Hi saloners,

Thanks to those who replied about helping with the future salons. I
got back from the Austin Game Conference over the weekend and am just
getting back to everyone now.

Justin Hall signed on for this month's future salon but I'm waiting
on a response from another invitee before I can confirm a date.
Justin's been working on the concept and framework for what he calls
"passively multi-player online gaming" which you can read all about
at http://passivelymultiplayer.com . PMOGers might track and log
everything they do online and level up or earn points as they spend
time on various sites or performing various tasks ('I'm a level 60 in
email!'). With so much of it in the news lately (AOL releasing user
search queries, Facebook feeds, SLStats.com, even SL's email hack) I
thought we'd steer the conversation towards trends in privacy and
transparency on the web and in virtual worlds.

I highly recommend checking out the short video of Justin talking
about PMOGs on http://passivelymultiplayer.com . And if you want
more, the MP3 of his keynote at the Mobile Game Conference is
awesome: http://www.quicklybored.com/?p=151 . Justin's one of the
most interesting people creating things on the web and I can think of
lots of ways to connect PMOGing to Second Life so I'm really excited
that he'll be joining us.

Also a very, very short notice ping for anyone around the world who's
up at 6 AM PST (I will be :), there's going to be a live stream of
Jeff Pulver's keynote at the Video on the Net conference in the
Pulveria sim. Satchmo Prototype has details on that: http://
blogs.electricsheepcompany.com/chris/?p=131 .

More soon,

Jerry Paffendorf / SNOOPYbrown Zamboni