Why not encourage the use of real names, with the option of an
editable ‘username field’ auto-populated by the first name/last name and
titled ‘Name displayed’ or ‘Display name’? And for that to be non-unique (’cause the uniqueness is supplied by the profile)…
Following are some choice quotes that you probably wouldn’t hear in
the US Congress, where videogames are often a convenient whipping boy to
curry favor with soccer moms.
According to the European Union’s parliament: “Video games can stimulate learning of facts and skills such as strategic thinking, creativity, cooperation and innovative thinking, which are important skills in the information society.” (Hat tip to e-mint post)
Enjoyed Euan Semple’s post on the clash of cultures between IT and web 2.0 from Vegas.
Mechanic/organic’ is my current classification of this debate. It’s not a million miles from a v. short paper I wrote back in 2000; my comment below…
There’s the hidden subtle cultural differences between traditional IT mindset (to simplify call it ‘mechanical’) and web 2.0 idealists (‘organic’) not to mention the cultural issues of any E2.0 implementation behind the firewall. That’s quite a challenge!
JP’s very interesting ‘Confused of Calcutta’ blog on Clay Shirky at the ICA.
Managed to re-listen to his LSE lecture on the train on Sunday. Got to say that when you listen carefully you may catch that he has a fairly traditional view of power (29:29) in reality.
PDF of the rogue UK housing minister document, in the process detailing how to best write a killer report from Jon Moon, reproduced in all its ‘bouncy’ bullet-point glory:
In May 2008, Gordon Brown’s housing minister, Caroline Flint, exposed the Government’s fears over the poor state of the housing market when she accidentally let photographers glimpse a ‘top-secret’ report as she walked into No 10.
Page 2 looks at some of the many things the note got wrong (and it’s laid out as a WiT, needless to say). And on page 3 I’ve transformed it by doing it as a WiT. WiT is my seriously better alternative to bullets that triples impact. It transforms all types of documents – slides, reports, notes, CVs, meeting minutes, KPI packs and more. Visit www.jmoon.co.uk for more.
PM Gordon Brown claimed on the BBC Politics Show today that the global credit crunch was not forseeable. The structures to protect against bank breakdown were only designed for individual bank failure like the UK’s Northern Rock. Hmm, I thought, but haven’t we been told about the ‘global economy’ for years now, and its essential ‘inter-dependency’. And this no doubt would include banks. But the possibility that bank failure could be plural and inter-dependent in nature was not planned for, not by the FSA, not by all those clever folk at HM Treasury. Really?
PS: ICAEW CEO Michael Izza suggests in his excellent post-Davos blog that ex-PM Tony Blair might still have a role to help communicate the complexity of the crisis.