Monthly Archives: March 2007

Social Tech Brewing Vancouver — Learning in Virtual Worlds!

By Catherine Winters | Published: March 19, 2007
This Wednesday, (March 21st, 2007) I and the rest of the Social Signal team will be at Social Tech Brewing Vancouver, for this month’s topic, “Learning in Virtual Worlds”.* From the Social Signal blog: If you work at the intersection of technology and community-building, we hope you’ll join us for the March gathering of Social [...]
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Second Life usage graph roundup!

By Catherine Winters | Published: March 14, 2007
I found a fascinating* post about Second Life’s much-debated usage numbers over at Social Signal. “That number will likely be over 4.6 million by the time you read this blog post. So what does that actually mean in practical usage terms? Are there 4.6 million regular Second Life users? Well, no.” * Where “fascinating” may or [...]
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Singing in the shower

By Catherine Winters | Published: March 9, 2007
For a long time, I was embarrassed about the way my voice sounds. It’s still one of the things I have the most trouble with since the great “Hey, let’s grow 8 inches taller than everyone else in our class!” debacle of my teenage years. It’s taken me a long time, but I’m finally feeling [...]
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Why is the Pentagon pentagonal?

By Catherine Winters | Published: March 5, 2007
One of benefits of being me is that I have the sort of random thoughts that other people can generally only experience during some kind of medical experiment involving the injection of highly concentrated THC directly into the brain. For example, when drifting off to sleep the other night, it occurred to me to ask: [...]
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