The Watch – virtual worlds in the news
1. Wired – Virtual World Griefing Reaches New Heights. “This month’s issue of Wired contains an impressively in-depth article on the griefing exploits of the Something Awful Goonsquad. Most famously, the Goonsquad was responsible for interrupting 2006’s CNet interview with Second Life pseudo-celebrity Anshe Chung via airborne flocks of oversized penises”.
2. The Christian Science Monitor [...]
Trend Map 2008 – virtual worlds front and centre
Ross Dawson is an Australian who speaks widely on future technology and he’s recently created a 2008 Trend Map for technology. It’s modeled on a Shanghai train route map and it’s remarkable in how successfully it summarises where things may go in the coming year.
Ross considers virtual worlds as a key aspect involving technology, society [...]
Australia Day 2008 in Second Life
An excellent grass-roots effort has been put in by a handful of Australian Second Life residents to ensure Australia Day 2008 goes off in style in-world.
There’s a cricket pitch with plenty of spectator seating, a special Australia Day version of Wolfie Rankin’s Rockit music trivia extravaganza and lots more.
Come dressed in your best [...]
Linden Lab Press ‘Tech Talk’ Media Conference – Aussie Second Life servers still likely.
Today at 3pm SL time (10am Saturday 26th January AEDT) Linden Lab held a media conference entitled ‘Tech Talk’ that featured Linden Lab’s VP of Platform and Technology Development Joe Miller, VP of Systems Engineering Ian Wilkes and Software Developer / Havok 4 ‘Guru’ Andrew Meadows.
Each member of the media present was allowed one question [...]
Weekend Whimsy
1. Practice Foreign Languages in Second Life
2. Eidolon A.I. speaks about government, A.I., humanity
3. NASA History through Second Life
Second Linden Lab podcast available
The second edition of ‘Inside The Lab’ has been released.
It’s a precursor to a press conference being held in-world tomorrow to talk tech issues and Second Life – we’ll be attending to ask a question or two and will report back. If you have a question you’d like asked, comment below and I’ll see [...]
The Mike Huckabee Center for the Liberation and Housing of Spermatazoan-Americans
We reported recently on some excellent political satire occurring in Second Life focused on Hilary Clinton. Republican Mike Huckabee gets his turn with the opening of the “The Mike Huckabee Center for the Liberation and Housing of Spermatazoan-Americans”.
I was a bit slow in realising what the Huckabee Center was about – it was only [...]
