playing for a better future

Free Rice was and is a great succes. in it's slipstream comes this , village the game. Or as they say in their own words:

"Instead of being mayor, be an entrepreneur. Build and run companies that transform lives. Village is a realtime strategy game for the PC that immerses the player into the role of an entrepreneur building companies to bring prosperity to the villages of the Third World. "

note to self: looking glass

"The essence of design lies in the process of discovering a problem shared by many people and trying to solve it."

Kenya Hara

in the shadow of power lies influence

It is primary season in the USA, so here is a nice article about the two men behind the Democratic candidates Obama and Clinton, Mark Penn (from the book microtrends) and David Axelrod.

From a marketing comms point of view very interesting stuff.

And to my readers in the USA (hahaha, ) whatever you do....do vote