21st Century Literacies from the NCTEPaul Allison tweeted out this update from the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) exec committee last week in terms of how we need to think more expansively about literacy in the context of these shifts. As a former English teacher and NCTE member, I find these couple of […]
Blogging About Politics; Lessig for CongressWhen I first started blogging in 2001, I wrote a lot of short little snips that dealt with politics and my general frustration with the world. That was before my voice here evolved into an ongoing conversation about how traditional ideas of teaching and schooling change in the face of […]
?Why Would We Ever Pay for Something We Can Get For Free??The ever provocative Kevin Kelly writing at Edge.org. Basically, if wealth used to be built on selling precious copies, what do we sell when everything that’s copyable is now potentially free?I have an answer. The simplest way I can put it is thus: When […]
Make an 8 Inch Circle Using a 6 Inch RectangleIn this instructable I will show you how to make a circle using a rectangle and have the exact center of the circle. I will take this moment to give you a little background on how I came upon this little trick.Perhaps this is taught somewhere […]
A new year dawns
Filed under: SL Insider Business, Resident Snapshot
If I were a pagan, this would be the first day of the new year. Although it’s not a description I’d use, I’ve known more than enough over the years, and sometimes that feeling of looking forward now (in relative sobriety) rather at the more normal […]
The Acrylic ScorpionThis is one of my instructables that I am entering in to the Halloween contest. While not your typical Halloween decoration, it really depends on where you are located. Here in Arizona we keep a look out for them. Scorpions are one of those creepy crawly little things that you have to […]
Yesterday’s Money: 31st October
Filed under: Linden Dollars, Business
Yesterday in Second Life we:
Spent US$1,284,000 at an exchange rate of L$266.4 to US$1
Exchanged US$257,000 at an average of US$10,700.0 per hour.
Market buys were US$173,000
Market sales were US$84,000
Limit-limit buys were US$200
The busiest time was at 11am when about US$26,000 was exchanged.
The quietest time was […]
Blues In SLWell, I missed the event, but Komuso has posted a mega-cool video of the SL Blues n’ Roots Festival.Click To PlayA music machinima of the first SecondLife Blues n’Roots festival [SL Blues n’Roots #1] featuring a lineup of four of the metaverse’s top Blues n’Roots musicians. Created by one of the top machinima […]
Ophelia’s Gaze: Advertising That Works, Made In JapanExclusive to NWN, Iris Ophelia’s ongoing showcase of all things stylish in SL Every now and then I’m amazed by some of the clever marketing techniques that are employed in Second Life, either by residents or by RL companies that…Iris Ophelia
Today in Second Life - Thursday 1 November, 2007
Filed under: Odds and Ends
Today in Second Life we had:
27,981 new signups bringing us to 10,614,271 signups total.
A peak concurrency of 51,914 at 2:25PM, and a minimum concurrency of 26,808 at 1:15AM. Median concurrency for the day was 39,933.
The Grid Stability […]
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