2006 November | BlogSchmog

ARCHIVE / November, 2006
Superboy
I have nothing but smiles to add to this story about a 4-year-old crime fighter …

… except, What would the robber do about this fellow?

Posted on Nov 30.06 to BlogSchmog, Carter's Superheroes, In the News, Papa Journal Add a Comment
RootsCamp II
I think that name has to go, as my vision for what this space should be is less about topic than discussion space. However, whatever name recognition it has will be useful to get people out for a second version.
Like all iterations, there will be some adjustments. Gone is the idea of a multi-day conference [...]

Posted on Nov 30.06 to BlogSchmog, Communities, Politics, Projects 4 Comments
… As long as there is someplace to run
Of course, moments after I post about organizing a Second Life marathon run, I get brought back to earth by the big elephant in the room: Second Life is down.

As great as SL appears to be for things like machinima and interactive community building, the technical monster is rearing its head. Critics say much of [...]

Posted on Nov 29.06 to BlogSchmog, Cool Sites, Projects 2 Comments
A Marathon, for virtually everyone
Here’s a crazy idea I had while talking to Amy the other day: Organize a virtual marathon in Second Life. OK, so there’s an embedded problem with transferring the training, motivation and competetive aspects to a virtual world where all of the pretty avatars have essentially the same skills. So? There’s method someplace in my [...]

Posted on Nov 29.06 to BlogSchmog, Communities, Politics, Projects 4 Comments
Whew
It was difficult not to blog about this last night, when Chris gave me the good news about his recent run-in with federal authorities (”Chris has been Wikipediafied”). No charges. Stuff back. Lots of fun stories to tell future children and audiences on the lecture circuit. This was my favorite insight from Chris’s post-mortem on [...]

Posted on Nov 28.06 to BlogSchmog, Cool People, Family & Friends, Of Course 2 Comments
Crowdsourcing
This is something for Christian, a fellow Ph.D. student who probably knows all of this stuff: Wired wrote an article about the downs and ups of Chevy’s journey into crowdsourcing, the abdication of advertising control to consumers.
The early buzz on Chevrolet’s invitation last spring to have visitiors to their site design an ad for the [...]

Posted on Nov 28.06 to BlogSchmog, Complexity, HCI Design Add a Comment
Gobs of Mobs
Howard Rheingold stopped by Indiana University today, as part of the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics lecture series. Rheingold is an important author in the exploration of communities, a journey that began over two decades ago with Tools for Thought and more recently Smart Mobs. In between was a book about his experiences in [...]

Posted on Nov 27.06 to BlogSchmog, Communities, Cool People Add a Comment

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