Hard not to enjoy steampunk design. As a kid growing up in the 70’s, reading Jules Verne and constructing homemade rockets from found objects and scavenged gunpowder (something that would probably now attract the attention of Homeland Security), I’ve a special affection for the stuff and enjoyed looking at the gallery of images posted on Wired (Link). Wanting more images I did what anyone would do: searched Flickr (Link) and Google Images (Link). Great design inspiration but I wonder: what’s next? Thoughts?

{Image Copyright © 2007 CondéNet, Inc. ; photo credit: Jake von Slatt}

While doing some surfing last night I happened across a post on Brand Noise, “The Power of Niche in a People Economy” (Link), to which I wanted to call attention. In particular I really enjoyed this bit at the very beginning:
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There’s a good – if long – article by Julian Dibbell, “The Life of the Chinese Gold Farmer” (Link – registration may be required), on The New York Times website today. It goes to some length describing a situation I’ve mentioned on this blog, and is related to something I posted on another one. Good Sunday reading.
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I’ve only been scanning the excellent liveblogging entries over on Virtual World News, but the closing entry contained something of particular interest. From that final entry covering the MIT Media Lab/IBM conference (Link), Linden Lab VP Joe Miller made the following comment: Continue reading →

After reading this comment over on Nussbaum’s blog (Link):

Just as corporations are discovering Second Life and MySpace, a big chunk of their customers are shifting to Facebook.

I couldn’t help but try to post a comment asking Nussbaum to explain how Facebook has an impact on Second Life. I’ve once again been censored (as has my trackback). But get a load of this exchange that didn’t get censored:
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