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Cut And Paste, Chicago 2007

Audience contest,
originally uploaded by helloleticia.

Here are our photojournals from the Chicago stop of the 2007 "Cut And Paste" worldwide design contest.

For those geeks out there, there's also an R-rated video of the event, set to "geeksta rap" (as opposed to "gangsta rap"). You'll want to put the headphones on and get the kids out of the room.

My dotMobi Site

My dotMobi Site,
originally uploaded by philgomes.

For friends/family that have a Web-friendly mobile phone, you can see what I'm up to by pointing your phone's browser to http://philgomes.mobi/.

I work with the company that manages the ".mobi" Internet domain, which is in lieu of .com in order to represent a mobile-friendly Web.

Give it a try and let me know what you think.

Relay For (Second) Life

Mom once asked me if Second Life was a cult. In any case, it looks like people are doing good things with it.

Here's a story about how the American Cancer Society brought their Relay For Life walk-a-thon into Second Life and raised $40,000.

Created by more than 30 volunteers, this year's virtual Relay For Life track walked through representations of real-world places like Mexico, New York City, Paris, Sweden, and South Africa. Avatars encountered opportunities along the way to have fun while donating money - lighting virtual luminaria, and participating in events such as sky diving off of the Eiffel Tower. Participants exchanged US dollars for "Linden dollars," Second Life’s unique currency, by purchasing Linden dollars online. Following the event, Linden dollars are converted back to real US dollars.

I bring this up because my family, via the Buon Tempo Club's involvement, are strong supporters of Relay For Life.

One may sneer at the fact that a Second Life participant in a charity walk-a-thon doesn't get the experience of camping out and, well, any cardiovascular benefit whatsoever. Then again, $40,000 is $40,000 to the ACS.