Social Media and Virtual Worlds Commentary
I’m running slightly late with this, but these days, I’m lucky to get the time to post anything.
About a year ago, I made a bunch of predictions about where Second Life would be now, so I’ll kick off reviewing how those went:
1. SL concurrency is going to hit 150,000. Ha! I got this very very [...]
Remember me? I’m the one who gets bored of blogging more often than you change underwear. Which I’m willing to bet isn’t often, you filthy monkeys.
I’m popping up to reflect on the year that has been and to ponder what’s next.
The year kicked off with a bang in January as Linden Lab announced they had [...]
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This whole thing over the regulation of Third Party viewers is pretty interesting. Linden Lab are again flexing their claws and this time showing the grid who’s the big boss by clamping down on the runaway viewers which have illicit functions built into them. Again, this is one of those things we all saw coming, [...]
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Cole’s published an interesting account on her take on Second Life.
Although I don’t quite agree with it, something about it struck me as interesting – many SL residents are very constrained in terms of creativity. Don’t get me wrong though – there are thousands of extremely creative people in Second Life, but the whole concept [...]
Anonymity is as old as the internet. Okay – actually it’s much older than that, but for purposes, Online Anonymity is as old as the internet. Give or take a few days.
It started off mainly on newsgroups which covered particularly sensitive taboo topics (like sexual bondage) which people wanted to discuss, but didn’t want people to [...]
Hype is a dangerous thing. Once you’re thrust into the public spotlight and it feels like everyone is staring at you, then one thing is inevitable. Some people will try their darn best to rip you down and destroy you.
Remember when Second Life was the media darling, and could do no wrong? The papers were [...]
I saw Surrogates recently, which stars Bruce Willis as an FBI agent in a world where people minimise risk to themselves by living their life through an artificial being which is an idealised representation of who they want to be.
Sound familiar at all?
The whole idea seems rather far fetched, even if we are living an [...]
A few days ago, I had the pleasure of having a long chat with Arwyn Quandry and Vaughan Vendetta about the problems that Copybot has caused on the Teen Grid (TG). Vaughan is a current resident on the Teen Grid whereas Arwyn recently came of age and made the transfer to the Main Grid (MG). [...]
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One of the things you quickly realise between being a blogger and a content creator is that you have to weigh up when to give coverage to such a tool as Copybot, and what the ramifications are to yourself as a content creator.
I’ve known about copybot clients for years now, but I’ve always refused to [...]
Okay – since I covered how a designer can protect themselves, I figure it’s wise to go over how a client should protect themselves too. Because lets face it – Second Life has more than its fair share of cowboys.
So how do you find someone who’ll take a job and complete it from conception to [...]
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