The Ministry of Reshelving

The Ministry of Reshelving wants you! How to serve them?

1. Select a local bookstore to carry out your reshelving activities.
   
   
2. Download and print "This book has been relocated by the Ministry of Reshelving" bookmarks and "All copies of 1984 have been relocated" notecards to take with you to the bookstore. Or make your own. We recommend bringing a notecard and 5-10 bookmarks to each store. (both links are downloads!)
   
   
3. Go to the bookstore and locate its copies of George Orwell's 1984. Unless the Ministry of Reshelving has already visited this bookstore, it is probably currently incorrectly classified as "Fiction" or "Literature."
   
   
4. Discreetly move all copies of 1984 to a more suitable section, such as "Current Events", "Politics", "History", "True Crime", or "New Non-Fiction."
   
   
5. Insert a Ministry of Reshelving bookmark into each copy of any book you have moved. Leave a notecard in the empty space the books once occupied.
   
   
6. If you spot other incorrectly classified books, feel free to relocate them.
   
   
7. Please report all reshelving efforts to the Ministry. Email your store name, location, # of 1984 copies reshelved, and any other reshelving activities conducted, to reshelving @ avantgame.com. Photos of your mission can be uploaded to Flickr, tagged as "reshelving", and submitted to the Ministry of Reshelving group.
   

The Ministry of Reshelving is founded by Jane McGonigal and gets the support of danah boyd.

Female Dominance

Michael Buerk, newsreader at that British broadcasting institution called the BBC, is quite certain women are taking over the world. Not only do they hold chief posts at diverse broadcasting networks and hence decide what we see and hear on tv and radio, but men are (gasp!) feminizing. Multitasking is the norm and women perform better on this. "Oh no!" Buerk says, "Men will become superfluous and their only task will be to provide semen."
I wish I was living in Buerk's world, because frankly I hardly can believe the influence of women is as dominating as he says it is. It might be a consequence of a difference in perception: once you are focused on something you see it everywhere. I'm more focused on the still prevailing male dominance, so I won't see it when the females are starting to take over.
And that's a load of crap to try and comprehend, to try and explain someone who so clearly states he doesn't understand women. For Buerk typically male characteristics are classified as more important than what is considered typically female. I say considering something typically male or female is stupid to begin with. Yes certain things are more easily met in a woman than in a man, but it isn't so that men and women are that different that what you, Mr Buerk, consider as valuable male behaviour will dissapear when there's a woman on top.

Just the other day my newspaper wrote that the number of women in top management positions is declining again. I think Michael Buerk can sleep in peace.