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I suspect this is the last iteration of Cancerland, since I don’t think the land its sitting on will be around too much longer. So I really went to town with it. Building it and sharing it has been a great experience.

With thanks to thatjohn and girltarist, a major chord game on the Relay for Life route in Second Life:

So: new job title (“Emerging Technologies Librarian”). Definitely something that I wanted to see happen. I feel like it reflects what I actually do a lot better. Though I have pangs of regret when I think about instructional technology, but the lines are still blurry. Now I deliberately look at emerging technologies in teaching and [...]

Another follow-up to a tweet, posted in response to David Silver’s attempt to use a Geertzian theory on twitter: http://tinyurl.com/bwxrac bizarre categorization of tweets. With a link, this is “thick” 2:45 PM Feb 25th I appreciate someone trying to apply thick description to tweets, but I’m not certain David Silver hasn’t missed the mark a [...]

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Everyone I know has already seen the first video, but after watching it myself a few times, I realized what pieces were missing from the build itself. To start: why didn’t I put labels on the spaces? I had names for the pieces, like the hall of terror and the scar display room, so why [...]

I was launched awake at 4:30am this morning thinking about something I probably won’t be able to approach in the next six months, or even possibly not within the next year. Or ever. And yet. I’m on a small team at work set on getting a brand new website. No facelift; something totally new. We’ve [...]

Jason and I are doing a webcast on Wednesday, January 14th as the discussion arm of our article, Hacking Say and Reviving ELIZA. The article is our first attempt to consider our prior work in virtual worlds (text-based MOOs) in light of developments like Second Life. We still have a lot more thinking to do [...]

I finally managed to get a video of Cancerland. This way you can get a sense of how the audio fits in with the visual. The text remains a mystery in this format, unfortunately. I’ll have to find some other way to get that information across. The narrative is really held together by the text.

I wanted the esteemed Marian Press (otherwise known as Empress, or M. Press) to see the inside of the church I built for meetings rather than just the mostly-destroyed roof.