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John Kirriemuir keynote – Learning in Virtual Worlds Conference

April 21, 2009

John works for www.virtualworldwatch.net: “Surveying virtual world use in UK universities and colleges”, and lives in an annoying beautiful place off the coast of Scotland. This was a useful introduction to his research. VW Keynote presentation Technorati Tags: second life,metaverse,education,success,research,interesting,opensim,opinion

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Curating the Crowd-Sourced World

March 14, 2009

PRESENTERS Jen Bekman – Jen Bekman Projects | 20×200 Paddy Johnson – Art Fag City Nion McEvoy – Chronicle Books Dustin Hostetler – skinnyCorp Gina Trapani – Lifehacker.com DESCRIPTION With all the stuff we weed through online, good filters are crucial. Who’s best-suited to determine what’s best, curators or the crowd? People have their religion [...]

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Web 2.0 articles in bdaily #8 – Conclusion

March 2, 2009
This entry is part 8 of 8 in the series bdaily

n.b. This was originally published on bdaily. Photo credit to bootload “Web 2.0: Conclusion With Justin Souter of Souter Consulting Part 4 [sic] of a series of articles on the application of Web 2.0 In writing this conclusion, I first would like to thank you for staying with me since January, and for your comments [...]

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How might Thinking Digital exploit Web 2.0? #TDC

February 18, 2009

This post is pretty much about what it says in the title! I met with Maxeen & Lewis from Codeworks last week and we had a think about how to maximise awareness and appreciation of Thinking Digital. Thinking Digital is an annual conference where the world’s greatest thinkers and innovators gather to inspire, to entertain, [...]

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NewcastleGateshead in Second Life

February 16, 2009

This post is a chance for me to kick-start my interest in virtual worlds / metaverses. It is also a chance to show off my in-world photography skills but – more importantly – it is a chance to bring to a wider audience the great work by Celia & Shaun at Vector 76 on a [...]

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SCL: Ready for business!

January 26, 2009

If you’re thinking of getting in contact with SCL, I thought it would be helpful to set out where Souter Consulting Limited has got to: SCL formally established on 16th December 2008 Public liability & personal insurance now in place Bank account etc. now set up and running Marketing Obviously, this website and the blog [...]

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Series of Web 2.0 articles in bdaily

January 7, 2009

Photo credit to Daniel F. Pigatto If you follow my Twitterstream, you’ll have seen I’m putting together a series of articles on Web 2.0. Today, the first one is published, via bdaily’s e-mail and web channels. I will be re-publishing the articles on this blog, and putting a summary page on the top-right so that [...]

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ThinkBalm releases its premier Immersive Internet report

December 17, 2008

I realise it’s lazy to post someone else’s material, but I figure Erica Driver at ThinkBalm wouldn’t mind the plug for her new Company. I’m a big believer in the possibilities of virtual worlds / the immersive internet, and wanted to do my own little bit to push things along. The Executive Summary of their [...]

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