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Monthly Archives: May 2007

Surprising Research Results

This past week I had the privilege to attend my first RL workshop on Second Life®… locally, at the University of Aveiro, on their 1º Workshop on Communication, Education and Teaching. The University of Aveiro is one of Portugal’s youngest universities — a bit over three decades old — and, due to its strong ties to Portugal Telecom’s research lab, it is one of the leading Portuguese universities in telecommunications…

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The End of Anonymity, Part II

Some apologies are in order to some of my unfrequent readers — not being very good with humour (I wish I were), I usually use irony and sarcasm instead. Obviously it’s funny for me to see people commenting me elsewhere and misquoting my words as meaning exactly the opposite Sarcasm is usually hard to spot in written communication, even when it has some nice smileys or exclamation marks after it….

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Snowcrashing Into The Diamond Age: An Essay By Extropia DaSilva

PART ONE: SL AND THE GRAY GOO PROBLEM. When Second Life launched in May 2003, it attracted a citizenship not unlike the Internet’s Usenet group of the late ‘80s and early ‘90s. Toward the end of 2006, a software tool known as Copybot went on sale, and for a brief while our metaverse reflected the web of the late ‘90s with its Napster-related controversy of peer-to-peer and open source versus…

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Hotspots: Second Life’s New Controversies

Sadly, as most of you have noticed, there has been not enough time for me to keep the blog updated… and just when everything in Second Life® is about to change:    Send article as PDF to

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