The Entropia Universe is another online synthetic world that claims to have a “real” economy. Currently it claims to have about half a million members.

Charlene Li at Forrester Research has written a report with Josh Bernoff, Remy Fiorentino, Sarah Glass entitled Social Technographics® Mapping Participation In Activities Forms The Foundation Of A Social Strategy.

There has been a thread on the Second Life Education mailing list about griefers, of which there have been a plentiful supply recently. This set me thinking and I posted the following note, which I will expand at some point into a more considered piece.

The number of crimes in which a handgun was used in England and Wales has risen from 299 in 1995 to 1,024 last year. There are more detailed figures here too.

Today I found iFoods.tv, which is a site about cooking and cookery. The content is supposed to be user-generated and it will be interesting to see if enough users actually do generate enough content to keep the site lively.

Giving out your email address and work details as part of an attempt to solicit sex from a stranger is not necessarily a good idea.

A short note about some decisions that we agreed with Stefan prior to the Hamburg epedagogy conference.

While I was in the Bookmark in Charlotte last Saturday I picked up a bargain book that was waiting temptingly at the counter.