Posts from ‘June, 2006’

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I know The Little Rose is Thereavailable on flickr

Playing the Second Life memory game at the NMC 2006 Summer Conference

Duriung the late afternoon Corporate Partner’s Showcase at the 2006 Summer Conference, for the NMC booth, we set up a station connected to Second Life (with thanks to Case for the big wide plasma [...]

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Bang a Gongavailable on flickr

Go over 5 minutes during the 5 Minutes of Fame at the NMC 2006 Summer Conference, and you shall be gonged.

What a blast- today at the NMC 2006 Summer Conference included the Five Minutes of Fame, where 10 presenters showed off their cool technical projects. But rather [...]

I recall a conversation with Bryan Alexander who relayed his travel experience in the form of an inverse law- the higher the cost and luxury status of a hotel, the worse your internet connectivity will be– the best free wireless is found in an obscure Motel 8 in rural Pennsylvania.
This has certainly proven true this [...]

Yesterday the NMC 2006 Summer Conference lifted off in Cleveland. The pre-conference institutes and workshops were in their last day; I helped out with Putting Your Hands on the Elephant: Pachyderm 2.0 a hands-on session with Pachyderm and it was great to see folks get in with the software and quickly produce sample content.
I’d [...]

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Rockin’ In Clevelandavailable on flickr

Pick up your bags at the NMC 2006 Summer Conference.

Tomorrow night’s reception opens the 2006 NMC Summer Conference, my first one having crossed the line from mere participant (which is a wonderful experience from my previous experiences at 4 previous NMC cons), to behind the scenes organizer (and gofer, [...]

Those two adjectives are about the last ones I would reach for to describe Stephen Downes.
But how long and drawn out is the “long tail” may be relative. But these are the words of the June 5, 2006 Time Magazine article on the Long-Tail phenomena- see the very last paragraph in Long Tail’s [...]

Today I am in transit to Cleveland for the 2006 NMC Conference. After being in the odd world of Second Life a bit more this week, it was surreal to watch the real avatars here on First Life. On the way…..
* Cell Phone Bubble Violations
Ahhh, the old days, when a telephone call was a discrete [...]

Oh man, taking about 100 foot high flames of jealousy!
Gardner Campbell, a.k.a. Campnell D. Gardner a.k.a Dr Glu is recognized in a major way by one of our shred über gurus, Jon Udell. In Easing app deployment with an open source sandbox, Udell reflects on his visit for Gardner and Gang’s Faculty Academy at [...]

Wow, my JavaScript code is utterly rusted, but I tinkered last night with the AJAX Google Calender code, based on the code from Ajax Magazine’s Howtointegrate Google Calendar in your website using AJAX. The output in the demo is in GMT time, and not very human readable, so I rolled up my sleeves to see [...]

I have received a lot of interesting commentary, and support from the bone I had to pick with flickr about a new pro account being designated not public due to the imagery being all snapshots taken in Second Life. The response I did not get, sadly, was from Ana at case88575@support.flickr.com whom I had last [...]