Archive for October, 2007
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
On the Road Again
I’ve got an action-packed couple of weeks coming up, starting with a trip to San Francisco on Sunday evening. I will be speaking at the CSC Leading Edge Forum on Monday and then visiting with VCs and startups at Alsop Louis Partners on Tuesday. Before heading home I will also make a […]
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Be sure and visit my stall here in Ravenglass - Negozio Del Graffiti - fine authentic textures for your unique building needs!posted by Kidd Newchurch on Ravenglass using a blogHUD : [blogHUD permalink]
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
EduCon 2.0?A Call for ConversationsI’m just reposting this from Chris’s blog and urging everyone to think about spending a weekend in January in Philly on the cheap engaging in what promises to be some important conversations about what schools can and must become…“From January 25-27, we’re going to attempt something really quite exciting at SLA. […]
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Halloween Haunts: Dykemare on Elm Street
Filed under: Events, Odds and Ends, Great Builds
Continuing with SL’s best Halloween-themed builds, here’s far-and-away one of the creepiest I’ve ever enjoyed. The fine folk calling themselves ELITE (Electronic Lesbians In Their Element) have created quite an amazing build they call Dykemare on Elm Street.
Great builds are more than mere […]
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Preferred Seating: Herman Miller offers Aerons to Residents… ultimatums to infringersEerily ergonomic, infinitely adjustable, incredibly expensive, the Aeron chair is a fetish item in the computer industry, so it’s not surprising that Residents have made virtual versions of them in Second Life since the very beginning. All that’s changed, however,…SLHamlet
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
From Scotland to Stockton, Learning ScratchSo I wasn’t there to see it, but Tess and Tucker learned Scratch this afternoon from Andrew, an 11-year old from “across the pond” from Perth, Scotland, during their weekly Tuesday “supplementing school” class. I had to be on an airplane to somewhere, but the early reports are that Andrew […]
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Plone Conference 2007 streamed live to Second Life [Flickr]
Tao Takashiposted a photo:
the Plone conference will be happening from Oct 8-10 in Naples, Italy.
It will be streamed to Second Life atthis location. More information will follow soon.
For information about Plone look atplone.org
For more information about the conference look atplone.org/2007
You can also follow our Twitter feed here:twitter.com/plone
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Pushing Writing LiteracySo what does writing literacy look like in the context of these Read/Write Web tools? I mean think of the many different ways that we “write” in our networked lives, ways that differ from the modes that were in primary use just 10 or 15 years ago when I was actually teaching students […]
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Yesterday’s Money: 29th October
Filed under: Linden Dollars, Business
Yesterday in Second Life we:
Spent US$1,234,000 at an exchange rate of L$268.9 to US$1
Exchanged US$236,000 at an average of US$9,800.0 per hour.
Market buys were US$165,000
Market sales were US$70,000
Limit-limit buys were US$1,300
The busiest time was at 5pm when about US$18,000 was exchanged.
The quietest time was […]
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Nice place to see some Machinimaposted by Kidd Newchurch on Ochreous using a blogHUD : [blogHUD permalink]
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