{"id":998,"date":"2012-10-08T17:48:06","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T00:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=998"},"modified":"2012-10-08T17:48:06","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T00:48:06","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s2e12-good-old-shareware-with-stan-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=998","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture S2E12: Good Old Shareware with Stan James"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-999\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"stanjames\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/stanjames.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"300\" \/>Colin Marshall sits down in San Francisco&#8217;s Mission at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.noisebridge.net\/wiki\/Noisebridge\">Noisebridge<\/a> hacker space with <a href=\"http:\/\/wanderingstan.com\/\">Stan James<\/a>, founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lijit.com\/\">Lijit<\/a>, creator of the first\u00a0browser-based massively multiplayer games, co-host of the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/wanderingstan.com\/2012-09-15\/introducing-the-7th-kingdom-podcast\">7th Kingdom<\/a><\/em> podcast, and author of a book in progress on technology and our minds. They discuss Noisebridge itself and its almost Utopian qualities; how the supernormal stimuli of cat videos create addiction; how his early multiplayer games could created addiction; San Francisco&#8217;s position as the American city to be in for those with technological interests, not exclusively technological interests; the optimal Mission-style burrito ordering strategy; how we&#8217;ve left the concept of immersion in virtual reality behind in favor of always being at least a little bit on the internet, and how we can see it in the ways we navigate and even date; stepping outside our reactions to new technological developments by going back to Plato; parental disregard for the protocol of Skype calling; his life in Berlin, another city where people go to do projects and make things; how and why he became &#8220;Wandering Stan,&#8221; and the importance he&#8217;s found of digging into others&#8217; lives when he&#8217;s in actual places; whether younger so-called &#8220;digital natives&#8221; can better handle technological addictiveness; how wide a swath of the human experience San Francisco offers; how he discovered the difference between his engaged-in-a-project face and his dead-eyed Reddit-browsing face; and how Avril Lavigne reached Nepal before she reached him.<\/p>\n<p>Download the interview from\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/colinmarshall.libsyn.com\/s2e12-good-old-shareware-with-stan-james\">Notebook on Cities and Culture<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/colinmarshall.libsyn.com\/s2e12-good-old-shareware-with-stan-james\">\u2019s feed<\/a>\u00a0or on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/notebook-on-cities-culture\/id266539442\">iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Marshall sits down in San Francisco&#8217;s Mission at the Noisebridge hacker space with Stan James, founder of Lijit, creator of the first\u00a0browser-based massively multiplayer games, co-host of the 7th Kingdom podcast, and author of a book in progress on technology and our minds. 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