Distracted.
Distracted.
No More Virtual Auctions on eBay
News is circulating that eBay is no longer allowing the action of virtual booty from MMORPGs such as WoW. More amazing are the estimates C|NET uses for the size of the real money trade market – I had no idea…
LED Keyboards
Graduate Film Students in SL
The University of Kansas is offering a graduate-level film class this semester that leans heavily into cyber culture. Students explore production of machinima and the rapidly changing issues of producing in cyberspace. The article in the Kansan goes into more…
Coffee = Fire
This just proves my belief that coffee is the answer to everything. JavaLog – a fire log made from coffee waste promises eco-friendly fire that provides a warm soothing glow to relax in front of. I can’t help but think…
Class Status Update
Looks like this class won’t be going this semester. We didn’t meet the minimum number of students needed to run it. I think I’ll still keep the site up though and add SL resources as I run across them or…
Preparing for Class
I’m in the process of preparing this site for the Spring Semester students (hopefully there are enough of you for this class to go). Over the next week and throughout the semester more content will be appearing here. This will…
US Congress in SL
Death and Meta
Cemetery 2.0 is a concept that links burial plots to online repositories of information about the deceased. Information is connected to the physical resting place so that visitors may access the surviving artifacts of that person. This project is a…
When Are Computer Simulations the Right Tool?
Gene Koo, Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society as well as Director of Online Training at Legal Aid University, lists three criteria for which computer simulations add value in an educational context: 1. The subject is best…