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November 15, 2003
Going to Oz
Man, I've got to stop travelling. 30+ hours of travel time to get to Australia is not something I am looking forward to... I'm heading down to Melbourne for their annual <a href="http://www.agdc.com.au/">developers' conference</a>. Of course, I am very much looking forward to _being_ there - just not _getting_ there. (As an aside, having played the great game of rugby for nearly half my life, I'll have to sneak out of the conference to catch the <a href="http://www.rugbyworldcup.com/">World Cup</a> final!) Anyway, I'll be giving two lectures: one on overcoming industry issues (eg, piracy, censorship, risk aversion, quality of life, etc) and another on curriculum stuff during the academic portion. Fun.
Despite all the enjoyment I am sure to derive from my trip to Oz, I am quite saddened that I can't attend the "<a href="http://www.nyls.edu/pages/777.asp">State of Play</a>" event being held in New York. I really dig all the IP, identity, culture, community type stuff. I am sure we'll hear of more cool news, like Second Life <a href="http://steel.lcc.gatech.edu/grandtextauto/archives/000125.html">giving their users the IP rights to characters</a>!
Hopefully, this event does not produce any <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=569&ncid=738&e=1&u=/nm/20031104/tc_nm/tech_videogames_addiction_dc">cheap-thrills style reporting</a> that came out of last week's <a href="http://www.igda.org/blogs/realitypanic/archives/000058.html">Level Up academic conference</a>. I was there during the lecture, and <a href="http://www.juliandibbell.com/playmoney/2003_11_01_playmoney_archive.html#106816326408561806">as Julian mentioned</a>, it really didn't go down like that...
Funny how <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/features/6080520/p-2.html">game reviewers are being picked</a> on for their lack of seriousness/maturity, yet the "grown-up" journos are far from ideal role-models...
Posted by della at November 15, 2003 09:15 PM
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