All this social web, online identity and personalization has been bugging me for ages and although I do agree web should improve in that vector, I mainly disagree with most approaches. I do wonder not only on implementation aspects (decentralized, security, etc, etc....) but also on other aspects such as unaware behaviours it can build on individuals.
On this post I try to organize my thoughts by writing about it!
If you have been reading my latest posts, you will know that I have been trying to do something for each block of 30 days or well.. rounding up to a month.
Part of the project implies posting about it, thus exploiting my motivation on not failing on people to give me extra dedication. For example, this month I have been postponing my challenge and I do realize I have to decide for once and commit to it (by publishing it).
Additionally on a late night chat close to the sea, me and some friends came up with the idea to use the 30 days quests in a social way.
During the past month I have worked on my first 30 day quest:
Watch an English dubbed movie with Swedish subtitles
Although I would not consider it to be a success on learning Swedish, it was satisfying to daily complete something I proposed myself to. I do recognize that performing something daily requires a certain degree of motivation and commitment even when that means spending 2 hours per day watching a movie.
Regarding learning Swedish, I believe that in order to better learn it I should have watched them with no sound and force me to pause and translate the Swedish words I do not know. Though pausing so often during the movie would require more time than the one I had available. Anyhow the list of movies follows:
