Little Mischief: Brigadoon is a community John built for people with asperger's syndrome. He built it at a site called Second Life, which is a very complex and interesting computer "world" where people can adapt identities and actually build a community, create products, have meetings, and do whatever they want. It's a virtual community, and it's been taking off recently. John was hired after he put an island in Second Life called Brigadoon as a place for asperger's folk. He had developed a reputation for building online communities, and Second Life has no got a good deal of investor money, and has hired more staff. John has had a blog where he speaks about Brigadoon.

http://braintalk.blogs.com/brigadoon...sts/index.html

He speaks about Braintalk on that blog as being part of an overall community for neurological patients, and at one point talks about using braintalk money to build brigadoon. Having donated to braintalk when the servers crashed last, I was a bit peeved to think my donations were going to what is to me an entirely different endeavour.
Not that it isn't worthwhile; it clearly is.

It's been my belief, with nothing to really back me up, that John let our community die while working on brigadoon, partly in the hopes of seeing if we'd migrate over there. Afterall, one of the reasons he was hired was his expertise at building communities, and I wouldn't be surprised if the board of directors expected that he'd be bringing clients with him. But that's all speculation.


I'd like to see JL's books for his nonprofits.

Also, I wouldn't be surprised if JL's interest in asperger's wasn't a tad on the self-interest side, which is not an insult, but might explain what is clearly, to me at least, a lack of empathy for us.

We are not virtual folk moving about a virtual world. So I'm not thrilled about BT1 coming back. I'd have preferred to just see BT2 develope and grow and hopefully become a trustworthy place.