Posts from — October 2007

The Chicago Metaverse Meetup (Chicago, IL) – Meetup.com:
The Chicago Metaverse Meetup
Meetup with other local players of the online gaming community, Second Life, and all sorts of other virtual communities! Gather with other players, talk about the game, and make new “offline” friends!

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come and have fun.

ESPN Video Beta:

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everyone tries this… sometimes it works

25+ Sources For Creative Commons Content
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cool stuff from creative commons, now a bit easier to find.

35 today. still mostly feel like i’m 19 more or less, so that’s something, but alas, i have much more work to do than i have time to accomplish, such is life.

News from hatebook’s aspirations of world domination — hatebook:
Hatebook is an anti-social utility that connects you with the people YOU HATE.

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Luckily… i don’t hate anyone. some people i prefer not to be around, but other than that. My greatest foes are really those people who promote overdetermination and underdetermination.

Well the Learning and research in Second Life workshop was by all current reports a resounding success. We had a full room in real life and a significant group of people in second life at Kula. We have some photos on flickr that are tagged, and some others that are note are in the Internet Research 8.0
tags. Linden Lab and Joi Ito sponsored the event that Aleks and I put together. John Lester/Pathfinder Linden gave our keynote and participated in the workshop. The goal of the workshop was to develop community and to increase the quality of scholarship. I think we have easily accomplished the former, and the latter will develop over time.

Isto Huvila’s blog

Making the Grade

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How do you grow a bumper crop of math and science teachers?

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you don’t… you inspire children to learn the science.

Caravan Books Home:
The Caravan Project, funded by the MacArthur Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation of New York, is an innovative partnership of non-profit publishers, booksellers and libraries

Together, we help bring serious non-fiction, in traditional as well as a variety of digital
formats, to the eyes and ears of discerning readers.

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This looks like a great project. It provides non-fiction books to the digital world.

Report: The future of scholarly communication: building the infastructure for cyberscholarship:
The future of scholarly communication: building the infastructure for cyberscholarship link

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From craigbellamy.net