In ‘A Tale Of Two Avatars’, Wagner James Au reports on the discovery that there are two ‘Hamlet Aus’ on the social networking site ‘Avatars United’. Like many things to do with life on the screen, a superficial consideration of this discovery leads to a clear-cut and simple conclusion: There is the real Hamlet [...]
One skin designer (Namssor Daguerre) and 6 years of the history of skins, on my other blog
Watch never-released-pictures of Awful Gwyn in BSSE (Before Second Skin Era)
[UPDATE] My interview with Namssor Daguerre on Ana Lutetia’s blog, which is the #10 most read blog in Second Life. Thanks for letting me publish [...]
I had started to write this in mid-October but never finished it… and the database crashed at some point while I was in the middle of writing it, losing almost all of the article In the mean time, the recent interest in this topic, as well as M Linden’s announcement that they would [...]
As Linden Lab prepares the last round of bug-fixing before launching the brand new SL 2.0 viewer (will it run on Apple’s iPad? lol), I did a few movies showing off how good Snowglobe actually runs on way old laptops.
This is pretty much a personal discussion I’ve got with NetAntwerp, who refuses to believe that [...]
This time, we get a short essay from Extropia DaSilva… but one that is quite close to my heart Enjoy! — Gwyn
“Trussssst in me/ Jusssst in me”- Ka from Disney’s ‘Jungle Book’.
When H+ Magazine published Stephen Cobb’s article ‘Real Discrimination Against Digital People’, someone wrote the following response:
‘I fully respect online personas, but [...]
2009 comes to an end, and after the traditional snowball fight with the Lindens, where residents redefine the concept of physics-induced lag by shooting everything in sight with utter prejudice, it’s time to relax, rethink about what went wrong in 2009, and how 2010 will look like.
Keeping in tradition, I’ll try to get my 2010 [...]
I’ve added a few thoughts on the first-hour experience in Second Life on my other blog. We all know that M Linden’s top priority is dealing with the first-hour experience of newbies and trying to get a better retention rate. Apparently, 99% of all new users leave before a month has elapsed (and don’t even [...]
On the same day, I got hold of two bits of news from the metaverse front: first, Blue Mars announced their pricing. Oh, all right, I know I’m behind the news… the point is that this relaunched the Second Life® vs. Blue Mars debate once again. I started following the SLED (Educators in SL) mailing [...]
Drax sent me the above video, which is a nice way to tie this to the Copenhagen conference
What amazes me is the quality of the video overall — specially in these days where so many people still think that the SL rendering engine is “outdated” and such. You start getting more and more [...]