Archive for May, 2008
Friday, May 30th, 2008
BoomerangландшафткомпютриSCENE I(Tucker and I at the computer getting ready to get some info on how to throw the boomerang I just brought him back from Australia.)Me: So where do you want to start?Tucker: (Already typing “www.yout…”)Me: Wait a sec. (Trying to sound wise.) Before we go there, why don’t we see if we can get […]
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
See You in RLA few events are coming up that SecondCast crew will be attending. Hope to see you there!Screenburn at SXSW (Austin, TX - March 9-14) Johnny Ming (John Swords), Walker Spaight (Mark Wallace), and frequent guest SNOOPYbrown Zamboni (Jerry Paffendorf) will be in attendance March 9th through the 14th. Walker and […]
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
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 […]
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Very cool island from the Australian Film TV and Radio Schoolposted by Kidd Newchurch on Esperance using a blogHUD : [blogHUD permalink]
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Quick post from my shop Negozio Del Graffiti in Ravenglass - haven?t been to active in SL lately.posted by Kidd Newchurch on Ravenglass using a blogHUD : [blogHUD permalink]
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Links for Thursday, April 3, 2008
Piet Huk: Virtual Laboratories and Virtual Worlds - “Rarely in my life have I so completely misjudged a situation. Getting an existing group to make the transition to a totally new mode of communication turned out to be effectively impossible. Trying to change given ways of doing things provoked far […]
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Engaging Writing in the ClassroomSo here is the money quote from “Turn Teen Texting Toward Better Writing” from the Christian Science Monitor last week:Our student bloggers and digital writers of all backgrounds are part of a journaling culture which America has not seen since the great age of diarists during the Transcendental movement, when Thoreau […]
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Study: Young Kids OnlineJust wanted to point briefly to a new ethnographic study on young kids in online social environments that was released this week by Consumer Reports Web Watch and the Mediatech Foundation, which is the brainchild of my good friend Warren Buckleitner (and for which I serve, badly I might add, as vice […]
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Helping My Friend Phil and his Daughter Serenity?
In a series of Twitter messages last week, my friend Phil Burns shared with the world the fact that his 2-year-old daughter Serenity had taken ill and was subsequently diagnosed with Leukemia. In the course of a couple of days their life went from normal, to “what’s wrong […]
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
And No Blog Tattoos EitherFrom the “Circling the Wagons Department” it seems the New York City Department of Education has laid down the law about employees referencing their blogs in their e-mail signatures. For some reason, letting others know that your are a blogger is highly problematic, and the city is providing disclaimer language for […]
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