I am using this blog to officially announce “Farnham’s Global Collaboration Guidelines” as a blog posting, as well as a comment to a blog and as a tweet: “Work Hard, Keep Your Day Job, Be Adult, Have Fun, Hug the Dog, Save the World.” (with 17 characters left…ha!
Archive for the ‘Secondlife’ Category
Through the Looking Glass of Virtual Reality
Posted in Association of Virtual Worlds, Brainstorm, Knowledge Networking, Second-Life, Secondlife, SL, Virtual Reality, Web 2.0, web2.0 on March 11, 2008 | 4 Comments »
From “I think therefore I am” to “Thinking is the best way to travel” of so much of our knowledge base, VR and our perception of the real world is based upon the most fabulous, as yet unmatched, CPU – our brain. If we can imagine the power of taking a dizzying array of light [...]
Hello world! 2.0
Posted in Asimov, Climate, Environment, Global Warming, Heinlein, SciFi, Second-Life, Secondlife, SL, web2.0, work on February 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
26 Feb 2008 Update: Be sure to watch Download: The True History of the Internet on the Science Channel starting March 3… Original posting 27 Dec 2007: The first computer program I typed in was on my VIC 20 (20K RAM) by Commodore, purchased from Sears, hooked up to a $10 B/W TV from a [...]
Knowledge Networking
Posted in Environment, FaceBook, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Networking, networking, Opinion, purpose, Secondlife, Web 2.0, web2.0, work, YouTube on February 25, 2008 | 5 Comments »
…What we (myself and my colleagues) are really pursuing is better described as Knowledge Networking…The discovery, cataloging, organization and caretaking of knowledge resources is a more holistic pursuit of information management, collaboration, and synergy, as practiced by professionals with multiple skills background, and their feet in many rooms…that’s Real Life Networking that will keep me working (and contributing) far longer, and will help us all do all the green things that are important.
Klaatu Barada Nikto (when’s lunch?)
Posted in Asimov, Heinlein, Klaatu, SciFi, Second-Life, Secondlife, SL, Vonnegut on August 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
OK, I’m an old guy. But way back before the beginning of time (you know, before competition reality TV), I was reading Heinlein and Asimov and Vonnegut. These old guys were writing about a future that we seem to be actually living today. I love the web. Here’s something I stumbled on, looking up references [...]
Heinlein Lives
Posted in Heinlein, Opinion, SciFi, Second-Life, Secondlife on August 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
…and he built a crooked house. Not the Kirk Douglas movie, but the Robert A. Heinlein short story. Now in the Social Network rez Video Game, Second Life, comes word that someone has built a Tesseract House, in 4 dimensions. Holy Escher, Batman! Here’s the story…And He Rezzed a Crooked House. Heinlein is one of [...]




