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February 26, 2008

Immersionists vs. Augmentationsts Debate  Comments 

Filed under: Augmentation, Immersion, Second Life — admin @ 6:45 am

Wish I could attend this- I am a staunch Augmentationst. :)

Please join us for a debate on Immersionism vs. Augmentationism this Thursday on Orange Isle!

Panelists include Hiro Pendragon, Giulio Perhaps, Gwyneth Llewellyn and Sophrosyne Stenvaag.

The moderator of this debate will be Tom Bukowski. Tom is an expert anthropologist who has been in Second Life for a long time and has a book coming out in April titled “Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human.”

Tom’s role will be to facilitate the flow of conversation by presenting a statement that can be argued affirmatively or negatively by either side.

Date:

Thursday, February 28, 2008
Time:

1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location:

Orange Island, Second Life
City/Town:

Aachen, Germany

February 24, 2008

Tribute Island in Second Life  Comments 

Filed under: Community, Second Life, Video, Virtual History — admin @ 11:02 am

No comments needed. Well done and touching machinima- Tribute Island. Tribute Island was built during in autumn of 2007 by Associated Northcliffe Digital- part of the DMGT Group- , with engineers at Wind Meta Works.

February 21, 2008

Only a Caledonian Would Suffer  Comments 

Filed under: Community, Second Life, Virtual History — admin @ 7:20 am

One so verbose. Chief Typist talks about virtual preservation and some of my latest acts…

As usual he is far too wordy so I will sum it up for him…

- Fandom leads to Community which

- Develops an Identity

- Sharing creates a history

- Sustainability is the outcome…

FDSS. Simple mnemonic.

Ingredients: Fandom, Community, Identity, Sharing and Sustainability.

February 14, 2008

Second Life on Ajax  Comments 

Filed under: Second Life, Virtual Software — admin @ 12:28 am

Ajax Second Life

 In early beta, but this is impressive as a concept…although security aspects make me a bit leary.

  • Basic map
  • Teleports
  • Accepting/declining teleport offers
  • Local chat, instant messages (now fully supported)
  • Inventory received notifications
  • Friend on/offline notifications
  • Balance change notifications, etc.
  • Person search
  • Partial profile viewing

It also correctly logs you in and out, and notifies you if you were disconnected for any reason….

February 13, 2008

Hello Metaverse  Comments 

Filed under: Corwin Says — admin @ 10:40 pm

Welcome to the world of Corwin Chevalier. Totally virtual, live and often annoying. My mythical typist could not contain me and now I get my own “blog”. Ugh.