Links for 2008-10-23: how to deal with deaths of users on socialnetworking sites; nerdview or when language is written from the point of the view of the author, not the end-user; fabulous “you ain’t all that” bagatelles about Oscar Wilde and other luminaries; famous novels, summarised in txt; behavioural targeting for advertising; Gok Wan and “vulgarity masquerading as self-help”; gastric bandits go abroad because they don’t meet critieria in UK but experience complications; Nicollette Sheridan seen without make-up, shock.
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It is remarkably strange when someone you have met regularly online dies. The more so when the family has no idea of just how many friends they had in particular networking sites or fora. Forum managers and large networking sites do need to evolve ways of coping with this.
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I have a guilty enjoyment of discussions like this one. Primarily because this encapsulates one of my pet peeves about website design: it reflects the organisation of companies and can be used by people who understand its structure but it is not intuitive by outsiders, nor readily navigable.
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"Edgar Degas said of the 28-year-old Oscar Wilde, after a visit to his studio: “He behaves as if he’s playing Lord Byron in some suburban theatre.”" Entertaining and disapproving comments about the Dickinson sisters.
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All the great ones: Melville, Pinter, Joyce. For when even Cliff Notes are too wordy.
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Behavioural targeting – Brave New World with Brave New Blunders. Except, some of this should really have been ironed out because these faux-pas were common in the early 80s when personalised letters from catalogue companies were perceived as stalkerish because they contained information gleaned from customers' buying patterns. Some of the contextual advertising is so off-beam as to be entertaining but there are times when it is deeply inappropriate. "the industry claims that what it's doing is not eavesdropping. But consumers don't seem to mind. According to Forrester data, despite people's concerns about online privacy, they'll trade some of it for relevancy: 29% of respondents said they would prefer to receive appropriately targeted ads as opposed to random ones." Presumably, these people don't share family computers.
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Haven't seen the programme and am unlikely to as it does sound like "vulgarity masquerading as self-help". Maybe it is popular because women who feel bad about themselves after reading the Daily Mail can compare themselves to the women Platell and the programme makers ridicule and feel better.
It's all very Shirley Valentine.
We're marvellous like that.
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Complications of gastric band surgery that is performed overseas with no follow-up. More horror stories with no sense of what percentage this might represent although the number of incidents reported by UK obesity surgeons may or may not be alarming depending on the absolute numbers. Basically, the Daily Mail writes about this as a cosmetic procedure but criticises those who treat it this way.
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Barefaced not chic: Desperate Housewives star Nicollette steps out without her make-up | Mail OnlineBecause heavens forfend that any woman should be seen without makeup, even in the heat. What woman over the age of 30 should expect the world to look upon her without a barrier. Daily Mail and the everyway but which way women can be criticised.
