January 2011
7 posts
Five Reasons Gaming Has A Future In Market...
Yesterday saw a three-hour micro-conference on gaming and research, organised by Ray Poynter. As you probably know I find this stuff very interesting anyway, so I thought I’d organise some of the thoughts I had here (and a few thoughts I nicked from other people on the very entertaining tweetstream.)
So first of all, 5 good things about “gamification” and research, and then in...
Post-Facebook Social Media and Offline Identity
Quick thought! A couple of years ago it was very common to hear the line that the age of online anonymity and identity play was, essentially, over, and thanks to Facebook we were moving to a kind of social media where authenticity was the real currency and people’s social media identities would be tied to their real world identities.
And this is what has happened! On Facebook, anyway. That...
“Do the people who constantly pester us for our opinions care what each and every...”
– Laura Miller, How Novels Came To Terms With The Internet
Imaginary Communities #1
MORITURI
Morituri is an online forum which in look, feel and functionality works in the same way as other fora. The difference is that the length of one’s membership is strictly limited. On arrival in Morituri a new member is given an allowance of 999 posts. Each time they make a post, this number drops by 1, and when it reaches 0, they are allowed to make one final farewell post before...
We All Adore A Qu-Ora?
I checked out Quora a few months ago and left thinking, OK, this is conceptually interesting and culturally interesting but actually READING it is pretty boring. And broadly this is what I still think. But Quora is suddenly getting hype everywhere, so I thought I’d write a “What Quora Means For Research” post as a way jotting my impressions down.
If you don’t know what...
No One Man Should Have All That Klout →
I wrote a kind of response to that AdAge piece about influence, Klout and Justin Bieber that’s been doing the rounds. But because it was also about pop music and fandom I put it on my pop culture site, not here.
On Infographics →
more often than not I find these things to be disposable pieces of content created to impress the viewer into a sort of submissive state where they pass judgement on a purely aesthetic level.
Now creating something for purely aesthetic purposes is certainly not a problem. I like pretty things as much as the next guy, but these things are presented as having some sort of higher purpose of...