Investigate the New Media
On November 19th Jean Linden, Director of International Initiatives, gave a keynote address at the Metaverse 2007 conference. Although the live event in Berlin was postponed until May of next year, they were still able to hold the event in Second Life. The audio recording comes to us courtesy of Bernhard Drax, machinimist and musician […]
La_Robotique_Cest_Fantastique_Str8nimE_viD video by M Dot Strange
M Dot’s comment on this video: So once I heard this track by Pnok I had to make an animation for it….and I did in 2 hours with Cinema 4d and After Effects ^^ Pnok’s myspace
Today I heard Jean Miller, director International Initiatives at Linden Lab (via an ultra-secret recording […]
Video Interview: Len Brody, CEO, Now Public: From Hyperlocal to Hyperpersonal
This is an interview by Rafat Ali of paidContent.org. I thought it was particularly timely considering the recent trendiness of CNN’s I-Reports (and the Second Life version), a citizen journalism site that’s making press for… well… being a citizen journalism site. Not that IndyMedia.org hasn’t […]
The Designer’s Augmented Reality Toolkit (DART) is an enhancement to Director MX that includes real-time video, various sensors, and wizarding methods to support creativity in mixed and augmented reality. You can learn more on the DART website:
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/dart/
We’ve seen augmented reality applications before, but they were always custom-built affairs. People will remember the earlier Augmented Reality […]
Monday at 11am PST Metanomics will be host to Ted Castranova, world-renowned expert on MMORPG economies and one of the first economists to do serious studies there. He has a request: “make me a dwarf female, high fantasy style.”
If you have the talent and the time today, drop your creation in my inventory! (I’m “Onder […]
The last 48 hours has really brought something into focus for me: customer service is going to be as important to the coming wave of new media as it is in retail.
Think about walking into a department store where the sales clerks avoid eye contact, tell you that your questions can’t be answered by anyone […]
We got a new search in Second Life. It works much better than the old one. Hell, it’s Google-powered. Unfortunately, as Tateru Nino recently discovered, there’s a huge bug when it comes to working around the Intellectual Property system. You can basically obtain any texture in Second Life now for free, and nobody will know.
I […]
Massive, horrible griefing over this past weekend in Second Life. A few had fun at the expense of the many. Some people decided to move, and others left Second Life entirely so that they could just get through a day without being harassed.
This isn’t, however, a story about griefers.
Earlier today I caught a group notice […]
Above: M Dot Strange in Film Skool x1
This is just a quick note on why I think user-created content in Web2 and in 3-spaces has been so compelling to so many.
See, we’ve had this dream. It’s a dream about a metaphor become reality, about extending ourselves, about being more than what we are and doing […]
Hope you had a Happy Halloween!
I’m a huge fan of cosplay and, slowly but surely, am developing a deep appreciation for fashion. People express themselves through their appearance. It’s a bit of a radical artform to use your entire body as an expression of an idea. In the virtual world this has extended itself into […]
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