I was just thinking of you…
I just had one of those damn computer things, where I send an email to someone who I couldn't reach by voice, but just after sending it, I get an email from that person that changes the conditions of...
View ArticleScalable Information Management by Information Interfaces and Peer Editing
Last week I was asked about information management in Croquet. Editing and editorial are tough problems in any global information system.
View Article“Well, no one told me about her… She's not there…” (The Zombies)
Getting nothing but a red screen at CroquetCollaborative.org ? Here's why. Croquet keeps track of everything ever created, so that anyone can tell each object to do stuff.
View ArticleWho… are you?
I've been working with various representations of self inside Croquet. The other day, I had a kind off goofy cartoon-like avatar, and at the same time, I had a Web cam of myself displayed on the wall...
View ArticleSex and the SimCity?
I had been working with an engineer from a large multi-national company. I had never met or conversed with this engineer except by email, but I understood from her name that she was female.
View ArticleThe Treachery of Images
photo of me in the current Information Week. Only it isn't a photo, and it isn't me.
View ArticleVoting and the Emergent Value of Presence
There's a lot of interest in voting technology for the expected record numbers of voters in the US presidential election, and voting widgets have become an expected accessory in social Web sites. But...
View ArticleWhat Do You Want to Do Today?
What can you do in a virtual world? Quite a bit, although we're still quite far from the answer being, Anything you can do in the real world. Here's a baseline list of today's raw capabilities, in the...
View ArticleBecause You Can
Ever since Shelly's Frankenstein, the distinguishing characteristic of science fiction (as opposed to fantasy and other literature) has been the postulation that beings can change the circumstances of...
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