Comments for Fleep's Deep Thoughts

Comment on Web 3.0 Semantic Web (video) by Michele Hyacinth

Michele Hyacinth — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 23:18:18 +0000

Oh my god…this is so perfect. This is precisely the conversation I’ve been swallowed up in at work…although not so clearly articulated, certainly on my end. It’s “Future Shock” to the nth degree. Thanks so much for sharing this.

Comment on Second Life Viewer 2.0 Beta – Quick Primer Pt 2 (Tips n Tricks) by Yungboiboi

Yungboiboi — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:16:50 +0000

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Comment on Droid Apps I’m Using by Angelina Ramirez

Angelina Ramirez — Fri, 28 May 2010 00:39:01 +0000

Mobile computing is on the rise these days. Maybe we will get a dual core powered cellphones in the future..,.

Comment on Recipe: Fleep’s Fake Benihana Fried Rice by Adrian Morgan

Adrian Morgan — Tue, 11 May 2010 17:49:39 +0000

Beef steak has always been my all time favorite dish and i am always looking for some new recipes that has steak as the main ingredient.~.*

Comment on McLuhan Talks About New Media Creating Tribes 50 Years Before Seth Godin by EllieBrewster

EllieBrewster — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 15:41:50 +0000

Wow — while literary man and tribal man were off solving the problems of the world, what do you suppose women were doing?

Comment on When Game Devs Engineer the Real World – You Brushed Your Teeth, +5 points! by melponeme_k

melponeme_k — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 10:52:51 +0000

Education was not broken. What it suffered from was overcrowding and falling funds. Because they rely on a functioning economy. The fall of our schools can probably be pinpointed to the around the time Nixon pulled the US off the gold standard. And then accelerated when Reagan began tax relief to the upper echelons of society. This is trickle down economics in action.

The game devs don’t care about helping our children. They see them as a monetary widgets to enrich themselves. They are offering to “game” a system that needs funding. And most of that funding will be flowing their way as they offer bogus “education as game” solutions.

This is all the same old, same old junk as the dot coms and every other tech bubble. The devs will exploit holes until we revolt. And only then will they reconsider their ethical stances.

They will never build ethical structures until we hold their feet to the fire.

Comment on When Game Devs Engineer the Real World – You Brushed Your Teeth, +5 points! by Dusan Writer’s Metaverse » Virtual Worlds, Hackers, Innovation and Enhancing the Human Condition

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 03:13:26 +0000

[...] of it. Or will become one. And we’ll be brushing our teeth and leveling up in….well, in the game of life, of course, or at least according to Jesse Schell who appeared on Metanomics this [...]

Comment on McLuhan Talks About New Media Creating Tribes 50 Years Before Seth Godin by Michele Hyacinth

Michele Hyacinth — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:12:01 +0000

Thanks for sharing this, Fleep. It’s very interesting to say the least. Funny how we’ve moved from sharing stories on cave walls, to books, to now digital walls. There’s something full-circle about this in a way, with the added element of surprise that technology and technological changes bring. In a way, I think the idea of “Individual man” “going away” oversimplifies what’s happening. Instead I sense a real tension (positive in many ways, creative in many ways, and uncertain in other ways) between the Individual nurturing their uniqueness while existing in a Tribal culture. Is this really any different than the tribe of Suits…of professionals trying to find a way to stand out in a culture of structured behavior and norms, many of which are changing radically as the world changes, for example? (Or for that matter the many different tribes we create by the labels we assign things and the set of expectations we place in terms of meaning and behavior on those labels.) Yet, the point is very well taken that technology has added a new and fierce layer of velocity to all of this, impacting notions in all spaces…digital and otherwise. I like his phrase “with it”…it reminds me of the same concept we say now about “leaning in” (being engaged and immersed) versus “leaning out” or “leaning away” (being disconnected). A great video to review and reflect upon. Thanks so much again for sharing this.

Comment on When Game Devs Engineer the Real World – You Brushed Your Teeth, +5 points! by Daniel Livingstone

Daniel Livingstone — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 21:24:27 +0000

Great post – and some excellent videos.
Have to say that I don’t share Jesse’s casual acceptance of the vision of the future he presents. Social engineering + marketing in a cruel mix. I only hope that if it comes to pass that there’ll be some serious culture jamming and meta-gaming going on.

Comment on Governance in Virtual Worlds by John Jainschigg

John Jainschigg — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 17:46:19 +0000

What a wonderful post. I was video-cameraperson for this conference, so had a bird’s eye view, but it’s amazing how much brand-new value I gained from reading your digest and latter thoughts. I guess this shows that immersive events are as (maybe more) complex and nuanced than real-world stuff — where you can think you’ve captured every channel, but realize later that you’ve just been massaging the ears of the elephant.

Kudos on your presentations as well. Your contributions (not to mention the completely static-free quality of your SL voice – grin) were hugely appreciated.