Look, a big part of my heart is dead centered with those who want to entirely avoid any sort of pre-judgement of Activities at all.
But I've got a question. What's the youngest target age OLPC is shooting for, for kids to get these lovely gizmos? http://wiki.laptop.net/go/Activities is _Special_. The first time they fire up Browse on their glorious new companion, lookie, there's a link that takes them straight there. That link is shipped with the OLPC image (unless G1G1s are different from real ones here?). And that implicity makes it a place whose content _appears_, no matter how we disclaim, to be a part of the OLPC "product offering". I'm really loathe to argue that such a page is an appropriate place to press for my non-currently-mainstream, not-politically-correct views to be expressed. It wouldn't take too much idiotic media hoo-haa to inflict a taint on the project. So I'm deliberately taking a position here that isn't really where my heart lies, because I fear that in the constraints of the real world as [largely, in the US, where OLPC comes from] the media creates and defines it, this is sadly a wise place to forget the personal values and yield partially to a more politically-correct posture. I'm not retracting anything I said before, I'm glad this discussion has evolved towards ideas for practical tagging and classification and controlled presentation. And for sure, let 'em at the internet unsupervised and they get absolutely whatever they feel like, P.C. or not. But http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities is in practice, or at least in perception, part of the product since Browse always starts with a direct link there. That changes things. -Bennett
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