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I'm moving some of my older files/texts/writings onto LJ for mirror keeping, tagging.

........2005
"I bring up [http://mappa.mundi.net/cartography/Palace/ Memory Palaces] not to necessarily encourage a return to the ancient art in its same form.

The Art of Memory and the Method of Loci (back in the days) was really quite an immense visualization trick...and a feat I think that few people today would consciously use. What I'm very excited about is the probability that we're entering a new phase in the internet and a new form of memory retention (which traces back to this concept of memory palaces) will become second nature to the masses:continued )
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Glitter Speaks Before Congress on Nonprofits in Second Life
Posted April 1st, 2008 by penguin kuhn in TechSoup's NPSL

"TechSoup's own Susan Tenby, Senor Manager--Online Community Development , aka Glitteractica Cookie, gave a prepared testimony before the the House Committee on Energy and Commerce's Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet today about the potential of Second Life for nonprofits. Her testimony was part of today's hearing: "Online Virtual Worlds: Applications and Avatars in a User-Generated Medium". read the article
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Breathe.
I'm having that feeling again...
need to know it's all right...and that I'm not messing something up.
Continuing to watch/see that everything is coming together so amazingly...just like the old vision/dream (Pier 10)...but will the 10% be in there?
Will we all evolve this benevolent organism that can so easily solve many realworld issues/challenges? Am I supposed to be doing something very specific that I'm not? Are you? thoughts and questions. I think it's going to work out. Little things will add up to a tipping point. Memes and Empathy and small actions we can all do to help.

related thoughts worth registering to read: Second Earth
The World Wide Web will soon be absorbed into the World Wide Sim: an environment combining elements of Second Life and Google Earth
.- by Wade Roush, Technology Review, MIT press
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Came across this Very informative post/compilation which introduces and compares various virtual worlds currently in existence. Complete with video intros I'm glad to bookmark it. It's a little dated (from April '07) but I think still mostly relevant.
Alternatives To Second Life - Uber Edition by Onder Skall

Featured/compared are AlphaWorld, Furcadia, Entropia Universe, The Sims Online, PlayStation Home, Kaneva ,There, HiPiHi, and more. Details on other worlds in pre-beta stages, tools to build your own virtual world, etc. check it out!thanks,Onder:)

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