Virtual World "Activism" inspires pro-Kremlin Political Action

something strange, innovative and remarkably funny happened the other day at a news conference by the former chess world champion Kasparov. While he was talking to the press about the Russian opposition movement, he was disturbed by a remote controlled mini-helicopter modified to look like a penis. Now this is strange "panorama" news which i wouldn't mention on my blog. What makes this intervention truly unique is that the young pro-kremlin activists took that idea from an earlier incident in SecondLife where a group of anti-capitalist hackers disturbed a press conference by in-world real-estate tycoon Anshe Chung.


To my knowledge this is the first time that political activism from a virtual world was copied in a real world scenario.

Great Modern Art

Mr. Stylewalker has spotted some really innovative, beautiful, awesome, argentinian modern art:


MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

THANKS!

eLearning Social Media Competence

Some weeks ago i learned about Howard Rheingold's project to develop an online environment and curriculum to have students learn and practice Being (social) online and developing a Voice in the global cyber-discourse. Howard has summoned a team consisting of Samuel Rose, Brian Christiansen and myself to develop the online classroom and the course design for the Collaboratory.
Brian has created a great little video introducing the project's aim and components:

http://blip.tv/file/920630/

Holy Moly: iFlew

continuing the practice to post "private storries" if i feel that they might be interesting and relevant, i would like to share my excitement about www.iflysfbay.com.

I went indoor skydiving yesterday with my nephew and my niece; And IT ROCKED. I really really liked it, so go check it out if you have one of the 14 Ifly centers near you.

That's me:



And tha's a video (not me:)

Supercool School Introducation & How to (May 2008)

i finally managed to produce a screencast introducing the facebook application and live online classroom of www.supercoolschool.com