This week I attended the most far-out Net Tuesday yet. CompuMentor was really pushing the envelope of virtual reality technology by holding a "mixed reality" event. That means there were two venues: Many people were online at the TechSoup site in Second Life. Simultaneously, some of us were in the CompuMentor annex in San Francisco. Live, streaming video and audio ...

The post below about MySpace reminded me about the article in the July WIRED in which this quote appeared: “To find something comparable, you have to go back 500 years to the printing press, the birth of mass media – which, incidentally, is what really destroyed the old world of kings and aristocracies. Technology is shifting power away from the ...

Seems like most of the publicity in mainstream media about MySpace has been negative. However, to show that the social phenomenon is not without redeeming qualities, check-out this site for Smokefree Georgetown (brought this to my attention by David Neff).

Here‘s the text of a description of the Second Life Relay for Life event from our extranet, The Link. Here’s a link to the post about Relay on the NetSquared blog. Yesterday I interviewed Leska Dzwigalski, Linden Lab Community Manager, for a NetTuesday podcast. (Linden Labs is the company that produces Second Life.) I asked her about the SL Relay ...