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Re: Apparently, Phishing Is Not Funny

louie vuitton — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:01:53 -0000

contextualizing of Calvinball in regular games is critical. Calvinball doesn”t make sense unless you know croquet, baseball, etc.

Question: “America’’s Army” was a video game developed specifically as a recruiting tool. Comment.

L :We”ll never have a truly successful propaganda video game, because it’’s too interactive a medium.
Teten: What can managers learn motivating power of video games?
Sinnreich: the Chinese gold farmers who work in WoW, they play WoW in their off-hours because they”re with their friends. When I was at a dot-com, we played Age of Empires on the company’’s LAN.
Liebovitz: Heidegger said humans are different from all other animals because they know they”re mortal. Games free us of that onus.

Question: Who’’s doing interesting research in games.
Flanagan: Esward Costranova
Liebovitz: JL Sherry, who’’s found little correlation between games and

Re: Apparently, Phishing Is Not Funny

Louis Vuitton — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:22:52 -0000

Bloggers are not journalists in the professional sense of the word. It’s not only a misconception, but judging by how quickly erroneous information can spread, it’s a very dangerous idea. [...] Amateurs can produce high-quality content and, in a particular area of expertise, can provide more depth on a subject. However, we should never kid ourselves that the amateurs have the same level of experience, nor do they support the same level of standards as the professional. Read carefully and watch those banners. You may see a professional logo at the top of the page, but that doesn’t mean the same level of trust can be transferred to the content beneath it. I think it’s time that organizations like CNN and ZDNet change the layout of their amateur sites. It’s too easy to mistake the work of an amateur for that of the professional and trusted journalist.

Re: Apparently, Phishing Is Not Funny

Mitch — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:54:49 -0000

I always believe that people need to know where their responsibility lies in dealing with others. At the same time, one should be able to have a bit of fun, but needs to figure out how to make sure everyone understands that it's only fun. I don't know how one would do it without giving up the joke at the beginning, but maybe for some people that's just the legacy they have to live up to.

Re: Apparently, Phishing Is Not Funny

Brian — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:51:39 -0000

This kind of touches on a bigger issue about the lack of ability to convey sarcasm, wittiness, and joking over text. While we DO have a stop-gap measure in place in the form of emoticons (imagine if Brian Oberkirch's tweet had a ;) on the end - I don't think this would have happened), it's still not good enough and people's feelings get hurt.

The community at Icrontic (my site) has been around for almost nine years, and in that time we've had our share of people making a grand exit because of misperceived hurts or insults. The more reliant we get on text-based communication, the bigger this problem becomes.

Re: Apparently, Phishing Is Not Funny

Shannon Whitley — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 02:47:32 -0000

I agree. The professionals aren't always so "professional" either. I think you hit the main point though; it's our responsiblity as readers to evaluate what we're reading before we spread the story or take action.