Weekend Whimsy
1. SECOND LIFE: Stupida Scuola
2. Second Life Kool-Aid (OH YEAH!)
3. Returning to Second Life: The Misadventures of The Space Pope (and Jyggorath too)
Merged realities – events and issues for virtual worlds
1. Linden Lab are excited about the take-up of voice in Second Life, stating more than 15 billion minutes of voice have been delivered in-world. It’s also worth reading the comments in response to FJ Linden’s post on Second Life’s ‘Green’ infrastructure.
2.US-based hospitality recruitment firm, Manhattan Group, are increasing their presence in Second Life, [...]
Evolver – portable avatars
There’s a great story over on Maxping about Evolver, a now web-based avatar creation tool from Darwin Dimensions. There’s no shortage of tools like this but where Evolver shows particular promise is in regards to being able to share avatar creations across a range of platforms and media.
The majority of partners are yet to be [...]
Second Life user retrospectives
The Second Life sixth birthday is looming. What, I wondered, were the changes, for good or for ill, that made the biggest impacts upon the community of users, since the last birthday? While pondering this, I had the following thoughts:
“Don’t worry, users can barely remember what happened last week. 12 months down the track, they’ll [...]
The Multiplicities of Internet Addiction – a book review
This book review appeared yesterday over on Metaverse Health, but given the book’s Australian author and it’s broad examination of online behaviour, I thought it was worth re-posting it here.
Nicola Johnson from the University of Wollongong in Australia, recently released a book titled The Multiplicities of Internet Addiction – The Misrecognition of Leisure and Learning. [...]
The Watch – virtual worlds in the news
1. The Industry Standard (USA) – Real world laws intrude on virtual world behavior. “Navigating the laws of cyberspace is getting ever more complex as virtual worlds themselves become mirrors of the real world. That’s one clear message from a Stanford University event on legal frontiers for digital media that I attended today. Protecting children [...]
Merged realities – events and issues for virtual worlds
1. Second Life educator extraordinaire, Jokay Wollongong, is having a Eurovision party this coming Sunday.
2. Caleb Booker has an interesting article on funerals and virtual worlds. He links to a YouTube vid of an incident a few years back in World of Warcraft that I’d seen before, as a basis of showing how mindsets have [...]
