KerryJ’s Neotenous Tech

Bret talked about how a teacher used SL with Middle School students regarding what beauty is. Day 1, they created avatars that looked as much like themselves as possible. Day two, they were told to make their avatars as beautiful as possible - the guys all had big pecs, the girls hourglass figures [...]

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The morning started with Cameron Reilly of The Podcamp Network disputing a claim that podcasting is dead. He surprised me with the level of passion he had for podcasting in general - he sees it as having the potential to change the world! He made the excellent point that it is still in [...]

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In order to outline my final paper of the semester, I had a cunning plan: vacuum the living room rug, then layout pieces of paper for each of the four main areas of a Balanced Scorecard.  Next, layout sub pages of paper, then the related reports.  (Not hard to tell whose a visual learner, eh?)
When [...]

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Like a shard of glass stuck through my eye
Large hailstones falling from the sky
Or a great big weeping, festering blister
I really hate this Windows Vista.
So many programs I can’t run
So many helpful hints undone
Running programs as Administrator
Makes me such a Vista hater.
Sometimes it boots, sometimes it can’t
No matter how I scream and rant
What was I [...]

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It was with great amusement that I watched a CNN interview with Andrew Keen, author of “The Cult of the Amateur”.
The author puts forth the argument that Web 2.0 activities - and he apparently feels music piracy belongs on that list - is putting professionals out of jobs and confusing young people.
Entertainment, news, encyclopedias - [...]

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