Coleman Wins 1st Round In Virtual Worlds Bout
An experimental three-way conversation about the future of virtual worlds is taking place among Clay Shirky, Henry Jenkins and Beth Coleman, the first round of which is now complete with Beth’s recent...
View ArticleCan A Million Penguins Write A Wiki Novel?
This isn’t specifically Second Life-related, but it’s a project that a Second Life resident is helping to run and it’s very cool, so I thought I’d mention it here. SL resident Jeremy Neumann helped...
View ArticleI’m A Terra Novan! (At Least For The Moment)
Most 3pointD readers will be familiar with Terra Nova, which is probably the best blog out there for deep thinking about massively multiplayer online games, and one of the best on non-game virtual...
View ArticleVirtual Muckraker Interviewed By MIT Brain
MIT’s Henry Jenkins has a great interview with our Muckraker-in-Chief over at the Second Life Herald, Peter Ludlow (aka SL’s Urizenus Sklar). In fact, it’s the first part of a two-part interview, the...
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Foreign Correspondents of the Virtual and Real
I am occasionally asked by reporters interested in the Second Life Herald (where I’ve been an editor for two years now) what the appeal of doing journalism in virtual worlds is. In an attempt to locate...
View ArticleThe World’s Blog Posts in 3D
I’ve seen this YouTube clip before, but I was finally inspired to install it after 3pointD contributor Chip Poutine sent me this link. It’s a very cool screensaver that renders all the blog posts...
View ArticleThe Metaverse Has Met
So I’m just back from the metaverse meetup and I wouldn’t normally be blogging at this hour, but I’m trying to find out just how I’ve screwed up the site (there’s supposed to be a strip of red buttons...
View ArticleTwitterBox in Development For Second Life
The always-awesome Ordinal Malaprop is developing an interface that will let Twitter members post and receive updates from within the virtual world of Second Life. Go, Ordinal! It sounds like there’s...
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The Beautiful Simplicity of Twitter (and BlogHUD)
Second Life resident Koz Farina, creator of the very popular BlogHUD tool for blogging from within SL, is developing a system to allow you to cross-post your BlogHUD posts to your account on Twitter,...
View ArticleNew Metaverse Session: Ethan Zuckerman
John Swords and I recorded a couple of new Metaverse Sessions while we were down at South by Southwest, one with Ethan Zuckerman of Global Voices Online and one with Jamais Cascio of World Changing....
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New 3pointD Contrib: Ambling Aleister Kronos
As 3pointD continues on our path to world domination, we’re proud to introduce to readers a new contributor: Second Life resident Aleister Kronos, who’s been quietly blogging over at Ambling in Second...
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Brazilian Art in SL as 3pointD Holidays in Rio
I missed the opening of this art show in the virtual world of Second Life, but it will apparently be up for a while, at the [KODE] Gallery in »SL’s Envy region«. It’s a solo show by Rio-based artist...
View ArticleShirky and Caruso at Supernova: Risk vs. Love
Denise Caruso and Clay Shirky opened Supernova 2007 this morning by approaching the socially networked environment of the World Wide Web from two different directions. Caruso’s basic thesis was that...
View ArticleBest New Game Site: RockPaperShotgun.com
The crew at PC Gamer UK are without a doubt the best games writers in the business. (Put it this way: I pay over $100 a year for my subscription, and I no longer read any other games mags.) Every...
View ArticleGoogle Virtual World Back in the Rumor Mill
Is Google building a Second Life-like virtual world? Google-watching blog Google Operating System thinks they might be, given that Arizona State University students will have the opportunity to test a...
View ArticleFor Those Still in Attendance…
I apparently started a new blog about a year and a half ago, posted ten posts there, then didn’t touch it through all of 2010. Well, I’m back! I’ve just put up a post there about the game that I’m...
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