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That’s the choice we need to make: are technologists and designers here to enable people to do meaningful things in their lives in community with their fellow human beings or are they here as an elaborate dopamine delivery system, basically drug dealers for users? If it is the latter, I’m really not interested. We should…
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Now, five years down the line and all we seem to be talking about is brands and how they can leverage social media and all that. Not at all interested. I couldn’t give a shit what the Internet is going to do to L’Oreal or Snickers or Sony or Kleenex or The Gap. They aren’t…
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A while back I heard Jimmy Wales discussing what makes Wikipedia work and he said he rejected the term ‘crowdsourcing’ because the people who write Wikipedia aren’t a ‘crowd’ of people whose role is to be a source of material for Wikipedia: they are all individual people with families and friends and aspirations and ideas,…
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Gamification turns everything into a novelty and a game (duh). Meaning-making turns the trivial into something you make a commitment to for the long haul; it turns the things we do on the web into a much more significant and meaningful part of our lives. Tom Morris – I’m not an experience-seeking user, I’m a…
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I’ve been hearing about ‘gamification’ for a while and it irritates me a lot. Gamification gets all the design blogs a-tweeting and is a lovely refrain used at TED and so on, but to me it all looks like “the aesthetic stage” from Kierkegaard applied to technology. That is, turning things into games and novelties…
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shuzluva: SmallStuffStudio’s Pepe has designed these awesome wood toys called Heartwoods. They are available in either maple or walnut and have an adorable brass birdie sitting on them. They’ll be available on Monday November 22, and a very special set will be available on vinylhearts.com with the proceeds going to help out Andy at TOYSREVIL.…
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emmacooper: Charlotte Moorman plays Nam June Paik’s “TV Cello”
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ueba: Primeira renderização que vem à público de Chell, a heroína do jogo Portal 2, da Valve, que chega às lojas agora em abril. (Think with portals)
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What galls me about two-spacers isn’t just their numbers. It’s their certainty that they’re right. Over Thanksgiving dinner last year, I asked people what they considered to be the “correct” number of spaces between sentences. The diners included doctors, computer programmers, and other highly accomplished professionals. Everyone—everyone!—said it was proper to use two spaces. Some…
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When was the last time you made a fine stack of cows? [via solipsistnation]