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The Archives
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08.19.08I’m Sick and Tired Too: VD for Virtual WorldsI don't want to remember 100 passcodes. And I recently blogged on this....and blogged...and blogged.....and 4,000 words later came to the same conclusion as Edutechy who also had a nice simple diagram and a name (Virtual World VD) to explain the whole thing: Edutechy also bypassed a lengthy sidebar on interoperability, identity, reality and all that obscure stuff and put it rather simply: "I’m just sick and tired of entering all of the same data, and building the same types of avatars on each system. If these systems and concepts are to grow, then we need standards governing them…" I propose the same, ...
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05.23.08My Avatar is Not Me, or, Why Virtual Worlds Will Not Become AppliancesMaybe the Grid has been more stable lately, or less stable, or maybe there's one of those collective deep breaths as the community waits for, well, whatever it waits for - the next CSI build? The next Burning Man? The first pronouncement from Governor M. Or Agent M. Or Organic M. Smoke puffed from the upper windows of the Lab, black and filled with morning, and then the white smoke told us that He Had Been Anointed and now we're all waiting for his appearance on the balcony. And in the idle time we wonder whether M will play Medvedev ...
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03.24.08Second Skin Film Debut/ReviewAt this year's SXSW in Austin, Texas - perhaps the most-blogged cultural event in recent memory - the film Second Skin debuted. It is a documentary about computer gamers that explores some prurient questions about why people game by documenting the lives and events of actual gamers. Now, I didn't make it to Austin and did not see the film. But judging by the trailer alone, it looked like it might be a more positive taken on what Wagner Au called "Mirrored Flourishing", showing avatars on-screen aside their real-life counterparts, and perhaps a more positive take than the BBC's recent Wonderland. ...
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09.27.07Come inside, I’d like to show you somethingI'd like to hit on a few of the latter words in the tag for this blog - about spirituality and creativity. So I'm going to take a bit of a detour here from worrying about Google and the Lindens and talk about how I feel. My mind can't stay still for long so you can standby for the next comment or random rant if you prefer. We'll be talking about branding and technology again in the morning. But if you'd like, let's talk about fears for a second, and hope. Come inside, for a minute, I'd like to show you something. Continue ...
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