Simon Booth

Tags:american apparel, digital civil rights, secondlife, virtual worldSecondLife Natives Are Restless at ExperienceCurve
Golden Rule of Social Media number one could be: Even if you create a community, the users own it.
Direct action has come into play in virtual world SecondLife, where users are demanding their digital civil rights by staging “military operations” that have resulted […]

Tags:behaviour, games, the sims 2The Sims 2 really is quite a remarkable game for its ability to provide a convincing simulation of real modern life. So much so in fact that it recently gave me a little lesson about our attachment to material things.
So here was the situation: I had a nice little family going […]

Tags:banksy, games, streetart, ugm, virtualworldNice to see someone applying a bit of (non 14-year-old) humour to Counter Strike.
One of the features of the game is the ability to spray graffiti on the walls, so someone has made some “sprays” out of Banksy art and called it counter street art.
I reckon I might download them and […]

Tags:bbc, forums, trustThe recent Hutton report and subsequent furore have highlighted the issue of the BBC and trust. Trust is important for online communities too. So, I set off to thinking about how trust could be built into the new BBC messageboards system.
Not all of the ideas are fully formed, nor are they necessarily all […]

Tags:forums, humourSomething to bear in mind for my current job: How many forum members does it take to change a lightbulb?
Via Many-to-Many, via Martin Dugage.

Tags:bbc, forums, hosting, moderationHere’s an idea to mull over: every BBC message board should have an area dedicated to communication between the board’s users and its hosts.
I’ve often seen users post messages that attempt to get the hosts (or moderators) attention. Would it be easier to have a dedicated area for this? Could also be […]

Tags:bbc, fame academy, forums, hostingInteresting stuff happening on the Points of View messageboards. A lot of people are complaining about bias in the Fame Academy final. The situation seems to have been exacerbated by the following shortcomings:
* Threads are sorted by creation date, not most recent posting date. This has led to people creating new […]

Tags:bbc, behaviour, forums, friendsterInteresting comment on rec.arts.tv.uk.eastenders suggesting that members of the BBCi EastEnders message board had become involved in a competition to see who could make the most posts.
Reading into Clay Shirkey’s piece, Two on Friendster, it’s possible that the BBCi message boards encourage this behaviour by displaying next to a member’s name the […]

Tags:forums, languageThe UK is a multi-lingual country and some Welsh people don’t like it when their language is excluded.

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