Posts from ‘August, 2007’

Rolling Out a Second Life Conference

Talking About Machinima posted 12 Aug ‘07, 11.49pm MDT PST on flickr
NMC Symposium on Creativity in Second Life, Aug 12-18, 2007

I know folks are rather polarized in terms of being wildly excited about Second Life or being totally dismissive of it. Rather than just pontificating or bikcering about it, I’m more excited to be [...]

Reading Across or Reading Down Feeds

Ah, my poor RSS Reader, not nearly given the devoted attention once reserved for it. Maybe a year, maybe two ago, I’d focus on at least scanning all my sources and marking them read by end of the day, even if it was in one fell keyboard stroke.
That was BT (Before Twitter), BSL (Before Second [...]

Ate Things

Thanks, Intellagirl, thanks…
I’ve been tagged for an “8 Random Things About Me” meme.The rules are:
1) Post these rules before you give your facts
2) List 8 random facts about yourself
3) At the end of your post, choose (tag) 8 people and list their names, linking to them
4) Leave a comment on their blog, letting them [...]

World Speed Record for Customer Support

As much as I complain about getting shafted by lousy customers service and shlocky telephone answer trees, it is well worth my time to flip a positive nod to an amazing level of response. How… um refreshing!
Okay, so I was chipping away tonight at a few more examples notched off for the 50 Web 2.0 [...]

Heart Minnesota

Heart Minnesota posted 3 Aug ‘07, 9.27am MDT PST on flickr
In light of the bridge collapse in Minneapolis and honoring people affected by this, today I am wearing my Stone Arch Festival t-shirt from our fabulous vacation there in June.
Even for me, just one trip over that I35W bridge brings a shudder- I [...]

DogPeeBook

Enough already of insanely more, ever expanding facebook apps.
Will the web soon implode from some unexpected infinitely recursive facebooking?
Here is my new facebook app
DogPeeBook – D-friend is for pretty littles kitties. This Big Dog App will drop a hideous, smelly yellow stain on the profile page every person who takes you off their Facebook [...]

Not to Rain on Wills Parade, but..

As a long time baseball fan (Orioles in the 1970s glory years right on through to young Cal in the early 80s…) I’m as much as anyone thinking the Cubs are due their title.

But Will, in all your excitement of the standings, get real with how the central division stacks up even in the [...]

Twitter Follower Spam- It Will Be a Deep Freeze in Phoenix Before I Follow….

No, I will not follow this crud on twitter:

That is a quick delete.
In a few days I predict invites bearing glorious news like:
Texas Holdem Galore (txpokerscum) is now following your updates on Twitter..
ViagraPropeciaCialis (thebluepill) is now following your updates on Twitter…
NastyAnimalSex (dontclickhere) is now following your updates on Twitter…

Hughs Law to be proved any day [...]

Sizeasy- User Generated Size Database

Just what I needed in the middle of a work day- another interesting web tool. But there is this itch when I find these, and the scratch says, “Hmmm. Must blog this…. must …. blog…. this….”
So how do you know if something is “bigger than a breadbox”? You can guess or measure. Sizeasy is billed [...]

50(+) Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story (or 50 ways to drive myself nuts)

After my excitement of how easy it was to create a rich media piece with Voice Thread, I got this notion of a workshop where participants could not only explore that one tool, but perhaps an array of others I was marginally aware of.
So maybe it was after the evening of watching the Paul [...]