{"id":1096,"date":"2008-09-11T11:26:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-11T09:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2026-09-07T12:33:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T10:33:51","slug":"reboot-10-slides-and-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2008\/09\/11\/reboot-10-slides-and-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Reboot 10 slides and video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am breaking radio-silence for a bit to let you know the slides and video for my Reboot 10 presentation are now available online, in case you&#8217;re interested. I presented this talk before at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewebandbeyond.nl\/\">The Web and Beyond<\/a>, but this time I had a lot more time, and I presented in English. I therefore think this might still be of interest to some people.<sup><a href=\"#footnote_1_1096\" id=\"identifier_1_1096\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"I did post a transcript in English before, in case you prefer reading to listening.\">1<\/a><\/sup> As always, I am very interested in receiving constructive criticism Just drop me a line in the comments.<\/p>\n<p><ins datetime=\"2008-09-12T08:15:05+00:00\"><strong>Update:<\/strong> It occurred to me that it might be a good idea to briefly summarize what this is about. This is a presentation in two parts. In the first, I theorize about the emergence of games that have as their goal the conveying of an argument. These games would use the real-time city as their platform. It is these games that I call <em>urban procedural rhetorics<\/em>. In the second part I give a few examples of what such games might look like, using a series of sketches.<\/ins><\/p>\n<h4>The slides, posted to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/kaeru\">SlideShare<\/a>, as usual:<\/h4>\n<!-- embed-localizer: replaced Flash player 2026-09-07. 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Original:  -->\n<video controls preload=\"metadata\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/karsalfrink\/karsalfrink.mp4\" width=\"640\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto\"><\/video><ol class=\"footnotes\"><li id=\"footnote_1_1096\" class=\"footnote\">I did post <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2008\/05\/27\/urban-procedural-rhetorics-transcript-of-my-twab-2008-talk\/\">a transcript in English<\/a> before, in case you prefer reading to listening.<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\"> [<a href=\"#identifier_1_1096\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am breaking radio-silence for a bit to let you know the slides and video for my Reboot 10 presentation are now available online, in case you&#8217;re interested. I presented this talk before at The Web and Beyond, but this time I had a lot more time, and I presented in English. I therefore think &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2008\/09\/11\/reboot-10-slides-and-video\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reboot 10 slides and video<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[248],"tags":[351,670,592,247,579,15,267,367,11,10,33,168,593,125,591,669,377,354,334,610,378],"class_list":["post-1096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks","tag-architecture","tag-arguments","tag-cities","tag-conferences","tag-culture","tag-events","tag-game-design","tag-gd","tag-interaction-design","tag-ixd","tag-mobile","tag-play","tag-politics","tag-presentations","tag-procedural-rhetoric","tag-reboot-10","tag-slides","tag-social","tag-tangible","tag-urbanism","tag-videos"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4864,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions\/4864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}