- Quick note: Friday wins and a case study in ritual design | Kellan Elliott-McCrea
"Culture is what you celebrate. Rituals are the tools you use to shape culture." Smart work, needs serious thinking about.
- The New Wilderness (Idle Words)
Required reading.
Tag: facebook
Bookmarks for March 4, 2019
- Daring Fireball: Life as a Facebook Moderator
The article he's linking to has been doing the rounds, but it's Mr Gruber's critique I found especially resonant, particular this quote: "There is something fundamentally wrong with a platform that – while operating exactly as designed – requires thousands of employees to crush their own souls." I use Facebook these days, but I still think that broadly, we'd all actually be better off if it was simply shut down. I don't think it provides any net benefit that we did not manage better with other tools before it existed.
Bookmarks for January 16, 2017
- Get your loved ones off Facebook. – Salim Virani
I've spent time in the last year agonising about whether or not to rejoin Facebook. Then I read this, and not only am I sure I've done the right thing, but seriously, folks, read this, and really think hard about whether or not you're OK with Facebook doing all this.
Bookmarks for December 4, 2015
- Study Finds Quitting Facebook Makes You Happier and Less Stressed | HUH.
I would generally agree with the results of this study, but I definitely differ in some specifics – the finding that people without Facebook have a more active social life is definitely not my experience, although I would agree that the *quality* of my social life improved without it.
Bookmarks for May 4, 2012
- US juedge rules it is OK to fire someone for a Facebook like
Facebook likes to not enjoy free-speech protections. In this case, several people were fired for "liking" their (elected) boss' political opponent, but it would in theory be OK for fire someone just for liking something their boss disliked. Scary biscuits, if you live in the US.
Bookmarks for April 10, 2012
- 4 final Orpheuses – rejectamentalist manifesto
This really worked for me, got me thinking about other ways to view similar heroes.
- Cartes Infernales by Ariana Osborne — Kickstarter
Every time I see Kickstarter used for something cool, I die a little inside, because I cannot contribute, because Amazon are a bag of dicks. So once again, I do what I can, and point you at yet another project that I would love to contribute to. I've used the Dictionnaire Infernal as a source of inspiration many times in the past, and would love a deck of these to use a a prop. But instead one of you will have to stump up the cash, and let me look on in envy. Which is kind of appropriate, I suppose.
- Learn Touch Typing Free – TypingClub
I was asked if I touch type while away in Northern Ireland. I don't, but I've always wanted to learn. Might give this a go, if I haven't go too many bad habits from my self taught typing.
- Flashback Trojan Creators Scared of Xcode, But Not Norton Antivirus – Waxy.org
I don't know if this is telling, or just amusing. Either way, pleased to see that I should be immune to that trojan.
- Threat Description: Trojan-Downloader:OSX/Flashback.I
Odds are I'm clean, I just ned to remember to run this at home.
- ADmented Reality – Google Glasses Remixed with Google Ads – YouTube
Every time I get excited about our shiny new AR future, I must sit and watch this video, which is a much more accurate depiction of the horror that likely awaits us all.
- When the cops subpoena your Facebook information, here's what Facebook sends the cops – Phlog
Not actually posting this as a dig at Facebook, it's just interesting stuff. I'm not personally wild about the fact that subpoena relating to getting information relating to one user can result in the forking over of messages relating to unrelated users – I would prefer it if they were required to specify that they were interested in correspondence between parties A and B, rather than just getting all party A's correspondence, but I know that's not how the world works, and that's not actually Facebook's fault. See? I can be rational about this stuff, if I try hard!
Bookmarks for April 3, 2012
- I hereby resign – raganwald's posterous
Worth a read, if you're at all concerned about this whole employers-requiring-interview-candidates-to-give-them-access-to-their-Facebook-account business. The short version is that it wil create *far* more trouble for employers that it will solve.
Bookmarks for March 31, 2012
- This Creepy App Isn’t Just Stalking Women Without Their Knowledge, It’s A Wake-Up Call About Facebook Privacy [Update] | Cult of Mac
Yes, yes, I'm going on about on-line privacy again. If you've ever thought that I'm over-egging the pudding in regard to Facebook privacy, then I urge you to read this. It's easy to say "well, they should have been more careful with their profiles" but the truth is that they should have *had* to have been more careful. Building a tool like this simply should not be possible. And on the one hand, hats off to Foursquare for killing it dead already, and on the other, at time of writing this linkpost, Facebook have get to respond to the fact that it's their on-going advertiser-lead drive to get people to share information publicly that enabled this creepy, creepy piece of crap.
Bookmarks for January 3, 2012
- Favorite Typefaces from 2011 « Opinionated Type
Some absolutely beautiful choices in here.
- Start 2012 By Taking 2 Minutes to Clean Your Apps Permissions
A really good idea – a list of popular web apps, with links that will let you manage what other web apps have permissions to use them.
- scrollorama
Jquery scrolling effects plugin. Might be handy at work.
- Bullshit – Marco.org
"Everyone has their bullshit. You can simply decide whose you're willing to tolerate." Spot on.
Bookmarks for October 2, 2011
- Facebook: Brutal Dishonesty « UNCRUNCHED
Just in case you were in any doubt about facebook's intentions with regards to to tracking your web browsing while you aren't on their site.