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Jean-Ann Mills (Jane Calvert in Second Life) was on awesome on the national show, The Morning Show, on Fox. The clip is 20 minutes, so it is in two parts. Check it out below.

Here is the direct link to part 1, embed is below.

Here is the direct link to part 2, embed is below.

I’m stuck… I’ve not been blogging or podcasting. I don’t think I’m in a rut, I think I’m just overwhelmed. I am looking for a job, and I am trying to get my kids back, two things that are quite stressful. However, aren’t we all busy? I twittered about a month ago, I said:

Arrived at DFW, decided on the plane I don’t take enough risks… even the silly ideas could end up awesome, or spark it

And I have been thinking of this again. Partly inspired by those out there doing just that. CC Chapman with One Guy’s Thoughts, Chris Pirillo with his ustream stuff, Justin.tv, the Chris’ (Penn and Brogan) with Podcamp, Eric Rice with Saijo City in Second Life, iJustine with Tasty Blog Snack, and many, many more.

For another example, I give you Irina Slutsky, she recently alerted me to the Vlog Deathmatch. I watched her video along with everyone else’s. Were most of them goofy? yep. Were most of them silly? yep. Were some of them good and entertaining? absolutely. Who lost out by doing this project and putting something out there? nobody!

All the folks I have mentioned above have moved to do something different. They are going out on a limb, they create content, and are forging new spaces. What do I do? Analyze. What should I be doing? I should be going out on a limb, I should be creating content, I should be forging new spaces. Sure I blog and I podcast from time to time, but I need to do more.

So this brings me to my next point. By creating content, even if some of it is lame, is this a negative thing? Sure, consistently bad content will drive folks away, but is it worse then not making any content at all? I’m thinking so.

So I was trying to come up with tagline for my blog, and Mo Hax in Second Life helped me out. He posted a pic of me on Snapzilla, and his comment makes for a good tagline. Best of all, I can claim I didn’t say it. (Plausible Deniability) :-)

So from here on, I’m a King of New Media, and not, a ’self described’ King of New Media.

I take my simple pleasures where I can

UPDATE:
Mo apparently was prompted into saying I was a New Media King by the wonderful Jane Calvert.
Transcript from Second Life:

Jane Calvert: Jeremy is a new media king
Mo Hax seconds that

Found this do to it being twittered by Jason Calacanis, I love this video.

can’t get the video, direct link is here:

The rest of the videos that Jason rounded up… some gems in there

Not long ago, the author Dean Koontz held a reading of his yet to be published book, “The Good Guy,” and did about 45 minutes of questions and answers with the audience.

The event was held in the Bantam Dell Bookstore on Sheep Island, and the audio was distributed to 8 others places in second life. I was at Mr. Koontz’s house for this event to stream the audio. If you missed it, you can catch some of the video and audio that was recently released by Bantam Dell on a webpage featuring what they are doing in Second Life.

You can also get the direct link to the video here:

Found at govtech.net, The Conference Board will hold its first virtual meeting in Second Life. The Conference Board is a global business research and membership organization.

Holding meetings in Second Life or any other virtual world is not new news, what is interesting is that, among others, Clay Shirky will be presenting. Clay Shirky has been very vocal about aspects of Second Life, especially how Linden Labs counts how many residents there are.

Welcome back to Second Life, Clay.

For some more information on the conference itself, the article says:

“This is the first Conference Board meeting that is a true hybrid between ‘real life’ and the reality of ‘virtual worlds,’” said Roche. “By having half of the meeting in Second Life, we will be joined by experts from as far away as Finland, Japan, Malaysia, Scotland, Germany, Chile, and France.

“These “remote” participants in the meeting will be presenting both videos and slides presentations within the virtual facility. All participants worldwide will be linked together via a telephone teleconferencing system.

“This unique meeting will feature business strategy, innovation, marketing, legal, and technology leaders.”

I’ve never heard of websecond.blogspot.com, but I never get tired of good news and positive thinking about my employer, the Electric Sheep Company. This one considers us one of the coolest Web 2.0 Startups. Well, if Web 2.0 was a good way to describe anything, then we are well beyond that.

Just read this Shel Israel post about live blogging and the response by Steve Crescenzo.

Just read it, chuckle a few times, and smile at the flame war.

A nice write up about one of my first projects with the Electric Sheep Company in Second Life.

I have a few blogs. This one, SecondLifePodcast.com, and my personal blog for friends a family. The family blog is obvious, but what to blog between the other two is what is messing with me. I guess I could post all my Second Life stuff to SecondLifePodcast.com, and just have this blog pull it in….. that might just be the answer…. but blogging the same thing in two locations? hmmmm