Comments on: 15,000 visit Secondfest virtual music festival

By: Latest Hype Cycle report – is Twitter on the slide or headed for enlightenment? « Giving in a digital world

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:57:27 +0000

[...] fell rapidly from an high ‘Peak of Expectations’ back in 2007 (anyone else remember the Pet Shop Boys ‘playing’ at Secondfest?) and now seem stuck down in the ‘Trough of Disillusionment’ with minimal progress over [...]

By: Second Life Relay for Life 2009 virtual fundraising event – this weekend « Giving in a digital world

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:51:09 +0000

[...] the heady days of Summer 2007 when we had virtual Wimbledon and The Guardian backed a whole virtual music festival, the virtual world Second Life seems generally to have slipped down the online hypecycle from the [...]

By: UK Fundraising | Blogs | Bryan Miller | Blog Archive | Second Life Relay for Life event set to top US$100,000

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 11:24:52 +0000

[...] just a couple of weeks after the Guardian and Intel sponsored Secondfest Second Life music and arts festival, this is another great example of the type of international event that is now possible in the [...]

By: mantim

mantim — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:53:32 +0000

Scribd does indeed look interesting. I love it when I find an idle thought I had a few weeks ago suddenly turns out to already exist; in this case I was looking back with rose-tinted nostalgia at the days when random geeks would put up web-pages about whatever they thought people might like to know. I found myself feeling as if unless you had something to blog about, a video for YouTube, artwork for DeviantArt or something to contribute to a wiki, the internet didn't want to know. This goes some way to changing that, and does some interesting things besides. It has the potential to be something I've been thinking about that would, I suppose, be described as a meta social network. Right now we have cute things like Ravelry popping up (a social network for knitters), but the next step would be someone like Scribd building in the functionality to create such a specific kind of network within itself. Given that, you wouldn't even need the Yahoogle feed consolidation thing (if that is indeed what it will be) because you'd have it all in one place already. Or maybe that's what they're actually really up to. Hmmm. [Seeing as I can't preview this comment I just have to post and pray that the links are formatted correctly, I presume? If not then I can only hope there's some editing functionality...]