Over the past few days the Live Journal community was in an uproar over Six Apart’s move to delete what they considered objectionable material. I first read about it on Boing Boing (Link), then on Mashable (Link), and then on numerous sites. C|Net carried the news (Link) and one look at the comments should provide some sense of just how upset LJ users were; I rarely see that many comments on any C|Net story.

The backlash wasn’t just swift, it was also sufficiently motivating to elicit an apology from Six Apart’s CEO, Barak Berkowitz (Link) and an ongoing evaluation/restoration of previously deleted journals.
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Core77 posted notice (Link) that Commonwealth, a husband and wife team exploring – among many other things – rapid-prototyping technology, is partnering with graphic designer Joshua Davis to produce Tropism, the third of five exhibitions being hosted by the Espeis Gallery.
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Has anybody bothered to read the BusinessWeek piece “Beyond Second Life” (Link)? I suspect a few have as I’ve recently seen mention of a new BW article while scanning over some SL-centric blogs. This is probably it.

Well, having just stopped by Nussbaum’s blog and finding (what else) heavy promotion for all things tied to what appear to be his pet “innovation” projects, I just read his gush about it (Link):

Reena Jana and Aili McConon did a wonderful job

Are you kidding me? Is that what qualifies as journalism today? Unbelievable.
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Just watched a neat video over on C|Net (Link) that seems to be the latest from Microsoft’s “surface computing” people. This isn’t the same stuff I mentioned in March (reLink).

This variation is less about mixing realities in crazy ways and more about a clean, workable interface with obvious practical applications (e.g. an interactive menu system and more for restaurants).
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For those unaware, O’Reilly’s Where 2.0 conference is currently underway. I mentioned the conference somewhere in comments a few weeks or so ago because (big surprise) 3D technology was a topic on the event schedule.

This morning, while surfing through the O’Reilly Radar blog (Link), I caught word of Google’s new 2D technology… which is actually pretty neat. There’s nothing to download and you can find a good link on O’Reilly. Not the 3D stuff I was hoping for, but no big deal. I figure the swarmanoids will be here soon enough.
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