My decades-long passion has been to explore what creates a sense of presence in a mediated environment - especially a virtual environment (except the boundaries between the face-to-face and the virtual are always permeable). Everything I do at an intellectual and spiritual level is about finding opportunities to play with how such a space is created, and how community and collaboration are a part of that. And I also am spending quality time in World of Warcraft again, to break out of the academic into learning that is all about play.