SecondCast #48 - Dirty Jew [updated]The SecondCasters talk about the holiday week — Walker explains why Hanukkah is like camping chairs and everyone talks about what Santa brought them. The group gets down to business and talks about the “grandparents playing Wii” phenomenon, Pontiac’s Motorati events, the launch […]
SecondCast #56 - Ghost Ride the Podcast The ‘Casters record a live call-in episode thanks to the up and coming TalkShoe service. The group discusses the recent Virtual Worlds 2007 Spring conference, SLCC 2007 and the very controversial discussion around banning Prokofy Neva from attending, and BanLink. […]
What is the future of Content Management Systems related to Social NetworksThere is no doubt that social networks are on the rise. No Web2.0 site is actually not having their own community. No wonder, is Web2.0 about two things: people (and their relationships) and content.But there is another phenomenon: Conversations. The authors of Cluetrain Manifesto […]
UStream Upgrades?Private TV!Not sure if this has been blogged much but UStream now has a privacy feature as in the ability to password protect your show. That’s a huge first step that all of a sudden makes classroom television a little more palatable for teachers. Let’s kick this around a bit…this lets us provide a […]
Out of the Box Thinking About Education and TeachingSo Leigh Blackall points to “The Personal MBA“, a “pdf version of a pay for text that guides people through an equivalent curriculum to a MBA.” It’s basically a reading list of all sorts of good stuff, from George Leonard’s “Mastery” (which I really need to read […]
Second Life Events: Rik’s Picks for December 27-31Rik Riel’s weekly round-up of upcoming SL events… This has been a remarkable year for charitable and activist activities in Second Life — from the record-breaking Relay for Life, to the progressive blogger convention YearlyKos coming to SL, to virtual…rikomatic
Thinking about Plaxo Pulse, Scoble and privacyNow Robert Scoble created quite a discussion. First he got kicked off Facebook because he was using some script on it about which he couldn’t talk about. Apparently he wanted to export his contacts to use them elsewhere. Later he revealed that it was an unreleased version of Plaxo […]
IN/MSX: Running 4 Copies of an Operating System at Once
In mid-1981 I was working at a little place in Rockville Maryland called the National Institute for Safety Research (NISR) while working part-time on my BS degree in Computer Science at American University in Washington, DC.
While working at NISR, writing PL/I code to analyze driver […]