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Technology

Seeing humanity in all the bot places

The LaMBDA situation is a reminder we're just too good at personification.

Seeing humanity in all the bot places
Media

The power to know

Things 'everyone knows' usually need to be shared and shared again more often.

The power to know
Games

Bigger isn't always better

Rolling around at the speed of a brisk walk

Bigger isn't always better
Politics

A platform of certainty

Knowing there's firm footing ahead makes big ideas easier to pursue.

A platform of certainty
Games

When tabletop and digital worlds converge

Storytelling through tabletop mechanics

When tabletop and digital worlds converge
Media

The quality of our questions

Back to basics for the media industry - or is it too late?

The quality of our questions
Games

Mise-en-scène

Enjoying Japanese cinema through videogames.

Mise-en-scène
Home

How to hack your Netflix profile recommendations

If your profiles are just people's names, you're doing it wrong.

How to hack your Netflix profile recommendations
Games

Marvelling at the horizon

Learning more about a game helps deepen the enjoyment

Marvelling at the horizon

The cost of losing everything

We need to get more emotional to convince people to protect their data

The cost of losing everything

The kids are bopping again... this week

Slang at the speed of meme culture.

The kids are bopping again... this week
Ideas

Why one cute hamster says everything you need to know about what online learning should be

Online learning needs to be about relationships, not just info dumping, or it is destined to fail to support the messy, real world needs of students.

Why one cute hamster says everything you need to know about what online learning should be

More "freedom from", please

Why did "freedom to" advocates become so focused on punching down?

More "freedom from", please

Editing on Twitter is a fraught idea

Does that retweet you said you loved still say what it said when you retweeted it?

Editing on Twitter is a fraught idea

Search engines are dying

The optimisers are outwitting the engines. Now it's easy to find 'something' but hard to find a specific thing.

Search engines are dying

Just because we can...

Dyson's new air purifier raises big questions about form, function, and the just plain freaky.

Just because we can...
Media

A cultural event horizon

Twitter showed its best and worst during the Smith/Rock Oscars incident.

A cultural event horizon

Bad laws ignored badly

One year on, the News Media Bargaining Code has failed to stand up for those who needed it most.

Bad laws ignored badly
Media

Exploring the Backrooms

William Gibson's 'The Footage' meets a horror liminal space meme and I love it.

Exploring the Backrooms

Cringe du jour

The memes are on the attack, but happiness has other ideas.

Cringe du jour