Fleep’s Deep Thoughts

@wporter OMG, it lives! #
@spin Not sure but having wonky issues with multiple sites #
Breaking for lunch #
@wainbrave Think I got all those changes made on the wiki, I’m heading out! #
I’ll be mostly offline until 5/13 or 5/14, please email me if anything urgent comes up! Have good weekend all! #

Academic Survey on Television Convergence With Second Life http://tinyurl.com/5xlx6g #
Democrats divide by race, gender, class: CINCINNATI (Reuters) - It’s now common wisdom that Sen. Hillary .. http://tinyurl.com/4gz76l #
Late to the cluetrain, but I think http://weblins.com is something of a paradigm changer #
er wrong link that, http://weblin.com #
Imagining students with little weblins being able to talk [...]

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” [...]

Oh darn, I was weeding the garden and saw something that I thought MIGHT be poison ivy. It was. :( #
I can’t log into SL at all, it just keeps freezing. was fine earlier. #
Wow, the two IN counties where I was born/grew up went 69% and 68% Clinton. Shocked its so high. [...]

I agree tht teachers posting inappropriate things online is not smart, but that expose was mean (@kjarrett) #
Story about teachers w/ bad online profiles at http://tinyurl.com/6765g8 #
@kjarrett Was also unhappy with the ohio warning, discourages teachers from using MySpace/FB at _all_ and that’s silly #
@kjarrett How can we encourage kids to use tech responsibly [...]

Hm so it looks like the utterz cascaded through, but I can’t hear anything. Hm. #
Ah, the problem was I needed to update Flash and FF! Thx @sine922 @injenuity and @nealcross. =) #
Bonjour @gehan! And that is the extent of my french. :) #
@weelibrarian I can’t get in either, but nothing [...]

Chilbo event: Cecilia Delacroix will be doing her first public poetry reading, come support a new artist http://tinyurl.com/4vd2vv #
Just finished the Widgetcast recording, that was fun! Thanks all! #

Oops, I hosed the chilbo site tweaking the templates. Let’s hope it all goes back to normal with the old one! #
@lesliecarbone YouTube looks like it’s down for me #
Nothing on the SLblog, is the grid down? Can’t seem to log in #
@sintrenton Thanks, glad to know it’s not just me. Supposed [...]

EdTechTalk v.cool http://www.edtechtalk.com/ #
Question for the peanut gallery: What are some alternatives to Ning for web based community building? #
Need more than wiki or blog alone, but ning doesn’t seem to scale well to me. #
@scottmerrick Hah! You’re right, there is no one tool, but Ning for some reason just doesn’t _work_ for [...]

I came across a couple of great thought provoking things yesterday, all come from Twitter friends - @gsiemens, @Larry_Pixel, and @lparisi.
First up, George Siemens shared his presentation from the Pacific Northwest Higher Education Teaching & Learning Conference in Spokane, WA. When thinking about where all of this digital connectivity is heading and [...]