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The last linked list for this year! I have some exci­ting things coming up next year, but all in due time. It might or it might not have somet­hing to do with “Gamification”.

• Markup.io — Draw on any website
• Buffer — Split your postings throug­hout the day
• Memecached — Real-time meme generator
• Scrollfriends — The Facebook feed reimagined

• Gamification sucks
  Brent Simmons

  “Gamification” is a word and con­cept inven­ted by idi­ocrats who con­fuse humane with mani­pu­la­tive.

• Gamification is bulls­hit
  Ian Bogost

  This rhe­to­ri­cal power deri­ves from the “-ifi­ca­tion” rat­her than from the “game”. –ifi­ca­tion invol­ves simple, repe­a­table, pro­ven tech­ni­ques or devices: you can purify, beau­tify, fal­sify, ter­rify, and so forth. –ifi­ca­tion is always easy and repe­a­table, and it’s usu­ally bulls­hit. Just add points.

• Pirate, colo­nist, slave
  N/A, The Economist

  ONE cold mor­ning in 1591 an English sai­lor found him­self shi­ve­ring on Ilhabella, now an island of yacht clubs and well-appointed week­end houses that is to Brazil what Martha’s Vineyard is to America. He had been left for dead—again—the fourth or fifth time Fate had deser­ted him in his short career as a pirate.

• The Dangerous Effects of Reading
  David Tate

  In our per­so­nal lives we tend to opti­mize for one of two things: input or out­put. Reading or wri­ting. Consuming or cre­a­ting. The envi­ron­ment we live in – the pre­vailing cul­ture – by default is opti­mi­zed for consumption.