Robert Scoble Session At Gnomedex Part 1

Here is the first of two videos of Robert Scoble's session at Gnomedex. You will notice that Second Life is on the screen in the background. The Audio gets better on the Higher Resolution Podcast. The Pannel is Eric Rice, Dave Winer, Matt Mullenweg, Kaliya Hamlin "Identity Woman" and Michael Arrington.

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“Let’s set so double the killer delete select all.”

Ok so I know that demos can be a very sketchy time. As someone who has had to do a few in my day I sympathize with anyone who has to get up and throw out a demo on still in the works software. Its called beta for a reason and even the most solid code can catch a flaky computer or echo chamber environment. However this is just funny when your speech recognition software starts talking about killing and deleting all in the same sentence its time to pull the plug. I kept waiting for it to ask “are you Sara Connor? “

When good demos go (very, very) bad - Reuters Newsblogs

technorati tags:demo, vista, terminator, unplug

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Digital Universe Write up in Mercury News

Here is a good article on Digital Universe from the San Jose Mercury News. It is very focused on the Encyclopedia of Earth (EoE ) project and touches a bit on the Wikipedia angle. This is part of the overall experience we are trying to architect with the Digital Universe.

“The ultimate vision is of a central clearinghouse of everything we know
about the nature and humanity, available online, with massive amounts
of vetted resources available free. In short, the Digital Universe aims
to be the definitive repository of human knowledge online. It will be a
virtual reality encyclopedia, up-to-the minute newspaper, digital
library, platform for discussion, and global community, held as a
public trust in perpetuity.”

MercuryNews.com | 07/24/2006 | Directing the Digital Universe

technorati tags:dufoundation, manyone, news, EoE, digitaluniverse

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On the Road to Gnomedex - Get Flocked

Alex Williams and I hit record on my little Olympus digital recorder and start talking about browsers. You will have to forgive the road noise and may be a little shocked that I produced this road cast up. On the Road to Gnomedex at about 80 MPH I tell Alex he needs to get Flocked.

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Welcome New Comers

I have set up the redirect finally to get all the traffic from my old domain coming here to the home of my blog. If you were expecting to find websage.org you are in the right place. I am bringing people here as apposed to that site so I can consolidate everything and make my life easier. I still have another blog about Second Life over at http://www.thoughtplasma.com

Also NOTE the feed for this site has changed. FeedBurner has too many cool features now not to take advantage of it. PLUG this into your reader — http://feeds.feedburner.com/multimediame/rss

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Drinking the Microsoft Kool Aid

So I don’t know if I am a little touched and need some meds or if I am being smart and planing for the future. I have just installed office 2007 on this laptop, and to this point really am liking it. As well I have installed Windows Vista as an upgrade on my desktop, a disaster, I am formating disk right now and doing fresh Vista install to see if that makes a difference. I had quite a bit of issues with Outlook to start with but removed most of the extra add-ins and it seems to be working much better. I had cast off Outlook for Thunderbird, but I am really liking Outlook 2007 — did I write that. Nice interface and much faster than my Outlook 2003, the reason I dropped it. I will keep poking at it and let you know a verdict when I have had a chance to run it for a bit. As for Vista I will cut Microsoft a break and see how a fresh install does before I throw stones and install OSX. I love that Apple runs on an Intel chip now. I might actually install OSX in a few weeks anyway since I am playing around with my Desktop. We will see. Is Vista going to be compelling long enough to make me keep it on my desktop or will I dump it like bad Sushi and roll with some Apple flava.

technorati tags:vista, office2007, osx, apple

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John Edwards Key Note at Gnomedex

Chris pleaded for a civil discourse with this crowd and then introduced Sen. John Edwards. Marc Canter jumps up and claims he is a 3rd generation red diaper baby and called for the politicians to grow a pair! John said yes they need more backbone and resolve in the democratic party on more issues that just Net Neutrality also universal health care.

Question came up about galvanizing the local base, John referenced One Corps.

Alex Williams asked an interesting question about how the Republicans are framing things by leveraging verbiage like The Patriot Act or Death Tax and how they are crushing democrats with the use of language. He wanted to know what the Democrats were doing to stop this.

“Battle going on for the soul of the democratic party” - John Edwards was talking about big ideas and having the backbone to stand up for them. That is what is needed in the Democratic party to combat linguistic shenanigans of the Republicans.

What is the next technology that is going to be used to influence the election. If blogging was the catalyst technology for last election whats next?

Here are some things to think about Senator Edwards camp.

• Geospacial information and SMS — Technology like Virtual Post It’s
• Extensions of video into all aspects of life that is an inevitability the all ways on constantly recorded existence that will be our future, because of things like Dr Steven Mann and his quest to put a video camera in a contact lens.
• The Metaverse and Virtual Campaigning
• Wisdom of Crowds and how the masses can influence the political discourse

technorati tags:politics, gnomdex6, gnomdex2006, johnedwards

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Media Machines Releases Source Code for Enabling Web-Based 3D Virtual Worlds

This is good news. I was on a call with Digital Universe Foundation  and Tony from Media Machines today and feel very good about the direction that Flux and X3D are headed in. In the older Mozilla based browser we did our solar system work in x3D and used flux as the engine. I look forward to figuring out how to best leverage all possibilities and making them work together. The stewarding community has talked about data visualizations from the start and the 3D component was one of the big draws that brought me to Many One. I am doing quite a bit in this space see thoughtplasma.com for more on my life in the metaverse.
PRESS RELEASE Media Machines Releases Source Code for Enabling Web-Based 3D Virtual Worlds
FLUX allows developers and content creators to publish their interactive 3D
animations, models and virtual worlds to a standard web browser. Today’s
FLUX release includes FLUX Player, a lightweight browser plug-in with a
one-click installer for end consumers. 3D developers can create content in
a variety of popular 3D modeling applications including Autodesk 3ds
Max™ and Google Sketchup™. Additionally, FLUX supports Javascript for
creating rich immersive experiences.

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My Promise to my Wife

Ok so I dropped off the face of the earth a flurry of posts from Gnomedex, Chris promises that next year he can beat the bad Wifi, then nothing. Well bad connections and to much fun kept me from finishing my posts from Gnomedex, coming soon, we went on vacation right after Gnomedex and I promised to stay away from computers and so no blogging. I checked mail 3 times from the road and that was it for six days. I have the shakes its like an addict needing his fix, give me some web man just a little, I have to get a crack berry so I can say no computers on the next trip but still get on the web

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Seattle Podcasting Network Interview

Thursday night Travis from SPoNGE interviewed me about what I am doing these days we talked about SL and other stuff that I am deep into right now. Thursday night was a great start to Gnomedex and it just keeps on going. It was great to talk with Travis I hope we can get the sessions for the meetups to mesh and do a west coast podcaster meetup. Vancouver, Seattle, Portland and the Valley.

SPoNGE featuring John Hartman at The Seattle Podcasting Network

technorati tags:meetup, podcasting, secondlife

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