CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Aug 2, 2010 02:46pm
We heard via the grapevine that Lyr Lobo aka Dr. Cynthia Calongne is being nominated for the Association of Virtual Worlds' 2010 Person of the Year.
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She works tirelessly in virtual world design and development to further virtual worlds for education. She has designed content for emerging media degrees, and is an extremely active member in the NMC. Her doctoral research focused on building an immersive, ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Oct 28, 2008 10:21am
I was sitting around in my office chair wondering what I might be doing this weekend, especially with Halloween landing nicely on a Friday. Hmmmm, there must be something going on, but what?
And then I looked up and it was obvious!
Who better to party with and what better a place to go than Foul Whisperings, Strange Matters!
You have a few days to find an outlandish costume, but look for spooky avvies, live music, and fun at MacBeth (229,41,32), this Friday, ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Jul 1, 2008 03:13pm
A bit of time has gone by since the 2008 NMC Summer Conference at Princeton, but we wanted to make sure we jotted a few notes on the closing plenary by Henry Jenkins- an inspirational presentation on What Would Herman Melville Say to Soulja Boy?: Remix Culture and the New Media.
This was not only taking place in a gorgeuos real world facility, Princeton's Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall, but was also live streamed to a remote audience gathered in the ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
May 15, 2008 08:46pm
Look for two events coming up tied to the International Day for Sharing Life Stories, which is Friday, May 16, 2008. During the day, you can be in a Second Life story circle! Any group in SL can get self-organized and participate.
In each story circle, each teller will prompt the next teller the American Indian way, by handing him/her a talking stick.
Organize a group! Make sure at least one member has the talking stick, which anyone can ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
May 5, 2008 05:08pm
On Friday April 25, NMC CEO Larry Johnson (or as we know him in Second Life, Larry Pixel) was a guest interviewee for the Metanomics series, the weekly live show that takes place in, and is broadcast live from Second Life.
As part of an event at Clever Zebra's vBusiness Expo, in this interview, Metanomics host Robert Bloomfield asked Larry about the NMC's Virtual worlds programs and then discussed more on Larry's recent experience testifying before the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Apr 23, 2008 08:37pm
This Friday, April 25, will be a special Metanomics interview featuring the NMC's own, our CEO Larry Johnson (who is the real real avatar of Larry Pixel). Like all Metanomics sessions, this takes place somewhere in Second Life, but is live video streamed to the NMC location on Outreach.
Robert Bloomfield and Metanomics will host a special event as part of Clever Zebra's vBusiness Expo. Rob will interview Dr. Larry Johnson, CEO of New Media Consortium, who recently testified to ... more » »
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:
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CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Mar 31, 2008 11:03pm
Larry Pixel's real live avatar, Dr. Larry Johnson, CEO of the New Media Consortium (NMC), is trekking to Washington DC April 1 (no fooling!) to present testimony on the nature and state of virtual worlds before the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet. Also presenting at the same hearing is Phillip Rosedale, founder of Linden Lab and the inventor of Second Life®. Also speaking are Susan Tenby, Senior Manager, Community Development at TechSoup and Colin J. Parris, Vice ... more » »
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) :
Mar 20, 2008 04:09pm
We had a great crowd and lots of interest in the tools that Bucky Barkley demonstrated at last Monday's NMC Campus Teachers Buzz Session. If you were there (or not) we just got word directly from Bucky that as a promotion, he is giving them away for free now through Sunday night! Check out the Free Buckaroo details.
So get over now to Buckaroo Store (Ileina Cove, 216/88/22)
You will have to buy the devices at their current prices:
SimpleSlider - 100L
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Larry Pixel (aka Larry Johnson) :
Feb 26, 2008 08:57pm
Today the New Media Consortium (NMC) announced a $250,000 two-year collaboration with Sun Microsystems to launch the Open Virtual Worlds Project, an effort that is aimed at making it easier to learn, work, and exchange ideas in virtual space. The project will develop a range of standards-based, portable open-source educational spaces, content, and objects, and use them to extend Sun Microsystems’s open source Project Darkstar and Project Wonderland virtual world platforms.
Open Virtual Worlds video announcement
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