Posted in Cultural, SecondLife, The Main Thread on Aug 29th, 2006 1 Comment »
I was prompted, to this line of thinking, by reading comments (specifically the comments, not the article) on an article over on The Age’s blog pages. The commentator, ‘Merus’, expresses a concern at the rise of virtual worlds (VW) controlled by ‘corporations’. I agree with the sentiment but not sure I’d go as far as [...]
Posted in SecondLife, Video on Aug 28th, 2006 No Comments »
Object-Name: SL_Email_HUD Region: Luna (254464, 256000) Local-Position: (85, 82, 22) I’m going to try and find all the places in “Where in SL is Artilect?” (video @ YouTube) in Second Life and record them on SL_Email _HUD as a test. Snapshot is from the Lost Gardens of Apollo. Devils Moon 57,119,251 – Here we are [...]
Posted in SecondLife on Aug 23rd, 2006 No Comments »
The folks over at NMC have got audio of three of the speeches from the Second Life Community Convention on their media server: Mitch Kapor (which was transcript reported by Mark Wallace over at 3PointD) Phillip Rosedale (also now transcript reported by Mark) Larry Johnson (of NMC, his accompanying post here) A little surprised that [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, SecondLife, Video on Aug 21st, 2006 No Comments »
I have to confess I’m a sucker for well strung together video, especially when combined with a good sound track.. Where in SL is Artilect is a killer – can do it again and again.. (the Shark scene is a classic..) Some kind soul has posted the YouTube link which queries for all the Second [...]
Posted in SecondLife on Aug 21st, 2006 1 Comment »
I mentioned Ordinal Malaprop’s freebie slurlblogger in my last post and that ‘if you were using it to’… Well… I couldn’t resist :-) so I have expanded and modified it and called it SL_Email_HUD (HUD = Head Up Display). It has effectively become a general email HUD tool in addition to its original capability of [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, SecondLife on Aug 21st, 2006 No Comments »
Object-Name: SLURLblogger by Ordinal Malaprop (v0.2) Region: Port Caledon (231680, 262144) Local-Position: (133, 126, 23) Caledon 190,190,23 – Visited Caledon today, having seen a blog article about Ordinal Malaprop Caledon 174,80,23 – do check out Jefferson Gould’s house Caledon 100,66,23 – and of course, visit Ordinal Enterprises, take a ride on the Ordinal Dirigible and [...]
Posted in Cultural, SecondLife, The Main Thread on Aug 20th, 2006 6 Comments »
Second Life (SL) is, according to Linden Lab, about ‘the world’, ‘the creations’ and ‘the market place’ – no mention of a game. It has been reported as a ‘game’ by mainstream media, however, being compared to the likes of The Sims Online or World of Warcraft. I have already posted my views that I [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, SecondLife on Aug 15th, 2006 No Comments »
Well just a quick note to say that the Second Life home page population statistics have been updated as pre-advised in a post from Linden Labs. Happened sometime between 10-11 PDT. Residents are now ‘Users’ interestingly… that’ll set tongues wagging..Interesting change in the way the ‘$US Spent’ number is being reported too – as last [...]
Posted in SecondLife, The Main Thread on Aug 15th, 2006 1 Comment »
Building in Second Life Well, welcome aboard, it is to me too. Having a ‘rezday’ (the day you’re ‘born’, or rezzed, or painted on screen in this 3D environment) in July 2006 definitely makes me a ‘newbie’. And ‘OMG’ (‘Oh my god’) I haven’t even been seriously ‘grief’ed (hassled ‘in- world’ verbally or physically) yet! [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, Cultural on Aug 15th, 2006 No Comments »
And the ever widening world of the world-wide weaving web.. Technorati Profile [Update 17Aug2006] And de.li.cious .. just lately I think I’ve realised (more than before anyway) just how big the blogosphere is.. or.. if you want to read a rather more ‘black view’ of blogging check this article by Nicholas Carr.. “The best way, [...]