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In the Aimless Wander and Playing with Not Critical Web Site department, I plopped into gizmoz, a site where you upload an image of your face, and it digitizes it, and applies it to an animated avatar… you even add a short recording, and it syncs the animation to your words.
The hardest part was getting [...]

Wow, it was yesterday that a tweet from HeyJude lead me to vodpod… today she does it again! Today’s tweet from her led me to TouchGraph GoogleBrowser, a web/java application that generates a visual relation map for web sites or searches based on Google data. Well, I think that is what it does. The site [...]

Loser

I’ve had a number of months of quiet resignation of the ever constant flow of email spam (now unreadable PDFs of stock offers, still sweet deals to enlarge body parts I am not equipped with, great sounding mortgage offers for homes I don’t own in Florida), not to mention the torrent of blog spam that [...]

I love it when curious link clicking reveals unknown gems! It happened again just an hour ago, with the result of a great video collection tool.
Almost by sheer accident- discovered following a tweet by Judy O’Connell to her web 2.0 presentation on Slideshare, that I came across this nifty new site, vodpod. Here you can [...]

Sit, Avatar! posted 11 Jul ‘07, 6.54pm MDT PST on flickr
I was experimenting today with doing some live video streaming from my laptop into Second Life. That darned dog just refused to listen to my commands.

Some virtual dogs are just like their real life versions.

Summary:
Jakob Nielsen tosses gasoline on the flames of the blogosphere by claiming blog posting dilutes an arbitrary measure of “expertise”. A thousand blog monkeys were deeply hurt.
Oh Jacob Nielsen, you had to know upon writing “Write Articles, Not Blog Postings” the ire and furor it would stir up…. well, since he likely only reads articles [...]

There’s no shortage at all of cool new tools to create and express yourself on the web. I came across Voicethread via a link from Tim Lauer (linktribution!). From its site:
A VoiceThread is an online media album that allows people to make comments, either audio or text, and share them with anyone they wish. A [...]

I’m sure the old white hairs who pull the strings at Big Business sit back in the leather chairs of the country club, and fondly remember the pre-internet days. Back then, customers had no easy access to information about companies their practices, and they sure could not publish their pesky complaints to a place where [...]

A Cheap Lynnetter Knockoff posted 3 Jul ‘07, 12.04am MDT PST on flickr
Play is integral to this thing we call "work" in the new net space, not bounded by walls, old rules of behavior, etc. Where is the carefully drawn line between work and play?
Dr Angela Thomas recognizes this dynamic of pleasure and power [...]