Tag: secondlife

MetaVerseMessagist, CaseClosed
February 8, 2007
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Respek to Bec (aka, “& you must be wax”), whose adventures in virtual ed have landed her in NYT, CNN, USA Today, the Boston Globe, and National Geographic (!), and who today has garnered a spot on the front page of SL’s not-so-gray lady, the Metaverse Messenger, which covers the mock trial she and Charlie […]

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Smackademics
January 5, 2007
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Much as I like to bellyache bout the NYT, you gotta love it when they let pomo philosophers pen op-eds about politricks. And even if (sadly — for all of us, not just him) Zizek’s mostly remixing his ol’ desert of the real spiel, I was totally tickled to see him — in so many […]

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Hawaii Highlights (SEM 2006)
November 29, 2006
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It’s that time of the semester when things get extra crunchy, so I figure I better get this post up before it all becomes ancient history (even if it means I won’t be able to offer as texty a reflection as I’d like). Our panel was first thing Thursday morning (and I mean first thing: […]

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SEM in Honolulu
November 16, 2006
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Alongside fellow Riddim Methodist, Larisa Mann (a/k/a, DJ Ripley), I’ll be “giving” a paper called “What Is Stolen? What Is Lost? Sharing Information in an Age of Litigation” at this year’s annual meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, which is happening in Honolulu from Nov 15-19. See the program for full details on the conference, […]

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Hocus Opus
November 15, 2006
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Meet Hocus Opus, my Second Life avatar. It’s not that I don’t already have too much to do in my first/real life, but I confess that I’m rather excited about the possibilities for virtual, multimedia interactions — especially in the realm of ethno/music/ology — and SL seems to have the energy, resources, and critical mass […]

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