This is a short list of things I know still need to be done. I am posting this here because there may be other things to be done that I do NOT know about. You can add those as comments and they will be tacked onto my task list.
Things to do:
1. Write help notes about uploading and displaying images;
2. Display time and author details for the posts;
3. Create categories and/or tags for the posts;
4. Display posts by category or tag;
5. Install a comment-spam filter (I have been cleaning out about 100 a day for the last three weeks);
6. Experiment with auto-linking plug-ins (so that every mention of Wikipedia turns into a link and so on);
7. Add the papers from LoW3 and the overall synopsis of the conference!
8. Tweak the style sheet to make the link-blue slightly darker.
If anything else occurs to anyone then please leave a comment.
I am also working on something I am calling distributed publishing which (in best web 2.0 style) tweaks some existing plug-ins and uses them to a different purpose. I will explain more about this soon I hope either here or in my memexie (as we are learning to call it nowadays!)
I should also add that I am writing this here because I believe that we will be better off keeping everything onstage. I suggest that we do not write emails about administrative matters or suggestions, but post them as part of the dialog. We are experimenting with group communication here and someday somewhere an undergraduate will be glad to treat this as research material.
We are all each other’s data…
Big Brother has begun its first series in Second Life. We tried to persuade Maya, who is working with us, to join it but she refused when she realised that she would have to spend a minimum of eight hours a day in the Big Brother houses for three weeks - and that the three weeks included both Christmas and New Year.
We agreed with her completely.
Nonetheless 15 willing contestants have been found and the show is on its way. A number of people have speculated that (like many other recent ‘real world’ publicity stunts) the creators were not much concerned with what happened to the 15 contestants. Their main concern appeared to be with the amount of newspaper and television coverage they were getting for the international Big Brother brand.
This was the case with Tony Walsh at Clickable Culture whose post ‘Second Life’ Griefers set ‘Big Brother’ Ablaze discussed the sabotage that took place at the start of the event, and how little appeared to have been done to predict or prevent it.
Gary Hayes, on the other hand, ignored the fireworks and decided to write about the underlying developments that he saw the event harbinging.