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Brands as NPCs

If you’re a gamer you know what an NPC is. If you’re not - it stands for non-player character.
While that’s technically any game character you don’t directly control, it usually connotes those that range from neutral to helpful (not obviously hostile).
I don’t play many video games these days. Back when I did, you could expect [...]

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Somebody please help the MTA

News flash, the NYC MTA has got both brand and technology problems.

They’ve been brandjacked on Twitter. If you follow @nyc_mta or @mta_nyc, you’ll have noticed odd and/or false information posted recently. Both claim to have been hacked; both mostly seem to use Twittermail to post. I’d been under the (apparently false) impression that the @mta_nyc [...]

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Gestural shorthand and the new emoticons

NYT’s got an interesting article up on how video chat is changing how extended families keep in touch. Definitely worth a read for its own sake, but I call your attention to this quote:
But grandparents and grandchildren are already working on ways to nudge the medium a little closer to actual teleportation.
When Deborah Lafferty, 55, [...]

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