Monthly Archives: May 2008
Danton’s Tour Of OpenSim Grids
Danton Sideways just posted on his blog the result of his tour of the current offerings of OpenSim-based grids and how he evaluated the “state-of-the-art”. All look promising… in a future to come. He was quite honest about his evaluation, and did his best to be in touch with the OpenSim community and understand their plans for the immediate future. If you’re considering to move over to the OpenSim because…
The Sound of Music
Not so long ago, I commented on the future of music distribution via virtual worlds like Second Life®. It is still my belief that we’re assisting at the end of an age where music distribution via records/tapes/CDs and earning an income from royalties is coming to an end. While “free information activists” have long since predicted the downfall of the RIAA and the end of “music piracy” as a crime, they…
The Sojourner’s Last Voyage
The Sojourner is one of the oldest residents I’ve been honoured to know — she was one of the many Mentors that always was available to give everybody a hand. She was of the “old school” generation of Mentors — when you had at least to give a class every month — and Soj (as we affectionately called her) was great at those. She also had some of the best…
Iberian Virtual Presences
At this quiet corner of the world, projects from RL companies continue to enter the Second Life® world, no matter what. The gallery shown below the break comes from the launch of SEAT‘s virtual presence in SL, the leading Spanish car manufacturer, done by Spanish Metaverse Company Mosi Mosi in Barcelona; and from the Dolce Vita “Best Fashionable Avatar” Contest, sponsored by one of the leading shopping mall chains in Portugal…
TheAvastar: Blogified!
One fun aspect of Second Life® was that very early on it attracted its share of tabloids — the old veteran from The Sims Online days, the Second Life Herald, and a bit more recently, the AvaStar, which is published by Axel Springer AG, one of the largest German publishing houses who also publish several RL tabloids. The AvaStar, to be more effective in its message, adopted since the beginning a PDF…
Cloudies!
I’m reading Snow Crash for the first time (please, no spoilers!) but I’ve already seen the many references that ‘inspired’ some of Second Life®’s quirks. One of them are the “low resolution avatars”. Well, the fun is that SL sometimes loads avatars with a slow connection with “grey textures”. Sometimes, missing images. And most of the time, the dreadful Ruth, which you can’t even change unless you relog. Well… the creative…
CTRL-ALT-R: Rebake Your Reality: An essay by Extropia DaSilva
Editor’s note: Once more, Extropia DaSilva has finished another of her mind-provoking essays, and it’s time to give her the floor! — Gwyn “Listen: there’s a hell of a good universe next door. Let’s go”-E.E Cummings. INTRODUCTION: WHAT IS ‘NORMAL’ ANYWAY? In online worlds the everyday concerns that define real life coexist with experiences that can only be described as ‘surreal’. It is fairly safe to say that if you…
A Special Thanks to Gwen Carillon
Slowly recovering from a bacteriological infection which leaves me almost unable to focus on anything for more than a couple of hours at a stretch due to high fever, something which is terribly frustrating for me, it’s those special moments from friends that cheer me up. My good friend Gwen Carillon, RL artist and masterful jewellery designer in the Second Life® environment, besides an active promoter of the Content Creators Association, has…
The Metanomics Colbert Challenge!
You all saw Jon Stewart’s parody of the Second Life® world shortly after Philip Rosedale was at Congress debating virtual worlds, “Avatar Heroes“. Jon Stewart’s style of humour, of course, is legendary, and the sketch is really lovely to watch and laugh at — but it’s also clear that nobody at Comedy Central had ever been in Second Life. Still, it attracted people’s attention to Second Life (much better than not talking…
Instant Tutorial for Everything in the Second Life World
Well… almost! Ariane Brodie has a long list of all the kinds of tips that you would love to have had when you joined the Second Life® virtual world for the first time — from avatar settings, to free skins, to dozens of scripting tips for most things, and to get rid of that newbie look in no time — all in a short one-webpage-tutorial! Thanks to Ana Lutetia for…
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