From the NYT:
“Orality is the base of all human experience,” says Lance Strate, a communications professor at Fordham University and devoted MySpace user. He says he is convinced that the popularity of social networks stems from their appeal to deep-seated, prehistoric patterns of human communication. “We evolved with speech,” he says. “We didn’t evolve [...]
While poorly presented (I don’t really understand the vague references), this BBC article opens the dorr to discussion about the unforeseen consequences of gamings influence on the workplace:
All of a sudden, say academics and researchers, companies have realised that all the time employees spend gaming in virtual worlds is changing them.
Ian Hughes, IBM’s metaverse evangelist, [...]
Our esteemed colleague, Ken Mikulski, informs us of Ted’s Mikulski’s work with Second Life. Ted’s Master’s thesis provides a glimpse into interesting applications of virtual worlds for studio design and architectural presentation and development:
‘The Tracer,’ also known as Ted Mikulski in real life, presented his Thesis Presentation for his Architectural Master’s Degree at Norwich University [...]
Today at Mix07 Microsoft made a number of major announcements, mostly around the recently-released Silverlight (formerly known as Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere). Microsoft presented both new products and a new vision for how services and software will interoperate in the Microsoft and Silverlight ecosystems. Microsoft is providing not only the tools and software but they are [...]
New Media Consortium Campus in Second Life. Very nice exploration:
I’ve added Team areas to the bbPress forum in its new media area. Link: Courses. Find the course forum by clicking on the link in the Discussions link category. Sign up, login, and click on your group color to initiate discussion. I will have the New Media Inventory up this weekend for guidance.
I’ve also added [...]
Ohio University is where I did my graduate work (specifically in the College of Fine Arts) and they’ve just entered a new virtual world for adult learning.
Called a “a next-generation learning development environment,” it is quite an interesting project.
Read the article here.
Follow this link for more of Jeff Han and Touch Screen technology. Like Beau, I’m a little annoyed at the fullrun.
A history lesson taken to a futuristic extreme. Is this possible?
Thanks, once again, to Susan Gibb for the link.
Our good friend Ken Colangelo sends us two links concerning the future of interaction with systems via the screen.
Bi-manual, multi-point, and multi-user interactions on a graphical display surface
Quicktime and another video feed here. The “interface-free” design comes from Jeff Han, a Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences researcher.
It’s what I would call cool and totally [...]