Lara Nieberding

Second Life to become largest medical school in the world?

Peering inside – Second Life’s user retention

The really interesting thing is the lack of change in the retention figure itself – despite everything done to improve user experience – it’s not budging, so far as we’ve been told.

New World Newsfeed: Ex-Lindens on Cory Linden’s Leaving; Philip Linden Responds

Virtual Worlds and Social Science: Conference

A Virtual World Winter?

While I’m still bullish on virtual worlds and MMOGs for a number of reasons, that doesn’t mean we won’t necessarily go through a deep winter before we find spring again.   
I’m often asked about what comes after World of Warcraft?  Can this market be
sustained?  Is it possible that we could find ourselves in a situation where we have to say about our entire customer base
that “those who came, left”?  And if so, how do we prevent that from happening?

Getting Started With Blogging in the Classroom

In other words, scholars need to read blogs! I cannot overstate this fact enough. If you really want blogging to be transformative and you want it to sustain itself as a powerful piece of the classroom environment, it starts with seeing the philosophy of this genre as authentic literacy: critical reading, connecting and synthesizing ideas, communicating publicly, creating, contributing, community linking and building, and moving cyclically.

Blogs are not the death of writing but the evolution

There are those who believe that blogs are the death of all that is good and noble about writing… and represent some sort of weakening of the mind.

blogs are a medium.

Just as paper can hold poetry or pornography, penmanship or im-speak, blogs can do the same.