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Comment on Why the ‘bloggers aren’t journalists’ Oregon court ruling isn’t so bad by Phil Anderson

Phil Anderson — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 08:37:09 +0000

I had a look at Ms. Cox’s blog, not just the inflammatory article in question, but other parts of her blog, and I have to disagree with the judge. Her blog provides a news service, if that’s the kind of news you are looking for. Her also blog is published periodically, and further if you know anything about the pamphleteering that preceded the American Revolution, you would see that political bloggers are pursuing the same general activity as the pamphleteers of that era. If the judge is trying to argue that electrons aren’t paper and the current written law only specifies paper, then I would remind him that prosecutors are constantly (and quite often successfully) extending the applications of laws further than they were explicitly written in order to keep up with a rapidly changing world. Sorry, but Judge Hernandez got this one dead wrong.

Comment on Sony wants to sell Blu-ray, we want to play video games: A primer by Why Sony’s iTunes competitor will fail – and how they could (but won’t) make it work | Korr Values

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 03:31:19 +0000

[...] when the Playstation 3 was in the works, I wrote a lot about Sony’s misguided strategy for the console. My doomsday scenarios haven’t come true, but the company is definitely [...]

Comment on Sony and Nintendo: A Talmudic parable by Why Sony’s iTunes competitor will fail – and how they could (but won’t) make it work | Korr Values

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 03:31:16 +0000

[...] when the Playstation 3 was in the works, I wrote a lot about Sony’s misguided strategy for the console. My doomsday scenarios haven’t [...]

Comment on Scientology’s Dear Leader complex by The creepiest sentence in the Feb. 14 New Yorker (so far) | Korr Values

The creepiest sentence in the Feb. 14 New Yorker (so far) | Korr Values — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:18:49 +0000

[...] – Lawrence Wright, “The Apostate.” (Emphasis added. See also this previous post on Scientology’s Dear Leader complex.) [...]

Comment on David Broder’s meaningless centrism by Centrism: The Truth Rundown « Media « William K. Wolfrum Chronicles

Centrism: The Truth Rundown « Media « William K. Wolfrum Chronicles — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 17:25:06 +0000

[...] – who created the Religion of Centrism in 1965 – has some reason to be angry. The closing of the DLC and the loss of Celebrity [...]

Comment on The ‘game mechanics’ misnomer: Why gamifying the news is so challenging by Josh Korr

Josh Korr — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 13:25:38 +0000

Let’s hope so!

Comment on Unexpected sentences from the Jan. 31 New Yorker by Josh Korr

Josh Korr — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 13:24:42 +0000

I would probably just faint silently

Comment on The ‘game mechanics’ misnomer: Why gamifying the news is so challenging by Distilled

Distilled — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 12:58:38 +0000

Interesting article. You can see this “gamification” everywhere nowadays, every element of life has to have some way of “totting up” or “earning points”. For the vast majority of these little games, the veneer is very thin and it doesn’t take long to realise that the points you are totting up are worthless and vacuous. The feeling I get when I think about the gamification of news is that people seem to want the chance to interact with the news. Traditional news papers were a relatively static medium, if you wanted to “get involved” you had to be one of the types who wrote into The Times on a Sunday afternoon to be bigoted and ill informed. By introducing gameplay mechanics (or motivational mechanics) into something so traditionally dry as news you bring the reader far closer to the story.

It is encouraging, however, to note that gamification can increase interest and accessibility of news in such a way. As long as it is implemented with enthusiasm, thoughfulness and in a way which is both genre savvy and personal; it can only be a good thing.

Comment on Unexpected sentences from the Jan. 31 New Yorker by Distilled

Distilled — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 12:45:33 +0000

I can’t imaging the moment you realise you’ve got an ebola laden needly sticking out of your thumb.

Actually, I can imagine. But I won’t repeat the words which would flow freely from my mouth.

Comment on My favorite music of the decade by Josh Korr

Josh Korr — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 02:18:58 +0000

Thanks! A year late, but probably the first person to actually read this looong post