Tag: Minority Report
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When will we fight back?
A friend noticed the change in Cory Doctorow’s tone recently, he explains it as the anniversary of Aaron Schwartz’s death but a lot of us are despairing. Like Tim Berners-Lee warned middle of last year, there is an attempt to not only close up the Internet and make it some walled garden, a virtual shopping…
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You’ve gained The Grumpy Cat Badge: gamification and social networks
As I tweeted earlier: And I learned a new word. Go me! Where’s my badge? Have I unlocked a new level? Gamification Gamification (strangely pronounced GAMEification) is the idea of treating business, training, work or play as a game with a set of rewards. I’d come across the concept but not the word, and it…