At the end of September there was a world premiere for the Tiny Nation machinima. This has since been gathering a lot of praise and laughter from the many Second Life blogs and web sites.
The machinima was shot entirely inside Second Life using avatars from Loco Pocos.
The Signalnoise site has published a wonderful collection of twelve logos by Saul Bass for companies ranging from Bell Telephones, Kleenex to Quaker Oats.
Edmodo is a new micro-blogging system designed specifially by educators for educators.
The other week I was looking for a reliable source of creative commons licensed music, and today I found one. Jamendo is a social site based around the uploading, downloading, sharing and reviewing of free albums. It recently celebrated having 10,000 albums available.
Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake were the founders and creators of Flickr, which began in Toronto and was later bought by Yahoo for $35 million.
They can be seen here in a photo streamed - of course - from Flickr:
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This is the abstract and explanation that I sent to Steve Bronack this morning. It is my submission for the LoW conference (number five in the annual series), to be held in Hong Kong this Ocotber.
This morning I found an old post by Bruce Schneier about security theater, which seems a very useful phrase to use to describe those official actions designed, not to increase security, but to reassure or frighten innocent bystanders.
The Wu Tang Clan have always had divergent interests. They have never just been about hip hop. Today they launched their newest project wuchess.com, which aims to be “the world’s first online chess and urban social network”.
Mozilla Labs have a simple starting point: “a virtual lab where people come together to create, experiment, and play with new Web innovations and technologies”. They have a number of active projects, designed to improve the web. One of these is Prism.
Ralf Apelt has just posted an entry in his blog that leads to an interesting slide show about personal learning environments that he found at Slideshow.
