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Like Duvall’s Kilgore, who said “there’s nothing like napalm in the morning”, for a web geek, there’s nothing like a bit of curious fiddling with code to make something work. Today’s feat was finagling a MediaWiki extension to display a Google Calendar in our sites.
I’ve been using GCal for a year to manage our Second [...]

I am now owner of a plot of land in Second Life, 4096 sq meters on a new sim called “Sciences”, one of the NMC Educational Communities (land that is parceled and rented to educational organizations).
As of tonight I have spent extensive amount of time walking the green carpet and tossing out objects.

Actually I was [...]

Pshaw to bloggers who cut off or dont harvest their comments! I got rich today! Thanks to Matt M who commented on my “Anyone Remember Podcasting” post, he pointed my to EveryZing- as search services that does keyword searches among audio and video content — and returns results that are linked directly to the [...]

You know about email spam. You cannot avoid it, you cannot Can it, you cannot toss it though it is passed the expiration date, and you cannot even make a decent sandwich with it.
But you know what this is, blog readers?

That is my breakfast, yum, it is “Bacn”!
Yes, the new hot meme talk is about [...]

Uncanny Dog Valley posted 23 Aug ‘07, 6.17pm MDT PST on flickr
The book, Lives of Monster Dogs was recommend to me last week by someone (sorry, forgot who) at the NMC Symposium on Creativity in Second Life.
And 2008 is nigh for the arrival of the Dogs:
"A postmodern Mary Shelley, taking the parable of [...]

91%How Addicted to Blogging Are You?
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Thanks to Rob (linktribution), I have exact data on the problem.
My blogging here has been sporadic due to blogging directed elsewhere… After our week long conference held in Second Life (I hear you snickering out there)… I was blogged out having tried to blog the summaries of events [...]

Wirecast at Work posted 21 Aug ‘07, 5.37pm MDT PST on flickr
For the NMC Symposium on Creativity in Second Life, I put Wirecast to the test.
As a streaming video solution, it allows me to broadcast a window of a desktop application, in this case Second Life, out to our streaming server (a hosted [...]

Google Trends on “podcasting”
Podcasting is passe? No, the use of audio is not, but as a “hot trend” …..? I’ve always had mixed feelings about podcasting- as a strung together series of technologies- publishing audio in format associated with RSS that could be automatically downloaded, and optionally moved to a portable device– that I loved. [...]

I think I have a new mode of developing my workshops and presentations, which of course, does not involve crafting it way ahead of time– but rather than doing my planning, and taking my best shot at it, I am now just tossing out some half baked ideas, picking up feedback/suggestions, and asking people to [...]

I’ve been using email, I think since my undergrad days at University of Delaware, maybe 1981 or 1982.. I know for sure I had a BITNET email at Arizona State when I got there in ‘87.
E-mail, spam, the sheer volume of junk is a pain, but ot one I can yet say I am [...]