In reviewing T. L. Taylor’s Play Between Worlds for a reading response assignment, I started to think about the language we use to talk about social web tools. Our choice of words can have an enormous impact on whether or not people choose to adopt new technologies. As in any form of persuasive argument, [...]

Over the summer, I’ve been working with ACME (Action Coalition for Media Education) Co-President Rob Williams and Flow Media Design’s Rick Hood on building a new website for our organization using Drupal. It’s been a crash course for me in learning Drupal, which has been a lot of fun. I’m still learning my way around, [...]

In a recent email exchange with a colleague, the following question was put forth to me, “How is broadband access going to increase literacy?”
Not claiming to be an expert on the issue, I decided to dig a bit deeper in order to try to have a more informed response. Here’s my reply:
“Thanks for the [...]

I just learned from Larry Gallagher over at MIT about their new blip.tv powered MIT TechTV. It’s fun to see how they worked with blip.tv to reconfigure the interface to suit their needs. The layout is similar to some of the ideas found in the demo/mockup of our Open Media Library project (insert shameless plug). [...]

“Final Preparations for Final Project (Location)“
Aubree and I presented our final project, “The Visual Artist in Second Life” in class and in Second Life this afternoon for our last Studies in Digital Media and Culture class. I took the picture above of the two of us late last night as we were finishing up [...]

Mark Frydenberg invited me back to Bentley for a CIS Presents lecture this past Monday to discuss creative uses of social networking tools in education. I spoke to a room of about 60 students about my collaborative graduate thesis project and the tools I’m using to allow others to participate in sharing their experience and [...]

I recently noticed that Emerson College now has RSS feeds available for those interested in subscribing to their news, accouncements, events and workshops on their e-Campus front page = very nice.
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “New(s) Feeds at Emerson”, url: “http://colinrhinesmith.com/2007/04/12/news-feeds-at-emerson/” });

Last month I mentioned that I was interested in using a wiki for my thesis. Not for the purpose of dumping my ideas somewhere on the web, but to invite real participation from the community I’m exploring. At that time, I (1) wondered if this was possible to do at Emerson College and (2) [...]

If you are a visual artist creating and sharing your work in Second Life, please consider contributing to our graduate virtual ethnography project at Emerson College by responding to the following questions (below).
Please leave your responses on our project blog at “The Visual Artist in Second Life“. Thank you.

How do you spend your time [...]

My classmate, Aubree and I are working on a virtual ethnography project for the remainder of this semester. We’ll be looking at the artist community inside and outside Second Life. I’ll mainly be responsible for setting up a blog for the project and other things presentation-and-distribution-like. Aubree’s doing a number of other things, including zeroing [...]