My friend in Second Life, the prolific Crap Mariner – who all bloggers, podcasters, and writers wish they could keep up with – has detailed his reactions to the updated version of the Second Life viewer. If you are going to build something with a user interface, read his post first. My favorite quote, which many [...]
Being fluent in finance is important. Now, even more so because institutions take advantage of the average person’s ignorance on this issue. If you’re not sure how, check out a fantastic video on the recent credit crisis by my instructional design hero, Jonathan Jarvis. The Credit Crisis – Animatic from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo. Today, [...]
Lawrence Lessig, the Stanford Law Professor who created Creative Commons, talks about the terror of control of creativity. In his opinion, it’s a battle between read-write culture (meaning consumers could also create) vs. read only culture (meaning consumers could only consume while those who OWN culture could be the only creators). Not only is this [...]
When in the course of T.V. viewing it becomes necessary for one customer to dissolve the cable wire which has connected him with Time Warner and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station which the Laws of Internet and 21st Century marketing entitle him, a decent respect to the [...]
Stuff that people have been talking about for the past 8 years as genius innovations on development, energy, banking, and economics have been listed and detailed by Michael H. Shuman in his book Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age. All the best ideas for the next decade (although I haven’t read it [...]
Now that we all are about to be forced to change to digital television and digital connections, what’s going to happen to those analog airwaves? They don’t just disappear. In my opinion, a battle will be waged over whether to license them or not. Those who want them licensed will of course expect an exorbitant [...]
So quickly go back to the polls and change your votes for me. LOL!
I was walking through Delaware Park and was thinking about making stuff in Second Life. I think one could make a tree that changes the color and texture of the leaves based on the calendar. For example, the script would check the once a day. If the time is the spring equinox, then it would [...]
I’m still wondering why candidates aren’t embracing green technology and green solutions. Whether you believe in the global environmental crisis or not, one thing is for sure: the organization that manages to embrace and create innovative solutions to the energy crisis and environmental sustainability will have a stronger market position than many of their peers. [...]
