Delicious LiveJournal Links for 7-8-2010

[andrewducker]

• One third of Brits are gamers - both men and women
  (tags: gaming statistics)
• The results of interviews with 983 gamers - ‘Girls like to game, but games are not well tuned to their interests.’
  (tags: gaming games gender)
• BT and TalkTalk challenge Digital Economy Act
  (tags: bt government technology uk internet)
• Getting out in nature is apparently good for you. I'm shocked!
  A study of 280 healthy people in Japan, where visiting nature parks for therapeutic effect has become a popular practice called 'Shinrin-yoku,' or 'forest bathing,' found that being among plants produced 'lower concentrations of cortisol, lower pulse rate, and lower blood pressure,' among other things. Another study in 2007 showed that men who took two-hour walks in a forest over two days had a 50-percent spike in levels of natural killer cells, and a third study found an increase in white blood cells that lasted for a week in women exposed to phytoncides in forest air."
  (tags: health nature)
• A lovely story of a rescued pigeon
  (tags: pigeon birds)
• Exposure to Plants and Parks Can Boost Immunity
  (tags: health nature immune_system)
• A very odd case. One where I doubt the truth will ever be known
  (tags: law abuse uk odd)
• Doctor Suing For Bad Ratings Online - apparently unaware of Streisand Effect
  (tags: medicine internet law EpicFail)
• Ofcom, Sky and the Government. Things are not looking good.
  (tags: regulation media uk news reporting)
• Is Flattr the new Facebook Like, but this time with real money?
  I'm intrgued by this idea
  (tags: social money socialmedia business commercial interesting flattr micropayments)
• Analogue TVs no longer sold by UK retailers
  (tags: tv digital technology)

Comments

[marrog.livejournal.com]

Jim Watts story - Scary stuff. It's not so much that he could be innocent - I mean, that's awful but equally, maybe he did it. It's the fact that the conviction seems so unsafe. The idea that he could be put away for so long on such controversial evidence is quite terrifying. Also, it's interesting how this matches up against rape cases involving women who can be trusted to understand the evidence they're giving...

Flattr, on the surface of it, sounds awesome. I really hope it takes off.

[andrewducker]

Absolutely. I have no idea if he's guilty - I do know that the evidence seems completely unusuable from what that report says.

And yeah - I love the idea of having a fixed amount to donate, and then sprinkling it around people. If you're required to have a Flattr account to access a site, then that will encourage people to get them, and then you can choose whether or not to give other people a chunk of your change each month.

[broin.livejournal.com]

re: Flattr

micropayments Micropayments MICROPAYMENTS!

[andrewducker]

But in a way that might work. The problem with micropayments is the overhead. Nobody likes being nickle and dimed to death. Give people a flat rate and you change the way they think about it.

[broin.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes! Grouping the funds together like this sounds pretty sane.

[d-c-m.livejournal.com]

One third of Brits are gamers - both men and women
(tags: gaming statistics)

Go UK!!!

The results of interviews with 983 gamers - ‘Girls like to game, but games are not well tuned to their interests.’
(tags: gaming games gender)

Well DUH! I like playing games where I can choose to play a woman who isn't dressed in a bikini. :)

[andrewducker]

Tell me about it - Julie went to set an avatar on the Ubisoft website and the choices were five different heroes - all men.

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

Note the Lib-Dem about face on Digital Economy that they opposed three months ago.

[andrewducker]

Have they come out actively in favour of it? Last I heard it was just not high priority enough to get any attention.

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

The BBC news article implies that they opposed it then, but are no longer opposing it now. Or, if they are not, they are silent.

[andrewducker]

Well, the article doesn't state any party policy there - just a government department, which will be responding according to whatever the complete coalition thinks.

We may see the repeal of bits of it, but we'll have to wait and see, it certainly seems unlikely to get any attention this year.