Links for Friday, January 4, 2008
Skype Journal: 5 Things for Bloggers to Do Before Dying - “Write a Blogger Last Will and Testament…“Robert Lawrence Kuhn: Why ThisUniverse? - “We begin with traditional nontheistic explanations (traditionally, one recalls, there was only one universe), which also include a radically nontraditional explanation and the philosophical positions that the […]
Linden Lab thinks about RL/SL friends matchingYesterday at Robin Linden’s office hour she asked at some point if we are ok with the following idea: On signup to Second Life you will get asked if you want to find your friends from Real Life who might already have a Second Life account without you knowing. […]
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The Soul Of Second Life: In SL Spirituality Survey, 48% Open To Mind Upload, 62% To New SL-Based ReligionsMr. Ferlinghetti at Koinonia, a Church of Christ establishment There are churches, synagogues, and mosques in Second Life, but has the world itself shaped the community’s beliefs on religion? According to a new preliminary study by a […]
Links for Sunday, February 10, 2008
Second Inventory - “Second Inventory gives you the possibility to save all your items, regardless their nature, to your hard disk with a click, preserving them forever.“New York Times: The Job Interview, Starring Your Avatar - “Mr. Gould showed up in a Superman costume. Next, he invited me to sit […]
Good Summary of Virtual Worlds Forum Europe
Filed under: Events, Odds and Ends
Tech Digest does a good job here of highlighting 20 trends gleaned from their recent trip to the Virtual Worlds Forum Europe, and they go like this:
1. Shedloads of virtual worlds will be launched in 20082. Teen-focused virtual worlds are huge3. Brands still get […]
Hire some journos!
Filed under: Op/Ed
If Linden Lab couldn’t find any evidence of wrongdoing at Wonderland, perhaps they need to hire some journalists to investigate incidents like this. It seems that most everyone else found something broadly offensive in the place, and well, the journalists apparently found the worst sort of offense in […]
New World Newsfeed: The BBC’s Video on Virtual InfidelityRecent dispatches from the outside world… Narrated with a plummy diction usually reserved for nature programs, the BBC recently aired a 40 minute documentary on love in Second Life. If you’re in the UK, you can see it on the…SLHamlet