Episode 53: 53: Brad Pitt Gets to Contribute
Hypercritical
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5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2012
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin revisit gamification in education, talk briefly about the Nest thermostat, then engage in an ever-so-slightly more considered discussion of Wikipedia, attempting to address the mountain of feedback on the topic. No Wikipedians were harmed in the making of this episode.
Links for this episode:
- No-One Cares About the College Bookstore - Kieran Healy
- Big Study Links Good Teachers to Lasting Gain - NYTimes.com
- Verifiability and Truth: What John Siracusa Doesn’t Get About Wikipedia - The Wikipedian
- Ignore all rules - Wikipedia
- Game theory - Wikipedia
- Gamification - Wikipedia
- Build and Analyze #62: Frustrated by the Invisible Person
- Nest - The Learning Thermostat
- Self-Improvement podcast, episode 1: Hypercritical & Dr Karl's Blogcast
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to hypercritical weekly talk show ruminating on exactly what is wrong in the world of Apple and related technologies and businesses. |
| 0:10.1 | Nothing is so perfect it can't be complained about. |
| 0:14.4 | By my co-host John Siracusa, I'm Dan Benjamin today. |
| 0:18.4 | It's February 3rd, 2012. |
| 0:21.6 | I show this as being episode number 53 and we would like to say thank you very much |
| 0:26.6 | to our two sponsors today mailchimp.com and fresh Books.com. |
| 0:32.8 | We'll tell you more about those. |
| 0:33.6 | As the program continues, we also want to mention bandwidth |
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| 0:46.4 | five by five. |
| 0:49.4 | How are you doing, John? |
| 0:51.6 | I'm doing fine man. |
| 0:53.0 | What are you doing? |
| 0:57.0 | What are you doing? |
| 0:58.0 | I'm trying to get everything organized here, trying and failing. |
| 1:02.0 | Okay. |
| 1:04.0 | Because I got a lot of stuff here. |
| 1:08.0 | A lot of feedback. |
| 1:10.0 | Yeah, there was a lot of email. |
| 1:12.0 | All right. Yeah, there was a lot of email. |
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