Fleep’s Deep Thoughts

I was hanging out with @malburns and @tarayeats yesterday evening in Chilbo and we were having a wide ranging discussion of all things Second Life, Web 2.0, and virtual worlds more generally, when Malburns mentioned this cute little program at http://weblin.com. He was describing how it gives you a little avatar and you “teleport” [...]

As promised, I finally got my photos from Virtual Worlds 2008 uploaded to Flickr, better late than never, right?
As I went through the images, I tried to remember exactly what about the event left me so.. cold. It wasn’t really the people, I was thrilled to see many friends again, Aldon Huffhines from the [...]

Representative Ed Markey presides over the virtual hearing in Second Life. Photo courtesy Rik Riel.
Update: Alan Levine at the New Media Consortium’s site just posted an audio link of the hearing. Thanks Alan!
TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 2008
Online Virtual Worlds: Applications and Avatars in a User-Generated Medium
Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet Hearing
9:30 [...]

I am cross-posting a comment I just made on a 400+ thread at the broken toys blog because I think buried in a bunch of really ugly muck is an extremely interesting question, and I’d rather participate in a conversation that is moderated.
The background of this very extensive conversation can be found here:
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Finally getting a chance to read Joseph Jaffe’s Join the Conversation: How to Engage Marketing-Weary Consumers with the Power of Community, Dialogue, and Partnership. It got buried in a stack of stuff during the Great Living Room Baseboard Debacle and only re-emerged this weekend following the Great Excavation Of The Spare Room.
I’m not in [...]

Added a “Sources” page to list the blogs I’m either reading or evaluating. It’s getting to be a big list, and doesn’t include links to all the people who share bits from their feeds in Google Reader. Wow, no wonder I’m never caught up.
Blogs I’m reading or evaluating..
Abbie The Cat Has A Posse [...]

Today I added 2GB of RAM and 1TB storage to my home system with a SimpleTech Duo Pro External HD in an attempt to solve my Machinima Problem - namely that Fraps kept freezing because my poor machine was steaming and I had less than 1 gig free space left. Doh.
Determined to make machinima, the [...]

As the Ohio primary draws near and now that John Edwards has dropped out of the race, I’ve been trying to pay a little more attention to the political process going on all around me. I ignored Super Tuesday completely, I’ve been purposely avoiding as much of the “horse race” coverage as possible, and [...]

Aldon Huffhines responded to a previous post with his own commentary, Philip Linden is ‘sad’. He writes:
“People have commented to me about Linden Lab’s method of dealing with conflict as ‘passive aggressive’. The ranks of people who are getting fed up with the way Linden Lab handles conflict seems to be growing, and the [...]

How exciting! I met Sophrosyne at last week’s Community Builders meeting and after some very engaging discussion, she invited me to come speak at Sophrosyne’s Saturday Salon in Extropia. The plan is to discuss education in virtual worlds and our community building efforts on the Mainland sim of Chilbo. Hopefully [...]