Tired words: Consumer
Heard it. Don’t like it. Can’t get rid of it.
Consumer – This is a catch-all for the folks who fork over their dear money for something we have made.* All too often it is a term do describe some sort of passive consumption of media. I try hard to use some other term, such as ‘user’ or ‘people’ or ‘subscribers’ or something like that. It’s not easy. But, thinking of the way folks actually use the web, so many folks are actually lurking and reading and watching and listening, and so few actually creating or participating (read more here, via JP). Hence, I think ‘consumer’ just might be sufficient.
You can review all my previous ‘Tired Words’ here on this page.
*A related tired word: ‘end-user’. Ugh.
Has anyone played with Mozes?
Oy, I’m able to delve deeper, partly due to a lazy holiday season and partly due to this being something outside my home country.
But, those few neurons that spot kewl say that this is interesting. And those neurons that love anything simple and sms-y are shivering with delight.
Let’s keep an eye on these folk.
Interestingly, O’Reilly picked them up on their radar early this year, so they’ve been fermenting for some time (read the article here. it’s good).
Link: Mozes : How does Mozes work?.
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Yum yum yum
Yum yum yum
Originally uploaded by schickr.
Wii is cool. Dave Harper and gang make it cooler.
In a stunt of pure hackery, Dave and pals cooked up a WordPress plug-in that automatically renders pages for the Wii browser.
It’s a great example of how when sytems are open to pure and beautiful hackery, users will find clever new ways to bridge design issues the original designers had never thought of or would ever be able to cater to.
It’s never really about tools, but about construction kits.
Link: About the WordPress Nintendo Wii Edition Plugin
WordPress Wii Edition is a plugin that shows an interface designed for the Nintendo Wii when visitors come to your site on a Wii with the Opera browser. Wii’s are automatically detected, there is no configuration needed. Inspired by Alex King’s Mobile Plugin
Just looked cool to me
Just looked cool to me
Originally uploaded by schickr.