Fellow eightbar member and Creative Director Brian Peaston pinged me today with some fantastic links.
The first is to Desktop factory which by its very name shoudl give the game away. Desktop rapid fabrication with a 3d printer. A 3d printer for $5000 thats quite a significant price point. Maybe I should sell my Second Life [...]

Well we did know that a lot of the metaverse is held together by music and dancing. This is a very short snippet of some of that across some popular ones. It more a proof of concept for a longer film later :-)

You can now see Roo do his thing on the IET TV webcast, slides and video of the Mountbatten lecture. from last Thursday.
Update: the video has moved.

The poppy sims have been created, not for PR but out of respect. Wearing a poppy in SL is as important as in RL. We owe the fallen a great deal.

A colleague recently blogged on our internal blogging system about a book call “The Future of Management” by Gary Hamel. Much of what Gary writes about (and there is a video on the UK amazon site too) is veyr much the spirit of what we have been explaining as eightbar. Very often in talking a [...]

This BBC programme from a few days ago proved very interesting. Visions of the Future looked into the future, some near some far in a very well out together show.
” In this century, we are going to make the historic transition from the ‘Age of Discovery’ to the ‘Age of Mastery’, a period in which [...]

The workforce of the new millenium is becoming more flexible, mobile and diverse; discover how the interior designer can fulfil the needs of this transient workforce and produce a workplace that promotes collaboration and productivity.

The US version of The Office (which does an excellent job of being almost as funny as the BBC version) is no stranger to life online. It’s fun to spot Kevin, Meredith, Creed, Roy, Pam all on MySpace, and Dwight has a blog. This week they dipped into Second Life. The very same week as [...]

Next week, on Thursday 8th November Roo is giving the The IET 30th Mountbatten Memorial Lecture with the subject Walking the Digital Dog – Work, Learn and Play in Digital Worlds.
This is a very exciting part to the whole lecture circuit. So, if you are in London, or near and want to see Roo do [...]

Tish over at Ugotrade has written a mammoth post covering all sorts of things including an interview with yours truly, though thats not why I am posting this. It is so that many of you can see this coming together of like minded people helping to take us way beyond where we are right now. [...]