A regularly updated list of papers presented at conferences since 2003.

A chronological index of essays, listed by topic.

The Inclusive Holiday is a mixed media work begun in 1996, and still continuing. It is based, in large part, on the gnostic writings of Philip K Dick and Dave “Dave Cutlass” Cutlass, the importance of whose work is largely overlooked. What is presented here is a schematic outline of the main narrative thread of the piece.

I have been interested in, and concerned about, the nature of identity in virtual arenas such as SL for some time now. My interest bubbled to the surface again last week when I responded to an entry in Bryan Alexander’s blog Infocult called Towards Third Life.

Yesterday British Telecom announced that they were investing £100 million in a new service to be called BT Vision. This has been misleadingly described in some reports as “BT’s new television service”. It would be more accurate to say that this represents BT’s calculated bet that, like radio, television is in terminal decline.

The idea of representing ideas or thoughts diagrammatically is not a recent one. However the current usages of the terms “mind mapping” and “concept mapping” are relatively recent.