Archive for February 1st, 2008
Friday, February 1st, 2008
?New York Measuring Teachers by Test Scores?I just love this:New York City has embarked on an ambitious experiment, yet to be announced, in which some 2,500 teachers are being measured on how much their students improve on annual standardized tests. The move is so contentious that principals in some of the 140 schools participating have […]
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
Farewell, Second Life Insider
Filed under: News, SL Insider Business
Those of you who follow me on Twitter have heard me refer to this announcement: I will no longer be writing for SLI. As Lead Blogger, and one of the remaining founding members (along with Aimee), I’ve found writing for you all to be one of the […]
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
Booch is no mooch
Filed under: Odds and Ends
Grady Booch might not be a household name, but he’s the Chief Scientist for IBM’s Rational Software Corp. unit. In a recent interview with Computerworld, Booch has held forth on a number of topics, including his take on SL. His approach to explaining the value of SL to […]
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
What do avatars want from RL companies? / Was wollen Avatare von Real Life-Firmen?(Update: It’s 7 pm german time! not 8 pm)(deutsch weiter unten)This is the title of an event happening tomorrow, Dec 20 at 10 am SLT (1 pm EST, 7 pm german time) at the New Globe Theatre at the Millions of Us […]
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
Second Life Video News PodcastThe Grid Review has launched with a new pilot episode of their Second Life video podcast. Episodes are expected weekly and will cover a “second glance” of grid happenings hosted by Johnny Ming of SecondCast. Credits to Trent Hedges and Skyla Volitant for writing and producing such a funny […]
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
25,000 Copies and Counting?So I’m going to break my self-imposed rule about blatant self-promotion in my blog posts just this once.I just found out that my book has eclipsed 25,000 copies sold, and that sales this year so far are actually on the rise.This. Amazes. Me.A heartfelt thank you (been doin’ a lot of that […]
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
Nice place to see some Machinimaposted by Kidd Newchurch on Ochreous using a blogHUD : [blogHUD permalink]
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
Getting my new location for Negozio del Graffiti set up in Ravenglass!posted by Kidd Newchurch on Ravenglass using a blogHUD : [blogHUD permalink]
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
One year with Second Life Insider
Filed under: News, SL Insider Business, Mixed Reality, MMO Watch
Well, what a ride it has been. This is my 365th day with Second Life Insider. A whole year of writing about Second Life and things related to it. Digging up news tidbits and trying to generally provide you all with […]
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
AjaxLife Update: Katharine Gets Recursive16 year old wunderkind Katharine Berry continues developing her revolutionary AjaxLife, the first web-based portal in Second Life, with recent fixes for Firefox and IE users. Recently, she used it to pull off this brilliant, brain-melting stunt: Katharine logs into…SLHamlet
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