Comments on: Boing Boing Versus Jane McGonigal

By: Jarmo

Jarmo — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 05:01:14 +0000

Jane McGonigal offers life-changing and -affirming, inspiring, energising, astonishing and wonderful visions of the near future. Thank you for exposing us to her and them. Having just listened to her, I feel I have been near true greatness. This is a very rare and precious happenstance.

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 11:33:07 +0000

Gentlemen. Be gentlemen.

By: alex_jacobson

alex_jacobson — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 11:29:13 +0000

“What, no lesbo vid?

Gyp.”

Yeah, totally. Jane MCGonigal sounds kinky with that whole thing about humiliation too.

By: Klaus

Klaus — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 04:50:39 +0000

Eh, endless optimism or pessimism is equally annoying. I tried that ‘only positive feedback’ thing in real life. It seems all very patronizing.

By: Robin

Robin — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:03:01 +0000

I’ve never thought that the internet suffered from *too much* shame.

By: Brass Gerbil

Brass Gerbil — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:11:28 +0000

What, no lesbo vid?

Gyp.

By: Larington

Larington — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:07:53 +0000

The typing noise in the background on the first video cuts out a few minutes in, someone must’ve forgotten to flip a switch prior to that.

Sometimes, I wish it was possible to ban negativity from the Internet, but that’d probably get annoying after a while too.

By: Horace Bumsworth, Esquire

Horace Bumsworth, Esquire — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:07:17 +0000

The boing boing crew are, in my humble opinion to, a horridly obnoxious congregation of self-important fawning long-tongued miscreants who I would gladly witness banished from the internets.

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:43:01 +0000

Be fair to Xeni: She’s getting questions from chat. She has to be looking elsewhere.

By: Johnson27

Johnson27 — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:30:38 +0000

Totally love those ideas, also can’t help but agreeing that at times it felt like the interviewer really wasn’t paying attention. Would be fine if she was off camera, but she wasn’t, however I also hate the feigned interest some interviewers give as evidenced but that stupid nodding they do on occasion. So they officially cannot win. Goodbye

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:00:44 +0000

Sure that would have been an interesting interview, but I can’t really stomach to watch when there’s typing going on throughout and Xeni spends the whole vid with more attention on her macbook than her subject to be honest. I’ll go read about McGonigal elsewhere.

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:54:31 +0000

McGonigal is a total phenomenon.