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welcome screen of reaction grid Chilbo is the Second Life town/community to which I belong, and they not only became official partner the Metanomics show, but also became the first…

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By rolandlegrand | April 7, 2010 - 1:18 am |April 7, 2010 Uncategorized

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Is scale a condition of possibility for open source projects?

Tomorrow Wednesday April 7, at Noon SLT/PST, Robert Bloomfield, the host of Metanomics, will interview Marc N. Weiss, co-producer of the HBO documentary ‘Meeting Online’ and creator…

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By rolandlegrand | April 6, 2010 - 11:45 pm |April 6, 2010 Uncategorized

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Upcoming: Metanomics about “Meeting Online”

– Tomorrow, Tuesday April 6 at Noon SLT/PST, We Are The Network at the Epoch Institute in Second Life about Trends and Ethics in Image Enhancement and Alteration. As usual, lots of…

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By rolandlegrand | April 5, 2010 - 5:26 pm |April 5, 2010 Uncategorized

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Upcoming events: Ethics and Image Alteration, the future of the world, art and MetaMeets

Strange things are happening. I’m reading extatic reviews of the iPad, and yes, the whole notion of a slick, touch-screen based device seems very appealing to me and could change the laptop-universe…

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By rolandlegrand | April 4, 2010 - 11:34 pm |April 4, 2010 Uncategorized

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Reading and writing for everyone in augmented reality

Clay Shirky in Amsterdam, at the Picnic conference (September 2008) Clay Shirky posted a thought-provoking analysis about complex business models: The Collapse of Complex Business…

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By rolandlegrand | April 3, 2010 - 12:15 am |April 3, 2010 Uncategorized

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Social media as a way to save us from collapsing complexities

via mashable.com It’s unavoidable to think about the iPad these days. But let’s try to go even further. These days we’re leaving the decades old mouse-technology…

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By rolandlegrand | April 2, 2010 - 4:42 pm |April 2, 2010 Uncategorized

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One Step Closer to Minority Report: The Wireless Glove Mouse

Second Life released some videos about the new islands where newbies learn basic skills. This is Welcome Island: and here is Discovery Island: …

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By rolandlegrand | April 2, 2010 - 12:22 am |April 2, 2010 Uncategorized

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Is the only solution for Second Life to get fully on the web?

I found this feedreader app for the iPad on thenextweb.com, and as one can expect it seems pretty slick: On the other hand, maybe this is yet another manifestation of…

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By rolandlegrand | April 2, 2010 - 12:22 am |April 2, 2010 Uncategorized

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A slick iPad app or a horseless carriage?

So I hope you had an opportunity to read Felipe G. Gil about the Transmedia Generation. Stephen Downes points in his excellent OLDaily newsletter to a post on Mashable about yet another…

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By rolandlegrand | April 1, 2010 - 2:09 am |April 1, 2010 Uncategorized

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What do we learn from Lady Gaga?

Second Life launches several initiatives to retain more first-time users. Special islands are newly designed so that new users can learn the basic skills in about ten minutes and they are…

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By rolandlegrand | April 1, 2010 - 12:25 am |April 1, 2010 Uncategorized

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Second Life gears up to attract/retain new users