Agency of the future?

Ashamed to say that I have only come across these guys recently – the price you pay for being engrossed in your work I guess. I’m very, very struck by the tone of what is

#epicwin

Been reading about games in educational psychology, introducing the controlled risks of a game makes a massive difference to how much attention, cognitive effort, emotion & all those other good things you get… and it can used for geek-goodness too.

Social & the gift economy

The gift economy was a buzz topic a while ago – but it should be taken back out and re-examined in light of social media advances

The Real Life Social Network

Presentation from Paul Adams, Senior User Experience Researcher at Google, putting ‘social’ into a real life context. Grounded, visionary, excellent.

The social economy & countervailing power

Is social media a big thing, or a fundamental change?

Peacock or Bower Bird?

continuing my educational trundle through @faris posts… some ‘feck it – lets change everything’ wisdom…