Tweets- halavais: RT @FakeAPStylebook: Remember that the word "synesthesia" is spelled with a silent freshly mowed grass odor.
- halavais: RT @brainpicker: Trailer for Last Call, the first interactive horror movie where audience can interact with protagonist http://ow.ly/1gzPm
- halavais: Not cool enough for #sxsw this year. But *am* strategizing for chaperoning some grad students next year.
- halavais: These notes, taken by @TreborS when I was a guest in his classroom, should look familiar to former students: http://is.gd/aeoq1
- halavais: Quick chat makes people unhappy, while deep conversations make them happy. ∴ Twitter = Sad. http://is.gd/a9tgg
- halavais: RT @willrich45: Double wow...the #netp actually refers to students as "networked learners." I'm feeling faint.
- halavais: I am blue: http://splash.clubdevo.com/colorstudy/
- halavais: RT @tombarrett: The Pacific Northwest tree octopus (Octopus paxarbolis) can be found in temperate rainforests of the Olympic Peninsula h ...
- halavais: @laughingsquid I've always enjoyed Mattelart & Mattelart, as a brief supplemental overview.
- halavais: New post on the future of ebooks: http://alex.halavais.net/ipad-goes-back-to-the-future
Monthly Archives: October 2006
Pong Democracy
Just what you need: another game of Pong. But there is something less fun than facinating about this Massively Multiplayer Pong. Each side is played by a team of several people who, though constant feedback, “vote” where the paddle should be.
One way to play is to place your vote where you think the paddle [...]
Drinking one’s own Kool-Aid
Mr. Calacanis is at it again, attempting to monetize the world of user-created media. I don’t, like some, think that a recent influx of cash somehow means the automatic death of the read/write web. All new media go through a period of maturation that often includes colonization by profit-seeking organizations and individuals. But in this [...]
Last minute call for ICA: Second life research
This is very last minute. I announced this on the SL research list and to some folks individually. Trying to assemble some folks to present their ideas on Second Life. Generally, I’m hoping to hook with ICA’s theme this year, which is (in part) about the politics of creation–at least, that’s how I’m interpretting it! [...]
Online chat on Wikipedia in the Academy
This was behind a pay-wall before now, but the Chronicle of Higher Ed has an article on the relationship between Wikipedia and academia. I was quoted in there, and it focusses a little on the Isuzu Experiment but I guess that’s not all bad. As always, I think that there is space there for missed [...]
Let me tell you how it will be…
Don’t ask me what I want it for, (ah-ah, Mr. Wilson)
If you don’t want to pay some more. (ah-ah, Mr. Heath)
‘Cause I’m the taxman,
Yeah, I’m the taxman.
So, the IRS wants to know how to tax items in virtual worlds, including Second Life. A whole article on this over at the SciAm. But isn’t there already [...]
A year standing
For the last year, I have tried to work standing up. If it was good enough for Donald Rumsfeld, among others, I figured it would be good for me. I also realized that when I was trying to brainstorm, I tended to walk around, and that my best ideas came when standing in the shower. [...]
Should he go?