Can I Afford the Book I Helped Author?

Just a quick post to provide a link to a book I helped write a chapter in, although I must admit, I had a bit of sticker shock!

http://www.igi-global.com/bookstore/titledetails.aspx?TitleId=47435

Here’s the description:

The future success of education depends on technological and pedagogical innovation. Unbridled by the physical constraints of both time and space, [...]

Follow Up From Google: Why Google Apps Won’t Have a “Host-Your-Own” Equivalent

Several years ago, I wrote an article about my experience ditching MS Exchange and Blackberry Enterprise Server for Google Apps at the company I worked for at the time. It got a fair amount of questions in the comments, so I figured I would follow up with Google on the one that got asked the [...]

Digging Into the New Massachusetts Data Security Law

I was linked an article this morning by a coworker to SQLMag’s article on the new Massachusetts data security law. The link to the article can be found here:

http://www.sqlmag.com/print/sql-server/A-New-Law-that-Will-Change-the-Way-You-Build-Database-Applications.aspx

The author seems like a nice enough guy, but apparently didn’t spend the time doing his homework to find out about what the law really [...]

Follow Up: The Continuing SL Death Watch?

Echo Omega: One of the Original Second Life Marketing Campaigns, circa 2004.

It has been almost a year since I wrote a post asking the question, What’s With the Second Life Death Watch? Recently in the comments, I was asked to provide on update. With the release of Second Life’s 2009 Economy Wrap Up, [...]

IE Users: PLEASE Switch to a More Secure Browser

Nom nom nom.

We have all heard about China’s attacks on Google. More recently, these attacks have been expanded against Adobe, Yahoo, Symantec, and many others. These are very advanced attacks, coordinated by a hostile foreign government, and should be taken very seriously. The target is intellectual property and account information. The Gmail account [...]

What’s With the Second Life Death Watch?

Echo Omega: One of the Original Second Life Marketing Campaigns, circa 2004.

I’m some what guilty here: I have been focusing a lot more on other technologies lately, such as the OpenSim and realXtend platforms. That doesn’t mean that Second Life is anywhere close to dead. Many media outlets (I’m looking at you, hacks [...]

Gaiman and Colbert

I may be a day late and a dollar short, but I witnessed my second favorite writer on television with one of my favorite TV personalities.

Anyone who didn’t see Gaiman and Colbert missed a tete a tete of two of the greatest minds and wits of our generation.

Enjoy!

The Colbert ReportMon [...]

SLCC 2009 Update

One of the best parties of the year!

The SLCC team has put up an update about the 2009 convention. The key points:

It will be on the west coast this year. They do not expect an increase in the price. If you’re interested in sponsoring, contact the team.

More information is available here!

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Tim Featured on Action News

ABC Action News, Philadelphia Local (WPVI – 5/16/2007) Tim and Jennifer were featured on a news segment Right Now on the Net about Second Life. Reporter Erin O’Hearn ask questions about Second Life in general, and some of the controversies it faces, as any new medium does.

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WFMZ Feature: Crompco’s Innovation in Virtual Worlds

Tim and Jennifer were featured on Lehigh Valley, PA’s WMFZ Evening News, one of the largest regional news broadcasts in the country. On day 2, reporter Melissa Batulis focused on Tim’s work using Second Life for corporate training.