Classroom Twitter Using WordPressI may be late to the this party, but the Twitterverse just led me to this fairly new theme for WordPress named Prologue which seems to create a Twitter-like blog that can be installed locally. Here is a demo to check out. And here is another, YouthTwitter.com that was put together by […]
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 […]
Amazing Kite For Under $5How to make a Kite that cost a fraction of store bought kites that flies further and much easier, my record flying distance is over 800 yards of fishing line released…I would like to hear feedback of other fun kite stories.
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SecondCast on PhreaK radiOSecondCast episodes will begin airing on PhreaK radiO every Saturday morning at 10AM SLT.The “SecondCast Radio Hour” begins Saturday, November 18. Tune in for recent episodes plus occasional bonus material not part of the regular episodes!!
Blog Commenting EvolvesSo the cool news here is that the CommentPress project that’s been spearheaded by the folks at The Institute for the Future of the Book is about to evolve into something that I think will be greatly useful for educators using WordPress blogs in their own practice or with their students. For the […]
Seattle Social Media Club: Virtual Worlds in the New Year
At 6:30 PM on January 31st I will be participating in a panel discussion at the Seattle Social Media Club. The topic will be Virtual Worlds in the New Year and you are welcome to attend. The meeting will take place at the Seattle office […]
User Rights on Social Networks?This post actually mixes up some of the things I attended or read the last 2 days. One thing was a discussion happening yesterday in Second Life about what Rights avatars should have. There is also the “Declaration of the Rights of Avatars” by Raph Koster (in which he quotes Jacob […]
Should group chat be opt-in?The next Second Life Viewer release is around the corner which is 1.19.0. If everything goes right it seems to be due end of this month. This also will be a mandatory release, getting everybody up on track again with a decent codebase (remember that nobody ever said that no mandatory […]
Linden Lab thinks about RL/SL friends matchingYesterday at Robin Linden’s office hour she asked at some point if we are ok with the following idea: On signup to Second Life you will get asked if you want to find your friends from Real Life who might already have a Second Life account without you knowing. […]
Links for Friday, February 15, 2008
Robert Reich: Totally Spent - “The only lasting remedy, other than for Americans to accept a lower standard of living and for businesses to adjust to a smaller economy, is to give middle- and lower-income Americans more buying power and not just temporarily.“Housing Tracker - “Collecting, […]