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AANSTEKELIJKE JAZZ VAN MADELINE BELL & FRIENDS HOOGTEPUNT OP SPONSORAVOND LAREN JAZZ
4 sept.- Heerlijke jazzsongs kwamen gisterenavond tijdens de uitverkochte sponsoravond van Laren Jazz in de theaterzaal tot leven door de internationaal vermaarde Amerikaanse vocaliste Madeline Bell begeleid door haar Nederlandse vrienden o.l.v. vibrafonist Frits Landesbergen. Ruim 50 bedrijven hadden zich aangemeld voor het sponsordiner en de jazz-optredens in de verschillende ruimtes van Singer Laren. De opbrengst van deze avond - met als grote initiator Jaap Blokker- ging dit jaar naar jazzmasterclasses voor de bewoners van Visio Elisabeth Kalishuis (mensen met een visuele en andere beperking ) in Huizen, jazzmuziekinstrumenten voor het revalidatiecentrum de Trappenberg en de dagopvang van Sherpa. Daarnaast was er na afloop van het diner in het tuinpaviljoen nog een geweldig optreden van de bigband Bernard Berkhout Swing. Madeline Bell die vanavond tijdens Laren Jazz optreedt met Louis van Dijk is bekend van haar prominente rol in de band ‘Blue Mink’ die in 1969 met ‘Melting Pot’ 15 weken hoog op de Britse hitparade stond. Ook in Nederland was het een grote hit. In totaal stond Madeline Bell met Blue Mink 84 weken in de hitparade. Zij werkte met de allergrootsten de aarde: Tom Jones, Cliff Richard, Dusty Springfield, Long John Baldry, Elton John en Joe Cocker stonden met haar op het podium.
NEDERLAND MET RUIME CIJFERS LANGS AUSTRALIE OP WK HOCKEY
4 sept.- De Nederlandse hockeyvrouwen blijven winnen op het WK in Argentinie. In het ijskoude Rosario won Oranje met 4-1 van Australië, dat net als Nederland de eerste twee groepsduels had gewonnen. Maartje Paumen scoorde drie keer en Larens speelster Minke Smeets een keer. Oranje met vijf speelsters van Laren (waarin keeper Joyce Sombroek, Wieke Dijkstra, Minke Smeets, Naomi van As en Kim Lammers) is door dit resultaat hard op weg naar een plaats in de halve finale. Australië – Nederland 1-4 (1-2) 9. Paumen (sc) 0-1, 21. Arrold (sc) 1-1, 34. Paumen (sc) 1-2, 40. Paumen (sc) 1-3, 46. Smeets-Smabers 1-4.Bron: www.hockey.nl
JAAP EN AALTJE'S PLAN VOOR 'PAVILOEN PAPAGENO' IN LAREN KOMT STEEDS DICHTERBIJ
4 sept.- Enkele maanden geleden kondigden dirigent Jaap van Zweden en zijn vrouw Aaltje hun plan aan voor een woon- en activiteitencentrum voor autistische jongeren in Laren in de villa voor de Stichtse Hof: Dennenoord. De plannen worden steeds concreter. Jaap hier op de foto met zijn vrouw Aaltje en zijn zusje Therese vertelde dat prominente Nederlanders in het bestuur van hun Stichting hebben plaatsgenomen. " De kans dat het allemaal doorgaat wordt steeds groter. De hoeveelheid geld die er voor nodig is, komt steeds dichterbij. Ook het enthousiasme van sponsors en donateurs voor onze stichting neemt toe. " De wereldberoemde dirigent die tijdens zijn optreden in Monaco er tevens een vakantie aan vastplakte, vertrekt morgen weer voor een achttal weken naar Amerika.
CARO EMERALD STEELT DE SHOW OP LAREN JAZZ
4 sept.- Caro Emerald trad vanavond op in een overvol tuinpaviljoen tijdens de achtste editie van Laren Jazz. De liefhebbers grepen de kans om Emerald nog een keer live te zien zingen in Nederland voordat zij door Europa zal gaan touren. Haar debuutalbum 'Deleted Scenes From the Cutting Room Floor' stond 28 weken lang op nummer 1 in de Nederlandse album top 100. Een absoluut record, waarmee ze Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' van de eerste plaats in de Nederlandse albumchart verdreef. Gezien haar optreden van vanavond is dat meer dan terecht.' Deleted Scenes From the Cutting Room Floor', waar onder meer de hits Back it up en A Night Like This op staan, kwam op 29 januari uit en heeft inmiddels drie keer de platina status bereikt. Daarmee zijn ruim 150.000 stuks van het album over de toonbank gegaan.
COLLECTEERT U MEE VOOR HET KWF?
3 sept.- De collecteweek van het Koningin Wilhelmina Fonds, het fonds tegen de kankersbestrijding, loopt van 6 tot en met 11 september. Meer dan 120.000 vrijwilligers gaan op pad in de strijd tegen kanker. De afdeling Laren is nog dringend op zoek naar collectanten. U kunt zich opgeven bij de coordinatrice mevrouw Esther Eggenkamp 035-533 4846. Onderzoek werkt, geef gul.
MCC START SEIZOEN 2010-2011
3 sept.-Het nieuwe seizoen van MCC is begonnen. Het wordt een druk seizoen voor de vereniging. Aan het eind van het jaar gaat de verbouwing van het verenigingsgebouw Schering & Inslag van start, waardoor er verhuisd moet worden naar een tijdelijke locatie. Voor zowel de A-band, de leerlingen van Jong MCC als de leden van het nieuwe orkest MCC Next zal een groot deel van het seizoen in het teken staan van de BEL-taptoe op 7 mei 2011. Met dit evenement zal de vereniging haar 80 jarig bestaan vieren. Aan het eind van het vorige seizoen hebben Bert Hilhorst en Jeroen Wolbers hun taken overgedragen aan een nieuw enthousiast jeugdteam. De jeugdleiding bestaat nu uit Jerica Dijkman, Miranda Vos, Linda de Vries, Mirjam Hamel en Joyce Distelblom. Zij hebben als doel de leerlingen dit seizoen kleine optredens te laten verzorgen bij de festiviteiten in Laren, zoals de Sinterklaasintocht. Ook zullen de kinderen hun steentje bijdragen aan de opening van de BEL-taptoe.
START GROOTSCHALIG ONDERHOUD A-1 TUSSEN BUSSUM EN EEMNES
3 sept.-Rijkswaterstaat voert van maandag 6 september tot mei 2011 onderhoudswerkzaamheden uit aan de A1 tussen Bussum en Eemnes. Tijdens de werkzaamheden moet het verkeer rekening houden met een maximumsnelheid van 90 km/uur.Weggebruikers moeten rekening houden met een langere reistijd. Tijdens de werkzaamheden is op het gehele traject A1 tussen Bussum en knooppunt Eemnes geen vluchtstrook beschikbaar.
ORANJEVROUWEN KOMEN VRIJDAG OM MIDDERNACHT IN ACTIE
3 sept.- De derde WK-wedstrijd van de Nederlandse vrouwen, waarin vijf speelsters van Laren: keeper Joyce Sombroek en Wieke Dijkstra, Minke Smeets ( zie foto rechts), Naomi van As ( zie foto midden), en Kim Lammers, begint twee uur later dan gepland. De ploeg van Herman Kruis treft Australië vrijdag om 00.00 uur Nederlandse tijd. De wijziging in het speelschema heeft alles te maken met het noodweer dat Rosario donderdag trof; door hevige regenval werden alle wedstrijden van de vijfde speeldag afgelast. De Aussies hebben net als Oranje de eerste twee groepsduels op het WK gewonnen. Maar kom bij bondscoach Herman Kruis niet aan met de stelling dat het wereldkampioenschap nu pas echt gaat beginnen. ‘Maandag is het toernooi voor ons begonnen met de wedstrijd tegen India’, aldus Kruis.
‘Het maakt niet uit wie de tegenstander is en hoe hoog die staat aangeschreven. Wij focussen ons steeds op de eerstvolgende wedstrijd en die willen we winnen. Dat hebben we nu twee keer gedaan en daardoor zitten we goed in het toernooi, dat klopt. Maar Australië is voor ons gewoon de volgende wedstrijd die we zo goed mogelijk willen spelen.’ De laatste keer dat Oranje tegen de Hockeyroos speelden is alweer meer dan een jaar geleden. In juli 2009 ging Nederland tijdens de Champions Trophy in Sydney met 2-1 ten onder. Kruis: ‘Ik hoop dat we daar lering uit getrokken hebben.’ 'Australië is een ploeg die heel compact en met veel mensen achter de bal speelt. Daardoor geven ze weinig kansen weg. Vorig jaar gingen wij te veel met de bal lopen waardoor we het hen makkelijk maakte om te verdedigen en snel te counteren, want daar zijn ze ook goed in.’‘Ik vind Australië tot nu toe op dit WK nog niet zo geweldig spelen, maar het is en blijft een team waar veel power in zit. Je weet bij hen dat ze altijd keihard werken. Wij zullen dus minimaal dezelfde energie moeten leveren en pas dan komt het op techniek aan.’ ‘Dan hebben we goede kansen, want technisch zijn wij de betere. Maar ja, als we ons laten overrompelen door dat powerhockey hebben we weinig aan onze techniek.’ Bron: www.hockey.nl
SWINGENDE VIERING IN DE BASILIEK
3 sept.- In de St. Jansbasiliek wordt op zondag 5 september om 11.30 uur een viering gehouden, georganiseerd door jongeren. Het wordt een viering zoals in de parochie St. Jan/Goede Herder nog niet eerder is geweest. Voor deze dag is bijvoorbeeld een Ghanees Gospelkoor uitgenodigd. Het belooft dus een hele 'swingende' viering te worden. Natuurlijk is deze Eucharistieviering voor iedereen, jong én oud.
EREPENNING LAREN VOOR JAAP BLOKKER
3 sept.- Vanmiddag reikte burgemeester Elbert Roest de Erepenning van de gemeente Laren uit aan de heer Jaap Blokker. De heer Blokker krijgt de gemeentelijke erepenning voor zijn hoogwaardige en onderscheidende inzet voor de Larense gemeenschap. Zo is hij onder andere voorzitter van de sponsorcommissie van de Stichting Laren Jazz Festival, voorzitter van het bestuur van de Stichting Sportclub Gehandicapten Gooi en Eemland en zet hij zich al vele jaren in voor gehandicapte musici. Alle ondersteuners voor toekenning van deze erepenning roemen de heer Blokker om zijn hartelijkheid en zijn onvoorwaardelijke en respectvolle inzet voor zijn medemens. Hij houdt er niet van om in het middelpunt te staan, maar geniet liever op de achtergrond van het plezier dat hij de medemens, al dan niet met een beperking, verschaft.
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How To Turn Ebay Bidders Into Long-term Customers.
By Kirsten Hawkins
Once someone’s bought something from you on eBay, you suddenly have all sorts of details on them. In marketing terms, this information is gold dust. If someone’s bought from you once before, then the chances are that at some point in the future they’ll want to buy a similar item, and you can take advantage of this to market to them directly.
The simplest form of direct marketing is the email newsletter – and it’s one that is still oddly underused on eBay. Simply ask people who buy from you if they’d like to be added to your mailing list, and then send them a monthly update on your new items. You should also include some information you think might be useful to them, to give the email more value.
For example, here’s a newsletter you might write if you were selling DVDs.
“Here are the dates for this month’s new DVD releases:
[list of release dates]. If you want to pre-order anything on this list, just click here [your website/email] and let us know.
Meanwhile, we’ve got some great deals for you this month! [links to your best ebay auctions]
You are receiving this email because you signed up for my newsletter when you bought an item from me on eBay. To unsubscribe, hit reply and type ‘remove’.”
Isn’t that simple? As long as you can remember to do it once a month, people will come to like your information, and perhaps take a look at some of the things you’re offering.
It’s all about building up a customer relationship, and making the customer feel like
"What's the difference between a virus and windows ? Viruses rarely fail."
<a href="http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2010/09/03/symantecs-hack-is-wack-and-cybersecuritys-most-embarassing-marketing-campaigns/?boxes=Homepagechannels">Symantec’s “Hack Is Wack,” And Cybersecurity’s Most Embarassing Marketing Campaigns:</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCv0A6J4zMY&feature=player_embedded">Hack is Wack</a> <small><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/95332/Snoop-Dogg-Joins-the-War-on-Cybercrime">previously</a></small> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHEFmg1Cr0Q&feature=player_embedded">Jackie Chan - Kaspersky 2010 Antivirus Commercial</a>. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy9LELlwbZs&feature=player_embedded">Ex Gang member turns Computer Hacker</a>. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up863eQKGUI&feature=player_embedded">Don't Copy That Floppy</a>. & <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUCyvw4w_yk&feature=player_embedded">Don't Copy That Floppy 2.0</a>.
Yes We Scan
<a href="http://public.resource.org/rules/">10 Rules for Radicals</a> Video link. <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/org.resource.public.10rules">(Transcript in a variety of sources)</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Malamud">Carl Malamud</a>, <a href="http://public.resource.org/">public</a> <a href="http://yeswescan.org/">domain</a> <a href="http://motherjones.com/mojo/2009/03/president-obama-appoint-carl-malamud-0">advocate</a> <a href="http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=washingtons_it_guy">extraordinaire</a>, describes lessons learned from his years of bringing government documents into the true public domain. (<a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2010/08/29/10-rules-for-radical.html">via Boingboing</a>)
The Great Internet Migratory Box Of Electronics Junk
<a href="http://tgimboej.org/">The Great Internet Migratory Box Of Electronics Junk</a> How to <a href="http://tgimboej.org/Participation">participate</a>
Icons of the Web
<em>The area of each icon is proportional to the sum of the reach of all sites using that icon. ... The largest icon (Google) is 11,936 x 11,936 pixels, and <a href="http://nmap.org/favicon/">the whole diagram</a> is 37,440 x 37,440.</em>
KFC's Skinwich Is Only A Tasty Illusion
Yesterday, <a href="http://www.brainresidue.com/taste-test-kfcs-new-skinwich/">reports leaked out</a> that KFC was releasing a new sandwich, consisting of 5 layers of fried chicken skin between two (bread) buns.
Sadly, it was <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/awesomer/the-kfc-skinwich">later</a> <a href="http://leisureblogs.chicagotribune.com/thestew/2010/08/kfc-skinwich-hoax-gets-readers-salivating-groaning.html">revealed</a> to be a <a href="http://blogs.villagevoice.com/forkintheroad/archives/2010/08/the_skinwich_a.php">hoax</a>.
Undaunted, some people at the Chicago Tribune went ahead and <a href="http://leisureblogs.chicagotribune.com/thestew/2010/08/hoax-or-not-we-constructed-our-own-kfc-skinwich-and-omg.html">made the sandwich anyway</a>.
The Google Graveyard
<em>Let's take a walk through <a href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tech-fun/google-product-graveyard/">the Google graveyard</a>.</em>
"Israel is our only hope as the post-American president is aiding and abetting a nuclear Iran. Barack Obama is enabling Iran’s Islamic bomb" - Pamela Geller
As the <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/insanity-at-the-ground-zero-mosque/article1675880/">"ground zero mosque"</a> story approaches <a href="http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/08/17/courage/index.html">bipartisan consensus</a>, thanks to <a href="http://www.lvrj.com/news/reid--has-lost-respect--100963944.html?ref=944">unexpected statements</a> by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (joining a <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/dailybeast/9503_groundzeromosquewhichpoliticiansareforandagainst">growing opposition</a>), several journalists <a href="http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/when-psycho-pamela-geller-becomes.html"> trace the origins</a> of how the Park 51 community center <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ9g4WDIy4o">became</a><small>(warning: CNN)</small> <a href="http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/08/16/ground_zero_mosque_origins">a toxic subject</a>. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90INBVMRgMg&feature=player_embedded">What they found was Pamela Geller</a>, a blogger at<a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/"> Atlas Shrugs</a>, who has some <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TG7DTOkU-s">very interesting vlogs</a>. You may previously know her from<a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2006/03/the_bolton_inte.html"> this cozy 2006 interview</a> with Bush's infamous anti-UN UN ambassador<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Bolton"> John Bolton</a>.
JPEG slideshows of the print editions of magazines are the future!
<a href="http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/08/ff_webrip/all/1">The Web is dead.</a> <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2010/08/whats-wrong-with-x-is-dead/61663/">Or maybe it isn't.</a>
Everyone's favorite browser
<a href="http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/217686.asp">Microsoft’s IE turns 15.</a> Starting as a licensed version of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_%28web_browser%29">Mosaic</a>, it is now up to version 8 and a platform preview of version 9 was <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2010/08/04/html5-modernized-fourth-ie9-platform-preview-available-for-developers.aspx">recently released</a>. Don't expect everyone to migrate over to 9 in a hurry though: It's for Vista and Windows 7 only. Meanwhile, <a href="http://www.bringdownie6.com/">despite everyone's best efforts</a>, IE6 grimly hangs on to life.
Tokyo Twitter Techno
<a href="http://dommune.com">Dommune</a> is a fairly new nightclub in Tokyo. It's only open Sunday through Thursday night and they close at midnight. The room only holds 50 people. Nevertheless, the place attracts top-flight talent; Jeff Mills, Derrick May, Claude Young, Prosumer, and Shed have all performed. What's the gimmick? <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/user/Dommune">Every party is streamed live.</a> (from <a href="http://mnmlssg.blogspot.com/2010/04/tokyo-twitter-techno.html">mnml ssgs</a>) From the source: <blockquote>the result is a rather interesting dynamic: both people at the club and those watching at the home are using twitter throughout the party. being at the club this made for a weird situation where probably half the people on the dancefloor had an iphone in their hands the whole night. so more interaction with people on the interwebs, less with those around you - real virtual partying (or something like that). the other consequence of the live streaming is there is some serious attention whore action going on, as partygoers do their best to get on camera.</blockquote>
Maybe the first thing about DeviantART that doesn't suck
To celebrate its tenth birthday, popular site <a href="http://deviantart.com">DeviantART</a> unveils <a href="http://muro.deviantart.com/">Muro</a>, a gorgeous HTML5 drawing tool that handles multiple layers and a variety of artistic brushes. No account required.
"See no evil, hear no evil..." "Can you hear me now?"
Despite <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/aug/05/gogle-denies-verizon-deal-net-neutrality">very strong denials</a> last week from Google and Verizon that they were not discussing ways around <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_neutrality">Net Neutrality</a>, Google and Verizon <a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/09/live-blogging-google-verizon-call-on-net-neutrality/">held a conference today</a> to announce their agreement to the establishment of price-tiered network services, dividing the current Internet into a "neutral public Internet" that remains "open" (and which preserves access to YouTube and other Google properties), and a set of paid, priority channels that Verizon and other telecoms can use to deliver certain other types of content at higher prices, particularly over cell networks and whatever future infrastructure the Internet will be carried over.
Surfs up!
<a href="http://nm.merz-akademie.de/trailblazers/">Trailblazers</a> is a live web surf event where you can show off your PRO surfing skills. <strike>No keyboard, no google,</strike> just pure links! At the event, the participants use a prepared computer with a modified browser: the address bar is removed and each click on a link is tracked by a counter. The goal is to get from one website to an other one by just clicking on links. The winner is the one who had to click the least links. TRAILBLAZERS is a project by <a href="http://work.thxalot.org/">Theo Seeman</a>, an <a href="http://nm.merz-akademie.de/">interface design/new media</a> student at the <a href="http://www.merz-akademie.de/">Merz Akademie</a> in Stuttgart, Germany. That’s also where the first event took place. One of the missions was to browse from <a href="http://imdb.com">http://imdb.com</a> to <a href="http://thepiratebay.org">http://thepiratebay.org</a>, an other was to browse from <a href="http://web.mit.edu/">http://web.mit.edu/</a> to <a href="http://icanhascheezburger.com/">http://icanhascheezburger.com/</a>. The next event will be at <a href="http://www.aec.at/index_en.php">ARS Electronica</a> in Linz, Austria, September 3rd. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arkcBV5Y_Bo&feature=player_embedded">Check out this video</a>.
Internet as Social Movement: A Brief History of Webism
<a href="http://nplusonemag.com/internet-as-social-movement">Internet as Social Movement: A Brief History of Webism.</a> An editorial from N+1 magazine.
Officials Say The Darnedest Things
<a href="http://www.propublica.org">ProPublica</a> now has a <a href="http://officialssay.tumblr.com/">tumblelog</a>.
Because who doesn't like a visual?
<a href="http://twaggies.com/">Twaggies, turn your tweets into pics.</a> Take random weird tweets and turn them into even weirder visuals. Twaggies, a website by <a href="http://youfail.com/">Kiersten Essenpreis</a>, features illustrations by the extraordinary <a href="http://twitter.com/k_essenpreis">@K_Essenpreis</a>. (Essen is the German verb for “to eat” and preis means “praise.” So you better leave some nice comments for her or she’ll twag you most unfavorably.) The other half of the team is <a href="http://davidisrael.net/">David Isreal</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/resila">@resila</a>, who can’t draw a stick figure much less a twaggie, but does all the other stuff for the blog and hit on the idea for it in the first place.
Three additional twaggers have contributed in the past – <a href="http://twitter.com/yaelbt">@yaelbt</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/mmbemer">@mmbemer</a> and <a href="http://twitter.com/hsugene">@hsugene</a>.
Whores and other Hackers
<a href="http://www.spreadmagazine.org/2010/02/01/whores-and-other-hackers/">Three hokey lingerie shots on my bed</a> would take all of five minutes to shoot and upload to Erotic Services, and whenever I had enough business, I could take the ad down. It would be like I—or “Sarah,” the kinky temp who loved to blow off work early and meet men for anonymous “encounters”—had never existed. (NSFW)
Tastes like effeciency.
<a href="http://vimeo.com/13560319">TabCandy.</a> A new way to intuitively browse the web.
Just be real
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/lifeinaday">Life In A Day: Youtube's first Crowd-sourced feature film</a> On July 24, <a href="http://sites.google.com/site/lifeinadayfaqs/">you have 24 hours to capture a glimpse of your life on camera</a>. The most <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEQhy0oFE1w">compelling and distinctive footage</a> will be <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nIIVH0R0kY">edited</a> into an <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46de7qPgcyg">experimental documentary film</a>, executive produced by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGYACultjCY">Ridley Scott</a> and directed by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_4uii96xqM">Kevin MacDonald</a>.
Mystery of the disappearing blogs
<a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20010923-261.html?tag=mncol;txt">More details are surfacing about why Blogetery.com, a blogging platform that claimed to service more than 70,000 blogs, was mysteriously booted from the Internet by its Web-hosting company.</a> <a href="http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/07/19/did-feds-shut-down-73-000-blogs-and-why/">Politics Daily: Did feds shut down 73,000 blogs, and why?</a>
<a href="http://www.zeropaid.com/news/89974/al-qaeda-activities-not-piracy-reason-for-shutdown-of-73000-blogs/">ZeroPaid: Al-Qaeda activities, not piracy, reason for shutdown of 73,000 blogs.</a>
<a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20010872-261.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20">CNET: Why webhost shut down 73,000 blogs a mystery</a>
<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/u-s-authorities-shut-down-wordpress-host-with-73000-blogs-100716/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Torrentfreak+%28Torrentfreak%29">TorrentFreak (who broke the story): ‘Operation In Our Sites‘ targeted several sites including TVShack.net, Movies-Links.TV, FilesPump.com, Now-Movies.com, PlanetMoviez.com, ThePirateCity.org, ZML.com, NinjaVideo.net and NinjaThis.net. In almost unprecedented action, the domain names of 7 sites were seized and indications are that others – The Pirate Bay and MegaUpload – narrowly avoided the same fate.</a>
The Internet Accuracy Project
The <a href="http://www.accuracyproject.org/index.html">Internet Accuracy Project</a>. You may have stumbled on it in a casual <a href="https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=july+5th%2C+2010+will+be+a+postal+holiday&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a">search </a>about postal holidays, been drawn in by the charming <a href="http://www.accuracyproject.org/faq.html">prose </a>and vintage web <a href="http://www.accuracyproject.org/errors.html">design</a>, and stayed to browse the eclectic contents, from <a href="http://www.accuracyproject.org/w-PlantZones.html">plant hardiness zones</a> (USA) to <a href="http://www.accuracyproject.org/towns.html">unusual town names</a>. There are also extensive and ostensibly fact-checked celebrity <a href="http://www.accuracyproject.org/astrologydata.html">biographies</a>, which are <a href="http://www.evolvingdoor.ca/links/links2.php">beloved by some astrologists</a>. While the lack of specific references in individual entries may raise eyebrows, there's an extensive <a href="http://www.accuracyproject.org/sourceinfo.html">defense</a> of the Project's sources and methods. [Yes, I read the <a href="http://www.accuracyproject.org/tradelinks.html">Internet Accuracy Project Linking Terms & Conditions</a>.]
Pie in the Sky?
<a href="http://css3pie.com/">CSS3 Pie.</a> Google's <a href="http://code.google.com/chrome/chromeframe/">Frame</a> requires users to install Frame in order to get the benefits of CSS3 support (among other things). CSS3 Progressive Internet Explorer aims to bring support for CSS3 in IE versions 6 through 8 via a server side script. It's early days for the extent of supported properties but there are more to come. If it's ultimately functional and useful long term remains to be seen.
like the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind
<a href="http://therevolvinginternet.com/">The Revolving Internet</a> (music autoplays)
North Korea Is Best Korea
The people of <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/omonatheydidnt/3728222.html">4chan</a> are at it again. They are now trying to <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10506482.stm">hijack the voting for Justin Bieber's next touring destination</a>. Their goal: <a href="http://www.urlesque.com/2010/06/30/send-justin-bieber-north-korea/">to send him to North Korea</a>. There are now almost half a million votes to <a href="http://gawker.com/5577433/the-plot-to-send-justin-bieber-to-north-korea">send Bieber to the secretive communist nation</a>.
Virtual Archaeology: Active Worlds Turns 15
<a href="http://network.associationofvirtualworlds.com/xn/detail/2008361:Event:295313?xg_source=activity">Fifteen years ago</a> this week, programmer <a href="http://roderickmoyes.50megs.com/brit1.html">Ron Britvich</a> launched version 1.0 of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Worlds">Active Worlds</a>. Started as an autonomous project of <a href="http://www.worlds.com/">Worlds, Inc.</a> (a spinoff of educational gamesmaker <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Adventure">Knowledge Adventure</a>), Active Worlds was one of the first and most ambitious attempts to create a 3D virtual community on the web.
Built on the architecture of Britvich's <a href="http://www.digitalspace.com/avatars/book/fullbook/chwc/chwc1.htm">Worlds Chat</a> beta, Active Worlds <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/vw_alphaworld-demo">debuted</a> in the form of <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/49033761@N08/4487153405/sizes/o/">Alphaworld</a>, a sunny green infinite plane open to <a href="http://wiki.activeworlds.com/index.php?title=Build">public building</a>. In its opening years Alphaworld experienced <a href="http://activeworlds.com/community/maps.asp">a land rush of construction</a>, resulting in <a href="http://mappa.mundi.net/maps/maps_013/">an anarchic starfish sprawl larger than the state of California</a>. A sister company, Circle of Fire, was soon founded to craft <a href="http://wiki.activeworlds.com/index.php?title=Public_building_world">additional themed hubs</a>, and once individual ownership of worlds became possible the AW community spawned a veritable universe of <a href="http://www.awportals.com/db/worlds/">hundreds of worlds</a>.
Although <a href="http://www.activeworlds.com">the company</a> has seen its <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Worlds#History">ups and downs</a> since those heady times and its fortunes have slowly dwindled, the <a href="http://wiki.activeworlds.com/index.php?title=Main_Page">Active Worlds</a> <a href="http://www.awportals.com/">platform</a> <a href="http://www.activeworlds.com/newsletter/0610/index.html">survives</a> to <a href="http://forums.activeworlds.com/">this day</a>. Look inside for a simple guide on how to log in to the (free) service, rundowns of the best worlds, links to essays analyzing the program's legacy, and other content summing up <a href="http://www.awcommunity.org/">its venerable community</a>. <b>Getting Started</b>
<blockquote><b>Installation</b>
Active Worlds can be accessed by downloading and installing <a href="http://www.activeworlds.com/products/download.asp">Active Worlds Browser 5.0</a> (<a href="http://objects.activeworlds.com/downloads/awb50.exe">direct link</a>; Windows only). Because of the dated nature of the software, <a href="http://activeworlds.com/help/system_req.html">the system requirements are modest</a>, allowing the browser to run relatively smoothly on laptops and low-end desktops. Compared to more recent virtual environments like Second Life, Active Worlds graphics are pretty simplistic and low-impact. A high-speed internet connection is best for loading your surroundings, though.
<b>Configuration</b>
On first startup, the browser should download a few updates. Once this is done, it will prompt a login. No registration is required -- just enter a username and a fake email address and you will be given access on a free tourist account. Tourists have some restrictions: they can't visit many of the private worlds, and anything they build can be replaced by other users. But since <a href="http://activeworlds.com/products/citizenships.asp">a full-featured citizenship account</a> costs $70 per year, tourism is best if you just want to look around. You will begin at Ground Zero of <b>AWGate</b>, the default introductory world. There are usually a dozen or so users here chatting.
<b>Controls</b>
The controls are FPS-standard, with keys for walking forward, backward, and sideways. You can activate a mouse-based free-look mode by going to Options -> Settings -> General tab and checking the "Freelook mouse" option, then clicking the mouse icon in the toolbar at the top (exit by pressing Escape). You can jump by pressing + on the number pad, or fly if the world you're in allows it. Holding the Control key while moving will make you sprint, while holding shift will make you pass through solid objects. You can modify all of these functions using Options -> Configure Controls. A common change is mapping the forward/backward/strafe keys to WASD and the jump/fly key to the right mouse button. You may also want to tweak the download/cache/performance settings to fit your system and internet connection (Options -> Settings).
<b>Navigation</b>
You can view a list of worlds by opening the Tabs pane (Show -> Tabs) and clicking the "Worlds" tab. You can sort them by name or by population. Clicking a world will warp you to its Ground Zero (the central plaza at coordinates 0n 0w), or bounce you back to where you were if the world is restricted. <a href="http://www.awportals.com/db/worlds/tourist_access.php">Click here for a list of tourist-accessible worlds</a>.
When in a world, you can teleport to any location by clicking Teleport -> To... in the menu bar and typing in some coordinates. You can also teleport by entering portals (their exact appearance varies by world).</blockquote>
<b>Recommended Worlds</b>
<b>Note:</b> Links to locations within Active Worlds posted below are <u>underlined</u>. If you open this post in the AW browser's web tab (press F7), clicking these links will teleport you to that location instantly.
Also, keep in mind that the userbase of the service has declined substantially since its heyday. <a href="http://www.awportals.com/archives/charts/charts.php?p0=0&p1=1&p2=0&p3=0&ymax=60&from=-3+days&to=now">Even the most populous worlds rarely have more than 20 people online at once</a>. The upshot is that the majority of worlds are eerily empty and have been for years. Bad if you want social chat, but perfect if you are intrigued at the thought of exploring vast fantastic virtual ruins that have been sitting untouched for over a decade.
<blockquote><b><a href="http://wiki.activeworlds.com/index.php?title=Alphaworld">Alphaworld</a> (<u><a href="http://objects.activeworlds.com/cgi-bin/teleport.cgi?aw">aw</a></u>):</b> The oldest, largest, and most important world of all, Alphaworld is an unpredictable hodgepodge of mansions, streets, gardens, canals, arcades, mazes, rainbows, heavy machinery, model cities, impossible architecture, and everything else hundreds of thousands of people can collaboratively construct over the course of a decade and a half. <a href="http://wiki.activeworlds.com/index.php?title=Alphaworld_Ground_Zero">The old Ground Zero</a> (<u><a href="http://objects.activeworlds.com/cgi-bin/teleport.cgi?aw_0n_0w">link</a></u>) is the historic heart of the world, arguably the oldest continuously accessible virtual space still in existence. The world's entry point has since been moved to a slicker and more complex plaza at <u><a href="http://objects.activeworlds.com/cgi-bin/teleport.cgi?aw">2000n 7000e</a></u>.
Alphaworld supports special navigational tools that you can access by clicking the double-arrow icon in the bottom-right corner of the main window. The most important tool is the world map, a top-down satellite image of the world that you can use to scroll around and teleport to specific locations. You can also view this map online in a Google Maps-style interface at <a href="http://www.imabot.com/alphamapper/aw/">AlphaMapper</a> if you want to browse Alphaworld without installing any of the software.
See <a href="http://wiki.activeworlds.com/index.php?title=Alphaworld#Notable_Locations">the wiki page</a> for listings of cooperative building projects and model cities within Alphaworld, such as <a href="http://wiki.activeworlds.com/index.php?title=SW_City">SW City</a> (<a href="http://www.swcity.net/pmwiki/pmwiki.php">internal wiki</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pgaJ-c44Ak">"trailer"</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q26rqNGFA-E">guided tour</a>, <u><a href="http://objects.activeworlds.com/cgi-bin/teleport.cgi?aw_2217.4s_3609.8e_180">link</a></u>) and <a href="http://wiki.activeworlds.com/index.php?title=Alpha_Mechanics">Alpha Mechanics</a> (<u><a href="http://objects.activeworlds.com/cgi-bin/teleport.cgi?aw_8094s_1820e_0.1a">link</a></u>). You can also browse points of interest in <a href="http://www.awportals.com/sidebar/aw.php?view=places">AWPortal's Alphaworld places database</a>. But since Alphaworld is 0.4% larger than California, teleporting to any random coordinates (especially near the center) will likely take you to some place interesting.
<b><a href="http://wiki.activeworlds.com/index.php?title=Cofmeta">Metatropolis</a> (<u><a href="http://objects.activeworlds.com/cgi-bin/teleport.cgi?cofmeta">cofmeta</a></u>):</b> Modeled after the cyberpunk dystopia of Neal Stephenson's <i>Snow Crash</i>, Metatropolis is a dark and foreboding science-fiction city. The most interesting location, the Global Biomechanics Consortium, is located at <u><a href="http://objects.activeworlds.com/cgi-bin/teleport.cgi?cofmeta_129s%20199e">129S 199E</a></u>. It's a small city that serves as the headquarters for a fictional megacorporation, with plenty of secret interiors to explore within. There's also the Teleport Center at <u><a href="http://objects.activeworlds.com/cgi-bin/teleport.cgi?cofmeta_16s_0e">16S 0E</a></u>, with portals to many other points of interest in the world.
<b><a href="http://www.activeworlds.com/worlds/mars/">Mars</a> (<u><a href="http://objects.activeworlds.com/cgi-bin/teleport.cgi?mars">mars</a></u>):</b> Like the name implies, Mars is a futuristic simulation of the Red Planet, complete with colonies, caverns, spaceports, and <u><a href="http://objects.activeworlds.com/cgi-bin/teleport.cgi?mars_188n_306e_6a">a massive model of Olympus Mons</a></u>. See <a href="http://www.awportals.com/sidebar/mars.php?view=places">the Mars places database</a> for more.
<b><a href="http://wiki.activeworlds.com/index.php?title=Yellow">Yellowstone</a> (<u><a href="http://objects.activeworlds.com/cgi-bin/teleport.cgi?yellow_705.72n_1077.16e_0.1a_274">yellow</a></u>):</b> A naturalistic world based on Yellowstone National Park and built with the aid of the Dept. of the Interior. Recently underwent an acclaimed renovation that won multiple "<a href="http://wiki.activeworlds.com/index.php?title=Cy_Awards">Cy Awards</a>" (think Oscars for worldbuilding).
<b><a href="http://wiki.activeworlds.com/index.php?title=AWTeen">AWTeen</a> (<u><a href="http://objects.activeworlds.com/cgi-bin/teleport.cgi?awteen">awteen</a></u>):</b> A youth-oriented public building world, notable for its many subcommunities, such as the futuristic <u><a href="http://objects.activeworlds.com/cgi-bin/teleport.cgi?awteen_2121N_2636E">Cobalt City</a></u> (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgYZjATZi90">video</a>).
<b>Van Gogh (<u><a href="http://objects.activeworlds.com/cgi-bin/teleport.cgi?vangogh">vangogh</a></u>):</b> This world brings Van Gogh's town of Arles to life in his style, as if you'd stepped into a painting. In fact, several of his works are incorporated into the colorful small town landscape. Short video <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldr9e8RWJ-E">here</a>. See also the associated <a href="http://www.awportals.com/sidebar/awteen.php?view=places">AWPortal places database</a>.
<b>Casablanca (<u><a href="http://objects.activeworlds.com/cgi-bin/teleport.cgi?rick's">rick's</a></u>):</b> A world with a moody black-and-white film noir theme.
<b>Canyon (<u><a href="http://objects.activeworlds.com/cgi-bin/teleport.cgi?canyon">canyon</a></u>):</b> A cheesy but well-built world full of interactive set pieces from famous fantasy and horror franchises (Indiana Jones, Lord of the Rings, The Dark Tower, The Haunted Mansion, etc.)
<b>Dirt City (<u><a href="http://objects.activeworlds.com/cgi-bin/teleport.cgi?dirtcity">dirtcity</a></u>):</b> A gritty Matrix-esque slum.</blockquote>
<b>Active Worlds Europe</b>
If you want more content, download and install the <a href="http://www.aw-europe.com/downloads/aweurope.exe">AW Europe browser</a> (a multi-lingual spinoff affiliated with the main project). It uses the same interface, but has a different set of worlds on offer, including:
<blockquote><b>London:</b> a large replica of Victorian-era London.
<b>Venezia:</b> A world based on medieval Venice.
<b>Titanic:</b> A scale model of the RMS Titanic.
<b>Future:</b> A Jetsons-esque world of towering skyscrapers, automated factories, and floating walkways.</blockquote>
<b>Extra links</b>
<blockquote>
<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20001205142500/http://online-magazine.com/worldsindex.htm">An extensive interview series with the founders of Active Worlds</a>
<a href="http://www.digibarn.com/collections/notes-designs/alphaworld-britvich/index.html">Snapshots of Ron Britvich's original Active Worlds development notes</a>
<a href="http://mappa.mundi.net/maps/maps_013/">Mapping a Virtual City</a>
<a href="http://www.mappingcyberspace.com/gallery/index.html">Mapping Cyberspace gallery</a>
<a href="https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.socsci.kun.nl/ped/owk/medewerkers/jjanssen/Iscrat2002_Degas.pdf&pli=1">Reconstructing Art in a Virtual World</a> [PDF]
<a href="http://www.awreunion.com/2009/">The homepage for AW Reunions</a> (yearly meetups)
<a href="http://wiki.activeworlds.com/index.php?title=Main_Page">The official Active Worlds Wiki</a>
<a href="http://wiki.activeworlds.com/index.php?title=Portal:Communities">AW Communities Portal</a>
<a href="http://rivercity.activeworlds.com/">River City educational project</a>
<a href="http://blog.wellsfargo.com/stagecoachisland/">Stagecoach Island</a>: A semi-active spinoff of Active Worlds maintained by Wells Fargo.
<a href="http://www.vwtimeline.com/">Timeline of virtual world development</a> (<a href="http://www.dipity.com/WebHistoryProject/Virtual_Worlds">interactive scrollable timeline</a>)
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/06/the-art-of-archiving-virtual-worlds.ars">Saving Virtual Worlds from Extinction</a>
<a href="http://www.archive.org/details/virtual_worlds">Archive.org's "Archiving Virtual Worlds" project</a>
<a href="https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.firstlightmedia.dk/kontakt/kenneth-hansen-1/artikler/to_meet.pdf">To Meet Without Actually Meeting: Cultural Models of Virtual Rituals in Cyberspace</a> [PDF]</blockquote>
you are providing them with some information they wouldn’t otherwise have. Make your email a useful service to them, whether they buy anything from it or not.
Remember that it’s not a newsletter without the news, and send out the best things you can think of: you might even try writing an article or two. Think of it as a free gift for your customers: the gift of useful information. Apart from anything else, it’s quite fun to have your own newsletter.
If you sell items that a seller is likely to need more than one of, like auto parts for example, then you can even try highly targeted emails like this.
“I’m sending you this email because you bought a [item name] from me a while ago – I hope you were happy with it. This is just to let you know that if you ever need another [item], I’m currently doing special offers on them. [link]”.
You would probably want to automate this, though, as it could quickly get tedious to do it manually.
Of course, that brings us on to our next subject: eBay stores. eBay stores offer you an easier way to sell your items than having to list them every time on eBay, and they have built-in facilities for targeted direct marketing. You can read all about it in the next email.About The Author: Kirsten Hawkins is an Ebay and auction enthusiast from Nashville, TN. Visit http://www.auctionseller411.com/ for more great tips on how to make the most from Ebay and other online auctions.
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"What's the difference between a virus and windows ? Viruses rarely fail."
<a href="http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2010/09/03/symantecs-hack-is-wack-and-cybersecuritys-most-embarassing-marketing-campaigns/?boxes=Homepagechannels">Symantec’s “Hack Is Wack,” And Cybersecurity’s Most Embarassing Marketing Campaigns:</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCv0A6J4zMY&feature=player_embedded">Hack is Wack</a> <small><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/95332/Snoop-Dogg-Joins-the-War-on-Cybercrime">previously</a></small> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHEFmg1Cr0Q&feature=player_embedded">Jackie Chan - Kaspersky 2010 Antivirus Commercial</a>. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy9LELlwbZs&feature=player_embedded">Ex Gang member turns Computer Hacker</a>. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up863eQKGUI&feature=player_embedded">Don't Copy That Floppy</a>. & <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUCyvw4w_yk&feature=player_embedded">Don't Copy That Floppy 2.0</a>.
Yes We Scan
<a href="http://public.resource.org/rules/">10 Rules for Radicals</a> Video link. <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/org.resource.public.10rules">(Transcript in a variety of sources)</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Malamud">Carl Malamud</a>, <a href="http://public.resource.org/">public</a> <a href="http://yeswescan.org/">domain</a> <a href="http://motherjones.com/mojo/2009/03/president-obama-appoint-carl-malamud-0">advocate</a> <a href="http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=washingtons_it_guy">extraordinaire</a>, describes lessons learned from his years of bringing government documents into the true public domain. (<a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2010/08/29/10-rules-for-radical.html">via Boingboing</a>)
The Great Internet Migratory Box Of Electronics Junk
<a href="http://tgimboej.org/">The Great Internet Migratory Box Of Electronics Junk</a> How to <a href="http://tgimboej.org/Participation">participate</a>
Icons of the Web
<em>The area of each icon is proportional to the sum of the reach of all sites using that icon. ... The largest icon (Google) is 11,936 x 11,936 pixels, and <a href="http://nmap.org/favicon/">the whole diagram</a> is 37,440 x 37,440.</em>
KFC's Skinwich Is Only A Tasty Illusion
Yesterday, <a href="http://www.brainresidue.com/taste-test-kfcs-new-skinwich/">reports leaked out</a> that KFC was releasing a new sandwich, consisting of 5 layers of fried chicken skin between two (bread) buns.
Sadly, it was <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/awesomer/the-kfc-skinwich">later</a> <a href="http://leisureblogs.chicagotribune.com/thestew/2010/08/kfc-skinwich-hoax-gets-readers-salivating-groaning.html">revealed</a> to be a <a href="http://blogs.villagevoice.com/forkintheroad/archives/2010/08/the_skinwich_a.php">hoax</a>.
Undaunted, some people at the Chicago Tribune went ahead and <a href="http://leisureblogs.chicagotribune.com/thestew/2010/08/hoax-or-not-we-constructed-our-own-kfc-skinwich-and-omg.html">made the sandwich anyway</a>.
The Google Graveyard
<em>Let's take a walk through <a href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tech-fun/google-product-graveyard/">the Google graveyard</a>.</em>
"Israel is our only hope as the post-American president is aiding and abetting a nuclear Iran. Barack Obama is enabling Iran’s Islamic bomb" - Pamela Geller
As the <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/insanity-at-the-ground-zero-mosque/article1675880/">"ground zero mosque"</a> story approaches <a href="http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/08/17/courage/index.html">bipartisan consensus</a>, thanks to <a href="http://www.lvrj.com/news/reid--has-lost-respect--100963944.html?ref=944">unexpected statements</a> by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (joining a <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/dailybeast/9503_groundzeromosquewhichpoliticiansareforandagainst">growing opposition</a>), several journalists <a href="http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/when-psycho-pamela-geller-becomes.html"> trace the origins</a> of how the Park 51 community center <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ9g4WDIy4o">became</a><small>(warning: CNN)</small> <a href="http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/08/16/ground_zero_mosque_origins">a toxic subject</a>. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90INBVMRgMg&feature=player_embedded">What they found was Pamela Geller</a>, a blogger at<a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/"> Atlas Shrugs</a>, who has some <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TG7DTOkU-s">very interesting vlogs</a>. You may previously know her from<a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2006/03/the_bolton_inte.html"> this cozy 2006 interview</a> with Bush's infamous anti-UN UN ambassador<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Bolton"> John Bolton</a>.
JPEG slideshows of the print editions of magazines are the future!
<a href="http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/08/ff_webrip/all/1">The Web is dead.</a> <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2010/08/whats-wrong-with-x-is-dead/61663/">Or maybe it isn't.</a>
Everyone's favorite browser
<a href="http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/217686.asp">Microsoft’s IE turns 15.</a> Starting as a licensed version of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_%28web_browser%29">Mosaic</a>, it is now up to version 8 and a platform preview of version 9 was <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2010/08/04/html5-modernized-fourth-ie9-platform-preview-available-for-developers.aspx">recently released</a>. Don't expect everyone to migrate over to 9 in a hurry though: It's for Vista and Windows 7 only. Meanwhile, <a href="http://www.bringdownie6.com/">despite everyone's best efforts</a>, IE6 grimly hangs on to life.
Tokyo Twitter Techno
<a href="http://dommune.com">Dommune</a> is a fairly new nightclub in Tokyo. It's only open Sunday through Thursday night and they close at midnight. The room only holds 50 people. Nevertheless, the place attracts top-flight talent; Jeff Mills, Derrick May, Claude Young, Prosumer, and Shed have all performed. What's the gimmick? <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/user/Dommune">Every party is streamed live.</a> (from <a href="http://mnmlssg.blogspot.com/2010/04/tokyo-twitter-techno.html">mnml ssgs</a>) From the source: <blockquote>the result is a rather interesting dynamic: both people at the club and those watching at the home are using twitter throughout the party. being at the club this made for a weird situation where probably half the people on the dancefloor had an iphone in their hands the whole night. so more interaction with people on the interwebs, less with those around you - real virtual partying (or something like that). the other consequence of the live streaming is there is some serious attention whore action going on, as partygoers do their best to get on camera.</blockquote>
Maybe the first thing about DeviantART that doesn't suck
To celebrate its tenth birthday, popular site <a href="http://deviantart.com">DeviantART</a> unveils <a href="http://muro.deviantart.com/">Muro</a>, a gorgeous HTML5 drawing tool that handles multiple layers and a variety of artistic brushes. No account required.
"See no evil, hear no evil..." "Can you hear me now?"
Despite <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/aug/05/gogle-denies-verizon-deal-net-neutrality">very strong denials</a> last week from Google and Verizon that they were not discussing ways around <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_neutrality">Net Neutrality</a>, Google and Verizon <a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/09/live-blogging-google-verizon-call-on-net-neutrality/">held a conference today</a> to announce their agreement to the establishment of price-tiered network services, dividing the current Internet into a "neutral public Internet" that remains "open" (and which preserves access to YouTube and other Google properties), and a set of paid, priority channels that Verizon and other telecoms can use to deliver certain other types of content at higher prices, particularly over cell networks and whatever future infrastructure the Internet will be carried over.
Surfs up!
<a href="http://nm.merz-akademie.de/trailblazers/">Trailblazers</a> is a live web surf event where you can show off your PRO surfing skills. <strike>No keyboard, no google,</strike> just pure links! At the event, the participants use a prepared computer with a modified browser: the address bar is removed and each click on a link is tracked by a counter. The goal is to get from one website to an other one by just clicking on links. The winner is the one who had to click the least links. TRAILBLAZERS is a project by <a href="http://work.thxalot.org/">Theo Seeman</a>, an <a href="http://nm.merz-akademie.de/">interface design/new media</a> student at the <a href="http://www.merz-akademie.de/">Merz Akademie</a> in Stuttgart, Germany. That’s also where the first event took place. One of the missions was to browse from <a href="http://imdb.com">http://imdb.com</a> to <a href="http://thepiratebay.org">http://thepiratebay.org</a>, an other was to browse from <a href="http://web.mit.edu/">http://web.mit.edu/</a> to <a href="http://icanhascheezburger.com/">http://icanhascheezburger.com/</a>. The next event will be at <a href="http://www.aec.at/index_en.php">ARS Electronica</a> in Linz, Austria, September 3rd. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arkcBV5Y_Bo&feature=player_embedded">Check out this video</a>.
Internet as Social Movement: A Brief History of Webism
<a href="http://nplusonemag.com/internet-as-social-movement">Internet as Social Movement: A Brief History of Webism.</a> An editorial from N+1 magazine.
Officials Say The Darnedest Things
<a href="http://www.propublica.org">ProPublica</a> now has a <a href="http://officialssay.tumblr.com/">tumblelog</a>.
Because who doesn't like a visual?
<a href="http://twaggies.com/">Twaggies, turn your tweets into pics.</a> Take random weird tweets and turn them into even weirder visuals. Twaggies, a website by <a href="http://youfail.com/">Kiersten Essenpreis</a>, features illustrations by the extraordinary <a href="http://twitter.com/k_essenpreis">@K_Essenpreis</a>. (Essen is the German verb for “to eat” and preis means “praise.” So you better leave some nice comments for her or she’ll twag you most unfavorably.) The other half of the team is <a href="http://davidisrael.net/">David Isreal</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/resila">@resila</a>, who can’t draw a stick figure much less a twaggie, but does all the other stuff for the blog and hit on the idea for it in the first place.
Three additional twaggers have contributed in the past – <a href="http://twitter.com/yaelbt">@yaelbt</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/mmbemer">@mmbemer</a> and <a href="http://twitter.com/hsugene">@hsugene</a>.
Whores and other Hackers
<a href="http://www.spreadmagazine.org/2010/02/01/whores-and-other-hackers/">Three hokey lingerie shots on my bed</a> would take all of five minutes to shoot and upload to Erotic Services, and whenever I had enough business, I could take the ad down. It would be like I—or “Sarah,” the kinky temp who loved to blow off work early and meet men for anonymous “encounters”—had never existed. (NSFW)
Tastes like effeciency.
<a href="http://vimeo.com/13560319">TabCandy.</a> A new way to intuitively browse the web.
Just be real
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/lifeinaday">Life In A Day: Youtube's first Crowd-sourced feature film</a> On July 24, <a href="http://sites.google.com/site/lifeinadayfaqs/">you have 24 hours to capture a glimpse of your life on camera</a>. The most <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEQhy0oFE1w">compelling and distinctive footage</a> will be <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nIIVH0R0kY">edited</a> into an <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46de7qPgcyg">experimental documentary film</a>, executive produced by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGYACultjCY">Ridley Scott</a> and directed by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_4uii96xqM">Kevin MacDonald</a>.
Mystery of the disappearing blogs
<a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20010923-261.html?tag=mncol;txt">More details are surfacing about why Blogetery.com, a blogging platform that claimed to service more than 70,000 blogs, was mysteriously booted from the Internet by its Web-hosting company.</a> <a href="http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/07/19/did-feds-shut-down-73-000-blogs-and-why/">Politics Daily: Did feds shut down 73,000 blogs, and why?</a>
<a href="http://www.zeropaid.com/news/89974/al-qaeda-activities-not-piracy-reason-for-shutdown-of-73000-blogs/">ZeroPaid: Al-Qaeda activities, not piracy, reason for shutdown of 73,000 blogs.</a>
<a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20010872-261.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20">CNET: Why webhost shut down 73,000 blogs a mystery</a>
<a href="http://torrentfreak.com/u-s-authorities-shut-down-wordpress-host-with-73000-blogs-100716/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Torrentfreak+%28Torrentfreak%29">TorrentFreak (who broke the story): ‘Operation In Our Sites‘ targeted several sites including TVShack.net, Movies-Links.TV, FilesPump.com, Now-Movies.com, PlanetMoviez.com, ThePirateCity.org, ZML.com, NinjaVideo.net and NinjaThis.net. In almost unprecedented action, the domain names of 7 sites were seized and indications are that others – The Pirate Bay and MegaUpload – narrowly avoided the same fate.</a>
The Internet Accuracy Project
The <a href="http://www.accuracyproject.org/index.html">Internet Accuracy Project</a>. You may have stumbled on it in a casual <a href="https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=july+5th%2C+2010+will+be+a+postal+holiday&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a">search </a>about postal holidays, been drawn in by the charming <a href="http://www.accuracyproject.org/faq.html">prose </a>and vintage web <a href="http://www.accuracyproject.org/errors.html">design</a>, and stayed to browse the eclectic contents, from <a href="http://www.accuracyproject.org/w-PlantZones.html">plant hardiness zones</a> (USA) to <a href="http://www.accuracyproject.org/towns.html">unusual town names</a>. There are also extensive and ostensibly fact-checked celebrity <a href="http://www.accuracyproject.org/astrologydata.html">biographies</a>, which are <a href="http://www.evolvingdoor.ca/links/links2.php">beloved by some astrologists</a>. While the lack of specific references in individual entries may raise eyebrows, there's an extensive <a href="http://www.accuracyproject.org/sourceinfo.html">defense</a> of the Project's sources and methods. [Yes, I read the <a href="http://www.accuracyproject.org/tradelinks.html">Internet Accuracy Project Linking Terms & Conditions</a>.]
Pie in the Sky?
<a href="http://css3pie.com/">CSS3 Pie.</a> Google's <a href="http://code.google.com/chrome/chromeframe/">Frame</a> requires users to install Frame in order to get the benefits of CSS3 support (among other things). CSS3 Progressive Internet Explorer aims to bring support for CSS3 in IE versions 6 through 8 via a server side script. It's early days for the extent of supported properties but there are more to come. If it's ultimately functional and useful long term remains to be seen.
like the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind
<a href="http://therevolvinginternet.com/">The Revolving Internet</a> (music autoplays)
North Korea Is Best Korea
The people of <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/omonatheydidnt/3728222.html">4chan</a> are at it again. They are now trying to <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10506482.stm">hijack the voting for Justin Bieber's next touring destination</a>. Their goal: <a href="http://www.urlesque.com/2010/06/30/send-justin-bieber-north-korea/">to send him to North Korea</a>. There are now almost half a million votes to <a href="http://gawker.com/5577433/the-plot-to-send-justin-bieber-to-north-korea">send Bieber to the secretive communist nation</a>.
Virtual Archaeology: Active Worlds Turns 15
<a href="http://network.associationofvirtualworlds.com/xn/detail/2008361:Event:295313?xg_source=activity">Fifteen years ago</a> this week, programmer <a href="http://roderickmoyes.50megs.com/brit1.html">Ron Britvich</a> launched version 1.0 of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Worlds">Active Worlds</a>. Started as an autonomous project of <a href="http://www.worlds.com/">Worlds, Inc.</a> (a spinoff of educational gamesmaker <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Adventure">Knowledge Adventure</a>), Active Worlds was one of the first and most ambitious attempts to create a 3D virtual community on the web.
Built on the architecture of Britvich's <a href="http://www.digitalspace.com/avatars/book/fullbook/chwc/chwc1.htm">Worlds Chat</a> beta, Active Worlds <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/vw_alphaworld-demo">debuted</a> in the form of <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/49033761@N08/4487153405/sizes/o/">Alphaworld</a>, a sunny green infinite plane open to <a href="http://wiki.activeworlds.com/index.php?title=Build">public building</a>. In its opening years Alphaworld experienced <a href="http://activeworlds.com/community/maps.asp">a land rush of construction</a>, resulting in <a href="http://mappa.mundi.net/maps/maps_013/">an anarchic starfish sprawl larger than the state of California</a>. A sister company, Circle of Fire, was soon founded to craft <a href="http://wiki.activeworlds.com/index.php?title=Public_building_world">additional themed hubs</a>, and once individual ownership of worlds became possible the AW community spawned a veritable universe of <a href="http://www.awportals.com/db/worlds/">hundreds of worlds</a>.
Although <a href="http://www.activeworlds.com">the company</a> has seen its <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Worlds#History">ups and downs</a> since those heady times and its fortunes have slowly dwindled, the <a href="http://wiki.activeworlds.com/index.php?title=Main_Page">Active Worlds</a> <a href="http://www.awportals.com/">platform</a> <a href="http://www.activeworlds.com/newsletter/0610/index.html">survives</a> to <a href="http://forums.activeworlds.com/">this day</a>. Look inside for a simple guide on how to log in to the (free) service, rundowns of the best worlds, links to essays analyzing the program's legacy, and other content summing up <a href="http://www.awcommunity.org/">its venerable community</a>. <b>Getting Started</b>
<blockquote><b>Installation</b>
Active Worlds can be accessed by downloading and installing <a href="http://www.activeworlds.com/products/download.asp">Active Worlds Browser 5.0</a> (<a href="http://objects.activeworlds.com/downloads/awb50.exe">direct link</a>; Windows only). Because of the dated nature of the software, <a href="http://activeworlds.com/help/system_req.html">the system requirements are modest</a>, allowing the browser to run relatively smoothly on laptops and low-end desktops. Compared to more recent virtual environments like Second Life, Active Worlds graphics are pretty simplistic and low-impact. A high-speed internet connection is best for loading your surroundings, though.
<b>Configuration</b>
On first startup, the browser should download a few updates. Once this is done, it will prompt a login. No registration is required -- just enter a username and a fake email address and you will be given access on a free tourist account. Tourists have some restrictions: they can't visit many of the private worlds, and anything they build can be replaced by other users. But since <a href="http://activeworlds.com/products/citizenships.asp">a full-featured citizenship account</a> costs $70 per year, tourism is best if you just want to look around. You will begin at Ground Zero of <b>AWGate</b>, the default introductory world. There are usually a dozen or so users here chatting.
<b>Controls</b>
The controls are FPS-standard, with keys for walking forward, backward, and sideways. You can activate a mouse-based free-look mode by going to Options -> Settings -> General tab and checking the "Freelook mouse" option, then clicking the mouse icon in the toolbar at the top (exit by pressing Escape). You can jump by pressing + on the number pad, or fly if the world you're in allows it. Holding the Control key while moving will make you sprint, while holding shift will make you pass through solid objects. You can modify all of these functions using Options -> Configure Controls. A common change is mapping the forward/backward/strafe keys to WASD and the jump/fly key to the right mouse button. You may also want to tweak the download/cache/performance settings to fit your system and internet connection (Options -> Settings).
<b>Navigation</b>
You can view a list of worlds by opening the Tabs pane (Show -> Tabs) and clicking the "Worlds" tab. You can sort them by name or by population. Clicking a world will warp you to its Ground Zero (the central plaza at coordinates 0n 0w), or bounce you back to where you were if the world is restricted. <a href="http://www.awportals.com/db/worlds/tourist_access.php">Click here for a list of tourist-accessible worlds</a>.
When in a world, you can teleport to any location by clicking Teleport -> To... in the menu bar and typing in some coordinates. You can also teleport by entering portals (their exact appearance varies by world).</blockquote>
<b>Recommended Worlds</b>
<b>Note:</b> Links to locations within Active Worlds posted below are <u>underlined</u>. If you open this post in the AW browser's web tab (press F7), clicking these links will teleport you to that location instantly.
Also, keep in mind that the userbase of the service has declined substantially since its heyday. <a href="http://www.awportals.com/archives/charts/charts.php?p0=0&p1=1&p2=0&p3=0&ymax=60&from=-3+days&to=now">Even the most populous worlds rarely have more than 20 people online at once</a>. The upshot is that the majority of worlds are eerily empty and have been for years. Bad if you want social chat, but perfect if you are intrigued at the thought of exploring vast fantastic virtual ruins that have been sitting untouched for over a decade.
<blockquote><b><a href="http://wiki.activeworlds.com/index.php?title=Alphaworld">Alphaworld</a> (<u><a href="http://objects.activeworlds.com/cgi-bin/teleport.cgi?aw">aw</a></u>):</b> The oldest, largest, and most important world of all, Alphaworld is an unpredictable hodgepodge of mansions, streets, gardens, canals, arcades, mazes, rainbows, heavy machinery, model cities, impossible architecture, and everything else hundreds of thousands of people can collaboratively construct over the course of a decade and a half. <a href="http://wiki.activeworlds.com/index.php?title=Alphaworld_Ground_Zero">The old Ground Zero</a> (<u><a href="http://objects.activeworlds.com/cgi-bin/teleport.cgi?aw_0n_0w">link</a></u>) is the historic heart of the world, arguably the oldest continuously accessible virtual space still in existence. The world's entry point has since been moved to a slicker and more complex plaza at <u><a href="http://objects.activeworlds.com/cgi-bin/teleport.cgi?aw">2000n 7000e</a></u>.
Alphaworld supports special navigational tools that you can access by clicking the double-arrow icon in the bottom-right corner of the main window. The most important tool is the world map, a top-down satellite image of the world that you can use to scroll around and teleport to specific locations. You can also view this map online in a Google Maps-style interface at <a href="http://www.imabot.com/alphamapper/aw/">AlphaMapper</a> if you want to browse Alphaworld without installing any of the software.
See <a href="http://wiki.activeworlds.com/index.php?title=Alphaworld#Notable_Locations">the wiki page</a> for listings of cooperative building projects and model cities within Alphaworld, such as <a href="http://wiki.activeworlds.com/index.php?title=SW_City">SW City</a> (<a href="http://www.swcity.net/pmwiki/pmwiki.php">internal wiki</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pgaJ-c44Ak">"trailer"</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q26rqNGFA-E">guided tour</a>, <u><a href="http://objects.activeworlds.com/cgi-bin/teleport.cgi?aw_2217.4s_3609.8e_180">link</a></u>) and <a href="http://wiki.activeworlds.com/index.php?title=Alpha_Mechanics">Alpha Mechanics</a> (<u><a href="http://objects.activeworlds.com/cgi-bin/teleport.cgi?aw_8094s_1820e_0.1a">link</a></u>). You can also browse points of interest in <a href="http://www.awportals.com/sidebar/aw.php?view=places">AWPortal's Alphaworld places database</a>. But since Alphaworld is 0.4% larger than California, teleporting to any random coordinates (especially near the center) will likely take you to some place interesting.
<b><a href="http://wiki.activeworlds.com/index.php?title=Cofmeta">Metatropolis</a> (<u><a href="http://objects.activeworlds.com/cgi-bin/teleport.cgi?cofmeta">cofmeta</a></u>):</b> Modeled after the cyberpunk dystopia of Neal Stephenson's <i>Snow Crash</i>, Metatropolis is a dark and foreboding science-fiction city. The most interesting location, the Global Biomechanics Consortium, is located at <u><a href="http://objects.activeworlds.com/cgi-bin/teleport.cgi?cofmeta_129s%20199e">129S 199E</a></u>. It's a small city that serves as the headquarters for a fictional megacorporation, with plenty of secret interiors to explore within. There's also the Teleport Center at <u><a href="http://objects.activeworlds.com/cgi-bin/teleport.cgi?cofmeta_16s_0e">16S 0E</a></u>, with portals to many other points of interest in the world.
<b><a href="http://www.activeworlds.com/worlds/mars/">Mars</a> (<u><a href="http://objects.activeworlds.com/cgi-bin/teleport.cgi?mars">mars</a></u>):</b> Like the name implies, Mars is a futuristic simulation of the Red Planet, complete with colonies, caverns, spaceports, and <u><a href="http://objects.activeworlds.com/cgi-bin/teleport.cgi?mars_188n_306e_6a">a massive model of Olympus Mons</a></u>. See <a href="http://www.awportals.com/sidebar/mars.php?view=places">the Mars places database</a> for more.
<b><a href="http://wiki.activeworlds.com/index.php?title=Yellow">Yellowstone</a> (<u><a href="http://objects.activeworlds.com/cgi-bin/teleport.cgi?yellow_705.72n_1077.16e_0.1a_274">yellow</a></u>):</b> A naturalistic world based on Yellowstone National Park and built with the aid of the Dept. of the Interior. Recently underwent an acclaimed renovation that won multiple "<a href="http://wiki.activeworlds.com/index.php?title=Cy_Awards">Cy Awards</a>" (think Oscars for worldbuilding).
<b><a href="http://wiki.activeworlds.com/index.php?title=AWTeen">AWTeen</a> (<u><a href="http://objects.activeworlds.com/cgi-bin/teleport.cgi?awteen">awteen</a></u>):</b> A youth-oriented public building world, notable for its many subcommunities, such as the futuristic <u><a href="http://objects.activeworlds.com/cgi-bin/teleport.cgi?awteen_2121N_2636E">Cobalt City</a></u> (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgYZjATZi90">video</a>).
<b>Van Gogh (<u><a href="http://objects.activeworlds.com/cgi-bin/teleport.cgi?vangogh">vangogh</a></u>):</b> This world brings Van Gogh's town of Arles to life in his style, as if you'd stepped into a painting. In fact, several of his works are incorporated into the colorful small town landscape. Short video <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldr9e8RWJ-E">here</a>. See also the associated <a href="http://www.awportals.com/sidebar/awteen.php?view=places">AWPortal places database</a>.
<b>Casablanca (<u><a href="http://objects.activeworlds.com/cgi-bin/teleport.cgi?rick's">rick's</a></u>):</b> A world with a moody black-and-white film noir theme.
<b>Canyon (<u><a href="http://objects.activeworlds.com/cgi-bin/teleport.cgi?canyon">canyon</a></u>):</b> A cheesy but well-built world full of interactive set pieces from famous fantasy and horror franchises (Indiana Jones, Lord of the Rings, The Dark Tower, The Haunted Mansion, etc.)
<b>Dirt City (<u><a href="http://objects.activeworlds.com/cgi-bin/teleport.cgi?dirtcity">dirtcity</a></u>):</b> A gritty Matrix-esque slum.</blockquote>
<b>Active Worlds Europe</b>
If you want more content, download and install the <a href="http://www.aw-europe.com/downloads/aweurope.exe">AW Europe browser</a> (a multi-lingual spinoff affiliated with the main project). It uses the same interface, but has a different set of worlds on offer, including:
<blockquote><b>London:</b> a large replica of Victorian-era London.
<b>Venezia:</b> A world based on medieval Venice.
<b>Titanic:</b> A scale model of the RMS Titanic.
<b>Future:</b> A Jetsons-esque world of towering skyscrapers, automated factories, and floating walkways.</blockquote>
<b>Extra links</b>
<blockquote>
<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20001205142500/http://online-magazine.com/worldsindex.htm">An extensive interview series with the founders of Active Worlds</a>
<a href="http://www.digibarn.com/collections/notes-designs/alphaworld-britvich/index.html">Snapshots of Ron Britvich's original Active Worlds development notes</a>
<a href="http://mappa.mundi.net/maps/maps_013/">Mapping a Virtual City</a>
<a href="http://www.mappingcyberspace.com/gallery/index.html">Mapping Cyberspace gallery</a>
<a href="https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.socsci.kun.nl/ped/owk/medewerkers/jjanssen/Iscrat2002_Degas.pdf&pli=1">Reconstructing Art in a Virtual World</a> [PDF]
<a href="http://www.awreunion.com/2009/">The homepage for AW Reunions</a> (yearly meetups)
<a href="http://wiki.activeworlds.com/index.php?title=Main_Page">The official Active Worlds Wiki</a>
<a href="http://wiki.activeworlds.com/index.php?title=Portal:Communities">AW Communities Portal</a>
<a href="http://rivercity.activeworlds.com/">River City educational project</a>
<a href="http://blog.wellsfargo.com/stagecoachisland/">Stagecoach Island</a>: A semi-active spinoff of Active Worlds maintained by Wells Fargo.
<a href="http://www.vwtimeline.com/">Timeline of virtual world development</a> (<a href="http://www.dipity.com/WebHistoryProject/Virtual_Worlds">interactive scrollable timeline</a>)
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/06/the-art-of-archiving-virtual-worlds.ars">Saving Virtual Worlds from Extinction</a>
<a href="http://www.archive.org/details/virtual_worlds">Archive.org's "Archiving Virtual Worlds" project</a>
<a href="https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.firstlightmedia.dk/kontakt/kenneth-hansen-1/artikler/to_meet.pdf">To Meet Without Actually Meeting: Cultural Models of Virtual Rituals in Cyberspace</a> [PDF]</blockquote>
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