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07.18.08Download Consciousness, Freeze Your Brain: Another SL Workshop While We Await the SingularityI just had to point out a workshop in Second Life advertised under the provocative headline: Fourth Annual Geoethical Nanotechnology Workshop to Explore: What Geoethical Management, If Any, is Appropriate for the Nanotechnology Necessary for Cryonic Revival and/or Downloaded Cyberconsciousness? Actually - um, cyronic - isn't that like freezing yourself? I suppose if the Singularity doesn't arrive on schedule it might start looking like an option, but I'm continuing to hold out hope that while my mind might be numb that I don't need to pack it in ice for the coming millenia. Maybe I'll head over for this discussion of cyronic revival ...
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07.15.08SL Conference on Literature August 4 and 6An upcoming conference entitled "Stepping into Literature: Bringing New Life to Books through Virtual Worlds," will explore the potential that virtual worlds can bring to the staid world of literature. "What possibilities do virtual worlds offer us in sharing a love of literature?" asked John Howard, conference director and Special Projects Coordinator for Alliance on the infoisland blog. "Is there value in building worlds that previously existed only in print, or in our imaginations? How can we use 3-D experiences to enhance our experience of literature?” The conference will have lectures but will also guide participants through virtual literary worlds, such ...
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07.07.08Mitch Kapor’s Moving PiecesMitch Kapor closed out the SL5B birthday celebrations today to a packed sim breathlessly awaiting Philip's new hair, or at least details of how to be a disruptive platform and win a prize. I somehow picture this group out in California that gets together over vegetarian sushi and compares vitamin regimens, all of them hoping to hang on just long enough to witness the Singularity. Mitch is one of those folks who moves his chess pieces around the board, or around the boards - sitting on them, forming them, and acting as both a formal and informal mentor to the kids ...
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06.30.08Event: Urban Planning SL Panel July 1On July 1 at noon ET, SL will host a panel called "Urbanism, Architecture, Planning: How Second Life Can Help Build the Urban Landscape of the First Life - and Vice Versa." This comes to us from Keystone Bouchard whose Wikitecture project has been one of the highlights of SL in recent years. The panel will be part of the celebration of SL's 5th anniversary and will take place in SL here. The moderator will be Rissa Maidstone and participants will include Tab Scott, Diva Canto and Boston Borst.
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06.26.08Virtual Worlds Hollywood Conference: Sept. 3-4The next Virtual Worlds Conference will happen Sept. 3-4 in Hollywood, California, following in the footsteps of the successful and well-attended Virtual Worlds Conference at the Javits Center in New York. The Hollywood setting hopes to draw in the entertainment industry in Los Angeles. To that end, most of the presentations and keynotes will focus on issues that examine the intersection between the entertainment industry and virtual worlds. So far, some of the seminar topics include: - Virtual Worlds Primer for the Entertainment Industry - How TV Networks are Effectively Using Virtual Worlds - Virtual Worlds and Hollywood Agencies and this one, which is sure ...
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06.13.08Second Life Teaching Yesterday’s News, and the Sun RisesThere's nothing like meat space for nuance, conversations on the bus, the level of applause in an audience or lack of it - and at the New Media Consortium conference its been no different - maybe once we're all walking around with expressive avatars or Emotiv headsets or whatever, we'll be able to give off that body language that you can only really feel by being there, and at Princeton this year the body language is a sort of collective foot shuffle when it comes to Second Life. OK...well, first, this is anecdotal. It's not like I ran around taking a ...
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06.01.08Children, Chains and Cold Cash: The Business Case for SL5BThe exclusion of builds by child AVs and (we await clarification) Gor, BDSM and other communities puts the lie to the idea that Linden Lab actually celebrates the "magic" of its community - it's in it for the money, after all, and will celebrate magic selectively. This isn't news. This isn't some radical shift in policy - there's always been a FIC, it's just that its definition has become narrower as time goes on, and in order to simplify things it's just as easy to exclude large swaths as it is to include a select group of businesses or talent. Prokofy ...
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05.31.08Lock Up Your Kids, Tie Up Your Kajira, It’s Time to CelebrateSecond Life will celebrate 5 years of "Your World, Your Imagination" by excluding three of the most active communities on the Grid by holding a celebration (SL5B) that excludes kids, Gor, and BDSM in a "fit for prime time" celebration which, I assume, will be dominated by squeaky-clean examples of business collaboration, education, and maybe a bunch of Greenie floats. The Lab announced the 5 year celebration with that kind of rousing libertarian call to action for which it's renowned, following up with the kind of community relation fiasco which is the hallmark of its execution on the great dream of ...
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05.12.08Music Fest to Stream in Real-TimeAh, summer festivals. The heat, the crowds, the dehydration, the parking headaches... despite all of the inconveniences of large music festivals, whose numbers must be approaching most-ever stats, people still flood to the outdoor festivals because of, well, the MUSIC. Fear not, though. Virtual Vancouver is planning to stream most of New Music West, a music fest happening in Vancouver. VV is a "social experience with a 3D virtual reality space" and claims that streaming the festival on the Web will be the "first massively multi-user online music festival." That's FMMUOMF, people! While the technology is currently Windows-only, the company behind the ...
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04.18.08The Garden of NPIRL Delights: Completion, May 14, Tear Down June 23As usual, Bettina inspires over at Not Possible In Real Life, and this time has a canvas 4 sims wide. Donated by Rezzable, Bettina is sending the call out to her NPIRLers and others to join together into one creative force. The idea behind the Garden of NPIRL Delights is a build festival, where the takeoff point is Hieronymus Bosch's visions of humanity. Bettina and Rezzable want users to create their own version of Bosch's Garden in a communal space in SL, using four sims to illustrate the Underworld, Earth and Paradise: "If you were to journey into heaven or hell, ...
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