Tomorrow night is the first of a series of live tapings of the public radio show "The Infinite Mind" in Second Life. Given the show’s emphasis on science, health and technology, doing a live show from with the virtual world of Second Life makes a lot of sense. Their in-world shows will feature a plethora…
Category: Virtual Worlds
The Second Life Do-Gooders Tour
Those cool cats at Tech Soup have created a super-helpful directory of non-profit organizations who are active in Second Life. It’s been up for awhile, but I just now got a chance to check it out. An interactive bulletin board at the Tech Soup HQ enables residents to flip through the directory, where they can…
SL book signing with Play Money author Julian Dibbell
Today Julian Dibbell did an in-world book signing and Q&A for his new book Play Money. In an interesting twist, Julian not only is selling a virtual version of his book in Second Life, he also has a two-for-one deal to get both the virtual and real versions of the book for 6250 Lindens (about…
Kaneva entering the MMORPG market
I somewhat randomly came across the "World of Kaneva," a new multi-user online virtual environment still in development (i.e. vaporware.) Kaneva itself is a channel-based hosting service for videos, blogs, photos and other multi-media content, still in the beta-phase. They appear to be trying to dominate various kinds of e-business at the time, going up…
Virtual Relay for Life nets $38,000 for American Cancer Society!
Tao Takashi reports on his blog that this year’s Second Life "Relay for Life" benefit for the American Cancer Society raised more than $38,000 this weekend! That’s a tremendous increase from the $6,000 raised last year! I was super busy this weekend, but stopped in briefly to check out all the fun and drop some…
Chinese hyper-nationalism in virtual worlds
Global Voices Online highlighted today a fascinating controversy in China that arose out of the image of a rising sun appearing in the Chinese multi-player online game “The Fantasy of the Journey West”. Appearing in the Blog East South North West, the blogger reports that there was a mob scene of cursing players at the…
World Cup 06: Second Life armchair athletes unite!
Cool dude Nobody Fugazi offered up his house in Second Life to hang out and chat during the 2006 World Cup match today. Not as good as watching in a crowded bar of football fans, but better than watching alone. Unfortunately no one got the rights to re-broadcast the World Cup in-world, like the simultaneous…
Linden Lab announces first virtual DMV
With the introduction last month of the depressingly dystopian Suffugium sim, residents have been asking what other unpleasant experiences can be rezzed into Second Life. Linden Lab CEO Philip Linden and US Department of Transportation secretary Norman Mineta issued a joint press release today announcing the launch of the first Second Life branch of the…
“So what do you do?”: Finding my place in Second Life
I have been involved in a number of real and virtual communities, from my local Quaker church to the discussion board I administer for swing dance fanatics. After getting past the initial honeymoon phase of getting to know a community, figuring out how it is organized and who does what, you eventually come to the…
SL residents protest new reg policies – film at 11
Not a great showing for Second Life on their 3rd anniversary today — what with Snapzilla being closed, “database problems” causing people to not be able to log-in or getting knocked off repeatedly, and in-world protestors complaining about the new registration policies. 3pointD.com pointed me to a cool video done by SL machinima filmmaker Pierce…