Recently Ralf pointed me towards the idea of barcamps, which have their own web site and their own online rules. This has the great merit of providing a reference point for what we have been doing in an unlabelled way.

A brief biography for people who want something for web sites and conference leaflets.

Camie and I have spent the last week at the LoW3 conference at the Appalachian State University
in Boone, North Carolina.

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.

Two themes emerged at the LoW conference last week. Neither had been planned in advance, although some people who attended suspected otherwise. The first theme was Second Life as an educational tool. The second was identity.

Yesterday, at the fourth League of Worlds conference, I made a presentation entitled Augmentation, Immersion and Identity in Rosario: the trading card game, and the slide show is available at Zoho.

This afternoon I was chatting with Roberto Muffeletto on Skype. Roberto was at the LoW conference last week, and is now in Amsterdam. e sent me a (moderately) interesting photograph.

is bright and early – if 8am is early and this is bright
has sent Steve his LoW5 abstract – with a short explanation about Rosario 4.0

has had another early morning because the junior schoolgirl started a school outing at 8am in the pouring rain – but at least she woke up!
has a cabal of funding and timetabling issues dancing around him like cartoon monsters
notices that Jaiku is finally back up and running, and may finally be in a position to out-twitter Twitter!
has been more distracted than he planned and done more than he intended (but not exactly what he intended). Ho hum and off we go!
has already started booking the 2009 holiday; and is now getting worried about the availability of tickets to LoW (and hotels…)

has just found out about muziboo.com and will investigate further. How does it differ from Jamendo, for example?
@arvindnatarajan hi, have the plans for launching Zoho Education changed, or just the timetable?
@muziboo Ah, I see! I hadn’t quite got it when I looked the first time. That DOES sound interesting!!!
is having Twitter conversations, and finding them useful. But still thinks hellotxt is MUCH more useful than FeedFriend. Hellotxt rocks!
@arvindnatarajan Okay, I will mail Dhan tomorrow morning. Our new academic year is starting and I am eager for good news
has set up a Twine for the League of Worlds, and invited some initial members.
has finally got a fly-out menu that works, and is taking that as a sign that its time to go home…

@BryanAlexander This may be too late but I recommend The Red Headed League. It has a twist that children get, and find funny – or mine did!
just had two online meetings about the LoW5 conference in Hong Kong in October – which may well include a barcamp (see www.barcamp.org)
has been instructed to rethink the fly-out menu from scratch, and is going to start doing so: NOW!
has got as far as he can today. Now it is time for a movie and a Night of the Arts. Look out Helsinki, here I come!

Roni has asked me about updating the LoW site before LoW5 in October. There are three separate elements involved in this. Firstly, there is the simple question of updating. Secondly, there is the question of functionality. Thirdly, there is an issue of automatic membership rights.