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It was with a smile I just saw the title in my RSS reader that I knew that another initial skeptic, George Siemens, had followed the path I charted in April 2007 as the Twitter Life Cycle.

I have seen so many people, myself at front of the list, first see twitter and remark, “That i [...]

photo credit: ekai
Don’t miss out on the 2008 NMC Symposium on Mashups - early registration ends this Sunday. Stop reading (or at least skim), and register now.
This is another one of the NMC’s online conferences, and to fit with the theme, we are even mashing up our venues between the 3D world of Second [...]

It’s well over a week that my first experience attending SXSW Interactive ended, and a blog post is just wriggling out. I wavered, wafted, and decided on a different, lazy (lame) strategy… to just soak it all in and write something prophetic later. Well, this will likely fall short on most accounts.
And this is also [...]

The comment stream is a raging torrent (121+) to Al Upton’s dire situation of his miniLegend bloggers being squashed by the government– what is telling now are comments from the miniLegends themselves (un-edited):

That Was Bowling by cogdogblog posted 15 Mar ‘08, 1.46pm MDT PST on flickr
"That’s a pretty…. wild style of guitar playing, how’d you learn that?"
"That was bowling"
"Yeah, bowling.. I could tell"
I’m digging the British Invasion exhibit at the Museum of Music, Infotainment Island, in Second Life at
slurl.com/secondlife/Infotainment%20Island/65/228/43
Join us 9:00 AM PT Monday March [...]

Sometime last year before my trip to Australia, I discovered the amazing work Al Upton was doing with year 3 students at at Adelaide Australia primary school. The 8 and 9 year old “miniLegends” were blogging, doing creative writing, and getting a fabulous experience in web technology.
So it was exciting this year when Al put [...]

My SXSW blogging will likely be after the fact- lots to cover. The plan to use the iPod Touch works in theory, but wireless access has been sporadic. FWIW Pocketweets has been unusable (never posts) Hahlo.com and iTweets.net better

Steven Johson and Henry Jenkins by cogdogblog posted 8 Mar ‘08, 7.41pm MST PST on flickr
Opening remarks by Steve Johnson and Henry Jenkins were excellent!

What a killer lineup! And look, no Powerpoint! It was just Steve and Henry having a conversation in front of maybe1000 people.
Jenkins is just so articulate in [...]

Late in the afternoon I lurked in the session on “Cross-Media Cross-Pollination: Mashing Up Video Games and ARGs” a panel session with Tony Walsh (Phantom Compass), Dan Hon (Six to Start), Dee Cook (addlepated.net) all people involved with creating top shelf ARGs (look it up yourself).
It seemed the audience was pretty knowledgeable about Alternate [...]

My first day on the ground at SXSW- a conference on a Texas sized scale! The Austin convention center is a massive city. Early notes- they are really organized with staff and helpful people every step of the way trough registration; only took about 12 minutes to move through long line. Double bonus points because [...]