{"id":1246,"date":"2009-01-08T14:01:29","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T12:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2009\/01\/08\/links-for-2009-01-08\/"},"modified":"2009-01-08T14:01:29","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T12:01:29","slug":"links-for-2009-01-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2009\/01\/08\/links-for-2009-01-08\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2009-01-08"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\"><li>\n                <div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/speedbird.wordpress.com\/2007\/03\/30\/on-happiness-better-and-the-ludic\/\">On happiness, \u201cbetter\u201d and the ludic \u00ab Adam Greenfield\u2019s Speedbird<\/a><\/div>\n                <div class=\"delicious-extended\">I can&#8217;t believe I missed this post the first time around. Mr. Greenfield writes: &#8220;What I\u2019m looking for from designers is tactful acceptance that I intend to use their product to serve my own (now ludic, now serious) ends, rather than a positive assertion that they\u2019ve a priori understood what makes something fun.&#8221; The ensuing discussion (involving, a.o., Jane McGonigal, Raph Koster and Matt Jones) is pure gold. It&#8217;s about whether designers should aim to improve people&#8217;s lives, and what it means to design playful things in the first place.<\/div>\n                <div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/play\">play<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/design\">design<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/happiness\">happiness<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/fun\">fun<\/a>)<\/div>\n            <\/li><li>\n                <div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eend.nl\/dfc\/site\/godverdomse_dagen_op_een_godverdomse_bol_dimitri_verhulst\/#When:21:32:00Z\">duck for cover &#8211; booklog<\/a><\/div>\n                <div class=\"delicious-extended\">I agree with Marrije \u2013 Verhulst&#8217;s book is possibly the best I read last year. It makes me wish I could magically make people read Dutch, because it would just not be the same translated in English.<\/div>\n                <div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/books\">books<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/DimitriVerhulst\">DimitriVerhulst<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/reviews\">reviews<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/history\">history<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/humanity\">humanity<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/Dutch\">Dutch<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/Flemish\">Flemish<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/NL\">NL<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/Netherlands\">Netherlands<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/Belgium\">Belgium<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/BE\">BE<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/Nederland\">Nederland<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/kaeru\/Belgi%C3%AB\">Belgi\u00eb<\/a>)<\/div>\n            <\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On happiness, \u201cbetter\u201d and the ludic \u00ab Adam Greenfield\u2019s Speedbird I can&#8217;t believe I missed this post the first time around. Mr. Greenfield writes: &#8220;What I\u2019m looking for from designers is tactful acceptance that I intend to use their product to serve my own (now ludic, now serious) ends, rather than a positive assertion that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2009\/01\/08\/links-for-2009-01-08\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">links for 2009-01-08<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[431],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}