Yet another linkdump!

[yendi]

I'm at home today, as work was snowed out. And all those open tabs on a laptop that's not connected to my ginoumous work monitor makes it nearly impossible to navigate Chrome. So let's close some of them:

1. 10 ways Facebook changed gaming forever. There's a lot to criticize about both FB and FB gaming, but there's also a lot of legit stuff here, too.

2. Like Jessica Winter, I find the folks who are listening to and linking Robert Weide's defense of Woody Allen baffling.

3. I've never played or wanted to play EVE Online, but Patrick Klepek's piece on the battle that cost nearly $300K worth of damages is fascinating.

3.5 (since audio, as I linked last week, just doesn't go viral or get as many clickthroughs). Here's a piece on the death of Vile Rat, one of EVE's biggest players, in the Benghazi attack.

4. One of the most fascinating things I've seen is MediaMass. It's a fake gossip site, built entirely on algorithms that mimic what gets posted at, well, every other gossip site ever (including places like CNN and Fox News that post gossip). There's nothing funny in an Onion/Horowitz Report kind of way here, but it's worth a look to realize how manipulative the entire process is.

5. Four ways to push back against your privilege.. Does what it says on the label. Read it.

6. Megan Abbott writes for NPR Books on Edie Sedgewick. Also, you should read everything Abbott's written and edited.

7. Maddy Myers writes on video game journalism, representation, fighting, and being tired of fighting.

8. Good tips for creating a Professional Learning Network. It's a little 101, but still good (and PLNs are useful in any field).

9. Those Twitter feeds of pictures from history are often unethical, make use of other people's work without attribution, and sometimes just plain wrong.

10. Finally, there's a petition for Weird Al to be the Super Bowl halftime show star. I'd totally watch that.

Comments

[ron_newman]

re #2: I get a little more upset every time someone I know posts a link to that horrible Daily Beast article. It isn't in any way a refutation of Dylan Farrow's personal experience. It just throws a lot of mud at Mia Farrow in order to misdirect the reader.

re #9: Is this about Facebook projects such as Dirty Old Boston and Views of Historic Somerville Massachusetts? I've enjoyed these photo feeds and learned a lot from them.

[yendi]

It's more about the twitter streams that upload pictures, provide a quick (often inaccurate) "fact," and don't offer any attribution. The ones you mention do try to credit and allow for context, as well.

[ron_newman]

I do find the loss of photo attribution troubling, but it's a failure of the medium and the technology, not a conscious choice by anyone to strip the attributions out.

[ron_newman]

please edit your LJ style so that people can find the links! Right now they are indistinguishable from the rest of your text. Either make them underlined or give them a truly contrasting color.

[yendi]

Try it now!

[ron_newman]

thank you, thank you, thank you.

[amokk]

EVE Online is a very specific game type that one has to really like to play. It takes a ton of work, has a huge learning curve, and the joke is you're flying a spreadsheet. It's not inaccurate. I played for over a year, then had to stop because $15 a month is expensive without a steady income.

[yendi]

Yeah, and I'm pretty sure I'll never be of that type. But I do find the stories about the game fascinating.

[amokk]

The stories are better than the game, honestly. It would take years or lots of money to get to the level of being able to be involved in those stories.