Andie's Log

My name is Andie Nordgren and I use my knowledge of games, participation and web development to work on many things.

This is my tumble log, where I post good stuff I find around the net and some original content as well. Here's a list of original writing.

About

I'm currently working for RjDj in London.

rjdj

RjDj creates mind twisting hearing sensations by weaving your environment into music, using the sensors on your music player. If you have an iPhone or iPod Touch, try it, or read more and see some video of it in action over at rjdj.me.

Some of my other projects include the geek girl revolution at Geek Girl Meetup, relationship anarchy at Dr Andie, Nordic larp community blog Nordic Scene, and change-through-participation art zine/think tank/activist group Interacting Arts.

I live and tinker in the Shoreditch Hacker House.

Contact

Email: andie.nordgren@gmail.com, Twitter: nordgren, Jabber: andie@jabber.hackerspaces.org, Skype: andienordgren, MSN: andie.nordgren@home.se, Facebook: Andie Nordgren, Swedish Phone: +46702288652, UK Phone: +447751805188

There are photos on flickr, bookmarks on delicious and needle crafted things at ravelry.

Some previous fun

In 2007 I produced the game part of Interactive Emmy Award winning project The Truth About Marika, and I will some day finish a masters thesis in Computer and Systems Science at the Interactive Institute Game Studio about the tools we built to game master the reality game.

I have a Bachelor's Degree in Computer and Systems Science from Stockholm University.

Dec 15, 2008
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You may travel with Spotify, but only for 14 days.

I love how the Spotify team seems to have really considered all sorts of usage scenarios and come up with solutions that support them. The invite codes are re-sendable until used, you can log in from multiple computers without hassle (latest login trumphs the others), and now this location notification where they detect I’m in the UK rather than in Sweden as my profile says, and gives me this friendly notice:

Your current location does not match that set in your profile. You may travel with Spotify, but only for 14 days.

Legitimate use case, reasonable time allowance, friendly notification. Well done, Spotify.

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