June 2007
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PR in a web 2.0 era
Certain federal agencies that will remain nameless haven’t had the best luck in the press over the last couple years due to the unfortunate conception that their science is controlled by politics. In my mind, this is partly due to applying traditional PR models to a little understood web 2.0 society.
Sadly, I’m pretty sure this presentation went over like a lead balloon, but what...
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You mean people actually want government expansion...
While not as recognized as the DOD or IRS, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is yet another fine U.S. government agency. Thankfully, they don’t collect taxes on virtual profits or monitor virtual gambling habits. Instead, they are more interested in understanding the *real* Earth and fostering an environmentally literate society.
That said, on occasions this...
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My FIC (Feted Inner Core?)
As a tip of the hat to Prokofy Neva’s recent “FIC 2.0” list I noticed an interesting trend in some of the metrics Maya Realities is analyzing. The graph below shows how many times a visitor comes to a sim. A sharp upward turn near the left indicates a developer group or a dedicated group of regular visitors. In other words, a sim’s personal “fetted inner core.”...