ZoomClouds: Orient Lodge

... virtual worlds in a way that Linden Lab just doesn't. Linden Lab needs to find someone they can steal from one of those groups if they want to make Second Life into what it can and should be. Meanwhile, all the educators in Second Life, they need to connect with the folks at the Action Coalition...

For the past fifteen hours or so, Second Life has been having significant problems and has been down much of the time. So, like many hard-core virtual world residents, I™ve used this as an opportunity to check in on some of the OpenSim based worlds. My inventory on all of the grids seems to have go...

... le. One of those emails, however, was from the lawyer for the foreclosure, so I felt I needed to write a little bit about that. Then, I got an IM in Second Life about the film shoot folks from TechSoup were doing in response to the Daily Show episode, Avatar Heroes. I™ve already written up my arti...

... . I™m currently followed by around 500 people and I follow around 300. It feels like a manageable crowd. When I am at home, I receive my tweets via Second Life, which I normally have open as a fancy IM client and screen saver on my number two computer. If TwitterBox is down in Second Life, I chec...

... oduct evaluation of the laptop version of 3Dconnexion™s SpaceNavigator for Notebooks. I am starting to test it as a navigation and building tool for Second Life. Support for the SpaceNavigator is part of the Second Life Client Release Candidate 1.20. The Release Candidate still seems a little fla...

... is day of remembrance, I have changed the colors of my website to Hokie colors, Chicago Maroon and Burnt Orange and will stop at the Memorial Park in Second Life. These actions won™t stop gun violence on college campuses, just as my drying clothes outside won™t end global warming, but it is a littl...

... first couple years of their lives. Do we believe these children can fly? If you said no, I urge you to consider the case of Joseph Button, known in Second Life as Hunter Talon. Hunter Talon™s imagination soared and brought many people with it. He shared his imagination online and as a screenwrit...

At the Metanomics session Monday the 21st, Mitch Wagner of Information Week and Gartner Fellow Steve Prentice expressed concerns about the future of Second Life. As a business collaboration tool, it is loosing ground to competitors like QWAQ. Yet the back channel seemed more concerned with whethe...

... rue podcamp style, with everyone introducing themselves and talking about what they hoped to get out of the session. Peggy Sheehy, whom I knew from Second Life and the Second Life educators list, and who describes herself as a consultant in Virtual World Education, summed it up quite nicely by sta...

... will be speaking with Glitteractica Cookie today. I intend to be there as a bear, instead of as the dolphin I sometimes appear as when reporting in Second Life. On top of that I™m tired. Lack of sleep from PodcampNYC, rainy day, allergies or a cold. Just not a lot of energy to write up the reall...

... s. I started programming computers in the 1960s and first connected to the Internet in the early 1980s. Peggy Sheehy of the Suffern Middle School in Second Life, spoke about this in terms of ˜shifted learners™. Some people, both young and old have made the shift to digital culture. Others have no...

Recently a member of the Second Life Educators list asked the question, What advantages or disadvantages do you see for your students born between 1980-2000 ("digital natives") who use Second Life compared to the rest of us? This has prompted an interesting discussion, where many people ...

Over on the Second Life educators mailing list, a member asked for an 'Idiot's Guide to Second Life'. I wrote a reply there, which seemed like it might be a useful post here as well. OpenSim is a project to create software so that others can create their own servers that run similar to Linden Lab's...

... The one email that particularly caught me attention was simply titled, œThe Sojourner. Soj, as she was called, has been a key part of the fabric of Second Life for nearly four years. She was part of Brigadoon, an early support community in Second Life. The first time that I recall meeting her wa...

... ent some time talking with her. A friend of one of the conference organizers from Tribe was there and we talked a little bit. I showed a few people Second Life and talked about the role of Second Life in disability rights advocacy. This led me to a fascinating discussion with Dr. Linda D. Misek-...

... them. Nancy introduced me to Jennifer Mercurio, Government Affairs Director of Entertainment Consumers Association. We had a good brief talk about Second Life, the Video Gamers Voter Network, and related issues, and I hope to follow up on these discussions going forward. In the evening, there was...

(Originally published at SLNN.COM.) Doing business in virtual worlds like Second Life presents unique challenges and at times these challenges can lead to disagreements or even legal actions. The latest such disagreement, which is beginning to be discussed widely on various online sites is a disagre...

(Originally published at SLNN.COM.) While Second Life was not a major topic of discussion at the New York Games Conferences, many of the discussions related to the future of Second Life. New York - Games, developers, investors, reporters and others gathered last week for the New York Games Confer...

... rovides a peculiar juxtaposition to the committee reports of the monthly Woodbridge, CT Democratic Town Committee. Next month, I will be speaking, in Second Life, to a communications class about the relationship between Second Life and other forms of media, blogs, online Second Life News, online tra...

... ccessing and adding content directly to Twitter. I have a Twitter Gadget for Windows Vista on one of my machines. I run Twirl. I run TwitterBox in Second Life all in addition to simply sending material directly from the Twitter Web page or to Twitter as an SMS message from my cellphone. However, ...

... may include sections on the infrastructure of various localities, including Internet connectivity which is crucial to taking advantages of sites like Second Life. The launch in Second Life is part of a larger effort to use social media to promote the work of the World Bank. The World Bank also has...

... Where We™re Going. Speakers include several friends from online media, and I hope to make it up to the conference. Friday, I will be speaking in Second Life about the relationship between Second Life and other online media. Then on Saturday, the Investigative Reports and Editors will be running a...

... iona did another episode of her radio show. I wrote down more of my thoughts for my speech to a communications class that I™ll be giving on Friday in Second Life. In certain ways, writing down my thoughts for that feels similar to writing my novel. The words flow quickly and easily, but at the sam...

Today, I will be speaking to a couple communications classes at The College of New Jersey entitled Beyond Second Life. The genesis of this talk was a discussion between myself and the professor teaching the class about the relationship between Second Life and other media. I spoke about my role as ...

... et a little content up each day. With that, it seems like a good opportunity to post an email that I had sent to a mailing list of educators that use Second Life for education. One person had started compiling a list of blogs about Second Life, and another person suggested there must be a more Web ...