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    Web 2.0 and the Myth of Non-Participation

    At the Cross-Media Storytelling conference a few days ago I witnessed a strange event with one of the categories of speakers. There were three groups of speakers, forward thinking practitioners, catch-up heritage media representatives and theoretical, reflective academics. The last group had one or two useful observations wrapped up in PhD-like presentations but the two […]

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Featured Articles

featuredimage Corporations in Social Virtual Worlds - Psychopaths or Welcome Friends?

. Virtual Worlds Necessitate Corporations Develop Personality followed by Gary's top 15 tips to becoming human in the metaverse (and 2D ...

featuredimage The Brand Owners Guide to Joining the Metaverse

or thirteen non-exhaustive tips for organisations considering becoming stars in the new web 3.0 revolution... I have mentioned before that I ...

featuredimage Witnessing the Birth of An Entertainment Form

The Relentless March of Channels and Formats into Second Life Rather than just referring to the many standard press articles about ...

featuredimage Cross-Media - What Audiences Want

Just spotted my old collegues Matt Locke and Frank Boyd launching another series of 360 lab initiatives at the BBC. ...

featuredimage Virtual Worlds, Web 3.0 and Portable Profiles

I have posted prolifically about MUVE'S (Multi User Virtual Environments) in the past, concentrating mainly on the ever customisable Second ...

featuredimage Alternate Reality Games in Virtual Spaces

Ok the title sounds a little 'space cadet' and paradoxical but bear with me on this one because the implications ...

Alternate Reality

What have you Got against my Bot!

I find this really interesting and a portent of the future. I am sure you remember the context to the films Bladerunner, chasing down sneeky renegade bots. Then there was AI with its ‘Flesh Fair’, (humans destroying orphaned robots), then the agents in Matrix, what is real and who is not etc: All come from […]

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Cross Media

SocioNet 101, Body Interface and The Cyber Celeb

Three more of my cross posts from the LAMP Watercooler I write/edit.
1 SOCIAL NETWORKING 101 FOR MORNING TV AUDIENCES
I just captured and uploaded to YouTube a TV show (yes they are still going!) this morning featuring Australia’s leading social network strategist and social network hostess with the mostess, Laurel Papworth - also occasional LAMP mentor […]

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Mixed Reality

Mashing the Real and the Virtual

I am very interested in Mixed or Cross Reality advances at the moment. Over the past 6 months there have been some great trials and even a few commercial enterprises set up including Total Immersion. But a couple of trials caught our attention in the last couple of weeks. The first (virtual into real) in […]

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Virtual Worlds

Distributed Web 3.0, roll your own Virtual Worlds, a step closer thanks to Australian companies

I don’t often do the press release thing but given this is a great metaverse platform company from my neck of the woods (Melbourne and Brisbane - Australia) and this is beyond the vapourware we have seen from other players hoping to topple Linden and Second Life off their perch, I will make an exception. […]

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Social Networks

SocioNet 101, Body Interface and The Cyber Celeb

Three more of my cross posts from the LAMP Watercooler I write/edit.
1 SOCIAL NETWORKING 101 FOR MORNING TV AUDIENCES
I just captured and uploaded to YouTube a TV show (yes they are still going!) this morning featuring Australia’s leading social network strategist and social network hostess with the mostess, Laurel Papworth - also occasional LAMP mentor […]

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Production

Cross-posting and BLOGUILT

If you are anything like me you probably have many blogs on the go. I stupidly set myself the task of maintaining the following blogs, wikis and a few web 1.0 sites:
LAMP, JustVirtual, Watercooler, GaryHayes.tv, Cubrisound, LAMP Wiki, MUVEDesign and a host of sharing portal channels, other wikis, forums and commercial sites which you can […]

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Personalization

The Format Generator v0.1a

A nice little toy to play with down below which has resulted from a few recent think streams. I have been thinking hard about the potential millions of formats that can be created by mashing the many traditional media forms with even more new media forms - endless combinations of genre, platform, structure, intention and […]

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