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Opening Reception For NMC Symposium on Mashups

CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) : Apr 1, 2008 11:56pm

Tonight we hosted the opening recepetion for the NMC Symposium on Mashups, one of the NMC’s Online Symposia — this one itself a mashup of venues between web sessions in Adobe Connect and 3D sessions taking place at the NMC Conference Center in Second Life.

Some 25 avatars showed up to meet and talking about mashups- assembling at the Muriel Cooper Coliseum on thre NMC Conference Center sim:

Beyond getting to know where folks were fun, we rolled out two activities. The first is a variation of the Human Graph where individuals line up to create a human “bar chart” in response to a question. So for our first round, we asked people to line up according to how long they have been in Second Life (< 1 month, 1 month to a year, 1-2 years, and more than 2). Everyone cooperated, but we found that its hard to get a bunch of avatars to stand still!

Our chat shows an audience more skewed toward experience:

We then did a round of “Make Friends for Lindens” where peple had to locate one of the NMS staff, Jauquin Menentos, who was perched on a mountain, and the first 5 people to friend him got l$500.

Set up on the music channel was a collection of music from ccMixter the mashup site that allows users to sample around files store on the site and then to create new music, all of which is Creative Commons licensed.

You can listen to the music we selected:
Symposium on Mashups ccMoxter mix (24.5 Mb MP3, 35:41)

Songs in the mix include:

DNA Funkdafied Mix
http://ccmixter.org/files/lazztunes07/14385

Blue Skys
http://ccmixter.org/files/Tekno_Eddy/14377

Histoire de Rien
http://ccmixter.org/files/ditto/14122

Otto Dangerfield 2008 - Unplugged
http://ccmixter.org/files/AlexBeroza/14117

So Oh Fish Al (UBQ SweetSour Mix)
http://ccmixter.org/files/mt100uk/14072

Short Fuses Burn Long Bridges (bill berry mix)
http://ccmixter.org/files/williamberry/13790

Rain Lament (Pretty Mix)
http://ccmixter.org/files/vo1k1/13519

Perfect Love
http://ccmixter.org/files/marcoraaphorst/13430

The next Avatar graph question was about experience with mashups, and responses from “none” to “I make ‘em”. One group got cleaver and rezzed a line of cubes for people to sit on.

And when we were done, we had this chart that shows a pretty wide mix of experience across the first 3 bars:

We had another rounf of “Make Friends for Lindens” and then closed out with a showing of a set of recut movie trailers and other mashup videos.

For those interested in the movie list we showed, they include:

Monty Trek
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEnyT0_BjxA

Sleepless In Seattle : Recut as a horror movie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frUPnZMxr08

Scary ‘Mary Poppins’ Recut Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T5_0AGdFic

Boogie Nights: Star Wars Edition
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZR7FjIrW8I

Sue Teller’s Do your own mashup
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4uyN5rQbbU

Shining
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmkVWuP_sO0

Winnie the Pooh meets Apocalypse Now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj_YPJvia8A

And with that most people wandered off, muttering excitement about mashups, all of which unfolds tomorrow with presentations starting at 9:00 Am PST.

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