You've heard jokes about "empty islands" - and granted that is true for some in Second Life, while at the other end of the spectrum it's difficult to give a presentation with more than 30 people in attendance given the design of the SL..
Topics: Community / Connecting, Social Networking, Virtual Worlds

As if there isn't enough going on, my brain's moving at top warp trying to imagine the possibilities of ways in which new technology - especially those that foster community - will evolve in my lifetime. The latest kickstart my brain got is an...
Topics: Resources, Tech, Virtual Worlds

The blogosphere loves Barack Obama. But apparently in America at least, blog readers and writers and commenters and flamers aren't always totally reflective of everyone. In fact Carol Marin wrote in The Chicago Sun-Times that "The Lanky One is...
Topics: Community / Connecting, Opinion

Post Publication Note: This was first published in late November 2007 and one thing that I'm aware of that has changed since that date is that my island home and office were a BC - before cancer - thing. After December 7 I was recovering from the...
Topics: Community / Connecting, Tech, Virtual Worlds

Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon professor whose "last lecture" made him famous died today, almost a year after he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, When he gave this Carnegie Mellon commencement address in May, he had lived three months...
Topics: Community / Connecting, Life, Opinion, Video