Just a quick thank you for the “global tag page.” Now that I’ve finally figured out how to *get* to it, I can feel that delicious-shaped hole in my recent fic-reading habits slowly easing…
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Even I have now heard about delicious being sold to youtube, or whatever. But I had to wonder — why didn’t I get a notification? I have a delicious account. Why was I hearing about this via dreamwidth?
So I figured hey, I’ll go check my delicious account and see what’s what. That’s where I ran into trouble.
I’ve been logged out (presumably by delicious itself, as some fiendish plot to make its users feel ridiculous). I don’t think I’ve ever been logged out on purpose, because why would I want to do that?
And of course, I can’t remember my login info. I have a vague recollection of it being something other than my standard, but that’s about as helpful as you’d think.
On the plus side, this does make the decision about keeping my delicious account a *lot* easier.
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1. (Originally linked through dira’s dreamwidth.) Jane McGonigals TED talk* “Gaming Can Make a Better World.”
Conceptually, I thought this was interesting. Leveraging the talents of gamers to solve real-world problems — seems clever, if a bit vague on the details. But about 17 minutes into the video, she starts talking about games they’ve been testing. The first one was about an oil shortage — 1700 people participated by entering their actual real-life data and receiving back fake information about gas prices, videos of riots, and more.
Okay, so my first thought was “haven’t they made this movie already?” (Wag the Dog, Inception) My second thought was that this was deeply, deeply creepy. So, you immerse people in a virtual world, with imaginary rewards and consequences, and use that to change their real world behavior?
And let’s say someone signs up for this voluntarily, because they’re trying to stop smoking, or travel more, or whatever. Okay, cool. But what if that game is perpetrated upon us, without our consent? I mean, I haven’t actually *been* to Egypt to see the demonstrations for myself. I’m just taking the world’s word for it.
(*In the interests of full disclosure, I’ve only ever seen two TED talks online, and I found both of them kind of creepy.)
2. The Form of the Book, and its Aura (notes from a lecture by James Bridle)
Books, ebooks, and social reading. Although I have no particular dedication to Open Bookmarks itself, this had a lot of interesting stuff in it, especially in the light of the delicious kerfluffle.
“Value has shifted away from a copy toward the many ways to recall, annotate, personalize, edit, authenticate, display, mark, transfer, and engage a work.” (David Shields, ‘Reality Hunger’)
I liked the article, and in many ways, I think the internet has already solved the “problems” he talks about. Fanworks, comments, icons, delicious pinboard, AO3…
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they tell me their secrets (will you tell me yours too), by etothepii
Sherlock (BBC), the one where John can talk to inanimate objects (and they talk back)
I *love* the part about John’s computer.
“I’m not letting him in this time! Just like you told me!” shouts his laptop when John walks into the flat with the groceries, and Sherlock looks up at him.
“I see you’ve changed your password,” he says, which is news to John. “Is it no longer your last four phone digits plus the surname of your last serious girlfriend?”
“Might be,” John replies noncommitally (it had been the last time he logged in, which was just this morning to check his email), even as his laptops chirps gleefully the random numbers and letters it’s changed John’s password to.
NOTE: This is bookmarked on my new pinboard account. (So far my biggest qualm with the program is that I can’t seem to remember the name. Pinball, Pinbucket, and Pinup have all been tried at various times, and that’s just today.)
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