Virtual Nightclubs, mainstream SciFi and digital legacies

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Last night saw the airing on Sky 1 here in the UK of the Battlestar Gallactica prequel Caprica. BSG was a fantastic series, and was seemingly accessible science fiction throwing in a hint of West Wing.
The first 2 episodes really set up the story as you would expect but I was not expecting the subject matter [...]

February 3rd, 2010 | Tags: , | Category: future, metaverse | Leave a comment

Performance bell curves don’t work!

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Towards the end of each year and start of the next many people in “serious businesses’” seem to have to suffer the torture that is the annual performance review. Not having to deal with this ridiculous set of processes this year has not kept me away from it. I still see the unfortunate side effects that [...]

February 1st, 2010 | Category: Uncategorized | 3 comments

The virtual revolution has started

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This weekend on prime time BBC2 TV saw the first part of the four part documentary “The Virtual Revolution”. It is hosted by Dr Aleks Krotoski know to many of the metarati out there for studies into Social Influence in places like Second Life, and also the living the rock and roll with Jim “Babbage Linden” [...]

February 1st, 2010 | Category: future, metaverse | 10 comments
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