Within change lies great opportunity, but what happens when individual change is incremental and the rest of the world is exponential? Our cultural institutions are in the slow lane, still, and they are being threatened because of it.
Okay, this is outrageous. International Talk Like a Pirate Day is, well, let’s not exaggerate or anything, but maybe Yom Kippur is more holy. It’s the kind of thing that keeps us sane, and makes life worth living, day after drudging day. So using it to make headlines about copyright “piracy” is just too much. [...]
The latest Google debacle du jour didn’t last long. But it was meaningful. It turns out there are people (like us?) out there who actually read the Terms of Service on nifty little things like a new browser release, i.e. Google’s Chrome. I only wonder with what they’ve fortified themselves before sitting down to the [...]
Oh, the tangled webs we weave. Every two years our organization holds a summer workshop for educators. In our case, these tend to be excellent educators, but not necessarily web-savvy or technologically driven people. Two years ago, in fact, there was nothing in the curriculum that dealt with the web, despite the fact that we [...]
Ugh. Bill Moyers Journal recently published a segment in which they report on the US Government’s proposal to use Second Life and World of Warcraft as data mining opportunities. Code-named Reynard, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) would like to start watching the activities of avatars, because they believe that the worlds could be [...]
Headlines like this have the same effect on me as a strong cup of coffee. I mean, how cool is this statistic: Avatars consume as much electricity as Brazilians. The reference is, of course, to the electricity consumed by all the Second Life avatars online at any given time. Actually, the whole subject of the [...]
currently sitting in Holly, Nik, and Diane Andolsek’s very serious morning session: Technology in Museums: Are the Inmates Running the Asylum? Short review: Yes. yes they are. (more photos from AAM on my Flickr page) Share:
Auntie Beeb (the semi-affectionate name for the BBC) has a documentary series called I Wish I’d Thought Of That, which starts off with an interview with Tim Berners-Lee and Weaving the World Wide Web. Sir Tim is to www what James Brown is to Soul, except that the Godfather of Soul didn’t invent Soul. (Sorry, [...]
I’ve mentioned the work that the Open Knowledge and the Public Interest project has been doing in Second Life in several of my presentations. They’re now ready to take the wraps off of the Catalyhoyuk Island and are doing so with a full day program. For those of you who have been less than impressed [...]
Hi there, We’re getting ready for our presentation next week on Second Life Museums. Museums in Second Life Chair: Paul F. Marty, Assistant Professor, Florida State University, College of Information Participants: Richard Urban, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , Troy McConaghy, International Spaceflight Museum Rob Rothfarb, Exploratorium Museums have been exploring the use of multi-user [...]
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