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Robert J. Sawyer in Extropia!
We've had a lot of wonderful guests in Extropia, but next Sunday we're going to have a very special visitor!
Robert J. Sawyer (SF Writer in SL) will be joining us for a discussion of his novels and his visions of the future, in life extension, robotics, artificial intelligence, SETI, inter-species ethics and many more fascinating topics. And, he' ( Read more... ) -
New personal blog!
I've got a new blog, Sophtopia. It's on Blogger, and it'll be for personal, gossipy, social stuff. I'll keep Finding Sophrosyne here focused as it's been on Salon news and the occasional think-piece.
Yes, I'll be using LiveJournal for blogging and Blogger for social networking. I know it looks backwards, but -
I'm not paying LJ's new corporate ( Read more... ) -
Sophrosyne's Saturday Salon: The New Renaissance - DavidOrban Agnon
Please join us Saturday, March 22 from 1-3pm SLT at the Central Nexus in Extropia Core for Sophrosyne's Saturday Salon! Our Spotlight Guest will be futurist, community builder and blogger DavidOrban Agnon (David Orban) for an exploration of The New Renaissance.
DavidOrban is:- Founder of OpenSpime, Inc.: their technology enables individuals and ( Read more... )
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Sophrosyne's Saturday Salon: Religion, Spirituality and the Avatar
Next week's Salon kicks off a cycle of several months of absolutely fascinating guests. On Saturday, March 15, from 1-3pm at the Central Nexus in Extropia Core, our Salon Spotlight Guest will be Soren Ferlinghetti (Robert M Geraci).
Robert M. Geraci is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Manhattan College in New York City. He studies the ( Read more... ) -
Sophrosyne's Saturday Salon: Art, Machinima & Immersion in SL
Thanks to CodeBastard Redgrave for being a fantastic Salon guest! It was good to be back after a two-week absence, and special thanks to guest hosts Argent Bury and Grace McDunnough for covering for me!
Codie screened her new machinima, Beauty is Only Skin Deep, and discussed her production techniques for machinima and for her new photo series, ( Read more... ) -
Argent's Meme: A Statement of Principles
I haven't blogged in two weeks! I haven't been around much at all: the Other Personality's terrifically busy, and my time's been drastically limited.
Which sucks, because *I'm* terrifically busy.
Extropia's gone from one to six sims this month, and it's my job to get them rented up. I'm organizing two major events, each, oh, five times the size ( Read more... ) -
Digital Colonialism
Once again, I've been simmering a stew of other people's ideas for a couple days. It's not quite ready to be served up, but since I'm about to go silent for a long weekend, I'm going to go ahead and dish it now.
First into the pot was Al Kronos's post from last weekend, Dutch banks depart Second Life...some thoughts. Al says,
What has prompted me to ( Read more... ) -
Sophrosyne's Saturday Salon: Wired on Griefing
This past Saturday, our Spotlight Guests were Hiro Pendragon and Lordfly Digeridoo, for an intense and spirited discussion of Julian Dibbell's article for Wired, "Mutilated Furries, Flying Phalluses," Hiro's commentary on the article, and on best practices for handling griefers.
We had a lot of first-time attendees, and things got raucous, but we ( Read more... )