Archive for December, 2006
Sunday, December 31st, 2006
ALL SIMS CONSIDEREDI made a brief appearance on yesterday’s All Things Considered from National Public Radio, in a story appropriately titled: Visiting the ‘Second Life’ World: Virtual Hype? (Yes, NPR has joined that particular debate, following Clay Shirky in casting deep skepticism…SLHamlet
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Sunday, December 31st, 2006
Twenty-thousand unhappy people
Filed under: News, Linden Labs
Three times during the day today, so far, the Second Life grid broke past 20,000 concurrent users. For less than 60 seconds each time.
These were at 3:23pm SLT (the one Linden Lab noticed, which peaked at 20,015 for less than 30 seconds) and two before that that they missed […]
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Saturday, December 30th, 2006
Connectivism Online ConferenceJust a brief pointer to the “Connectivism Online Conference” running in February that’s been organized by George Siemens and will feature presentations by George, Stephen Downes, Terry Anderson, Bill Kerr, and, believe it or not, yours truly. Luckily, I think I’m scheduled for early in the week, so the bar will no doubt […]
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Saturday, December 30th, 2006
The Balance Between Freedom and ResponsibilityIf this post by Chris Lehmann isn’t one of the best edublog posts of 2006, I don’t know what is. This is what I was talking about yesterday about the power of blogging (the verb.) About being willing to reflect and share and learn through the writing. Not only is […]
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Saturday, December 30th, 2006
Warren EllisIf you don’t know who Warren Ellis is, you need to find out - simply put, he’s one of the best writers on the planet in any format he touches. And now he’s going to be writing a news columns from Second Life!
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Saturday, December 30th, 2006
The Balance Between Freedom and ResponsibilityIf this post by Chris Lehmann isn’t one of the best edublog posts of 2006, I don’t know what is. This is what I was talking about yesterday about the power of blogging (the verb.) About being willing to reflect and share and learn through the writing. Not only is […]
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Saturday, December 30th, 2006
OPEN FORUM: WHAT WE GAVE AND GOT FOR THE HOLIDAYSUnderneath my Snowcrash shrine, which stands in as my Christmas tree: as of tonight, cards from Celebrity Trollop, Sansarya Caligari Phoenix Psaltery, Tao Takashi, Timeless Prototype, and Squeedoo Shirak (who also enclosed a delicate figurine.) There’s an ottoman-sized gift from…SLHamlet
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Saturday, December 30th, 2006
Secondcast #33: Keyword: Cylindrian Johnny and the Secondcasters interview Mike Prevost of Muse Isle and Pixel Records and singer/songwriter Cylindrian Rutabaga on the subject of live music in Second Life.Download SecondCast Episode 33
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Saturday, December 30th, 2006
Just Askin’: Is your profile important?
Filed under: Just Askin’
Second Life gives us a place to put our profile information. We can fill in pictures and information about out first and second lives. We can list our interests, it shows our groups, start-date, account type, ratings and partners.
There’s now a space for a web-profile if we […]
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Saturday, December 30th, 2006
YOUR TUBE, YOUR IMAGINATION– YOUR PRODUCTJust in time for last-minute holiday shopping, Tao Takashi points to a marvelously clever contest from Second Life Business Magazine which invited Residents to create machinima commercials for SL-only products. (The submission rules were themselves rendered in a fairly witty…SLHamlet
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