Today I finally got around to installing a new version of Debian Linux, this one the “testing” release code named Lenny, because it is supposed to include Java6 JDK, which I’ve been pulling my hair out trying to get to work on the “Etch” release of Debian. Etch only has Java5 JDK, which won’t quite [...]

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I was just following some links found in advance slides from an NCOIC conference that’s taking place on Feb. 26th in Denver, when I clicked a link in one of the sites and stumbled across information about a project New Media Consortium (NMC) has announced. They are embarking on a 2-year collaboration with Sun Microsystems [...]

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I found this video on a networking site I’ve just joined, about some 3D software I wrote about here a couple of weeks ago, when this blog was brand spankin’ new, 3DXplorer. I left a note for the creator asking permission to link to it from here, but then I found out his video is [...]

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The Virtual Worlds preservation workshop at Stanford, funded by the Library of Congress’ NDIIPP, is over now. Partner institutions besides Stanford are University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Maryland and Rochester Institute of Technology. I attended via Skype conference call with text chat on the side, augmented with a dynamically-updated Google Doc page where [...]

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After the Metaverse U conference for the past two days you’d think I was ready to take a rest or maybe get some real work done, but no! Today and tomorrow I’m participating (remotely, via Skype conference call) in a workshop with some of the same people at Stanford. This time, we’re working with the [...]

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During the break I’ve been catching up on email. One of the messages waiting for me was from Erica Driver of Forrester Research, whom I’d met at a previous blended reality event with a different group. She had done a presentation about a research report Forrester had recently published that she worked on. She asked [...]

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I’m at the Metaverse U conference again today, but I’ve been participating in text side chatter in SecondLife instead of blogging about it. We had quite a discussion about the way this event has been presented in world, which I’ll try to summarize later when I have chance to review my chatlog about it. Some [...]

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Here are some links I’ve found to people who are blogging about the Metaverse U conference this weekend. I’ll edit this post to add more as I stumble across them. I met several other people at the conference site in SecondLife who said they are blogging about it, but until I see a post about [...]

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Following a panel discussion that included Cory Ondrejka at the Stanford Metaverse U conference today, I was looking at his blog. Something he said in an entry called Henrik’s Questions made me think about where I was in 1988, with regard to technical developments since then. At that time, I was working for Boeing on [...]

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Paradox just gave out the URL for his Flickr URL about Metaverse U. More pix will be posted as the conference proceeds. Unfortunately, the afternoon session had a lot of streaming video glitches, so it’s a good thing the video will be available on the Web soon. The conference is in its final plenary session [...]

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