Lauren Gelman to head Stanford’s Center for Internet & Society

Congratulations, Lauren, on the new appointment!
I had the honor of working with Lauren on State of Play Academy, and the Stanford Center couldn’t have chosen a smarter, sharper, or nicer person to head up their work.

The ‘Net in 10: Virtual Worlds in 2017

I’ve been asked to give a very short (5 minute) talk next Tuesday at the weekly Berkman luncheon forecasting the shape of the Internet in ten years and, in particular, the future of games/virtual worlds. At the risk of being held accountable to these predictions in 5 days, nevermind 10 years, here is a draft […]

Facebook politics taste too del.icio.us

Networking is the lifeblood of all politics. So why are the Obama and other political applications for Facebook so terribly disappointing? At best, they function like bumper stickers for profile pages, and while my neighborhood’s lawn signs fill me with civic pride, I also know that sporting “I like Ike” buttons is a feeble way […]

Images from State of Play education workshop

Workshop panelist Grace Lim-Tan Keh Buoy has posted photos from our workshop at State of Play V in Singapore. Thanks Grace!
I’m still hoping to acquire some video from the event, which I’ll compress and post as soon as possible.

BBC interview this morning

I had the fun of being interviewed by Madz Kohime (BBC reporter Madeline Morris) this morning at 5:30 GMT (that’s 1:30am here) about CyberOne, together with CyberOne student Masala Dosei (Patrick Engelman). Here’s the full BBC coverage of Second Life; here’s just the interview.

I’m afraid I rather fluffed my part, as I committed the cardinal […]

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