Month: March 2015

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Some love for Slack, our favorite group communication tool

VentureBeat: 10 things I love about Slack. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwiLS77SA

CALI has been using Slack for about a year and we love it. It has replaced our group mailing list as the primary way we communicate. We use it not just to talk to one another but we have it wired into things like Github and Nagios to help us keep track of things we’re doing and to alert ids to trouble with our systems. Very soon we’re going to invite more folks we talk to regularly to join us on Slack as a way to increase our communication with our members.

All in all I’d recommend Slack for any group as a great way to get folks telling till each other.

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Understanding the Meerkat live-streaming magic | Computerworld

When you start streaming with Meerkat, the stream is automatically announced on Twitter in a tweet with a link to the stream on the MeerkatApp.co website. It’s also announced inside the app for users who are following you on Twitter and also using Meerkat.

Replies to the tweet are treated as comments, which show up superimposed on the live-streaming video, at least for users who are viewing in the app.

Understanding the Meerkat live-streaming magic | Computerworld http://www.computerworld.com/article/2896228/understanding-the-meerkat-live-streaming-magic.html#jump

This is intriguing, but I’m not sure it’s enough to get me to fire up my iPad.

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My Twitter Digest for 03/13/2015

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My Twitter Digest for 03/11/2015

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Assignment: Creating a D&D Character | MAS S66: Indistinguishable From… Magic as Interface, Technology, and Tradition

“You are sitting in a tavern. You look down and see a D&D homework assignment on the table…”

Hello and welcome to the D&D homework assignment.

In this assignment you’re going to learn about how role playing games depict characters and events in magical worlds using numbers. You’re going to conduct a series of exercises meant to give you a sense for how these kinds of games use numbers to make the fantasy they depict feel real for the player. Specifically, you’re going to roll a few D&D characters

Assignment: Creating a D&D Character | MAS S66: Indistinguishable From… Magic as Interface, Technology, and Tradition http://indistinguishablefrom.media.mit.edu/2015/03/11/assignment-creating-a-dd-character/

Clearly I went to the wrong college. There was plenty of D&D for sure, but we didn’t get credit for it.

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My Twitter Digest for 03/10/2015

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Introducing “Yosemite”: the first open source modular chassis for high-powered microservers | Engineering Blog | Facebook Code

Introducing “Yosemite”: the first open source modular chassis for high-powered microservers | Engineering Blog | Facebook Code  https://code.facebook.com/posts/1616052405274961/introducing-yosemite-the-first-open-source-modular-chassis-for-high-powered-microservers-/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+feedsapi%2FBwPx+%28Hacker+News+Top+20+Full+feeds+by+FeedsAPI%29