Sunday October 08, 2006
Sunday October 08, 2006 The Christian Science Monitor has
an article discussing virtual classrooms in SecondLife.
It is an interesting idea, and I am wondering if I am seeing all of these uses for SecondLife because I have been looking at/thinking about the Sun Press Conference or if there has suddenly been an explosion of articles and posts about SecondLife.
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Some
60 schools and universities have set up shop
inside Second Life - most in the past year. They join a population that
includes real-world business people, politicians, entertainers, and
more than 800,000 other "residents" of the virtual world.
It is an interesting idea, and I am wondering if I am seeing all of these uses for SecondLife because I have been looking at/thinking about the Sun Press Conference or if there has suddenly been an explosion of articles and posts about SecondLife.
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SecondLife, Web2.0 and Collaboration
While we were at CEC the topic of remote collaboration came
up.Specifically the benefit of getting a fair amount of the Sun
Managed Operations team back together in a team building type
(Bar) environment.
From there discussion of virtual communication and similar topics was broached. We talked about using AIM, IRC, MUD/MUSH/MOO and a couple of related tangents. We then talked about using SecondLife as the location for collaboration after Jonathan mentioned using it for a press conference.
The first thing I thought about in this discussion was using a MUSH at theurgy.digex.net (now defunct) for communication, and some play. I remember reading 'Collaborative Networked Communication' by Rémy Evard (Original ASCII although I must admit that I had to search for it and I thought it was written be someone else).
The paper gives example usages which I will not repeat here, however the thought was that having effectively a room in which to talk could be beneficial in our current environment. Many managed operations employees are flex or are not in the main office in Ashburn. A couple of times people have attempted to establish standing AIM chat groups/rooms and IRC channels. None of them has garnered even small scale adoption.
So the end result here, is that I have created a SecondLife account and we will try playing around with SecondLife. The next steps to bring back some of the old theurgy magic would be to create a some objects a spleen (so you can vent it), some skinheads (to take bowling), a happy fun ball (to taunt), a tonka truck (to beep the horn and run into people's ankles) and I may be crossing servers a game of connect four.
I just don't know that I need the avatar based communication model. Location/Room/Channel based communication to allow for better focus and separation of relevant content makes sense to me, it is just the rest that I don't think I understand/see the need for the rest of it.SecondLife appears to have a relatively heavy footprint, when I am navigating around about 50-75% of my CPU and 250+MB memory. This could be another case of buy a new computer, the one you are using is 4 years old.
Possibly with a bit less friction and a bit more free processing power it interaction would be a smoother and I would see more of an enabling technology and less of a drain on my overloaded resources.
In any case Sun is holding a Press conference about just this topic, I'll be there.
Sun Microsystems To Launch Presence in Virtual World Second Life
Although if it wasn't for a post I randomly saw on Kevin Roebuck's Blog I would have no idea about the details of the event.
I do also see the following Kevin Maney's Blog
From there discussion of virtual communication and similar topics was broached. We talked about using AIM, IRC, MUD/MUSH/MOO and a couple of related tangents. We then talked about using SecondLife as the location for collaboration after Jonathan mentioned using it for a press conference.
The first thing I thought about in this discussion was using a MUSH at theurgy.digex.net (now defunct) for communication, and some play. I remember reading 'Collaborative Networked Communication' by Rémy Evard (Original ASCII although I must admit that I had to search for it and I thought it was written be someone else).
The paper gives example usages which I will not repeat here, however the thought was that having effectively a room in which to talk could be beneficial in our current environment. Many managed operations employees are flex or are not in the main office in Ashburn. A couple of times people have attempted to establish standing AIM chat groups/rooms and IRC channels. None of them has garnered even small scale adoption.
So the end result here, is that I have created a SecondLife account and we will try playing around with SecondLife. The next steps to bring back some of the old theurgy magic would be to create a some objects a spleen (so you can vent it), some skinheads (to take bowling), a happy fun ball (to taunt), a tonka truck (to beep the horn and run into people's ankles) and I may be crossing servers a game of connect four.
I just don't know that I need the avatar based communication model. Location/Room/Channel based communication to allow for better focus and separation of relevant content makes sense to me, it is just the rest that I don't think I understand/see the need for the rest of it.SecondLife appears to have a relatively heavy footprint, when I am navigating around about 50-75% of my CPU and 250+MB memory. This could be another case of buy a new computer, the one you are using is 4 years old.
Possibly with a bit less friction and a bit more free processing power it interaction would be a smoother and I would see more of an enabling technology and less of a drain on my overloaded resources.
In any case Sun is holding a Press conference about just this topic, I'll be there.
Sun Microsystems To Launch Presence in Virtual World Second Life
WHO: John Gage, Chief Researcher and VP, Sun Science Office
Chris Melissinos, Chief Gaming Officer, Sun
Philip Linden, CEO, Linden Lab
WHAT: opportunities for experimentation with new forms of
communication, collaboration and economic
activity in the virtual world.
WHEN: October 10, 2006. 10 a.m. Pacific Time / 1 p.m. Eastern Time
HOW: Join Second Life for free at: https://secondlife.com/join
WHERE: In Second Life, go to: "Sun Pavilion"
Or click the following shortcut link: http://tinyurl.com/m338r
* Note: access to the Sun Pavilion will be restricted prior to the
event.
Although if it wasn't for a post I randomly saw on Kevin Roebuck's Blog I would have no idea about the details of the event.
I do also see the following Kevin Maney's Blog
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BBC NEWS | Europe | France to ban smoking in public
BBC
NEWS | Europe | France to ban smoking in public:
Possibly we will go an visit Paris (Not that the smoking was preventing it, just that it is a bit more attractive now) One of the observations I made at Sun's CEC, was that every night when I got home(my mother hated that, and my wife isn't fond of it*) I had that ugg, I am going to have to wash the smoke out of my hair unless I want to sleep with it moment.
Then I realized! no, I won't have to do that at all...no smoking in public places! WOOT
* The first time I said to my parents that I was going home (back to school), when I was at home (where I/my parents live), my mother cried. I tend to call the place I am sleeping home.
Mr de Villepin made the announcement in a television interview.My wife will be ecstatic, she is almost rabid in her dislike for smoking. But then it may be the surgery to remove a lung lobe that her mother had just after our wedding.
"We started on the basis of a simple observation - two figures: 60,000 deaths a year in our country linked directly to tobacco consumption and 5,000 deaths linked to passive smoking. "That makes more than 13 deaths a day. It is an unacceptable reality in our country in terms of public health," he said.
Possibly we will go an visit Paris (Not that the smoking was preventing it, just that it is a bit more attractive now) One of the observations I made at Sun's CEC, was that every night when I got home(my mother hated that, and my wife isn't fond of it*) I had that ugg, I am going to have to wash the smoke out of my hair unless I want to sleep with it moment.
Then I realized! no, I won't have to do that at all...no smoking in public places! WOOT
* The first time I said to my parents that I was going home (back to school), when I was at home (where I/my parents live), my mother cried. I tend to call the place I am sleeping home.