Courtesy of my friend Sara, The Breast Cancer Site is doing for breast cancer what The Hunger Site does for starvation: a one-click thing that then earns financial donations from their advertisers.
I love the theory of things like this, but… Well… Sometimes it’s too much of a pain in the ass to deal with. I know, I know, I know — it’s only one click a day, but come on. You can’t set it as your homepage when you do what I do, because that homepage gets opened literally dozens of times in a day, and for something like that I use The New York Times, to keep me informed on what’s happening. You could theoretically create a page with those buttons down the side and a cookie to tell whether or not you’d clicked them today, but that would circumvent their advertising. Maybe if The Hunger Site Network set that cookie every day, with a autoredirect thing? So you could set your homepage to be their site, with a SECOND homepage set as a variable in the cookie, so that once you’d clicked all the buttons once (the max number of times you can do so anyway), you’d be automatically redirected to your given homepage for the next 24 hours? I’d go for that.
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I'm the Director of the Games and Simulation program at Miami University in Ohio, where I am also an Assistant Professor in the College of Creative Arts' Emerging Technology in Business and Design department. I'm also the director of Miami's Worldbuilding and Narrative Design Research Laboratory (WNDRLab). I have a Master's in Comparative Media Studies from MIT and a PhD in Media Arts and Practices from the University of Southern California.
In past lives I've been the lead Narrative Producer for Microsoft Studios and cofounder of its Narrative Design team, working on projects like Hololens, Quantum Break and new IP incubation; in a "future of media" think tank for Microsoft's CXO/CTO and its Chief Software Architect; the Creative Director for the University of Southern California's World Building Media Lab and the Technical Director, Creative Director and a Research Fellow for USC's Annenberg Innovation Lab; a Visiting Assistant Professor at Whittier College and director of its Whittier Other Worlds Laboratory (WOWLab); the Communications Director and a researcher for the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab; a founding member of the Convergence Culture Consortium at MIT (now The Futures of Entertainment); a magazine editor; and a award-winning short film producer. more »
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