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• A Million Pieces & LonelyGirl15 - Reality is Irrelevant 2 From the ‘So What?’ Department: LonelyGirl15 isn’t a ‘real’ person, just an entertaining video project James Frey’s A Million Little Pieces not a ‘real’ memoir, get your money back To me, both of these are non-stories and stories with illiterate audiences. There’s no reason for readers or viewers to feel cheated if they were entertained. That doesn’t
• Tell Me When It’s Over “In my experience, until the feature is done, it’s quite difficult to predict when it will be done…” - Johanna Rothman
• An Optimistic End to a Rough Day It’s pushing midnight. I’m reading Tom Peters’ Re-Imagine and listening to ‘Above the Law’ by N.W.A. and Limp Bizkit’s cover of ‘Faith’. Here’s to tomorrow.
• Digg Dumb Deep Down “That means that, if Digg were actually based on the Wisdom of Crowds principle, you’d never see how many people had dugg an article before you choose to digg it yourself. Additionally, you’d only ever vote on a random selection of articles.” - J Wynia I think the transparency allowed by internet technologies make true Wisdom
• Still Lusing “I’m thinking that there is something inherently subordinate to the term ‘user’” - Prof Mary Wong. via Doc Searls The term “user” has bugged me since I worked at “HannaHodge: User Experience Architects” 8 years back. A couple Octobers back, in First Crack #2 [mp3], I declared “There are no users”. “‘User’ is a term from the