Fleep’s Deep Thoughts

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 [...]

Discovered this little nugget over on the Not Possible In Real Life site. The author talks about Second Life in 2008 with Larry Pixel aka Larry Johnson, CEO of the New Media Consortium (NMC), a big mover and shaker in the educational arena of Second Life, Forseti Svarog aka Giff Constable, COO of the [...]

Just the other day I watched a PBS Frontline episode about Kiva, a micro-lending non-profit that uses the web to connect lenders and borrowers. Individual lenders can see pictures and stories of loan applicants, choose which projects to fund, and track the borrowers progress on loan repayment. Even small dollar amounts can have [...]

Recently I posted about the difficulty some students had finding Second Life skins in a range of skin tones and I said I would publicly and personally thank any skin designer who contributed some freely available african, latino, or asian skins to the SL community.
I received a wonderful Christmas present of two different sets of [...]

I’ll try to get to the 2008 Virtual Worlds predictions here in the next couple days, but I can’t move on to 2008 until I’ve given some thought to the grand ole year of 2007. As I mentioned earlier, in 2006 I set a goal to figure out this blogging business and I think [...]

Dear Skin Designers of Second Life:
I am writing to alert you to a problem that you may not be aware of, since it has likely been a very long time since you were a newbie. I and many other educators are working with faculty and student populations to make them aware of the benefits [...]

Perpetually behind on my blog reading, but today I caught up with Intellagirl’s Ubernoggin and got sucked into her Response to Jenkins, Prenskey Regarding Digital Natives post.
Intellagirl’s analysis points to two key phenomena that differentiates the Digital Native from the Digital Immigrant - exigency (need) and medial hauntings (previous experience with earlier technologies that lingers [...]

[Edit: Good grief, it's the State of the University, not State of the Union. (!!) Recovering political junkie reflex.]
Interesting article in the Christian Science Monitor about big business and Second Life. Tackles the interoperability-slash-walled garden issue, and quotes Metanomics series host Professor Robert Bloomfield of Cornell University, who I recently met during [...]