February 29, 2008
Leap Blogging
An extra day hanging off the calendar precarious as the fingernail clipping that won’t quite separate.
There.
It’s gone.
February 24, 2008
My Back Pages
Just spent a couple of hours reading through this blog. From the beginning.
Dang, but there’s some good stuff in here. And some good times.
February 17, 2008
Metaverse U
At Metaverse U at Stanford, where the entire conference is also being streamed live into Second Life.
Raph Koster, Howard Rheingold, and Cory Ondrejka, while the virtual audience watches in the background (and the f2f audiences watches the virtual audience watching the . . . )
February 13, 2008
CFP: Second Lives: Reading and Writing Virtual Worlds
Session sponsored by the MLA’s Media and Literature Discussion Group for the 2008 convention in San Francisco:
Second Life and other persistent virtual worlds, with preference to topics other than pedagogy. 1-page abstract and short vita by March 15 to Matthew Kirschenbaum.
Guest Appearance on Digital Campus
With Sunil Iyengar from the National Endowment for the Arts, I make a guest appearance on George Mason’s always excellent Digital Campus podcast to discuss the future (and history) of reading. Our segment starts at about 17:20.
February 03, 2008
Second Me
The look of my current SL avatar, Matth3w Merryman.