Molly Porter

This is the tumblelog of Molly Porter, web and social media strategist in Chicago, IL

Permalink thenewinquiry: Gamification is awful for many reasons, not least in the way it seeks to transform us into atomized laboratory rats, reduce us to the sum total of our incentivized behaviors. But it also increases the pressure to make all game playing occur within spaces subject to capture; it seeks to supply the incentives to make games not about relaxation and escape and social connection but about data generation. The networked mediation of games — in other words, playing them on your phone or through Facebook — undermines the function of games in organizing face-to-face social time, guaranteeing presence in an unobtrusive way. Instead we typically take our turn in mediated games on our time and play multiple games at once, to cater to our convenience and our desire to be winning at least one of them. Rob Horning, Dummy Discards a Heart
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Permalink bohemea: Gene Kelly
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Stay obsessed. That thing you can’t stop thinking about? Keep indulging it. Obsession is the better part of success. You will be great at the things that you can’t not do.

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Permalink millaciccone: #Madonna, The Rolling Stones, Hall & Oates, Tina Turner and Bob Dylan. Live Aid. 1985
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