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@austinkleon Have you seen Anthony Browne and his "Shape Game"? Right up your street...

He's just been made children's laureate here in the UK. Not sure exactly what this means... something to do with the Queen.

Here's a video of him drawing and talking about the Shape Game: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8091635.stm

The Shape Game is:

The Shape Game is a game that Browne played with his brother Michael when they were children. It involves one player drawing a random shape and the other then turning it into something, such as a face, a fried egg or a dinosaur.

“Children everywhere have invented their own versions,” he said.

To start the ball rolling he then asked his brother on to the stage for “an event that hasn’t happened in at least 50 years... to play the Shape Game with me”.

The new Children’s Laureate drew a blob and his brother swiftly transformed it into a weeping face.

“I hope to get the whole country playing,” Browne said. “All of us could draw when we were 5 or 6.

“It’s not about trying to make an impressive picture. It’s about communication.”

According to: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/children/article6463399.ece

And here's his book with the same title -- the Shape Game: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Shape-Game-Anthony-Browne/dp/0552546968

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Posted June 9, 2009
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Paris in my Packt Beanie

Outside the Louvre:



And a little later at the Eiffel Tower:

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Posted June 8, 2009
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RSS / Google Reader needs a standard commenting feature

I read a lot of blogs in Google reader. Often I have a quick comment that I want to post in response. Here's what you have to do to post a comment:

  1. Click the title of the post in your reader, to open the page in a browser window
  2. Scroll to the bottom
  3. Type in your personal info and maybe prove you're not a spammer
  4. Say your bit
  5. Submit the message
  6. Close the window

This is a crazy amount of work to post a one or two line comment. And nearly every blogger wants more comments. They're missing out on mine because of the overhead here. And trust me, my comments would be amazing.



Step 3 is particularly galling because I've just come from Google Reader, and Google Reader knows everything there is to know about me already.

Why is there no button in Google Reader marked "comment" that pops something up a text book and lets me add a comment directly? It could work like the Share feature it has already. Wouldn't this make you happy?

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Posted June 1, 2009
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