Monthly Archives: August 2007
I got twitted…
I don’t know if I should blame or thank Ana Lutetia for finally “convincing” me to join Twitter… At this stage, I’m pretty much afraid I’ll regret this immensely! In case you’re really interested, here is the link to my account… Send article as PDF to
Please get your facts straight!
For anyone looking at the current misinformation (deliberate or not) being spread around by some of the media, mostly in the US, but progressively abroad, the outlook is grim. The media are incredibly powerful at creating and destroying giants. Deliberately spreading false claims and erroneous statistics is more than enough to get people scared. It’s a powerful technique, it has been used by journalists since the dawn of time, and…
Second Life Community Convention in Chicago, August 24-26
This weekend it’s time for the annual Second Life Community Convention. With more than 800 attendees, this will be the largest SLCC ever. Congratulations to the organisation, and my wishes that the attendees get a lot of fun being there — although, very likely, this year it’ll be way more “business” than “community” Oh — and before you ask, no, I won’t be there. For professional issues related to Beta…
Will The Voice Issue Be Ever Solved?
In “Life 2.0: Augmentationists in Second Life and beyond“, Giulio Prisco writes on the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies’ blog about Second Life’s social changes due to the introduction of voice. The discussion went through the way immersionists disdain the use of voice as a too disruptive technology in our virtual world, while augmentationists claim the right to use whatever technologies they please, while being tolerant towards others that…
Law on the Metaverse Frontier
These days, you cannot avoid to discuss the legal implications that govern Second Life from the point of view of “real life”, real legislation, and real governments… My best source of information so far has been the fantastic “Virtually Blind” blog by Benjamin Duranske. If you’re interested in following the legal aspects inside Second Life, you cannot miss this fantastic site! Send article as PDF to
Caveat Emptor — “Let the Buyer Beware”
I came across a very nice blog describing the issues with commerce and business in Second Life. The author is Myst Panther and she has an interesting style in writing, providing both advice in dealing with conflicts of interest in Second Life, but also gives out some good tips on setting up businesses in SL. Stay tuned on her “Scam Alert!” pages, which always provide quite an insight in the…
Figuring out your online status, revisited
Three years ago, when I was learning how to integrate Second Life with external web servers in the summer of 2004, I posted some code for figuring out your online status from a website, blog, forum, etc. The tricky bit at the time was that XML-RPC requires a ‘channel’, which is created from scratch every time you register an object to handle XML-RPC calls, but this channel changes over time…
Open Source Second Life – The Geeks Strike Back
Recently, Gareth Ellison, one of the promoters of the Open Source Grid, did a promotional event by being in-world to explain how exactly the OS Grid works and how people can connect to it. The OS Grid is one of several that run the reverse-engineered (but Linden-approved) Open Grid Services / OpenSim software suite. Each has a different goal, but OS Grid is strongly encouraging the creation of a completely…
Finally, the blog is back online…
My deep apologies for the past week without access to my blog. It was a true nightmare figuring out what was wrong, and neither me nor the DreamHost technical support managed to fully understand what was wrong. In utter despair, I’ve even moved the whole installation to another server (one that is not currently being used for much) to see if I could temporarily redirect the blog there. What was…
Second Life Tutorials
In the world of user-submitted content that is Second Life, and having such a lack of information available (several wikis, some of which semi-abandoned, others still growing), it’s nice to see someone offering a hands-on approach to information for new residents: SL Tutorials, a place where anyone can submit their own tutorials and classify them accordingly. I really hope that this one becomes more successful and wish its webmaster, F….
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