Do I want another virtual world? News this week:
Google launches Lively, its own virtual world — http://www.lively.com/html/landing.html. Screenshots look like a surrealist painting.
Second Life/Linden Labs and IBM announce the exportability of avatars, so I can be weird version of me in more places?
How much in technology is augmenting me versus being a digital vampire? How much is one tool or another improving my life vs. taking time and control away? I'm now about 21 months into having short-term memory problems. I had some kind of a memory degradation when I...
We've just ended the second cycle of our Future of Music in LA projects at the Center for Music Innovation at UCLA Alpert. We helped run a half-day symposium with the City of LA Dept. of Cultural Affairs and the UC Digital...
My Facebook friends must be thinking I'm nuts (again). I've been tinkering with Facebook Stories and its Camera Effects. In fact, I've been playing so much I'm also looking into the Camera Effects and AR (augmented reality) developer group. First, here's some of the...
Today I'm working on taxes for our two college students' FAFSAs and watching "Abstract: The Art of Design" on Netflix in the background. Christoph Niemann is both in his story and telling his story about craft and life. He is a character and an animated...
Gigi enjoyed sharing thoughts over YouTube and the US Housing and Urban Development (HUD) OCIO Learning Series. This session was recorded in January and ran as a webinar on March 17. You can find it now...