Lee’s Second Life - “Finding the key”

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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).

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 [...]

Before I launch her into Second Life on a full-time basis (courtesy of the MyCyberTwin object), feel free to ask Penny some questions here.
 

1 IBM’s plans for Second Life
WOW! This post will make your eyes pop.
Robin Bloor from IT-Director.com reports on an email from a reader of his. The email gives some stunning insight into why IBM are in SL and what they plan. Cop this:
“IBM’s interest in Second Life is not a fad chasing, or passing, gesture. [...]

Courtesy of my ol’ mate Paull “I’ve got a jar of vegemite and I’m not afraid to use it!” Young comes word that, despite the hype about Second Life, there are still retailers who just don’t understand the new dynamics of business communication, especially when it comes to new media that is a bit ‘out [...]

More news, views and spews about Second Life:
Mitch Wagner shows that, once again, he ‘gets it’ about Second Life:

“If a real-world business wants to get real business value from Second Life, that company has to have knowledgeable people in-world ready, willing and able to talk about the company’s products and services.
That’s what’s really valuable about [...]