The First Draft

S2E2: Quasi-Academics and Quasi-Professionals

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Topics: Elijah visited Stamen Design, Twitch, Let's Play (LP), and working with vendors.

Show Notes

stamen design | the next most obvious thing

  • Since 2001, Stamen has developed a reputation for beautiful and technologically sophisticated projects in a diverse range of commercial and cultural settings. We work and play with a surprising and growing range of collaborators: news media, financial institutions, artists and architects, car manufacturers, design agencies, museums, technology firms, political action committees, and universities.

    • emeeks/d3-carto-map GitHub

    • A mapping API that uses D3 geospatial functionality.

      • Twitch

      • Twitch is the world's leading video platform and community for gamers with more than 60 million visitors per month. We want to connect gamers around the world by allowing them to broadcast, watch, and chat from everywhere they play.

        • Let's Play (video gaming) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

        • A Let's Play (often abbreviated to "LP"), is a series of screenshots or a recorded video documenting a playthrough of a video game, usually including commentary by the gamer. An LP differs from a walkthrough or strategy guide by focusing on an individual's subjective experience with the game, often with humorous, irreverent, or even critical commentary from the gamer, rather than being an objective source of information on how to progress through the game.

          • After action report - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

          • An After Action Report (or AAR) is any form of retrospective analysis on a given sequence of goal-oriented actions previously undertaken, generally by the author himself.

            • BattleTech: 25 Years of Heavy Metal Mayhem. | Even Better than You Remember It.

            • Since its beginnings as the BattleTech boardgame, the BattleTech/MechWarrior universe has captivated millions of fans worldwide. For almost three decades, the collision of interstellar politics and war has rewarded fans with amazingly detailed fiction, captivating characters and fantastic adventure. These dynamics have spawned a host games, novels, toys and more.

              • Clockwork Empires: A Unique Colonial City-Building Simulation Game with Steampunk & Cosmic Horror Elements

              • Take on the role of a Junior Bureaucrat (Colonial Grade), sent forth to seek fame, promotions, and natural resources to feed the ravenous maw of Imperial Industry & Commerce. Build a prosperous colony, fill it with magnificent factories worked by oppressed labourers, and harness the awesome power of steam through fearsome machines invented by determined men and women of Science! History is yours to seize for fame and fortune, for Science, and for the Queen and the glory of the Clockwork Empires!

                • This Guy Makes Millions Playing Video Games on YouTube - The Atlantic

                • The YouTube personality with the most subscribers isn't Justin Bieber (8 million) or Rihanna (12.5 million). That honor goes to a 24-year-old Swede named Felix Kjellberg, better known by his YouTube handle, PewDiePie.

                  • Thank you for listening. -- @Elijah_Meeks, @jaheppler, @pfzenke.

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