Changing Ourselves, Changing our CultureOne of the reasons I blog is to try to give form to some nascent ideas that feel like they need to connect but just haven’t made the leap yet. I’m going to try to do that here around the idea of this process of change as it applies to us […]
Solaris Version of Second Life Viewer
A developer asked me to post some information about an alpha-level release of the Second Life viewer for the Solaris and OpenSolaris operating systems. The developer is “corporate” and has been asked to keep his Second Life activities separate from his official job duties. While I can’t vouch for the […]
Just purchased two lots for investment/project purposes in the Kasba sim. Nice rocky hillsidesposted by Kidd Newchurch on Kasba using a blogHUD : [blogHUD permalink]
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 […]
Links for Sunday, February 3, 2008
Wall Street Journal: The World’s Hottest Chili - “The peppers yielded a reading of 1,041,427 SHUs, twice that of the California red savina pepper, the previous record-holder. An SHU is the amount of dilution needed before the chili is undetectable. A drop of bhut jolokia extract needs a million drops […]
Just purchased two lots for investment/project purposes in the Kasba sim. Nice rocky hillsidesposted by Kidd Newchurch on Kasba using a blogHUD : [blogHUD permalink]
SecondCast #57 - Search Furtherment The cast discusses the debate and the technical ins and outs of the recent search beta for Second Life by Sheep Labs with guests Christian Prior of Sheep Labs and Hiro Pendragon of Infinite Vision Media. Furtherment is actually a word. Heh.cheap cialisDownload […]
?I Never Knew I Could Have a Network?That quote from a teacher at one of the schools Sheryl and I are working with pretty much sums up the scale of the shift that a lot of educators (and others) are facing these days. And since I heard it last week in one of our sessions, […]
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 […]