Metaverse Aid
Late last year I wrote on Metaverse Aid, which is a team on the Kiva website.
I just wanted to take the opportunity to encourage anyone involved with virtual worlds to join the Metaverse Aid team and make a real difference to entrepreneurs in developing countries. Each loan is just that, a loan, and you [...]
Merged realities – events and issues for virtual worlds
1. Linden Lab have released a PDF Quickstart Guide for new Second Life users.
2. Dancing Ink Productions have released a new documentary about a virtual journalism project: The Virtual Newsroom of the American University in Cairo. You can watch it here:
3. Sky News in the UK has pulled the plug on their island in Second [...]
The Watch – virtual worlds in the news
1. CNET (USA) – Second Life’s economy is the envy of the real world. “Virtual world Second Life is out with its Q1 2009 Economic Report and things are looking up. In fact, Second Life economics look much better than the real world. Users are spending much more time on the site despite a drop [...]
Weekend Whimsy
1. Mr. Chaplin and the Nude Painting – A short film in Second Life
2. Second Life- Ice Caverns Gallery – April / May – 2009
3. The Virtual Worlds Story Project in Second Life® ~ Storytelling to Heal
Incorporeal things and cognitive dissonance
Most of the things which touch our daily lives are incorporeal. It’s been that way for so long that we’ve long since forgotten what it is like for it to be any other way, yet we’re suspicious when new incorporeal things intrude on our lives.
For many of us, money has been incorporeal for [...]
Australia Council’s second virtual worlds art project: mellifera
During July last year we reported on the Australia Council’s second virtual worlds funding initiative, MMUVE IT! Thirty thousand dollars was provided to the successful applicants, Andrew Burrell and Trish Adams, and mellifera is the result.
The installation revolves around bees and the way they interact with their virtual eco-system. Like the previous project, Babelswarm, [...]
Italian Earthquake Benefit in Second Life
I won’t embellish this announcement from Australian Second Life resident, Rebelmuum Slade, on a fundraiser being held tomorrow morning at 6am AEST (1pm SL time):
When disaster strikes the global community of SL unites in love and acts fast.
One of the wonders of this marvellous community is the closeness of people from all over the globe.
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