{"id":256,"date":"2009-05-04T15:53:30","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T15:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2009\/05\/04\/on_the_spring_bank_holiday\/"},"modified":"2009-05-04T15:53:30","modified_gmt":"2009-05-04T15:53:30","slug":"on_the_spring_bank_holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2009\/05\/04\/on_the_spring_bank_holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Spring Bank Holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ian<\/a> (Brooks 2009, private communication) wondered why it was so quiet on the internets. Today’s a holiday in the UK: traditionally it’s May Day<\/em> but that’s a bit too communist<\/a> for peaceful folk so we call it the Spring Bank Holiday. In Europe they also have a holiday around now, usually on the actual 1st May, called Tag der Arbeit<\/em> (‘day of the work’ i.e. ‘Labo[u]r Day’) or Erste Mai<\/em> or something like that.<\/p>\n

\nAnd it’s Star Wars<\/a> day, too. And as Eva<\/a> points out it’s also Dodenherdenkin<\/em> in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n

\nSo I’m just going to point to a couple of random things. <\/p>\n

\nWhen you start talking about something, in this case social media<\/a>, you start to see it everywhere. Andrew Spong invited me to join STweM<\/a>, which looks kinda interesting; while there<\/a> I read about Novartis and CML Earth<\/a>. This appears to be a social-media type support group for sufferers of chronic myeloid leukemia. Which sounds like a brilliant notion, and a good use of SM. I’m neither patient, medical doctor nor support group so I can’t really play with the site, but this looks like just the sort of thing the tools should be used for.<\/p>\n

\nAndrew (I think, but it’s not clear) gives an interesting critique of CML Earth<\/a>, and anyone really interested in SM should take a look. I’ll certainly be paying close attention when I get back to work<\/a> tomorrow.<\/p>\n

\n——-
\nYou might remember last year that Encyclopaedia Britannia decided to do something about shitty<\/del> Wikipedia. They offered free subscriptions to anyone who wanted to cite EB articles on their blog. I took them up on this and it was reasonably useful. Then as the freebie ended they wrote to me offering a renewal. I tried to take them up on this, but got directed to a credit card form. Ha ha. Fair’s fair: a couple of days later I got another email saying, essentially, ‘Whoops, we cocked up there. Here, have another freebie.”<\/p>\n

\nAnd that was good, except I was about to move halfway round the world (again) and didn’t do anything about it.<\/p>\n

\nToday I got a third email, subject “Renew your complimentary Britannica Online subscription”, saying, “Although your subscription has recently expired, we would like to offer you a chance to regain immediate access to Encyclopaedia Britannica Online. Reactivate your subscription now by following the steps below”.<\/p>\n

\nNice. Except they want me to pay for it. <\/p>\n

\nSo, do I try to find the previous email they sent, wait for another “Whoops, we cocked up there” one, or just forget about it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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