2006 Machinima FestivalAre you going to be at the 2006 Machinima Festival in New York this weekend? If so, look for some of the confirmed SecondCasters that will be in attendance — myself, Walker Spaight, SNOOPYbrown Zamboni and moo Money.I’m packing my audio gear so we might bring some podcasting goodness home for everybody […]
Hello from Japan
I’m in Japan this week to catch up with my local evangelist, and to do a whole bunch of meetings with developers and with the Japanese press. Here’s a picture that my wife snapped (she got to come along too) after we passed through customs:
We’re quite jet-lagged, but that’s not going to stop […]
Commenting EvolvesSo how would it be to comment not just on total posts but on individual paragraphs within posts themselves? From a writing teacher’s standpoint, I think it would be pretty awesome. You could annotate specific sections of blog posted essays or stories and then leave more general comments at the end. Other people (students) […]
SecondCast Featured in Metaverse MessengerKatier Reitveld of the Metaverse Messenger interviews Johnny Ming on SecondCast Episode 37, the Halloween episode entitled “War of the Worlds.” The article can be seen on page three of the October 24, 2006 issue of the Metaverse Messenger. The full article appears after the jump.(Reprinted with permission from […]
Adam Reuters interviewed Edgar Bronfman (updated)It was taking place on the Reuters sim and was actually a bit short (15 minutes or so). The topics dicussed have been YouTube, File Sharing, DRM and so on.Of course not much new was told in that interview but here are quickly some bullet points (if I did not […]
How to add animations to your Animation Override in Second Life!I’ve done an instructional video with steps on how to add animations to your AO (animaton override) in Second Life. This can become complicated and I felt it might be easier if broken down into steps with a visual.By: TorridTorrid
Making a Cut-OutA cut-out is part of a screenshot with the background made transparent so it stands alone. Use them to display and sell clothes or avatars, as stand-ins for screenshots, or anything else you can think of.In this screenshot I’m standing by cut-outs displaying my clothing.By: Osprey TherianOsprey Therian
Rik’s Picks for December 6-11Rik Riel’s weekly round-up of upcoming SL events… On Friday December 8, at 9AM SLT, actress and activist Mia Farrow will be appearing in-world at the Infinite Mind sim to talk about the genocidal conflict in Darfur and her recent…rikomatic
Links for Thursday, December 7, 2006
Geek to Live: Visualize Your Hard Drive Usage - “The free, open-source utility WinDirStat displays your disk usage in a color-coded map that shows what file types and folders take up the most space on your hard drive.“The Daily Graze: 10 Reasons To Go Long on Second Life - “Second […]
Second Life at the 2006 Mackie AwardsWhile Eric Linden took home the Best of Commercial Machinima category for Silver Bells and Golden Spurs, we were all disappointed that Pierce Portocarerro went home empty handed last night. It was apparent that Second Lifers in attendance felt that Second Life Machinima was misunderstood by the […]