar Posts:The oldest Mac switcher I’ve ever helped…Sorry guys… Meritocracy wins.Teaching a man to fish…BestBlogForward: Look who’s talking …
Here’s the digital copy of our International Communication Association 2010 conference poster – Leveling Up Students with Class Blogs: Engineering Active Learning through Game Mechanics. This was color printed on an A0 size paper, so you have a choice of a JPEG or PDF versions.Derek Lackaff and I wrote this up after conducting our ... 
Yesterday, my poster session at the ICA 2010 conference turned out more fun than expected (will share that soon), while last evening’s ;first ever CC Salon Singapore at Hackerspace SG turned out to be quite a riot!In case you weren’t aware, CC Salons are global, informal events focused on building a community of artists, developers, and creators ... 
I’ve been waiting for a proper camera, one that gets as quality as a DSLR, without the bulk and bore. Sure there are micro four-thirds like the Olympus PEN series, but they just didn’t tickle my adamantium bone.Having recently played with the Sony NEX-5, I fell in love with its features. It’s great for a ... 
“@brainopera talking about making books social”. Photo by @PreetamRaiThanks to @PreetamRai, I got to visit Jakarta for the first time over the weekend. At their barcamp, I made it count by presenting an interest of mine, social marginalia. @RandomPlaydo was inspired enough to write his thoughts about shared digital annotations.Barcamp Create focused on … 
Ever since I saw Alex Halavais rework Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother (2008) into a networked ebook at w1n5t0n.com, I’ve been intrigued by the whole idea of social marginalia. For Barcamp Create (12th June, Jakarta) and Creative Commons Salon (25th June, Singapore), I’ll be showing participants the evolution of marginalia, from early handcrafted books to ... 
“What you do here? You see museums? Oh god, you see nothing. Go to the clubs, go dancing, drinking, so many beautiful pussies in Manhattan. You see nothing.”That is my Albanian limo driver, Rafek, in his late fifties yet clearly without any dysfunction. Perched above the Manhattan traffic on his carriage, the Cadillac SUV, he ... 
Photo courtesy of Gouldy99For my friends on twitter, thank you for staying up to 1am EST (or 1pm in Singapore) to listen to my big news…So after six months of fear and self-loathing, the big news is that I’ve finally found a dream job and will be moving back to Singapore for good. I’ve had ... 
Photo courtesy of Gouldy99For my friends on twitter, thank you for staying up to 1am EST (or 1pm in Singapore) to listen to my big news…So after six months of fear and self-loathing, the big news is that I’ve finally found a dream job and will be moving back to Singapore for good. I’ve had ... 
Being sentimental, I decided to photosynth my entire room before I start packing. If you don’t already know why I’m moving, I’ll announce it when I get the official green light. IMHO, things are going to get pretty darn exciting on my end.As a self-proclaimed social cyborg, I’ve been exploring new ways of capturing experiences. ... 
Being sentimental, I decided to photosynth my entire room before I start packing. If you don’t already know why I’m moving, I’ll announce it when I get the official green light. IMHO, things are going to get pretty darn exciting on my end.As a self-proclaimed social cyborg, I’ve been exploring new ways of capturing experiences. ... 
While window-shopping on the iTunes app store for panoramic camera apps, I discovered a little-known 360° panoramic app from Japan called Pixeet 360. Quicktime VR experiences typically require expensive hardware, software and photographic know-how. Pixeet 360 leapfrogs all that by allowing anyone to capture and create these immersive experiences right on their … 
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