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I had the pleasure of talking about GMI and Second Life survey technology at the NEON (Network Online Research) Plenum in Hamburg yesterday.

For all German speakers amongst my readers, my presentation (in German) is available for download here. Note that it's very large (24MB), as it contains a couple of Flash videos filmed in Second Life (if you do download the presentation, right-click and select "Play" to play the embedded Flash videos).

Generally it was a very interesting get-together, with discussions centered around Second Life/virtual worlds, web 2.0, and the ever-green "quality of online access panels".

If you want to quickly view the presentation and videos separately, they are embedded here:



Individual videos:

SLIC Interview Sofa:



GMI Interview Bot:

Having spent a little time looking through the conversations in some of the MR-related facebook groups (as an aside, I wish there was a more proactive way that groups would update you with what's being posted on their walls and discussions), I came across one that talked about a wish for some BarCamp-like meetups to share information on web 2.0 and social media for research and insight (as an alternative to the big, expensive, and generally top-down MR conferences).

I think that's a brilliant idea - for BarCamp read MRCamp!

It's vaguely in the same area as the Research Liberation Front, who ran a fringe meeting at the last MRS conference in Brighton, but would ideally be closer to the "everyone presents something" BarCamp ethos.

Is anyone up for this? If so, please contribute to the community wiki at mrcamp.org. If not, we'll consign it to the dustbin of history..