My man Hamlet served up some juicy political drama this morning on New World Notes. Cristiano Midnight, the owner of the Second Life photo hosting service "Snapzilla" as well as its parent site SL Universe, has just taken down his websites in protest of Linden Lab‘s new registration procedures that he says opens the floodgates…
Category: Virtual Worlds
Happy Birthday, Second Life!
Tomorrow marks the third anniversary of the virtual world Second Life, which is celebrating in high style with a host of events over the next few days from live DJed dances to parades to keynote addresses by Philip and Robin Linden (the CEO and VP of Linden Labs, respectively.) Today my pal Illbixby of Ill…
American < yawn > Apparel in Second Life: virtual boredom on your desktop!
Apparently the blogorati are abuzz about clothing retailer American Apparel opening a virtual store in Second Life. Even CNET is reporting on the store opening. Designed by the talented Aimee Weber, the new store will feature, well, clothes and other store stuff. Like a cash register. Woo hoo! A CASH REGISTER! All in a…
Video re-mix of re-mixed art event in SL
I just ran across a fun remix video created by In Kenzo called “Everything is Transformable”. The short video piece is based on the remixed art event I participated in last week, sponsored by Free Culture and Creative Commons. There’s some cool footage of my avatar wearing the Net Neutrality shirt I designed, not to…
SL Spaceflight Museum, Part II: creating wonder in 3D
I returned last night to check out the rest of the Spaceflight Museum in Second Life. In my first visit, I remarked that this sim showed the enormous potential of Second Life for education. What I didn’t mention was the power of Second Life to inspire and evoke powerful feelings. Last night, my friend Beckto…
SL Spaceflight Museum, Part I
I began checking out the new Spaceflight Museum in Second Life this weekend, and I have to say that I am totally blown away. For an old space-nerd like me, it’s a dream come true. (For perspective, the teeny-tiny purple dot on the orange staging platform is my avatar.) Just opened this Sunday, The Spaceflight…
Rik’s re-mixed art on display in SL
So this evening I happened to be checking into Second Life when I get an instant message from a Genevieve Junot, asking me if I’m going to show up to “introduce my art.” I replied that I had no idea what she was talking about. Genevieve then reminded me that tonight was the official showing…
Virtual Net Neutrality Tees available
As my extremely modest contribution to the Save the Internet cause, I just created a “Support Net Neutrality!” tee-shirt in Second Life, which I am giving away to all who desire them. So whether you are a cyborg, flying monkey or fairy princess, you can now proudly show your support for a free and open…
Organizational Democracy: Linden Labs listens
e-Democracy guru Steven Clift passed along a very helpful set of recommendations for non-profits on how to respond to online criticm, written by Jayne Cravens at Coyote Communications. In a nutshell, what she says is, respond respectfully and promptly to online criticism. I couldn’t agree more. Giving someone with a complaint more than a fortnight…
Where did all the residents go?
Ok, now this is just getting silly. Second Life’s front page now shows them as having 243,671 residents. As opposed to the 256,336 residents shown proudly on their site yesterday. Clearly all the hub-bub on NWN, the SL Forums, Clickable Culture, and www.raphkoster.com about the fishy statistics have caused the Lindens to start purging old…