links for 2006-11-30

Evert Sto­bbe van SNS Bank over ‘Co-cre­ation eco­nom­ics’.

In-depth pro­file of game design god Will Wright. Of par­tic­u­lar inter­est are the sources of inspi­ra­tion for his games and to read how one of the few indus­try lead­ing game design­er that has actu­al cre­ative free­dom is incred­i­bly iso­lat­ed at the same time.

Over two year old post by Matt Webb describ­ing all the aspects that go into explain­ing social soft­ware to non-experts and train­ing them in use and design. Lots of inter­est­ing leads to fol­low up on here.

Joshua Porter high­lights issues Digg is hav­ing with their design. They’ve changed an algo­rithm, and now the com­mu­ni­ty is push­ing back. Porter writes: “The issues are social ones, prob­a­bly unpre­dictable in any straight­for­ward way.”