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[...] Ralph Koster blog post regarding Muggles thanks to TALO’s Janet Hawkin’s has somehow bridged the comments on Ubiquitous and Human Computing [...]

[...] Ralph Koster blog post regarding Muggles thanks to TALO’s Janet Hawkin’s has somehow bridged the comments on Ubiquitous and Human [...]

[...] Ralph Koster blog post regarding Muggles thanks to TALO’s Janet Hawkin’s has somehow bridged the comments on Ubiquitous and Human [...]

[...] I look around and see so many children whose lives will probably not work out well because of circumstances beyond their control. I wonder what we could do to alter their trajectories if we weren’t too busy being distracted by the small details of our own lives. I wonder if we would have more time for the individuals around us who need our help if we spent less time in the overstocked aisles and overflowing shelves of shopping malls and grocery stores. I wonder what would change if we decided to prioritize relationships over things. Our lives are filled with distractions, both voluntary and compulsory, that prevent us from creating communities that might just be the saving grace for other people and even for ourselves. In the world of Harry Potter, magic coexists within the ordinary human world; the muggles, however, are blind to the magic that surrounds them. If there’s one thing to learn from Harry Potter, it’s that we have the power to alter circumstances through our own caring if we open our eyes and our hearts to those in need. That’s our muggle brand of magic. [...]

[...] Raph’s Website » ETech07 liveblog: Incantations for Muggles [...]

[...] should give infinite amounts of appreciation to Raph Koster who took unbelievable notes during my presentation, letting me adjust my crib to be more in tune with what i actually said. [...]

[...] manure by kim Tags (edit): Category: None Raph has liveblogged Danah Boyd’s Etech talk entited “Incantations for Muggles”. Its awesome. Wish I’d been there for it, but Raph’s thorough notetaking are a nice substitute. [...]

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[...] I attended the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, or ETech, once again this year, and, distracted by other projects, did a very poor job of blogging about it. (You can read about the excellent EFF-sponsored debate between Mark Cuban and Fred von Lohmann, on the YouTube/Viacom lawsuit, here and here; Raph Koster spoke about magic as the underlying structure of game-play; and Danah Boyd gave a wonderful talk titled “Incantations for Muggles,” about the relationship between technologist-wizards and the rest of the human race — Koster took notes on it.) [...]