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Residents say:
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Should governments or regional authorities support virtual worlds financially, because they contribute to cultural diversity and self-expression? I very much doubt that the worlds should benefit from state aid, individuals and groups however could use support aimed at bridging the digital divide. But beware: brdiging the digital divide does not mean automatically bridging cultural divides.
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I've mentioned this before, but I guess it bears repeating. A lot of the stuff we now consider information wasn't considered information until technology allowed the local user to create the final form from information.
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Rezzable is proud to announce the opening of our 'Rezzable Alpha Grid' - based on the OpenSim system - for testing by our fellow virtual world citizens, and invite you to take part in it. Currently we are running eight sims, including a replica of Greenies Home and a bunch of empty ones with plywood in them.
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Prad Prithivi, the well-known designer, has recently posted a thought-provoking and provocative piece on Second Life magazines - The Devil Rezzes Prada. Although he is talking about fashion magazine specifically, I think it’s a good idea for all Second Life magazines (and, for that matter, real life, magazines too) to look at themselves occasionally and see what they’re doing too.
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News in the blogosphere this morning (from Sean Kane's Virtual Law blog, via Virtual Worlds News) that Worlds.com, a company that was an early pioneer of virtual worlds development, but which has long been relegated to the shadows of online history, is flexing potential litigious muscle in asserting certain patents it has been awarded on key aspects affecting virtual worlds and MMOGs -- essentially, just about anything with a virtual space and an avatar.
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The next Alpha release of the Edusim project will be formally known as “Open Cobalt: Edusim Edition” - to more clearly define the relationship between Edusim and the Cobalt project.
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Linden Lab has destroyed credibility with its latest surprise announcement to "jack-up" the prices on more than 50% of the grid's monthly fees. They claim their own incompetence in setting the void sim ("openspaces") features and their own mis-management as justification to bring monthly tier fees from $USD75 to $USD125.
Participants: Living in the Metaverse, 2nd Sex, Massively, Official Linden Blog, What Is This Crap?, Your2ndPlace, Subtle Submission, Ravishal Ramblings, A Stroll Through Caledon, Second Thoughts, Nexeus Fatale Website, Grid Expectations, Through the filter of a Victorian Aesthetic, Dispatches from the metaverse, ~w00t~, 2nd Sex, Metaversal Arts, vintfalken.com, XING - Second Commerce, Not Possible IRL, Around the Grid with Harper, SLPN, Hexed (Formerly Escape), New World Notes, The Secondlife Newspaper, An Engine Fit For My Proceeding, REZ Magazine, A Crimson world, SL Reports, Your2ndPlace, Your2ndPlace, Tenth Life, Massively, The Heliograph, SLfix.com, Tenth Life, Second Thoughts, Get a Second Life, Second Arts, CodeBastardRedgrave.Com, Sered second life, Looker Lumet, Zippora's life, 2nd Sex, Living in the Metaverse, Metaversal Arts, SLentrepreneur Magazine, Reading Radar, vintfalken.com, The Secondlife Newspaper, MixedRealities, Official Linden Blog, Around the Grid with Harper, Atomic-raygun, Massively, 2nd Sex, New World Notes, Reading Radar, GoSpeed Racer a Second Life Avatar, Sered second life, Reading Radar, Dispatches from the metaverse, Your2ndPlace, Prim Perfect, Architecture +, Not Possible IRL, Architecture +, Second Thoughts, New World Notes, Around the Grid with Harper, Around the Grid with Harper, Shiny Life, Architecture +, VTOR - Virtual TO Reality, Livin' La Vida Segunda, Harper's Bizarre, vintfalken.com, Virtual Jungle
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Readers will know I love to try new things, and I had an idea to include guest posts from other bloggers on secondeffects.com. I approached blogger extraordinary Vint Falken with this notion and we began talking about it, and before long we came up with the crazy-ass idea of doing Random guest posts! Yes, that's right – we want to recruit willing and able SL bloggers to submit themselves to our first annual Mix and Match Blog Carnival.
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When Google launched Lively, its web-based, browser-embeddable, Second Life-esque virtual world chat space, we said we'd "check back in with it soon" and "dig deeper to see what Google has in store." That was a lie. We never had any intention of firing up Lively on our Windows XP box ever again after hitting Save on the post.
Participants: Geek Gestalt, Kotaku, The Metaverse Tribune, Raph's Website, Dusan Writer's Metaverse, Shiny Life, Mashable! , Virtual Worlds News, Nexeus Fatale Website, Videogaming247, The Secondlife Newspaper, Eightbar, Edge Online, Terra Nova, WarCry Network, XING - Second Commerce, Virtual Economy Research Network, Christian Renaud's Weblog, 3D On The Web, What Is This Crap?, VTOR - Virtual TO Reality, The Click Heard Round the World, Broken Toys, Shacknews Games
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Today will be like a ‘bouquet final’ because we have two great panels. ‘Architecture for Planned Community’ and ‘How Professionnal Architects use Second Life’ will definitely help us to answer the question “how to inhabit a synthetic world”.
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