Frank Foley of TechSoup just announced that SL entrepreneur Anshe Chung has agreed to donate a second sim to the Non-profit Commons. We’ve been bursting at the seams and have more requests for office spaces than we can accommodate, so this is welcome news. I was in on some of the side conversations on this…
Category: Virtual Worlds
The Cannery Art Gallery: merging Web2.0 and virtual world communities
As I write this, 50-some avatars are busy partying away in the new Cannery Art Gallery (Teleport SLURL), created by SL developer Rezzable. This is unremarkable in itself — there are parties going on 24/7 in Second Life. But what it represents for me is the coming together of Web 2.0 and virtual world platforms…
SL designers sought for “Pink for Life” Breast Cancer benefit
I just got this call for contributions for a mixed reality Second Life / real life benefit for cancer research called "Pink for Life." The European cancer research Gustave Roussy Institute is throwing a fashion exhibit and auction on the Champs Elysee in Paris from October 9-10 to raise funds and awareness towards breast cancer…
NORML launching virtual headshop, I mean, headquarters on September 6
On September 6, at HIGH NOON (get it!) PST, the Second Life headquarters of the marijuana reform group NORML will be publicly launched at Lorax Island Resort (teleport SLURL). From their announcement: Experience the freedom of marijuana law reform at the grand opening celebration of NORML’s Second Life Office. The National Organization for the Reform…
More details about Brazilian “City of Knowledge” conference today in Second Life
Gilson Schwartz send me more details on the "Cidade do Conhecimento" / "City of Knowledge" conference happening in Brazil today, which I had blogged about earlier: The City of Knowledge is a research group at the Dept. of Film, Radio and TV of the University of São Paulo, Brazil. We´ve been into web-related research since…
TVP, LLC recreates “Bourne Ultimatum” trailer in Second Life
I read in the Metaverse Messenger that Virtual consulting firm TVP LLC had recreated the "Bourne Ultimatum" movie trailer completely within Second Life. The machinima was an entry in a contest sponsored by Machinima.com challenging contestants to create a movie trailer of the action film using machinima technology. The winner gets $500. Having seen and…
SLCC Day 2: So Long and Thanks for All the Swag!
The Second Life Community Convention finished this afternoon at 5pm. I’m headed home with a bad full of tee-shirts, mugs, various Second Life publications, a compass, screen cleaner, porn, and lots of fond memories. Today I continued my coverage of the non-profit / philanthropy thread, which continued conversations that were begun in several panels yesterday. …
SLCC Day 1: “Second Life has the killer app, which is community”
What a crazy, whirlwind first day of the Second Life Community Convention. It’s been great just being with 800 other SL fanatics all doing interesting things in-world, and connecting with people I have only known through their avatars. I’ve been impressed so far with how friendly people are. If you sit down next to a…
Swag at SLCC 2007
Here’s some of the swag you can get at SLCC this year. Oh yeah, and a really cool compass / carbiner from Involve Media. Ok, not as good as SouthbySouthwest, but pretty decent for Second Life.
Building the International Criminal Court, One Email at a Time
Me with Bill Pace, head of the Coalition for an ICC As I think more deeply about how non-profits can meaningful translate their work into virtual environments, I am reminded of when I as a young activist began using the internet and the web in the early 1990s. I was working for the World Federalist…