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2007 Annual Unconference
Replied May. 11, 2007
ALA in Second Life
Replied Mar. 21, 2007
Oberon's Oracle
Oberon Doesn't Write Here Anymore
I am truly ashamed to report that I spend more time registering for blogs than actually writing them, but the venues seem to be closing in on my actual interests and where I need to write. No sooner did I find the Association of Virtual Worlds and RezEd, but I am compelled to write for Virtual Presence, an AL…SLCC: End, "Creativity Matters!"
It's over! Nearly eight hundred people enjoyed two days and nights of community in the flesh before rezzing back to their SL selves. Of course, with people from as far away as Australia, the Netherlands, and China, the mileage would skew a bit, but according to a metrics report, the average attendee traveled 1,280 miles to get to this convention! As I stated before, the demographics of the attendees was as varied as you can imagine. And then, of course,…SLCC: Day Two (Really!), Second Life on HBO
Sorry about the title of yesterday's article (and the promise of more!) with the "day two" business. Friday's SLCC was mostly registration and socializing, and Saturday was Day One. Sunday, today, is Day Two. We all gathered in the International Ballroom, picked up all the swag from exhibitors, and were then treated to a preview of Douglas Gayeton's "The Diaries of Molotov Alva." This ten-part series of machinma have been picked up for broadcast on HBO.…SLCC: Day Two, "We need to stop being a lab!"
That's a quote from "El President" Philip Rosedale aka Philip Linden. In his keynote, he was brutally frank about being in our way as a company from doing what Second Life is supposed to do. He even wore a t-shirt that read "MISSING IMAGE" to underscore his public apology for the breakdowns that have plagued SL for the past four months. He also expressed pride that the community of SL is its most important asset. LL has only spent $20 million to get to this point in its history and if it disappe…Second Life in the Second City: The SL Community Conference
I've just been back and forth from ALA to the Chicago Hilton and back (via the 146 going south and the 3 going north) so I can start this blog about the Second Life Community Conference (SLCC) that began this evening. I would have stayed longer and gone home to blog this, but the same storm that made travel here for out-of-town attendees a nightmare has knocked out electricity all over the Chicagoland area. (I also needed to get business cards because that is still SOP for this kind of event!) I…Die/|\Hard 2.0 Returns
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- Are you a member of ALA?
- Yes
- What was the last book you read?
- Hidden Wholeness by Parker Palmer
- Do you use an RSS reader/aggregator?
- Yes
- How long have you been a member of ALA?
- 18 years (staff)
- How many ALA conferences have you attended in person?
- 11-15
- Do you read AL Direct when it arrives in your email inbox?
- Yes
- What can ALA do for you that it isn't already doing?
- I'm staff, so answers to this question are going to require me to do something. I sense a conflict of interest somewhere along the line, so I plead the Fifth! (My attendance at ALA conference number includes Midwinter Meetings.) I worked for ASCLA/RUSA for eight years and now am Web Developer in ITTS dept of ALA.
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Association of Virtual Worlds
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Second Life Librarians
RezED
Virtual Presence: Weblog for the Virtual Communities and Libraries Member Initiative Group of the American Library Association
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Another Look at SLoodle
A few months ago, I wrote about the grand opening of the San Jose State Unviersity's School of Library and Information Science in Second Life. One of the biggest impressions left on me that day was how they connected the inworld presentation with a Moodle chat room, allowing people without SL connections to chat with those who were in world. By happy chance, I was inworld and alerted to a me
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What We Need to Know About Wikis
Posted on August 16, 2007 at 11:29am —
Some Conference Comments
... listening to Michael Stephens speaking at a RUSA MARS/RSS preconference about Reinventing Reference. He told a story about a guy who once a month sets ups his computer at the wifi seating area of the local Panera Bread and puts up a sign: Ask a Librarian. He spoke of his own natural leanings of overhearing someone asking a question and know how to answer it. It made me think of more than 500 self-identified librarians who perform pretty mu… Continue
Posted on June 28, 2007 at 10:08am — 5 Comments
New Professional Tools Pages
pages, you will find menu items for these pages on the left. Clicking on the Social Networking page will bring up a left-hand menu item f… Continue
Posted on June 6, 2007 at 3:27pm —
Accessibility Resource Center ... in a most unlikely place!
[10:05] Lorelei Junot: First of all, we have just received 2 grants to
build an accessibility resource center
[10:05] Lorelei Junot: exhibits, programs, and resources on disabilities
[10:05] Maxito Ricardo: fantastic
[10:05] Lorelei Junot: We will have money to get 60 people with
disabilities a free premium account for second life
[10:06] Lorelei Junot: our center will attempt to bring information and
resources on disabilit… Continue
Posted on May 21, 2007 at 3:51pm —
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I've been slacking a bit on my guitar playing... I think I'm going to go back to my first intrument and pick up a set of nice keyboards. My desire to learn the guitar seems to exceed the capacity of my neuro-network to learn it. :-)