Yesterday the head of the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), better known as MI6, held a public speech – for the first time ever. He was dealing with ethical issues such as torture and secrecy. I’d like to focus on some other aspects of the speech (full version here) by… Continue reading
This seems a very nice project: artists organize an exhibition in the New York  MoMA, and a few days before the opening the museum is “not involved yet.” How is this possible? The answer seems simple but there is quite an intellectual puzzle behind it: augmented reality. Here is the… Continue reading
It was quite an evening, during which I tried to do some multitasking and so doing got some weird connections between ideas I’m working on. I was attending the Metanomics show in Second Life, where professor Robert Bloomfield provided an overview of how economies are not dissimilar to game mechanics,… Continue reading
So Twitter should be fast and easy. And fun of course. If not, they won’t ever go mainstream. For someone covering Second Life, it all sounds very familiar. One of the interesting points I learned watching Robert Scoble’s live video stream during the Twitter press conference this week was that… Continue reading