Over the past half year, I’ve set up a few instances of Hubs Cloud, first for VR2020 and then for personal, education, and research uses. I usually find myself wanting to also run a node server on the same domain, to let me run other services and serve up related…

American history is filled with evil people making fortunes by destroying others, and then rehabilitating their reputations through philanthropy. Think Carnegie and Rockefeller, and recently Gates. Imagine Zuckerberg et al remembered only as saints. Give it 50 years.

Been using Calendly to have students, colleagues, and external folks schedule meetings with me, and it’s (mostly) going great. Two downsides: — Calendly doesn’t allow editing of the event contents after creation — Be careful with the time blocks, or you get holes in your day

Support Alternative Web Monetization: It’s Here, and it Needs You Coil rewards sites you spend time on. Looking at my activity, I think it works. You should join. (Read the full article at blairmacintyre.me)

Online Spaces as Public Parks (originally published on blairmacintyre.me) We need online spaces (not run by Facebook or any other megacorp) that we can hang out in, colonize, and make our own. A thought provoking article in Wired this morning by Eli Pariser (of “The Filter Bubble” and Upworthy fame)…

I was very happy to tweet this, so posting this again on Medium and my micro.blog for posterity: I sold all my Oculus gear and gave the proceeds to the EFF. Join me in celebrating 30 years of the EFF fighting for our online privacy and free speech!

I finally got around to digging out one of my Android dev phones (a Pixel), recharging it, updating it (a non-trivial endeavor, it’s been off for months!) and installing the AR-capable via WebXR version of Chrome Canary. I was pleased when Google announced it last month, and the demos don’t…

Fiona McEvoy summarized some interesting viewpoints and issues related to permission, copyright, and AR augmentations in the real world, in a Slate article titled “What Are Your Augmented Reality Property Rights?”. …

You might have heard of blockchain technology. (Just kidding. I can’t imagine anyone reading this hasn’t heard of blockchain. Just in case, here’s one layman’s introduction that Forbes Magazing published.) One thing that’s been bugging me about all the “blockchain for this and that” proposals is the “permanent public record”…