Comments on: Return to MOO http://www.mazar.ca/blog/2005/08/06/return-to-moo/ News from the Trenches of Librarianship Mon, 06 Sep 2010 01:40:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: ACW http://www.mazar.ca/blog/2005/08/06/return-to-moo/comment-page-1/#comment-46 ACW Thu, 11 Aug 2005 23:03:09 +0000 http://www.mazar.ca/2005/08/06/return-to-moo/#comment-46 Three disjointed thoughts: 1. I like seeing you on Lambda once in a while. 2. Zillions of people have thought about tarting up MOO with multimedia. One reasonably try is Second Life; you should check that out if you're really thinking seriously about this. Anyway, you might be the one to succeed: good luck. 3. I agree that the most frustrating thing about IM is that lack of a sense of place, of physicality. I wonder how much of that is merely due to the fact that "emote" is missing. It's funny how the technology regressed: MOO, with full emote, social verbs, and pose; then IRC, with just emote (which they called "/me"); then IM, with nothing but a fixed repertoire of stupid smileys. It makes me wonder: suppose somebody started an IM service with pose? How much of that frustration would it alleviate? Three disjointed thoughts:

1. I like seeing you on Lambda once in a while.

2. Zillions of people have thought about tarting up MOO with multimedia. One reasonably try is Second Life; you should check that out if you’re really thinking seriously about this. Anyway, you might be the one to succeed: good luck.

3. I agree that the most frustrating thing about IM is that lack of a sense of place, of physicality. I wonder how much of that is merely due to the fact that “emote” is missing. It’s funny how the technology regressed: MOO, with full emote, social verbs, and pose; then IRC, with just emote (which they called “/me”); then IM, with nothing but a fixed repertoire of stupid smileys. It makes me wonder: suppose somebody started an IM service with pose? How much of that frustration would it alleviate?

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