So Cindy and I are at Elvie’s, a popular filipino restaurant in the East Village, last weekend. We ordered a delightful assortment of pork adobo, chicken in a coconut sauce, and a pork skewer. We only got one portion of rice because I’m cutting back and Cindy doesn’t eat much herself. Our apparent deficit of…
Month: May 2007
Multiple Gay Pride events in SL over June!
It looks during the month of June we will see at least two different sets of organizers putting together in-world gay pride events. Satchmo Prototype announces that "The L Word" community is organizing a series of pride events in June on their sim, featuring both in-world parades and broadcasts of real world parades in LA…
CC Chapman gives John Edwards campaigners “A” for effort, “D” for execution
Social networking guru CC Chapman has a great post about how the John Edwards campaign folks (1) initially tried to connect with him via Twitter, (2) sent some low-level flunky to preach to him about "pushing some information" about Edwards out to his friends, and (3) asked him if he ever used MySpace or Delicious. …
Bad ass logo for Machinima Fest ’07
My buddy Ill Robinson (Paul Marino), head of the Academy of Machinima Arts and Sciences, has just put up a super-sweet logo for the 2007 Machinima Festival. The Machinima Fest, for those that don’t know, is the principal gathering point for machinimators (digital filmmakers who use 3D computer graphics engines) from around the world. Every…
Tell the FCC to set aside spectrum for faster, cheaper internet!
The activist group Free Press sends out the alert that the US government is going to give away to telecom companies key slices of the radio spectrum left vacated in the transition to digital TV. In their view, these newly available frequencies should be kept aside for unlicensed use to facilitate faster, cheaper form of…
Destroy TV and Walker Spaight united in virtual matrimony
Despite the lag and crashiness, I managed to capture this photo of SL journalist Walker Spaight and android avatar Destroy TV moments after they are wedded before a crowd of cheering and wooting onlookers in Caledon sim. The engagement was only announced in the SL Herald a couple of days ago. I fear the love-struck…
Slideshow of avatars with their creators
Ailin Qin and her avatar Ansche Chung Am I my avatar? Or is it a mask I hide behind? What does my avatar say about me? You can not help but ask yourself these questions after checking out the book Alter Ego: Avatars and their Creators by Robbie Cooper. Cooper does a very simple thing:…
iCommons open internet summit goes multiverse
The iCommons summit brings together several hundred of the major pioneers, big thinkers, activists and developers working for an "open internet." This year’s gathering takes place from June 15-17 in Dubrovnik, Croatia. The convocation is full of internet rock-stars like Larry Lessig and Joi Ito of Creative Commons , Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales and CTO…
New banner and tagline for Rikomatic.com
I finally got around to redesigning the banner for this blog. I used as the central image a picture I took of the Unisphere in Flushing Meadows Park last spring. Hopefully the tagline better captures the somewhat grab-bag of topics I write about.
Frank and clever video on doing business in SL
Click To Play Check out this impressive video on doing business in Second Life by marketing firm Inside This World. Narrator and head of ITW, Biscuit Carroll pulls no punches on what he views as corporations who "get it" and those that don’t. Among those that are using SL smartly: Reuters (news and chat), IBM…