Found Writings

April 28, 2008

This past week was Passover, and included in that time was a lot of offline time. The offline time provided quite a bit of time for reflecting on things, but it also provided time to look at what I had on the bookshelves. In addition to many good books I had a wonderful find of [...]

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Bedika Chometz

April 18, 2008

Last night was when we performed bedika chometz. It is a ritual where we hide 10 bundles of bread (well wrapped) and then search the house for any chometz (including the 10 pieces we just found.) The search is done by candle light after dark in preparation for Passover. Passover is a holiday chock full [...]

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Video Photos and Fun

April 11, 2008

It is fun watching as video evolves on the net and how many different ways video can be served up. The latest in that genre is “A movie is a moving photo” – the 90 second videos on Flickr. There are quite a few folks playing with that and I’m having fun with that idea [...]

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Adventures of the Virtual Sort

April 9, 2008

Before you is a passage. Blocking the passage is a large sign made up of a wide plank with four pendant planks.The top plank invites you to press with the words ‘Install World of WarCraft(tm)’ A small creaking voice of warning is heard ‘don’t press that – turn around! turn around!’. Do you1) Press Install [...]

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Post and Attitude

April 6, 2008

I’ve been thinking a lot on the technologies we use, the way we communicate, and on virtual worlds, real worlds, human interactions. So why no posts. Well sometimes the reason is the distance between idea and cogent post gets to be a little long, but lately it’s been more of an issue of attitude. As [...]

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Does Trademark Use Belong in a TOS?

March 25, 2008

Hopefully I will correctly have followed the guidelines and read enough in the four of the, I believe, 8 pages of trademarking law and guidelines that this post will not result in my account in the Second Life® virtual world being revoked. The strange wording of the previous sentence was predicated by the new Terms [...]

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MediaCasters.tv

March 22, 2008

Having watched so many events from a distance and wanted to be there I think MediaCasters.tv is an an awesome idea. What is Mediacasters.tv? Well to quote their press release: Live events stimulate conversations, but those offsite can’t really respond until later, when “the moment” has passed. What if you could engage from anywhere right [...]

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Is Griefing Free Speech?

March 18, 2008

I just went to an incredibly interesting panel at Life 2.0 on Intellectual Property, Privacy and Identity in Open Virtual Worlds. One thing that came up in the discussion was griefing, and was griefing free speech. Several people posited that it wasn’t but I think that the issue is not so cut and dried. I [...]

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Free Ingrid Betancourt

March 17, 2008

I just watched this video about and responding to the kidnapping of Ingrid Betancourt. It really touched me and if you haven’t seen it yet I think it is important to watch. To do more you can go to the Agir pour Ingrid Betancourt website. I don’t know of an English website supporting this cause, [...]

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Colorado Podcamp Update

March 7, 2008

If you didn’t already know, planning for Colorado Podcamp (yes, I know the word order is usually different) has begun. If you are interested in it and haven’t gotten involved join the Colorado Podcamp Google Group we are using for planning/coordination. We are also using TalkShoe for weekly meetings (except for the week of the [...]

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