I laughed at this so hard I cried. Or maybe I cried because it’s so to the point!
Thanks to Universa Vanalten (SL name) for this link.

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An interesting online-only conference starts in a few days:

While their claim to be the only online conference is a bit inaccurate, it still seems like a worthwhile way to spend some time for those of us interested in the development of the metaverse.

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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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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 [...]

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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. [...]

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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 [...]

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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 the [...]

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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 for [...]

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