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Google Virtual World
Do I want another virtual world? News this week:Google launches Lively, its own virtual world -- http://www.lively.com/html/landing.html. Screenshots look like a surrealist painting.Second Life/Linden Labs and IBM announce the exportability of avatars, so I can be...
Hype and Money
I told Will Richmond at Digital Hollywood that I was really enjoying his e-newsletter. He looked quite startled and told me to pass the word along.So here I am. I appreciated his post on June 5's VideoNuze about the abundance of money that is plummeting into video...
Blessed Today
I feel very blessed right now. I am so lucky to have the life that I have. I spent some time at the gym talking with two people. One has just retired at age 58 after having first been a photographer and then a city councilman -- and now is waiting for the world to...
Getting Ready for New Class
I'm reading all sorts of digital media materials that I've been saving for this new UCLA Anderson class: Digital Content, Commerce, & Culture. I have about 50 MBA students who will be joining me and selected media execs on Thursday nights over at UCLA... Boy, what...
The New Normal — Roaming the House and Coffee Houses vs. Family Time
Happy New Year to all! I'm getting ready to watch the Rose Parade in high def, waiting for my kids to wake up. I'm debating whether I want to watch it with laptop in lap, catching up with some programming ideas I had yesterday.That spurs thoughts about a Los Angeles...
Failure is how we learn
I was stopped in my tracks by the "This I Believe" on NPR recently. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6196795 Jon Carroll, San Francisco Chronicle: "Success is boring. Success is proving that you can do something that you already know you can do…...
Maremel Media Musings — The Beginning of Things
I've been hosting my Maremel Media Musings blog over at Typepad (www.maremel.typepad.com) and will move copies of it over here as well in the next week or so. Let me know what you think!