{"id":2681,"date":"2007-08-28T08:16:22","date_gmt":"2007-08-28T16:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/08\/the_subway_experience_as_multi-user_dungeon.html"},"modified":"2007-08-28T08:16:22","modified_gmt":"2007-08-28T16:16:22","slug":"the_subway_expe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/08\/the_subway_expe.html","title":{"rendered":"The Subway Experience As Multi-User Dungeon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps the <a href=\"http:\/\/ny.metro.us\/metro\/local\/article\/Even_the_subways_on_Facebook\/9812.html\">&#8220;multi-user dungeon&#8221;<\/a> part might hold some people back:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Being poked on the subway is annoying. On Facebook it&#8217;s a compliment. A new application on the site hopes to bridge that divide.<\/p>\n<p>Subway Status allows riders to post updates, meet their neighbors and read service announcements pulled from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority&#8217;s Web site. Users can check for delays, complain about local transit issues &#8212; such as the campaign for an F train express &#8212; and keep track of weekend changes, all without leaving their social network.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The interesting thing about the subway experience is that everyone has it, but no one shares it,&#8221; said Amos Bloomberg (no relation to the Mayor), who designed the application. &#8220;There&#8217;s currently no forum for this discussion, and it certainly doesn&#8217;t happen on the train itself. I&#8217;m trying to explore that issue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I see it like those &#8216;multi-user dungeons&#8217; from the early days of computers,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The idea is that you are exploring a system with lots of rooms and different people. There are tribes of people on each train, and I want them to organize themselves into little pockets.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps the &#8220;multi-user dungeon&#8221; part might hold some people back: Being poked on the subway is annoying. On Facebook it&#8217;s a compliment. A new application on the site hopes to bridge that divide. Subway Status allows riders to post updates, meet their neighbors and read service announcements pulled from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority&#8217;s Web site. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-followed_by_a_perplexed_stroke_of_the_chin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}