Lee’s Second Life - “Finding the key”

Gary Hayes suggests that it is the bricolage nature of today’s ‘amateur’ digital creatives that threatens to undermine and overthrow the ‘professional’ creative from their throne (and job).

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Welcome to Kidz Connect, an innovative summer camp program at the Patel Conservatory that has Dutch and American kids combining theatrical talents through video streaming and a virtual world.
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John Chambers, CEO of Cisco, avatared into a press conference today in SL.
Dressed in his business suit, Chambers poo-pooed ideas circulating in the mainstream press that SL and other virtual worlds are facing a downturn in interest.
"I disagree with that overall commentary," he said. "We are at the very, very beginning stages" of virtual world [...]

Cory reckons that VW kids are doing alright
SL co-creator Cory Ondrejka, now senior vice president of digital strategies at EMI Music, reckons that VWs like SL are ‘proving’ themselves.
"Virtual worlds are already entering the boardroom in Vermont, said Ondrejka, where the nations first "virtual corporation" law was approved earlier this month. Until now, U.S. law [...]

I’m wondering if anyone knows how to solve a particular problem I have:
I want to track avatars that I might send to a business, and then track any transactions that avatar might make.
Anyone?
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It’s taken me 20 hours of non-stop vision and revision (and two bottles of finest Aussie and Kiwi vino) and editing to get to something half decent to present.
That’s just the presentation. In Director (because it STILL whips the arse off PowerPoint, even in 2007, much as I love PPoint07!)
The paper that’s supposed to [...]

Courtesy of the ever-vigilant Stefan Didak:
"The Pentagon is running an artificial intelligence program to see how people will react to propaganda and to government-inflicted terror. The program is called Sentient World Simulation:
"U.S defense, intel and homeland security officials are constructing a parallel world, on a computer, which the agencies will use to test propaganda [...]

AFP/Keio University Photo: A 41-year-old paralysed man uses brain waves to control his character in ‘Second Life’.(AFP/Keio University/Str)

A paralysed man using only his brain waves has been able to manipulate a virtual Internet character, Japanese researchers said Monday, calling it a world first, says AFP via Yahoo! News.
He was then able to have a [...]

Messenger Press, one of our local papers, interviewed me last week for a feature story on Second Life.
Since they don’t post their feature stories on their website, I took a scan of it.
After much playing around, I’ve got a pdf (510k), which prints out as 2xA4 pages. Page scale = ‘none’ will get [...]