Viridian FTW, library2.0, Swedish SL embassy, comic with Einstein and Feynman and ninjas (for real)…

• 1 – Viridian Note 00487: We Are Winning

  “The boiled frog is jumping. It turns out that a boiled frog always jumps. To think otherwise was a mere urban legend … The frog has gotten the message. We are winning!” Realistic positivism from Captain Bruce.

  (tags: politics economy environment green movement success message change climate Sterling Bruce Design Viridian)

• 2 – Building a Library Web Site on the Pillars of Web 2.0

  “Further discussion and reading led me to design six pillars of Web 2.0 that we wanted to use as the foundation for rebuilding our library Web site.”

  (tags: vision technology library2.0 futurism content interaction user web2.0 virtual shopfront website library)

• 3 – Sweden to set up embassy in Second Life

  “The embassy would not provide passports or visas but would instruct visitors how to obtain such documents in the real world and act as a link to web-based information about the Scandinavian country.”

  (tags: futurism permeable membrane embassy Sweden worlds synthetic metaverse Life Second)

• 4 – CNET Requires That Journalists Respond to Blog Comments

  “CNET is mandating that its blogging journalists respond to all reader comments and questions, according to a report in The Guardian.” This could have some repercussions, as Steve Rubel notes.

  (tags: mandate replies comments commentary blogging blogs Cnet journalism online)

• 5 – … Ninjas

  “I am completely convinced I will never write anything even vaguely this interesting again. My Ninja Tale — Einstein and Feynman vs. Ninjas. And it gets weirder.” That, in my universe, is high-concept comics. Sold as seen.

  (tags: Feynman Einstein ninjas story novel graphic comic Rogers John)

• 6 – Has Wikipedia Declared the Death of Print?

  “Disallowing print sources seems to me clear evidence that some kind of collective insanity has gripped the Wikipedian Hive Mind. What could it possibly be thinking?” Sounds like they’ve started believing their own press.

  (tags: media print availability electronic citations editing expert Wikipedia)

• 7 – How to Write an Author Bio: A Tutorial for Wikipedians & Others

  “The most important thing to understand about writing an author bio is that this is a form of literary characterization. Details that enhance the bio by making the author a more rounded character may be crucial even if not otherwise relevant.”

  (tags: literature genre sf scifi fiction science author research writing biography bio writer)

• 8 – very afraid

  “Every moment of a science fiction story must represent the triumph of writing over worldbuilding.” Hmmm. Thought-provoking stuff from M. John Harrison.

  (tags: worldbuilding storytelling literature writing sf scifi fiction science)

• 9 – Vector 250

  “Vector 250 landed in my letterbox this afternoon, so hopefully it’s landed in other peoples’ as well.” It certainly landed in mine – complete with not one but two reviews by yours truly. And the cover picture is awesome.

  (tags: literature sf scifi fiction science British UK BSFA journal critical magazine Vector)