NeL: The Next Great MMORPG?. 20 Oct 2003: O'Reilly tells us aboutNeL.”Like EverQuest and Star Wars Galaxies, Ryzom will be a massive multi-player online role-playing game (MMORPG) with immersive 3D graphics. The developers have released Ryzom's engine code under the GNU General Public License. … NeL (for Nevrax Library) is a toolkit for the creating […]

Project Gutenberg Publishes 10,000th Free eBook [Slashdot] I interviewed the guy who set this up for a long feature story for New Scientist back in 2001 (I filed the story on September 10… thereby ensuring that the story got bumped as a cover story, which it was supposed to have been. Sigh!). What a great […]

AoIR 4.4.1. ON QUALITATIVE RESEARCH What follows is an extensive set of notes on this morning's discussion, entitled “Broadening Options and Raising Standards for Qualitative Internet Research: A Dialogue Among Scholars.” The panel was convened by Annette Markham (UIC), and included Nancy Baym (Kansas), Susan Herring (IU Bloomington), Shani Orgad (London School… [Planned Obsolescence] ——- […]

for those who have not yet heard, the next Association of Internet Researchers conference, Internet Research 5.0 will be held at the university of sussex in the u.k. it should be excellent. i have no further information though at this time.

VeriSign CEO calls for commercial control of the Internet. As if the SiteFinder controversy was not hot enough, VeriSign's CEO Stratton Sclavos is now calling for commercial control of the Internet's root DNS servers and for ICANN to be reorganized as a trade association. Excerpts from an interview with… [InternetPolicy.net] dumb, very dumb, possibly even […]

went out in toronto to the cn tower 360 restaurant for dinner, wow. i'm not really afraid of heights, as much as extremely judgemental toward experiences where the obvious connections to the ground are removed for the sake of a thrill. There were 11 of us from aoir and we went up the elevator which […]

Gala Dinner. I actually went to my first conference Gala dinner… and enjoyed it. I know it was the general crowd, and… [Just differently intelligent.] —— This is what makes it a great conference other than the papers and scholarly discussions.

pleix. “pleix is a virtual community of digital artists based in paris. some of us are 3d artists, some others are musicians or graphic designers. this website is the perfect place to share our latest creations.” [note: quicktime] [MetaFilter]

This morning before the 802.11 panel, we had a journal editors roundtable arranged by the incomprable Ulla Bunz. The Editors were asked questions about publication an tenure, about new publication opportunities, online publication and issues surrounding online archives and getting your paper published. I think panels like this are extremely important to have at conferences […]

Adrian did a nice paper on the the 802.11 standard is kludge, but Christian is actually making an argument about the 'over the back yard' internet. two years ago i sketched the system necessary to use wireless, microwave, or laser enabled long distance internet connections to overcome local problems such as censorship, etc. It was […]