Nicholas Thompson wrote:
> Our wedstech discussion last Webday about creating a virtual Janes put me in mind of this thing which was a sort of dungeons and dragons university called MooDu. (It is also the name of a Vermont Organic Fertilizer company, so dont get your hopes TOO high.
>
> I was puzzled when nobody at the table seemed to have heard of it. Has anybody else? If it is still active, the url is
>
http://moo.du.org/ Ah, so someone has finally gone and done it. A group of like-minded
folks here in ABQ attempted to start a freenet (as in community network,
not anti-censorship software) back in the early '90s. We tried to start
the project with a grant to work with KUNM (or maybe KNME, I forget) to
provide a Multi-User Shared Hallucination (MUSH) Object Oriented (MOO)
classroom for distance learning. Unfortunately, our partner did not
share the same vision and after we had already received positive
feedback from the educational foundation to which we had applied, the
University of New Mexico Provost nixed the project. That was one among
many negative interactions with UNM that led me to believe that
university is an arbitrary bureaucratic morass.
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