Investigate the New Media
Draxtor Despres serves up yet another brilliant report, this time on The International Justice Center.
Video description: The International Justice Center opened recently in Second Life with a panel discussion featuring International Criminal Court prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo. What will the SL community do to further the cause of the forgotten and helpless of the world? Draxtor […]
I’m not about to dive into a censorship debate. If you’re interested in that, go find another blog. There’s really only one thing you can count on when it comes to opinions: everybody’s got one, which means that there just isn’t much of a market demand for them. I’ll just save it for now.
So recently […]
With all of the sorry and sad nonsense out there about “the terrorists”, who “can use and may already be using” v-worlds, I’ve never seen the slightest evidence. What I have seen quite a bit of, however, is v-worlds being used for activist causes. This cute little machinima recently arrived in my inbox, along with […]
Harper’s voice carries across worlds.
When Linden Lab was first announcing that they were bringing voice to Second Life, it bothered me. Actually, I was ticked right off.
For the most part I was just sick of the grid crashing, massive lag, and an overall disappointing experience around the grid. We kept complaining, and they kept rolling […]
WARNING: Offensive language, strong political opinions, etc etc blah blah blah…
Why am I posting a bunch of potentially offensive videos from a guy making political statements I don’t completely agree with and I’m not interested in discussing?
Sean Bedlam is what new media is all about.
He does two extremely taboo things in his videos: he swears […]
“Truth about Facebook” by Vishal Agarwala - original presentation in Flash
In part, this is about grassroots journalism. The original flash has 3170 “diggs” at the time of this writing, having been created sometime in 2006. AlbinoBlackSheep picked it up from there, and then others used screen-capture software to make videos of the presentation and upload […]
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 […]
I’ve never seen it better illustrated than in this blog entry by Joel Greenberg of the Electric Sheep Company. Here’s a sample paragraph:
“Yeah, but no one’s there,” said one of the Young Critics, who brought up the Wired article at the beginning of my talk. I said, “Go to GooglePlex at 9am on a Wednesday, […]
This latest from Bernhard Drax is the best demonstration of where media is going. It’s not enough to see it. It’s not enough to hear it. You must experience the reality for yourself.
Remember this?
A student was sitting in a library, minding his own business, when police officers doing random ID checks (in a library?!?) demanded he show his ID. He told them to go away and stop bothering him. They tried to arrest him. He didn’t get excited about the idea.
Apparently what he should have said was: […]
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