*A lot of blogs call themselves "notebooks," only they're not very notebook-like.
*This thing, however, is a notebook that is not kidding around about that.
http://journal.benbashford.com/post/2848763029
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'Unless the behaviours and personalities of these things that compute are designed well enough, the things that are not so good about them or unavoidable have the potential to come across as flaws in the object’s character, break the suspension of disbelief and do more harm than good. Running out of batteries, needing a part to be replaced or the system crashing could be seen as getting sick, dying - or worse - the whole thing could be so ridiculous and annoying that it gets thrown out on its ear before long.
"I don’t know where I got it from but I keep using the term 'Reality Clippy' (((genius))) to describe how bad something like that could be. We should learn a few things from the problems we’ve had with gameification and establish early on that not everything should pretend to be happy to see you and sad to see you go or demand that you treat it as another person...."
