Here’s a reminder that tomorrow, June 22, at 9AM PST, Jonathan Fanton, the president of the MacArthur Foundation, and Philip Rosedale, CEO of Linden Labs, will come in-world for a conversation on the role of philanthropy in virtual worlds. I just got another message about the event with a new location and dropped in to…
Category: Virtual Worlds
CyberExtruder: bringing your ugly mug into the metaverse
I recently read in the blog Metaversed about a new avatar customization service offered by the awkwardly named company "CyberExtruder" on their sim Avatar Island (teleport SLURL). The word was that you just drop them a good picture of your face and they create a 3D version of it that you can apply to your…
Gamers unite for Net Neutrality!
I forgot to mention last week that at the Games for Change Festival in New York Moveon.org and Games for Change announced a new joint initiative called "Gamers for Net Neutrality." The goal is to leverage the enormous energy and creativity of the digital gamers communities to push for freer, more open internet public policy….
Quick video of virtual broadcast of iCommons panel on “I versus Commons”
Here’s a quick video of Jonathan Zittrain answering a question I posed to him from Second Life. Namely: How do we win the fight for free culture when the hardware / OS layer is being increasingly locked down by Microsoft and Apple for freely creating, sharing and re-mixing our content? The context was a panel…
Larry Lessig speaking today at iCommons Summit, streamed in-world
Tireless advocate for free culture, enlightened intellectual property policies and an open internet, Dr. Lawrence Lessig will be speaking today at 11AM PST at the iCommons Summit in Dubrovnic, Croatia. You may know Larry as the CEO of the Creative Commons. For those who can’t jet over there, Larry’s talk will also be streamed into…
Two Joans too many: the problem with mixed-reality events
This evening, I spent some time watching a mixed-reality concert featuring Joan Osborne in the Rockefeller Center Peacock Room in the NBC sim. It’s a lovely space, there was a lively and fun crowd, and Joan sounded great. But I think there was at least one too many Joans. I’ve decided that I don’t really…
MacArthur initiates conversation on role of philanthropy in virtual worlds June 22
On Friday, June 22, Jonathan Fanton, the president of the MacArthur Foundation, and Philip Rosedale, CEO of Linden Labs, will come in-world for a conversation on the role of philanthropy in virtual worlds. Given the enormous investment that MacArthur is making towards all sorts of research and innovation in the use of new media for…
Discussion on “Media Policy and Games” at Games for Change
Alex Quinn, the new Executive Director of Games for Change, (center) moderated a panel with Adam Green of MoveOn.org (left) and Ted Castronova of Indiana University (right), on the intersection of public policy and games. Adam talked about how activists working on Net Neutrality were looking to expand their outreach to the gamer community and…
Photos from Games for Change Day 1 online
Today was a rush of incredibly interesting discussions and speakers for day one of the Games for Change Festival at the Parsons School of Design. I’m much too exhausted to do a recap, but you can at least see some pictures from the event here.
Thanks for participating in “Virtual Activism” panel today!
We just finished the "virtual activism" panel at the Games for Change conference in the Parson School in Manhattan. Glitteractica Cookie of Techsoup, In Kenzo of Amoration, and Beth Kanter were great. Unfortunately the skype stream from Jeska Linden of Linden Labs failed. But Jeska participated in world, answering people’s questions and adding to the…