This may be the Final Post

This blog site provided to me free by Blogger has been acting haywire for the past few days.

When I add new lines to an existing blog entry, and save them, they show up on the blog. But when I try to edit the post, the new lines are missing from the text displayed for editing, and disappear from the blog.

I have no idea why this suddenly started happening, but I think the best will be to continue saving this information elsewhere. Or is that Blogger's objective?

As a matter of convenience, I have set up a personal weblog on one of my MediaWiki websites:
http://sluserguide.com/index.php?title=Category:Danton%27s_Weblog

So long for now, Blogger.

Weblog of Thursday 18 September 2008

Prok tweets Jason Larod debunking Open Source:
http://discovermagazine.com/2007/dec/long-live-closed-source-software/

Prok tweets Raph declaring avatar rights of Metaplace users:
http://www.raphkoster.com/2008/09/15/declaring-the-rights-of-metaplace-users/

Poinky tweets Present.ly "to keep up with your co-workers":
http://presentlyapp.com/

And I seem to have missed Yammer, a "Twitter for the enterprise":
http://www.yammer.com/

Pavig tweets a music system for MMO games:
http://www.worldsinmotion.biz/2008/09/agdc_a_generative_adaptive_mus.php

Weblog of Tuesday 16 September 2008

Jooce, a new "home" for cybercafe surfers:
http://www.jooce.com/

UgoTrade tweets Rob Smart (Eightbar) contributing to OpenSim a scripting function using JSON (javascript object notation, a format used by Web 2.0 service APIs) :
http://eightbar.co.uk/2008/09/14/web-20-to-opensim-made-easy-json-support-added/

Grace blogs Virtual Business Licences:
http://phasinggrace.blogspot.com/2008/09/virtual-world-business-licenses-we-need.html

Pavig tweets DropBox:
http://www.getdropbox.com/

Commoncraft "in plain english" videos:
http://www.commoncraft.com/show

Flow in games:
http://intihuatani.usc.edu/cloud/flowing/

Weblog of Sunday 14 September 2008

Should Linden Lab buy Plurk?:
http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2008/09/should-the-lind.html

Rik tweets Draxtor's video about SLCC:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwFSviMDNFk

Gwyn tweets Babbage Linden mention on Mono website:
http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2008/Aug-20.html

Dnate tweets "what is PiM?" Is it Personal Information Management?:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_information_manager

Sin tweets Eladrienne's post about a SteamPunk style test:
http://caledonstroll.blogspot.com/2008/09/yes-i-took-it-too.html

Pavig tweets the Primer timeline:
http://neuwanstein.fw.hu/primer_timeline.html

Poinky passes Grace an uplink speed tester:
http://www.speed.io/index_en.html

Pavig tweets "Video killed the radio star":
http://www.80smusicvids.com/video.php?vid=The_Buggles_-_Video_Killed_The_Radio_Star

Weblog of Friday 12 September 2008

Prok tweets rap video about Hadron:
http://blog.brandexperiencelab.org/experience_manifesto/2008/09/large-hadron-ra.html

Prok tweets one person's chart of all their interconnected web stuff:
http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~x28/en/172/cckenv.jpg

Mitch blogs about CrowdSpring, another "crowdsourcing" service (like Kluster, Cambrian House, FellowForce) but which differs in that artists are required to submit completed works, not just concepts:
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/09/demo_crowdsprin.html

Pavig tweets Verbeck on Virtual Worlds (none of this new, and most offerings are too geeky for the masses):
http://blogs.electricsheepcompany.com/sibley/?p=8

Poinky tweets a book called "Quests: Design, Theory, and History in Games and Narratives":
http://www.amazon.com/Quests-Design-Theory-History-Narratives/dp/1568813473

Pavig tweets an automated music magazine (whatever that's good for):
http://www.idiomag.com/

Josh Knauer is behind the RhizaLabs website:
http://rhizalabs.com/

Tateru posts horrifying tale of Linden DMCA notice screwup:
http://www.massively.com/2008/09/11/dmca-notices-in-second-life-a-practical-example/

Orban tweet: "Starting to differentiate with what I bookmark with: del.icio.us for reference, instapaper for reading, and friendfeed for news-like stuff"

Pavig tweets Spring, a free RTS engine:
http://spring.clan-sy.com/

RTS means Real Time Strategy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_strategy

Insightful little post on Lordfly's blog:
http://www.lordfly.com/wordpress/?p=294

Prok tweets an Open Source Roadmap by "the enemy":
http://flickr.com/photos/psd/1805709102/

Amyvdh replies with Tim B-L's similar map of web history/future:
http://www.w3.org/2007/09/map/main.jpg

Orban says spatialmap is abandonware:
http://www.spatialmap.org/

Orban tweets OpenDNS:
http://www.opendns.com/

Squid tweets HD video of two maniacs skateboarding down Claremont canyon:
http://vimeo.com/1654340

Orban post about Tagging Reality, for "scalable semantic understanding of the world" (ho hum what else is new?):
http://www.openspime.com/2008/09/12/tagging-reality-scalable-semantic-understanding-of-the-world/

Weblog of Wednesday 10 September 2008

Pavig tweets spider in flash:
http://www.onemotion.com/flash/spider/

Tribe.net diverts me to the French site:
http://france.tribe.net/welcome

Orban following Techcrunch50 and Demofall08:
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=techcruch50+OR+demofall08

Orban on Picnic:
http://www.picnicnetwork.org/person/25610/en

Sin tweets OpenOffice extension for GoogleDocs:
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/ooo2gd

Prokofy tweets a connectivism course outline (calling it "cacaphony of subjectivity"):
http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/wiki/Connectivism_Outline

Squid publicizing GoGrid cloud servers:
http://www.gogrid.com/

Most over-used elements in graphic design:
http://justcreativedesign.com/2008/09/09/top-7-most-overused-techniques-elements-used-in-graphic-design/


I'm tired of creating a new post each time, today's Thursday already:

Poinky tweets hangout.net "Get a room":
http://www.hangout.net/

Prok tweets commentary on Carr's "Is Google Making Us Stoopid?":
http://www.edge.org/discourse/carr_google.html#brin

Prok tweets a Connectivist reply to Carr:
http://theconnective.org/2008/09/08/fearing-digital-literacy/

Josh tweets Swype:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/09/tc50-swype-truly-gesture-based-data-entry/

Weblog of Monday 08 September 2008

Rezzable on SLim (with comment by Pavig):
http://rezzable.com/blog/rightasrain-rimbaud/web-inworld-chat-here-comes-slim#comment-1081

OpenSim wins VW innovation award:
http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/09/virtual-worlds.html

Pavig tweets StopMotionAnimation:
http://www.stopmotionanimation.com/handbook/

Poinky retweets Search Second Life:
http://search.secondlife.com/search.php

Smaller, less corporate SLCC:
http://secondlife.reuters.com/stories/2008/09/07/users-gather-for-a-smaller-less-corporate-slcc/

Rik blogs Buyers-Sellers on Why Johnny Can't Rez:
http://www.rikomatic.com/blog/2008/09/beyers-sellers.html

Orban tweets VW08 Augmented Reality video:
http://bit.ly/40lhrq

Rik blogs Rafi on how to improve SL for educators:
http://www.rikomatic.com/blog/2008/09/rafis-feedback.html

Weblog of Saturday 05 September 2008

Squid tweets a screen addiction intervention from Meetup:
http://unplugyourfriends.com/

Erik Krangel on IBM's Sametime and Second Life:
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/9/ibm-drinks-second-life-kool-aid-makes-more-for-lotus-users-ibm-

Grace tweets the same story in Reuter's version:
http://secondlife.reuters.com/stories/2008/09/03/ibm-adds-virtual-worlds-support-to-lotus-sametime/

Loom, helpdesk rebooted:
http://loomapp.com/

Google results for LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol):
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ldap&aq=f&oq=

SL launches Educators Pilot Program:
http://secondlifegrid.net/programs/education

Weblog of Thursday 04 September 2008

Orban tweets Wikipedia article about Memetics:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memetics

Pavig tweets Google launching its own browser, called Chrome:
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/tips/2008/09/02/can_google_build_a_better_browser-2.html

Second Life releases SLim, an instant messaging client for SL (including voice messages):
http://blog.secondlife.com/2008/09/03/connecting-second-life-to-real-life/

Grace tweets that There.com also released a lite messaging client:
http://mashable.com/2008/09/02/there-virtual-worlds/

Squid tweets the birth of the internet:
http://www.cracked.com/video_16610_insane-true-story-behind-birth-internet.html

Logon to SLim:
http://secondlife.com/SLim

Tateru on SLim:
http://www.massively.com/2008/09/03/hands-on-the-second-life-slim-client-is-here/

Pavig tweets Wikiversity Film-Making:
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Topic:Narrative_Film_Production

Virtual Greats, a platform to bring copyrighted material to virtual worlds:
http://www.virtualgreats.com/
In fact, they have exclusive distribution rights for virtual goods associated with Justin Timberlake, Raven Symoné, Snoop Dogg, Tila Tequila, Paris Hilton, Marvel's Incredible Hulk, and the Estate of Elvis Presley!

Blender video tutorials (Pavig again):
http://www.totallyblended.com/Tutorials.html

Orban live blogging from Virtual Worlds Expo:
Live blogging from the Virtual Worlds Expo - Day 2

Google tweeks Chrome license (tweeted by Kronos):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7597699.stm

Ugo Trade tweets from VW Expo: Colin Parris IBM now talking about integration of Lotus Sametime with OpenSim (as a plugin VW to Sametime)

Weblog of Monday 01 August 2008

Transgender avatars, virtual death and related concepts:
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2008/08/marc-owens-who-designed-the.php

Pavig tweets free Python books (for use with blender):
http://www.blendernation.com/2008/08/29/two-free-python-e-books/

Orban tweets Owyang on how to get noticed:
http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2008/08/31/how-to-get-noticed/

BigPond launches customer service in-world:
http://www.massively.com/2008/09/01/bigpond-launches-customer-service-center-in-second-life/

SL Shakespeare on video:
http://www.thinkerer.org/VirVilCultural/VirtVillCulMSND.htm

Weblog of Saturday 30 August 2008

Pavig tweets Virtual Vancouver, hard-core adult virtual world, with links to redlightcenter:
http://www.virtual-vancouver.com/

NWN on Avatar Rendering Cost (ARC):
http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2008/08/whats-the-socia.html

Pavig tweets largest survey of SL ever, by Social Research Foundation, which "runs the First Opinions Panel, the largest consumer research panel in Second Life with 10,000 members" (if they think I'm going to help them make money like this, they're wrong):
http://www.slnn.com/article/survey-planned/

Maracas tweets free door script:
http://www.slexchange.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&file=item&ItemID=871999

Pavig tweets Ubuntu for the eee netbook - but the site is down:
http://www.eeebuntu.org/

Pavig tweets free hi-rez grunge textures:
http://www.designshard.com/freebies/300-free-hi-res-grunge-textures-youve-never-seen-before/

Weblog of Friday 29 August 2008

Intel's Connected Visual Computing (CVC):
http://download.intel.com/pressroom/kits/events/idffall_2008/JimHeld_day0.pdf

Squid tweets backtype, to find your friends' comments (techcrunch calls it "twitter for comments"):
http://www.backtype.com/

Pavig tweets Torley blogging about media and mentioning Popurls:
http://popurls.com/

In a comment to Torley's post, Gwyneth links incidentally to Regina Lynn, talking here about Facebook sex bunnies:
http://www.reginalynn.com/archives/544

On Popurls under the Delicious listings I find Quarkbase, which tells you "everything about a website":
http://www.quarkbase.com/

Rik launches on-line game to raise youth awareness of Katarina sequels:
http://www.rikomatic.com/blog/2008/08/global-kids-lau.html

Crap tweets Bloomberg's accidental post of Steve Jobs obituary:
http://gawker.com/5042795/steve-jobss-obituary-as-run-by-bloomberg

Torley links to Dustin Wax writing about mental filters:
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/management/what-are-your-filters.html

Torley's island:
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Here

Shapeways, a place where you can create and print your own 3D designs:
http://www.shapeways.com/

Tenebrous plurks a great game:
http://www.gamingdelight.com/games/totemdestroyer.php