{"id":1539,"date":"2009-10-28T17:17:58","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T15:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/?p=1539"},"modified":"2026-09-07T10:29:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T08:29:43","slug":"what-the-hubbub-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2009\/10\/28\/what-the-hubbub-is\/","title":{"rendered":"What the hubbub is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s some movement over at the website for my new venture. I mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/whatsthehubbub.nl\/\">Hubbub<\/a> before: it is a design studio I am setting up for physical, social games that are played in public places. We hope to address social issues and the like using these games.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recently\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;ve adjusted the temporary site to fit with the brand that&#8217;s being developed by my friends at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buropony.nl\/\">BUROPONY<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/whatsthehubbub.nl\/projects\/change-your-world\/\">write-up of this game we did for Your World<\/a> in Rotterdam.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/whatsthehubbub.nl\/2009\/10\/improving-media-literacy-with-games\/\">transcript of a lecture<\/a> I delivered under the banner of Hubbub at a recent event on social games and media literacy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kaeru\/4032408460\/\" title=\"Today's harvest by Kaeru, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/today-s-harvest-flickr-4032408460-500x303.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"302\" alt=\"Today's harvest\" class=\"wp-image-4365\" data-orig-src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2558\/4032408460_68416f182d.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/today-s-harvest-flickr-4032408460-500x303.jpg 500w, https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/today-s-harvest-flickr-4032408460-100x61.jpg 100w, https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/today-s-harvest-flickr-4032408460-768x465.jpg 768w, https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/today-s-harvest-flickr-4032408460.jpg 1023w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also, we&#8217;ll be doing something playful and running a workshop at the upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gameinthecity.nl\/\">Game in the City<\/a> conference in Amersfoort. <\/p>\n<p>To stay posted on Hubbub developments, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/whatsthehubbub\">follow us on Twitter<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/c0rh\">sign up for our newsletter<\/a>. There&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/whatsthehubbub.nl\/feed\/\">good old RSS<\/a> as well, of course.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s some movement over at the website for my new venture. I mentioned Hubbub before: it is a design studio I am setting up for physical, social games that are played in public places. We hope to address social issues and the like using these games. Recently\u2026 I&#8217;ve adjusted the temporary site to fit with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2009\/10\/28\/what-the-hubbub-is\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What the hubbub is<\/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":[625],"tags":[19,259,728,716,335,168,580,354,695],"class_list":["post-1539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-design","tag-games","tag-hubbub","tag-pervasive-games","tag-physical","tag-play","tag-public-space","tag-social","tag-urban-games"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539","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=1539"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4626,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions\/4626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}