308 Posts from 2007

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I Can Quit at Any Time…

91%How Addicted to Blogging Are You? Mingle2 – mingle 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 […]

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Wirecast at Work

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 […]

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Anyone Remember Podcasting?

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 […]

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Slow Death of E-Mail

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]