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 World of [...]

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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 I [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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. [...]

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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 [...]

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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 Denver [...]

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PC and Mac Brightness

March 2, 2008

On my previous post I mentioned something in passing about PC brightness versus Mac brightness. Hache asked if the PC/Mac brightness was a Machinima specific thing (in the comments.)
The PC brightness versus the Mac brightness is a general display difference (at least in the default settings.) I first came across this back in the [...]

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Mac Video and Machinima Pointers

February 29, 2008

Well last night I have a bit of adventure in video editing, and its cause was something I’ve run into before but just didn’t catch this time. Since the best mistakes to learn from are from other peoeple’s mistakes I thought I’d share what happened, how I got there, and how I fixed it. [...]

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More GTD Thoughts

February 23, 2008

If you were wondering about my sudden posts on GTD, I’ve been gradually picking up various projects and tasks and then suddenly work (yeah the one that pays me) started picking up at the same time a couple of other projects did. My “Gee I really should get organized, maybe tomorrow” became a “Wish [...]

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