A great post on Global Warming. 

A good response to C4 as well. 

It's interesting how education and learning technologies and practices, and how newer technologies apply - carry over to the framework of Integral Practice.

Another article from Elearnspace - specifically on Virtual Reality/Second Life.

I'm going to get myself a charcacter soon - start having Second Life Integral Practice Weekly meetings...

I'm waiting on when I get a new computer that doesn't have a bad card for the microphone, which mine does.  (Yes, I could get a new card, but I have a pretty old computer anway...)

Good post from elearnspace.

Cross-institution studies, informal learning (in the form of a portfolio, and other online activities are kept in separate containers. For education, an identity system should be one that allows users not only to authenticate, but to bring the content of their learning activities into a space each individual controls. In this regard, I find portfolios to be of greater value than a simple ID system.

This should be the same in practice networks.  Those who are practicing ILP, or Body For Life, or completing daily advaita lessons - all of these fundamental activities - and any associated learning/online trail - should be controlled BY the individual, through their own identity and associated attributes - then these would be relayed to any application/systems through an agreed upon open protocol.

I've had this discussion - or at least posted a couple of comments about eportfolio functionality - to Brian Johnson at zaadz, previously. 

This type of networked "skill and growth" portfolio - we'll see if there is a market for it, and, if there is, who will be the first social network to enact it.