For those of you who avidly follow the various developments, scandals and achievements in Second Life, the web publication the Second Life Insider has been one of your regular sources for news (alongside other news sources like New World Notes, the Metaverse Messenger, and Reuters.) So you were probably as surprised as I was to…
Category: Virtual Worlds
Second Life as an unproven seedbed for real world innovation
Electrolux Innovation Awards The latest issue of the MIT Press journal Innovations has a couple of interesting articles about innovation and virtual worlds. I just finished reading Philip Evans excellent essay "A Silicon Silicon Valley? Virtual Innovation and Virtual Geography." He describes a number of the unique aspects of Second Life that make it a…
Virtual/ Real World DJ Nexeus Fatale offers his turntable services for charity this season
The most excellent house and hip-hop DJ Nexeus Fatale has just announced that he will be offering his services to charitable events going on in Second Life this season: Although With the official holiday season about a month away I’ve decided this year I would like to start my own initiative called DJing for a…
“Synthetic Performances” re-enacts famous Performance Art pieces through avatars November 13
Those wacky artists Eva and Franco Mattes, aka "0100101110101101.ORG," who brought you "13 Most Beautiful Avatars" not long ago, are putting on a mixed-reality performance art piece on November 13. Entitled "Synthetic Performances," Eva and Franco will be reenacting live seminal works of performance art throughout history through their avatars, including a reenactment of Marina…
Merge your Facebook & Second Life social networks with “Second Life Link”
So you have a problem: You’ve got your real life friends on Facebook and virtual friends on Second Life. How do you keep track of who is doing what in both worlds? Fire Centaur (pictured here), a Second Life resident who resides in real world Korea, thought about this conundrum and wondered if it would…
My full-time move to the metaverse
I am estatic to announce that starting at the beginning of November I will be starting a new job as a project manager at the Electric Sheep Company. I can’t say much more about the details before I start. But suffice to say it’s a dream job at a great company working with some of…
Virtual “Log Off Now” tee-shirt!
Wow, awesome avatar Molly Montale just sent me, as requested, a "Log Off Now" tee-shirt based on the image I posted this afternoon. Stuff like this makes me love SL. Now all I need is a real world one to match my avatar’s! Thanks, Molly!
Flickr Folk debate Second Life versus real world photography
There’ s an interesting, somewhat heated discussion in a Flickr discussion forum about the merits of Second Life photographs being posted to the Flickr photo sharing site. For those who don’t know, Flickr has become a tremendous community gathering point for thousands of amateur, expert and professional photographers to share knowledge, feedback, suggestions and encouragement…
In the immortal words of Det. Mac Taylor…
Sometimes, you just gotta log off. Someone needs to make this into a tee-shirt.
My cyberextruded face, Take Two
This is me besides my new avatar face sent to me by Larry Gardner over at Cyberextruder. In June I first visited Cyberextruder’s offices in Avatar Island (teleport SLURL) and experimented with their slick face creation system. A few weeks later, I noticed that for some reason the neck skintone was way too dark and…