Everyone it seems feels as if they have a little bit of the psychic in them. The art of predicting the future is something that when someone gets it right everyone is amazed but when most turn out to be false no one is surprised. In fact, there is a little game of statistics that […]
Read More →Over the past two months, Rockcliffe University has been conducting classes on education and leadership in World of Warcraft (WOW). At first blush this may seem very strange as World of Warcraft is a massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG) that, at first glance, is all about “shooting zombiesâ€. That fact not withstanding there […]
Read More →Oy-i-va. So we get this email today which is Linden Lab’s attempt to stem the tide of people that are looking to leave Second Life for other virtual world environments. I have no other way to put this other than someone just doesn’t understand the principles of economics when it comes to why Education and […]
Read More →Linden Lab has finally done it. They have successfully managed to cut the one straw that was holding up the camel’s back: Education and Non-Profits. The unfortunate part is that I do not believe they understand what that straw was. To be clear – it was not the recently announced removal of the educational and […]
Read More →It is weird that certain events seem to co-inside with each other to prove a point. This morning on QÂ Jian Ghomeshi was talking with Sri Lankan-British-American musician M.I.A. in part about censorship and the commercial viability of alternative artists to get records published in an internet age. As part of the conversation it was mentioned […]
Read More →Heroes come in all shapes and sizes. There is the tragic hero for whom there is the fall from grace. There is the classical hero who, spirited away at birth, returns to conquer some evil archetype of the society he left behind. There is the renaissance hero where wisdom and courage are used to overcome […]
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