Habitat Chronicles » Elsewhere http://habitatchronicles.com Cyberspace. Virtual communities. Online games. Distributed systems. Opinion, history, advice, and silliness from two guys who've been building this stuff for a long, long time. Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:13:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Crossing the streams http://habitatchronicles.com/2009/10/crossing-the-streams/ http://habitatchronicles.com/2009/10/crossing-the-streams/#comments Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:25:25 +0000 Chip http://habitatchronicles.com/?p=198 A lot of you who know me from the virtual worlds/online games/social media communities may not be aware that one of my other major avocations is photography. »»]]> A lot of you who know me from the virtual worlds/online games/social media communities may not be aware that one of my other major avocations is photography. In particular, for the past several years I’ve been engaged in an extended project to photographically document the current state of the former Southern Pacific (now Union Pacific) Coast Line from San Francisco to the outskirts of Los Angeles. At this point I’ve accumulated something like 30,000 pictures, but until now they’ve just been piling up on my file server. However, a number of friends who have been following this particular adventure have begun nagging me to stop telling stories and produce some output already. Embracing the concept that Productive People Ship, I’ve started a photoblog, Unexpected Image, to show off this and my other photo work. If you’re the sort of person who likes this sort of thing, I hope this is the sort of thing you’ll like.

Off topic I know, but I justify posting about it here ’cause Randy is implicated in the story of how the photoblog got its name, which you can read about on the About page.

]]> http://habitatchronicles.com/2009/10/crossing-the-streams/feed/ 0 Introducing Reputation Wednesdays at BuildingReputation.Com http://habitatchronicles.com/2009/08/introducing-reputation-wednesd/ http://habitatchronicles.com/2009/08/introducing-reputation-wednesd/#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:54:06 +0000 Randy http://somerandomthing.com/blog/?p=115 Reputation Wednesday is an ongoing series of essays about reputation-related matters being posted over at buildingreputation.com which Randy co-authors. This week’s essay is entitled Ratings Bias Effects. »»]]> Reputation Wednesday is an ongoing series of essays about reputation-related matters being posted over at buildingreputation.com which Randy co-authors. This week’s essay is entitled Ratings Bias Effects. This will likely be the only cross-posting, so be sure to subscribe! :-)

]]> http://habitatchronicles.com/2009/08/introducing-reputation-wednesd/feed/ 6 Building Web 2.0 Reputation Systems http://habitatchronicles.com/2008/12/building-web-2-0-reputation-systems/ http://habitatchronicles.com/2008/12/building-web-2-0-reputation-systems/#comments Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:54:32 +0000 Randy http://brass.fudco.com/wordpress/?p=73 I’d like to to announce that I, Randy, am co-authoring a book with Bryce Glass for Yahoo!Press/O’Reilly entitled: Building Web 2.0 Reputation Systems.

We’re starting a blog and »»]]> I’d like to to announce that I, Randy, am co-authoring a book with Bryce Glass for Yahoo!Press/O’Reilly entitled: Building Web 2.0 Reputation Systems.

We’re starting a blog and wiki to document and share the process as well as the content. The blog is available at http://buildingreputation.com and the wiki will be up in the new year. We expect to post quite often as we pound out the chapters of our book, so be sure to get yer RSS feed ASAP.

]]> http://habitatchronicles.com/2008/12/building-web-2-0-reputation-systems/feed/ 0 Lileks on Toontown http://habitatchronicles.com/2008/11/lileks-on-toontown/ http://habitatchronicles.com/2008/11/lileks-on-toontown/#comments Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:11:14 +0000 Chip http://brass.fudco.com/wordpress/?p=71 The invaluable James Lileks weighs in on Toontown.

]]> The invaluable James Lileks weighs in on Toontown.

]]> http://habitatchronicles.com/2008/11/lileks-on-toontown/feed/ 0 Deathspank: Monkey Island meets Diablo http://habitatchronicles.com/2008/01/deathspank-monkey-island-meets-diablo/ http://habitatchronicles.com/2008/01/deathspank-monkey-island-meets-diablo/#comments Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:18:00 +0000 Randy http://brass.fudco.com/wordpress/?p=55 Ron Gilbert a friend and game designer extraordinaire has returned to his rightful place as the lead for DeathSpank, an episodic adventure for HotHead games.

Congratulations Ron! As »»]]>
Ron Gilbert a friend and game designer extraordinaire has returned to his rightful place as the lead for DeathSpank, an episodic adventure for HotHead games.

Congratulations Ron! As soon as it comes out I’ll finally have a reason to upgrade my home machine.

Can’t wait.

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I’ve already sent out a few »»]]> Yahoo! 360° has entered an invite-only beta and you can read my description of what makes it special on the Yahoo! Searchblog.

I’ve already sent out a few invititations, but I’m sure I’ve missed a few of my friends out there who are interested. I’ve got a limited number of invitations, so I’m distributing them only to folks I actually know (in person) and/or are related to. That means you have my email already – just drop me a line.

[I'm wondering if/when the invites will show up for sale on eBay...]

Into the breach!
Randy

]]> http://habitatchronicles.com/2005/03/yahoo-360-invitation-only-beta/feed/ 0 Another Reason Randy Has Been Busy http://habitatchronicles.com/2005/03/another-reason-randy-has-been-busy/ http://habitatchronicles.com/2005/03/another-reason-randy-has-been-busy/#comments Sun, 20 Mar 2005 20:11:00 +0000 Randy http://brass.fudco.com/wordpress/?p=19 I’m been championing Yahoo’s just announced aquisition of Flickr.

Flickr + 360? Flickr + Search? Flickr + Groups?

Use your imagination…

Things are getting a lot more interesting for communities at Yahoo.

]]> I’m been championing Yahoo’s just announced aquisition of Flickr.

Flickr + 360?
Flickr + Search?
Flickr + Groups?

Use your imagination…

Things are getting a lot more interesting for communities at Yahoo.

]]> http://habitatchronicles.com/2005/03/another-reason-randy-has-been-busy/feed/ 0 Announcing Yahoo! 360° http://habitatchronicles.com/2005/03/announcing-yahoo-360%c2%b0/ http://habitatchronicles.com/2005/03/announcing-yahoo-360%c2%b0/#comments Wed, 16 Mar 2005 03:14:00 +0000 Randy http://brass.fudco.com/wordpress/?p=18 Since we are both too busy to keep this blog up-to-date, I figured I’d share what it is that I’m doing that would keep so occupied that »»]]> Since we are both too busy to keep this blog up-to-date, I figured I’d share what it is that I’m doing that would keep so occupied that I can’t keep up with the much needed ranting about virtual worlds, avatars, secondary markets, security and the like…

Announcing: Yahoo! 360°
Press Release

As it hit the wires in the wee hours of 3/16/05:
WSJ:Yahoo Plans Service to Let Users Create Blogs and Share Content
Charlene Li: (Forrester) Yahoo! announces blogging and social networking betas
AP:Yahoo Tests Blend of Blogging, Networking

Early bloggers are intrigued:
Marc Canter
Micro Persuasion (Steve Rubel)
SearchEngineJournal (Greg Sterling)
and hundreds more.

The invitations start at the end of the month…

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