Tag: criticism

Wouldnt It Be Cool if Shakespeare Wasnt Shakespeare? – NYTimes.com

Wouldnt It Be Cool if Shakespeare Wasnt Shakespeare? – NYTimes.com

“First they came for the Kennedy scholars, and I did not speak out, because I was not a Kennedy scholar. Then they came for Opus Dei, and I did not speak out, because I was not a Catholic scholar. Now they have come for me. “

The Fans Are All Right (Pinboard Blog)

The Fans Are All Right (Pinboard Blog)

a) This is adorable. b) “Avos did a similar thing last week when they relaunched Delicious while breaking every feature that made their core users so devoted to the site (networks, bundles, subscriptions and feeds). They seemed to have no idea who their most active users were, or how strongly those users cared about the product. In my mind this reinforced the idea that they had bought Delicious simply as a convenient installed base of ‘like’ buttons scattered across the internet, with the intent of building a completely new social site unrelated to saving links.”

Ian Bogost – Cow Clicker

Ian Bogost – Cow Clicker

“Basically, we came up with a design for a clicking-game, where each click generated a score. A random score. Except that these random scores were posted on an ordered leaderboard. I think one of my buddies even went so far as to implement it, mostly as coding practice. Unsurprisingly, people were happy to click multiple times in pursuit of a number high enough to warrant a spot on the publicly displayed list.”