Archive for September, 2006
Second Life to shut down forums
What’s the deal with forums being shut down lately. First Apple and now Second Life.
When Second Life first opened we at Linden believed that it was important to support a web-based, asynchronous community, and so the SL forums were born. Those first few discussion boards started in the summer of 2002 have grown to literally [...]
links for 2006-09-12
What Ties Do Bind?
Misha talks community… in a “relational sense”.
(tags: community)
Too slow to live…
Shortly before the rise of MySpace was the downturn of Friendster. It was one of the first “big” social networks, and had all the people signing up. What finally killed it (or at least severly hobbled it) was the fact that the servers got overwhelmed and pages were taking up to 2 or 3 minutes [...]
links for 2006-09-11
How to Write Screenplays. Badly.
(tags: blog humor screenwriting)
BlogFusion 5 arrives!
That’s right, I’ve just upgraded this blog to BlogFusion v5. In fact, I’m using the cool Performancing blog editor, a new capability of v5. And even better, Jeremy has been helping me to design (nay, designing for me) a new look for this blog. Much more professional and much more tasty that my current hack [...]
The power of YouTube
Wow - this hilarious video was uploaded two days ago and already has 170,000 views, and 752 comments. Wow.
Interview with my Mom
After years of encouraging my Mom to start blogging, she’s finally jumped on the band wagon. Stop by her blog to check out her terrific writing. She seems to have skipped over that discovery process so many bloggers go through when they get started where their first entries are mostly reflection of what their blog [...]
McDonald’s Blog: Great job!
From one of the biggest companies in the world (or at least one group within said company) comes a brilliant example of a corporate blog: McDonald’s Corporate Social Responsibility Blog. Here’s a snippet from the latest entry:
Joel Makower has a great piece on his blog for Green Biz. It’s about how Baxter–the global healthcare company–is [...]
File this under: Shameful
Gee, I wonder why the RadioShack business is in a shambles… Oh, maybe it’s attitude like this:
FORT WORTH, Texas — RadioShack Corp. notified about 400 workers by e-mail that they were being dismissed immediately as part of planned job cuts.
If you can’t be bothered to talk to the people who work for you [...]
Office 2.0 Debate: Jumping in feet first…
Sometimes I just don’t know enough to stay quiet. This weekend there was a bit of a blow up regarding the fact that of the 53 speakers at the upcoming Office 2.0 conference, only one was a woman. Shelley is very upset:
The conference organizer wrote in Tara’s comments that we should suggest some [...]
