Monthly Archives: July 2007

Secondary Second Life Value

Wagner James Au has an interesting post about how Second Life marketing may need to take into account the secondary marketing effects of repurposed media from SL. He gives the example of Chris Anderson’s SL YouTube video getting lots of … Continue reading

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An audience of one

I’m watching "Mad Men" on AMC (their first original series), and really enjoying it. The cinematography is great, the costumes and settings are lush and complex, and — most importantly — the writing is fantastic. For me, "fantastic" means tight, … Continue reading

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Game review: Overlord (XBox 360) — One fault doom

I’m not really going to do many reviews here. It just happened that I had a couple things to say that fall into a "review" mode. I got "Overlord" for the 360 after having read a couple decent reviews online. … Continue reading

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New poem: Edge Of

Edge Of     Near dusk, the separate sea and skydie. Blue-green-grey and violet-blackstand back-to-back and her bloodswirls in his hair, mergedin heavy, deep, same sleep.   So drab, this two-in-one. So flat.   No moon, no sun ring chords from … Continue reading

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Review: “Global Brain,” by Howard Bloom

Long time no post. See: on beach in SC for a week. Much eating, swimming, reading, sleeping. Not much else. While there, I read four books, one of which being "Global Brain" by Howard Bloom (Amazon, WorldCat). I read Bloom’s … Continue reading

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Creative freedom

Since it’s the 4th of July, I thought I’d wax philosophic on the role of freedom in creativity. Question? What is freedom? My dictionary gives me two definitions: The power to act or speak or think without externally imposed restraints … Continue reading

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