#dConstruct - Don Norman on embracing systems and complexity Paid Members Public
 Don Norman appears to be scene setting – he’s talking us through many of the current issues in technology. He’s given us a little light Google-bashing,
Birth of the Author(ship) Paid Members Public
Ah, a tenuous Barthes [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Barthes] joke. It must be the Friday before a bank holiday… So, [how did my experiments from yesterday](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2011/08/google_authorship_open_graph_and_other_t.html) go?Pretty well, as it turns out:
Google Authorship, Open Graph and other techie challenges Paid Members Public
Experimenting with new metadata from Facebook and Google.
Google+ : the song Paid Members Public
A song about Google+ - which rather nicely captures the experience of using it.
Gamification the dumb…err…Google way Paid Members Public
Beautiful summary: > Google News US has launched collectable badges for reading news stories [http://googlenewsblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/shareable-google-news-badges-for-your.html] . This is stupid. Mary has provided plenty of more detailed reasons why it’s stupid [http://maryhamilton.co.uk/2011/08/google-news-doing-gamification-wrong/], too. Another example of Google jumping
Google+: Who You Know Changes Everything Paid Members Public
Like all social networks, the people you connect with change the experience.
Confession: I was wrong on Google+ Paid Members Public
Recanting my position on Google+ - it does loom promising.
