SCENE 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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A 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 SNOOPYbrown will be […] ]]>
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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 new year (which is also a RL friends birthday and rarely sober if I’m healthy) feels right.
Somehow I think this year to come will be a year of massive changes. Looking back, a year ago I wasn’t writing, now I find things to write about in SL most days as well as the "boring numbers" column - although a lot of people read the boring numbers too, and find them useful.
A year ago I was trying to make a living from SL. Now, I still am - having meningitis and recovering from it slowed me down, but I’m close to the point of making a comfortable living now, and writing for SLI helps with that massively. Over 125,000 words so far, and more to come, whatever the future might hold for us all - at least unless LL shut the door!
There have been things of a personal nature that have changed my life massively and that haven’t made it into press, but journalism of this sort agrees with me equally massively. Hope you’ll follow through whatever changes the next year brings and enjoy what you read.
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Just 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 president of the […] ]]>
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 with Serenity?” to “rush her to the […]
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