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Fascinating presentation about the current state of gameification, and some suggestions for where application designers should be headed. Along the way he asks, "What vision of The Good Life do your designs convey?"

Check your work.

Does what it says. Having common device names on the presets is a nice touch.

Disappointing exchange, and a textbook example of how not to respond to critics online. Like Derek I'm a huge fan of On the Media so, ugh.

The Internet Archive is now archiving physical books. "Brewster noticed that Google and Amazon and other countries scanning books would cut non-rare books open to scan them, or toss them out after scanning. He felt this destruction was dangerous for the culture."

"...Facebook now stands as taking over a decade and a half of the dream of the World Wide Web and turning it into a miserable IT cube farm of pseudo human interaction, a bastardized form of e-mail, of mailing lists, of photo albums, of friendship." Excellent rant about the ephemeral nature of Facebook (among other things).

"Buzzwords are frequently used in news media. These are words that do not typically occur in everyday speech, but are common among newscasters, talking heads, and pundits on cable news." Often misused, this site collect media buzzwords and provides the real definition.

Create stories using social media.

Insanely colorful sculptures and drawings.

Images that are liked on MLKSHK.

This helps explain why the tyranny of choice is tyrannical. The time it takes to make a decision is based on the number of choices available.

Screenshots of sites that display well at different window sizes. [via mathowie]

A clean, simple interface to the existing jQuery documentation.

Interesting alternative to Photoshop's Raw processor. [via lhl]

Some things for companies to keep in mind when releasing "anonymized" data for research.

This solid list of Sinatra slang is gasville. (Am I doing that right?)

Kids sing The Smiths.

"I thought I would die, severed from the tweetosphere, but I didn’t."