Interesting Links for 28-7-2011
2011-Jul-28, Thursday 17:08![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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The headline is hyperbolic, naturally, but user happiness with Android isn't as high as it should be given the hype.
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Caterina was a co-founder of Flickr and has a good roundup. Some anonymous platforms are problematic. Some Facebook groups are full of arseholes using their real names. It's how you control things that matter, privilege inspired exclusionism doesn't help. You listening Google?
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When the quaterly growth figures were announced, the hashtag #osborneexcuses started trending on Twitter, taking the piss out of Gideon for the crappy excuses he gave for them. Thing is? They weren't his excuses, they were concocted byt he supposedly independent Office of National Statistics. Tim Leunig argues they should concentrate on getting the fact straight and reporting them, and leave excuses to politicians. He's right, he usually is.
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Technically, I'm in GenX, but I went to university late so many of my friends have the attitude and approach of GenY, ie those born post 1980, who came of age when mobile phones were ubiquitous. I hate calling people by phone, and I even more hate being called by phone unannounced. And if you do that, and don't ask me if it's convenient to talk? Incredibly rude to expect me to drop everything to deal with your problem.
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Isn't it nice to know that the US govt has at least some employees/presidents with a sense of humour?
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Finally. Some of us have been saying this for years. "preferred bidder status", no internal experts, no central coordination. Some Govt IT contracts I've looked at have been mindbogglingly bad and overpriced, might we finally get some movement the other way?
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1848. Mill wrote this book in 1848. One of the greatest thinkers this country has ever produced, and stuff he considered basic common sense is still being forgotten more'n 150 years later. Last night, on Newsnight, former Labour Cabinet minister James Purnell basically said he'd figured the above quote out. Which is basically admitting that for 13 years in power, LAbour weren't thinking that way. FFS
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Date: 2011-Jul-28, Thursday 16:59 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-Jul-28, Thursday 20:04 (UTC)Ah well, they'll either change or they'll chase off a huge amount of their early adopters and influencers, including those that've been avoiding Facebook but want to use G+.
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Date: 2011-Jul-28, Thursday 17:59 (UTC)According to a leading fansite, Douglas Coupland intended the term to refer to people aged between about 25 and 34 in 1991 - those born between 1957 and 1966. Other commentators have suggested it's the children of the baby boomers (so 1965 to about 1981), or those whose teenage years touched the 1980s (so 1960 to 1976). In short, it's a term that can mean whatever anyone wants it to mean, and can exclude whatever anyone wants it to exclude.
Does anyone want five tests on European monetary union?
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Date: 2011-Jul-28, Thursday 20:27 (UTC)Exactly, that always annoyed me, it implied the politics was settled and it was just an economic decision, which was always complete nonsense, especially when the person touting it was known to be opposed. Ah well.
Yup, but normally a generation is defined by about 20 years, hence Baby Boom is 40s and 50s (it started in the UK in 1943 FFS, all those yankee servicemen, US was post war but...), GenX became the term for 60s and 70s, then someone came up with GenY.
Doesn't matter what Copeland meant, what matters is how it's used, because all he meant to imply are within the post boom Gen, ergo that's the best name for that overall Gen as, frankly, it doesn't matter.
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Date: 2011-Jul-29, Friday 14:33 (UTC)