From February 15th through February 17th, people from industry and academia gathered at Stanford University to participate in two events.
The first was a continuation of the excellent Metaverse Roadmap work that had started two years ago, which is an attempt to capture and forecast the coming changes in the user interaction model with the Internet. If you haven't read the original MVR, you can find it here.
The second event was (or rather 'is', as it is still underway) the MetaverseU, which is a combination of presentations and open discussion covering various facets of the virtual worlds, augmented reality, and lifelogging, with a particular focus on the human factors and societal impact of an idealized Metaverse.
The event is being streamed live (and freely) into Second Life here, and Henrik Bennetsen has taken a further step of creating a time capsule of where we are in this technology cycle by interviewing all of the participants and attendees with four questions regarding the best and worst things of current technology, and the opportunities and unforseen downsides of the future adoption of same. His interviews will be published on YouTube under the group 'MetaverseU', as well as tags on Flickr and elsewhere tagged 'MetaverseU' Henrik has also blogged about what he is doing on the MetaverseU blog here.
It think this is a good example of forward thinking in being able to tag content distributed around the Internet as a distributed transcript and record of the event. Consider it 'Distributed Lifelogging'. Now, if we could incorporate Twitter and Second Life chat transcripts.....in one portal.........
Today Yoga and therapeutic massage have become quite popular among people of all ages. Yoga has a 5,000 year old tradition and can make a positive difference in our health and life. It can also enhance our overall immune system.
Here is a good link for you
http://healthfreak2.wordpress.com/2009/10/03/adopt-a-healthy-living-through-yoga-therapeutic-massage/
Posted by: Robin Smith | October 03, 2009 at 04:50 AM