Great Fashion+Hacker Blog

A student of mine for her final project creatded a blog about recycled fashion.
Ditch or Stitch!
Great name!
Happy reading.

Long Tail Debates

Wish I had more time now to review this:
Long Tail Stops Wagging.
Matt Stoller over at Open Left argues that this means that technoutopian libertarian dreams are dead and there is a necessary role for government.
Maybe.  I have never read enough of the Long Tail arguments to have a Strong opinion, but I do want to [...]

Blogging and Democracy of the blog media- 2nd Guardian Column

I think the title for my Guardian Column (they don’t seem to update the site) is “Our Online Selves.”  That can be improved.
Here is the second installment.

“The End of Culture and Truth?”
I am a blogger.  Eight years ago, saying this might have conjured up someone doing something disdainful with their finger and nose, [...]

My first Guardian column

I suppose for my first column (anywhere) some sort of inaugural words are called for.  Let’s start.
With the arrival of the Internet as a major form of interactive communication, we have seen an avalanche of new types of communication.  From websites, blogs (an online journal- web+ log=blog), video sharing (YouTube), social networks (Facebook.com), to the [...]

Lively- big players move into VW field

Google has its own virtual world simulator.  Lively.  Read about ita t terra nova blog.
I made a room ( a cafe!) and an avatar.  My avatar looks like one of my smug students chewing gum.  Blech.
I couldn’t seem to walk, only scoot by clicking on a different spot and then the ava just **zip** appears [...]

Lessig talk on ‘hybrid economy’ March 27 || Bucknell University

I am encouraging all of my former Capstone (“Rise of the Network Society”) students to attend this one.   Lessig is an important voice discussing the pratcical and poitical implications of the overalps between technology, culture, law, and also politics.
As the press release states, Professor Eric Faden, who is bringing Lessig, is a client due [...]

The Big Question and lots of answers!

 The Big Question
Strangely addictive.   They have questions form anyone, especially young folks.  Different experts post an answer.  Its like a hybrid wikipedia-britannica.
My fave is “How long would it take you to ride a chicken around the world?”

Living Web Social Innovation

Yesterday, I listened to most of Nick Yeo’s conversation over at the social innovation center’s conversations network.  He is the communications director for Taking ITGlobal, a youth- and development-oriented social networking pllatform.
One thing that stood out (and that I think Vishant might like) is that he discussed how they discovered that their users in places [...]

Serious Play… A Title for Paper on Second Life

Here is the abstract Ted and I are working from. I am not sure whether to go for the Organization and Management Theory division or the Organization and Communication Information Systems division of AOM.
Titles?
The Influence of Economic and Social Incentive on the Evolution of Virtual Worlds
OR
Serious Play in Synthetic Worlds: [...]

Mapping Manhattan

I was fascinated to read about this project to make a detailed, 3D, explorable map of Manhattan before contact and conquest. It sounds like secondlife! And the use of real markers and connections to the 3d map will enable even more cross-over from virtual to real world and vice-versa. Another blogger [...]