Winning Slowly

Can adding a little friction back to user interfaces save us? Show notes We talk about the currently-trendy concept of (design) friction and how it is necessary but not sufficient for right action on the Internet. Links Facebook admits that it intentionally defrauded children by making it easy to buy in-game purchases The creator of the retweet button now thinks it was a bad idea (Mea culpa: We stated this article was written in Wired but it was in BuzzFeed) Dark patterns Alt-Meat Trounces Animal Meat’s Massive Inefficiencies The Launch: After two decades of research and development, WA 38 lands this fall. It could disrupt an entire industry.—It’s an apple. Manton Reece on hashtags and curation—note that Chris said these were totally curated, and they’re not; but they’re also designed not to behave like trends and hashtags on Twitter. Search in Micro.blog Books on Micro.blog A short history of Gamergate A compendium of articles concerning how Gamergate changed the Internet Data arguing that Gamergate was m