A couple of weeks ago, I dropped in on "Aloft" virtual hotel being sponsored by the Starwood Hotel chain and posted some pics. Only later did I find out that the sim wasn’t open for business yet and that I was trespassing. Oops. Anyway, the Starwood Hotels travel blog theLobby.com has a nice little write-up…
Category: Virtual Worlds
Snow Crash comes to Second Life: where’d I put my wakizashi?
This weekend I finished re-reading Snow Crash, the seminal 1992 cyberpunk novel by Neal Stephenson that was a central inspiration for the virtual world Second Life. Snow Crash is in my top five sci-fi novels and I have re-read it several times over the years. But its been at least five years since I have…
Last word on Gov. Warner’s SL appearance: Would you vote for this avatar?
After a restful weekend up in Vermont, I come back to find out that there has been a good bit of media coverage on former Virginia Governor Mark Warner‘s appearance in Second Life last week. Notably, the Washington Post has a humorous piece on some of the confusion and griefing at the event. Hamlet Au…
Short video of Governor Warner’s SL appearance
Presidential hopeful Governor Mark Warner appeared in Second Life today for an interview with Hamlet Au of New World Notes. To give you an idea of what the event was like click on the image for the You Tube video, or here’s a downloadable quicktime version (17 Megs). I’m sure Millions of Us will be…
Governor Warner speaks on Iraq, Democratic Party, Abortion in Second Life
As some predicted, it wasn’t more than a publicity stunt, but Governor Mark Warner’s appearance in virtual form in Second Life still was a historic occasion. When a possible contendor for the US Presidency makes a pit stop in a virtual world, you have to think that something new is in the air. Others, particularly…
Governor Warner brings real world politics into the virtual world
The blogarati and the media are abuzz about the Second Life appearance of Mark Warner in Second Life this afternoon. Getting boingboing‘ed doesn’t hurt, of course. My buddy Hamlet Au at New World Notes made a very last minute announcement yesterday night that he will be interviewing possible presidential candidate Mark Warner, the former governor…
Mark Warner, Possible Presidential Candidate appearing in SL tomorrow!
Just a couple of days ago I blogged about the possibility of a "darkhorse candidate" with a virtual campaign headquarters. Two days later Hamlet Au at New World Notes announces that he will be interviewing possible presidential candidate Mark Warner, the former governor of Virginia, live in Second Life tomorrow afternoon! Hamlet says that in…
Aimee Weber on SL Business and Marketing
I was delighted to spend last evening hanging out with designer/ master builder / cool chick Aimee Weber, as part of the Kuurian Expedition. The Kuurian Expedition is a group of researchers and academics exploring what they call "Synthetic Worlds" i.e. virtual environments like Second Life and Worlds of Warcraft. Aimee in her talk gave…
Using virtual environments for political organizing
Andrew Poppin in the article "Second Life Targets Existing Branded Communities" on Corante.com makes some interesting comments about how SL could be mobilized for political organizing: Imagine the 699,000 of 700,000 DailyKos political blogging community members who will NOT make it to next year’s YearlyKos conference in Chicago being able to "attend" online side by…
Yet another SL Serenity build!
Abby Dawson has her own version of the Serenity spaceship (or "boat" in Firefly parlance.) Head over the "Abby’s Serenity" in Rua to check it out in person (SLURL link). Or just see my pics here.