Social Media and Virtual Worlds Commentary
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Diwali, for those of you who don’t know, is the Festival of Lights for those who adhere to Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism and Buddhism. It celebrates, in Hinduism, the return home of the god Rama after 14 years, who was welcomed with rows of alight lamps. The essence of the festival is the same across all [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Well of course, the answer to that is no. It’s not. But there are very few other things in Second Life which unites the grid. You don’t see any mainstream blogs coming out and saying “You know what? I love me some content theft”. You don’t chat with your friends about what you recently ripped [...]
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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 [...]
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I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again. The chances of being copybotted are very slim. The chances of you suffering at the hands of copybot are very slim. Now awareness is one thing which I’ll happily support – but there’s a sensible way of doing it. When you start panicking yourself that the grid is [...]
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