Weblog of Monday 01 August 2008

Transgender avatars, virtual death and related concepts:
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2008/08/marc-owens-who-designed-the.php

Pavig tweets free Python books (for use with blender):
http://www.blendernation.com/2008/08/29/two-free-python-e-books/

Orban tweets Owyang on how to get noticed:
http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2008/08/31/how-to-get-noticed/

BigPond launches customer service in-world:
http://www.massively.com/2008/09/01/bigpond-launches-customer-service-center-in-second-life/

SL Shakespeare on video:
http://www.thinkerer.org/VirVilCultural/VirtVillCulMSND.htm

Weblog of Saturday 30 August 2008

Pavig tweets Virtual Vancouver, hard-core adult virtual world, with links to redlightcenter:
http://www.virtual-vancouver.com/

NWN on Avatar Rendering Cost (ARC):
http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2008/08/whats-the-socia.html

Pavig tweets largest survey of SL ever, by Social Research Foundation, which "runs the First Opinions Panel, the largest consumer research panel in Second Life with 10,000 members" (if they think I'm going to help them make money like this, they're wrong):
http://www.slnn.com/article/survey-planned/

Maracas tweets free door script:
http://www.slexchange.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&file=item&ItemID=871999

Pavig tweets Ubuntu for the eee netbook - but the site is down:
http://www.eeebuntu.org/

Pavig tweets free hi-rez grunge textures:
http://www.designshard.com/freebies/300-free-hi-res-grunge-textures-youve-never-seen-before/

Weblog of Friday 29 August 2008

Intel's Connected Visual Computing (CVC):
http://download.intel.com/pressroom/kits/events/idffall_2008/JimHeld_day0.pdf

Squid tweets backtype, to find your friends' comments (techcrunch calls it "twitter for comments"):
http://www.backtype.com/

Pavig tweets Torley blogging about media and mentioning Popurls:
http://popurls.com/

In a comment to Torley's post, Gwyneth links incidentally to Regina Lynn, talking here about Facebook sex bunnies:
http://www.reginalynn.com/archives/544

On Popurls under the Delicious listings I find Quarkbase, which tells you "everything about a website":
http://www.quarkbase.com/

Rik launches on-line game to raise youth awareness of Katarina sequels:
http://www.rikomatic.com/blog/2008/08/global-kids-lau.html

Crap tweets Bloomberg's accidental post of Steve Jobs obituary:
http://gawker.com/5042795/steve-jobss-obituary-as-run-by-bloomberg

Torley links to Dustin Wax writing about mental filters:
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/management/what-are-your-filters.html

Torley's island:
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Here

Shapeways, a place where you can create and print your own 3D designs:
http://www.shapeways.com/

Tenebrous plurks a great game:
http://www.gamingdelight.com/games/totemdestroyer.php

Weblog of Wednesday 27 August 2008

Some of my recent comments

On Keen's Britannica post about Shirky:
http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2008/07/the-new-techno-historical-determinism-a-reply-to-clay-shirky/#comment-504501

On Tateru's post about SL marketing and demographics (after other comments by Pavig and Dusan):
http://www.massively.com/2008/08/26/where-is-second-life-going#c13943972


Now back to the daily weblog:

Virtual World Industry Outlook:
http://blog.techintelgroup.com/files/virtual_world_outlook_20082009.pdf

Orban tweets beta of new friendfeed:
http://beta.friendfeed.com/

Pavig tweets BlenderNation tutorial about texturing a head:
http://www.blendernation.com/2008/08/26/tutorial-texturing-a-head-with-glsl/

Ordinal tweets Edison's notetaking:
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/communication/how-to-take-notes-like-thomas-edison.html

Maracas plurks First Life Community Convention:
http://www.flconvention.org/

Weblog of Tuesday 26 August 2008

Prok tweets Keene's reply to Shirky about are we reading less:
http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2008/07/the-new-techno-historical-determinism-a-reply-to-clay-shirky/

Joi Ito as a "venture communist":
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Foremski/?p=291

Sin reports that identi.ca uses OpenMicroBlogging Protocol:
http://sintrenton.tumblr.com/post/47300961/why-use-gtalk-identi-ca-if-you-have-msn-twitter

Pavig shares tweetake, to back up your twitter history to CSV:
http://tweetake.com/

Pavig tweets MySQL the game:
http://www.hackaday.com/2008/08/23/mysqlgame-playing-with-database-queries/

Weblog of Monday 25 August 2008

Sarah Lacy and Scoble on blogging:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/cnet/20080824/tc_cnet/83011377231002421252

Prok tweets crowdfunding for journalism:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/weekinreview/24kershaw.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin

Weblog of Sunday 24 August 2008

What games can learn from social software:
http://infovore.org/talks/playing-together-what-games-can-learn-from-social-software/

Wikibook about Blender:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro

Sin Trenton on blip.fm:
http://blip.fm/profile/sintrenton/blip/83398

Squid tweets a video about a Chemical Party:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDw4gk5pYl8

Moggs plurks twine (it like delicious):
http://www.twine.com/

Jacek's new (or rather, moved) blog:
http://tentacolor.com/

Maracas asks for internet spoofs.
You fail:
http://www.youfail.org/
All your base (more of a meme):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf9Y--_aY70&feature=related
Pigeon power:
http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html
Virgle:
http://www.google.com/virgle/

Nokia 3D Ning:
http://nokiaears.ning.com/

Arminas plurks "Research Center" in SL:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Research%20Center/139/130/651/

Freestyle opens a new sim:
http://slfreestyle.blogspot.com/

Weblog of Saturday 23 August 2008

Big growth in Teen Virtual Worlds:
http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/08/virtual-world-5.html

Gartner's new Hype Cycle:
http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/08/qa-jackie-fenn.html

which comes to me via Fleep:
http://fleeep.net/blog/2008/08/14/hype-cycle-and-james-paul-gee-building-worlds/

Mo Hax OpenSim blog:
http://imohax.com/

OpenSim the Apache of virtual worlds:
http://ostatic.com/170929-blog/an-introduction-to-open-sim-the-apache-of-virtual-worlds

Maracas plurks Animusic Pipe Dreams:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5503582578132361295&pr=goog-sl

K-Zero, resident experts in virtual worlds:
http://www.kzero.co.uk/blog/

Bevan plurks Virtual Job Candy:
http://www.virtualjobcandy.com/

Weblog of Friday 22 August 2008

Pavig tweets Metaverse Journal article about businesses in SL:
http://www.metaversejournal.com/2008/08/21/second-life-on-the-wane-for-aussies/

Making in-game languages:
http://www.gamecareerguide.com/features/590/in_tongues_richard_garriott_on_.php?page=1

Lordfly tweets Microsoft launch of Photosynth:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-10020637-75.html

Lordfly interactive story on OpenSim platform:
http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/project-development/16014-nu-athens-interactive-story-opensim.html

Weight Watchers as a Role Play Gaming:
http://www.wired.com/gaming/virtualworlds/commentary/games/2008/08/gamesfrontiers_0811

Wuala, free on-line file storing and sharing:
http://wua.la/

Weblog of Wednesday 20 August 2008

Crap encourages a vote for Bettina for sxsw (but you have to create an account first):
http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/778?return=%2Fideas%2Findex%2F3%2Fq%3Avirtual+worlds

Tateru says LL want to use inter-grid teleporting for a SL corporate grid:
http://www.massively.com/2008/08/18/a-second-life-corporate-grid-when-not-if/

Pavig tweets article saying SL is mostly for Generation X (born between 1964 and 1982) rather than Millennial Generation (born between 1982 and 2002):
http://www.metaversejournal.com/2008/08/19/students-vs-second-life/

Digado on browser-based vs. client-based worlds (again):
http://digado.nl/are-client-based-worlds-being-replaced.html

Squid blogs Cheezeburger - and Engrish:
http://laughingsquid.com/engrish-funny-photos-of-humorous-english-translations/

Wishfarmers:
http://wishfarmers.com/

Mozilla makes an IE plugin:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080819-mozilla-drags-ie-into-the-future-with-canvas-element-plugin.html

Post about JustLeapIn:
http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/08/just-leap-in-de.html

Stop the Mangatar:
http://laughingsquid.com/stopthemanga-wants-you-to-use-real-avatars/

Danton on Disqus (wuzzis?):
http://disqus.com/people/dantonsideways/#main

Metaforum page on kwippy:
http://www.kwippy.com/Metaforum/

Widget IMs a DailyKos post about "health"(?):
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/20/154911/355/287/571285#c10

Grace tweets the Twitties:
http://twitties.com/index.html

Weblog of Tuesday 19 August 2008

Katharine's new projet - access to your SL inventory from the web:
https://inventory.sl/

Moggs plurks Jing, a free video capture tool:
http://www.jingproject.com/

Zoe finds plurk to be better than Lively for off-grid SL stuff:
http://www.plurk.com/p/2on14

Zoe also trying Rejaw, a microblog service which allows 1000 character posts:
http://rejaw.com/ZoeConnolly

Nvidia releases Open GL3 drivers:
http://developer.nvidia.com/object/opengl_3_driver.html

Gwyneth posts about building communities:
http://gwynethllewelyn.net/2008/08/07/building-communities/

Bay City content package:
http://blog.secondlife.com/2008/05/24/bay-city-content-package/

Cedar Island website:
http://cedar-island.org/

SL Democratic Movement:
http://sl-dm.co.uk/

Weblog of Monday 18 August 2008

Vint Falken's post about Nazi costumes draws criticism from Brandon Catteneo:
http://www.vintfalken.com/vint-neko-of-the-reich/

Spott Spork’s kiosk in Northstar Mall sells nazi memorabilia including Zyklon-B canisters. His Furzi (Furry + Nazi) group has been banned by LL.

Romance 2.0 by Kanomi:
http://kanomi.blogspot.com/2008/08/romance-20.html

Jacek plurks a repository of SL viewer source code (can't these be found on the LL site?):
http://github.com/jacek/sl-viewer-source-archive/tree/master

Jacek plurks an article about online cooperation:
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/puttingourhotheadstogether

Plurking for freelancers:
http://freelanceswitch.com/working/social-media-communication-and-conversation-for-freelancers-and-web-workers/

Internet phenomena:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_phenomena

Impossible is nothing, the video:
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/268703/impossible_is_nothing
http://tinyurl.com/633xdt

Pavig tweets the Aviary creation suite:
http://a.viary.com/

Weblog of Sunday 17 August 2008

TwitterCounter is supposed to be for your twitter vanity feed (but how do you use it?):
http://www.twittercounter.com/

WOW Tauren does Numa Numa:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8aWF3BLbsE

Sin Trenton taking notes inworld thanks to Ordinal 's Blogger HUD, and collecting them in Evernote.

BoingBoing does an article on Atlantic vs. Anderson, which fails to give any satisfying links to explain what it is, just a link to Slashdot which ALSO fails to give enough links:
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/08/15/riaa-has-to-pay-1079.html

Googling this gives an ArsTechnica article which is a bit better, but still fails to really explain what Anderson supposedly did wrong, and how Atlantic was led to prosecute her, of all people:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070604-riaa-throws-in-the-towel-in-atlantic-v-andersen.html

Weblog of Saturday 16 August 2008

Wired Celebrity Meter:
http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Celebrity_Meter

Fantastic contraption:
http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=68332

FaceYourManga:
http://www.faceyourmanga.com/homepage.php?lang=eng

ThinkBalm about Accenture, Second Life, Facebook:
http://tinyurl.com/67oes7

Humdog's Pandora's Vox:
http://foo.secondlifeherald.com/slh/2004/05/introducing_hum.html

More Humdog:
http://foo.secondlifeherald.com/slh/2008/08/remembering-car.html
http://www.secondlifeherald.com/slh/2004/05/the_history_of_.html

Rheta "The World Philip Made" (from March 2008):
http://rhetasworld.wordpress.com/2008/03/07/the-world-philip-made/

StupidFilter:
http://stupidfilter.org/main/

Lolcats

I'm starting this thread to save favorite lolcat (and other lolanimal) links, which I get mostly from Jacek and MadameMaracas):

Secret kitty:
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/dun-worre-yur-seekret-are-s.jpg

7% complete:
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/funny-pictures-kitten-monitor-evil-plan.jpg

Ur so sweet:
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/funny-pictures-kittens-eating-sweet-kittens-nom.jpg

Not the bathtub:
http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa299/yupko/nooooooo-not-the-bafftub.jpg

Life's choices:
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/funny-pictures-cat-gives-you-two-options.jpg

Ponder:
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/funny-pictures-cat-is-pondering.jpg

Friday dance:
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p42/DWKING/friday.gif

Da hand that feeds ya:
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/funny-pictures-black-kitten-noms-finger.jpg

Young Skywalker
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/funny-pictures-yoda-cat-baby-sleeps.jpg

Fall down go boom:
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/funny-pictures-kitten-asks-if-you-fell-down.jpg

Oh noes:
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/ohnoes.jpg

Unread Kittehs:
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/funny-pictures-three-unread-kittens.jpg

Boring meeting:
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/funny-pictures-cat-sleeps-boring-meeting.jpg

Scared of heights:
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/128338152844531250ohnoesiis.jpg

Not ur laptop:
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/128339954762812500noturlaptopi.jpg
Poot:
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/poot.jpg

Innocent face:
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/funny-pictures-kitten-plant-innocen-face.jpg

Kissin scene:
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/funny-pictures-prude-kitten.jpg

Kissin finish yet?:
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/funny-pictures-blanket-kitten-paws-eyes.jpg

Scary monster:
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/funny-pictures-cute-fierce-kitten.jpg

Who did it:
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/funny-pictures-kitten-paint-floor.jpg

This many weeks:
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/funny-pictures-kitten-counts-age.jpg
Something has crashed:
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/funny-pictures-kitten-crashed-laptop.jpg

Dentist say floss:
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/funny-pictures-kitten-flosses-as-per-instructions-of-dentist.jpg

Forgot the food:
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/funny-pictures-you-have-forgotten-the-food-part-of-dinner.jpg

Take out the trash:
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/funny-pictures-raccoons-are-here-to-help-you.jpg

Omg bacon:
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/funny-pictures-kitten-is-excited-about-bacon.jpg

Donut:
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/128294707207813750ihazadonut.jpg

Weblog of Friday 15 August 2008

Jessyka plurks Fail Guy:
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e336/PlayinWithFire/Epic-fail-guy-ruin.gif

Codie plurks Mechanized Life:
http://www.mechanizedlife.net/

Dusan plurks flash version of Rheta's winning UI:
http://www.dusanwriter.com/contests/ui_winner.html

Hamlet reviews features from UI contest winners:
http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2008/08/making-second-l.html

Rheta blogs about using her UI contest winnings for charitable purposes: http://rhetasworld.wordpress.com/2008/08/13/eeep/

Reuters article about the UI contest:
http://secondlife.reuters.com/stories/2008/08/13/second-life-residents-propose-their-own-solutions-to-a-troubled-ui/

Scatalogy:
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/3456/h_poopies.html

Best error pages:
http://blogof.francescomugnai.com/2008/08/the-100-most-funny-and-unusual-404-error-pages/

Plurk blog discusses new features:
http://blog.plurk.com/2008/08/14/shhhh-thats-the-sound-of-us-working/

Streaming video in SL:
http://land-answers.wiki.zoho.com/Streaming-Video-in-Second-Life.html
http://blogs.murdoch.edu.au/edtechkat/2008/06/20/live-streaming-video-into-second-life-on-murdoch-university-island/

Tinyurl for the Rick Roll:
http://tinyurl.com/2q9j9y

Dandellion plurks Gridaverse, SLURLs for SL - and other grids!
http://gridaverse.com/

Jelly is casual co-working:
http://www.workatjelly.com/

Tenebrous plurks online encryption service:
http://infoencrypt.com/

Poinky tweets 3D photo viewer:
http://www.istartedsomething.com/20080814/uni-washington-microsoft-research-yet-another-mindblowing-3d-photo-viewer/

Internet Duct Tape Labs:
http://www.istartedsomething.com/20080814/uni-washington-microsoft-research-yet-another-mindblowing-3d-photo-viewer/

Weblog of Thursday 14 August 2008

Plurkers use feedburner to know their blog subscription rate - it works with blogger.

Dandellion asks if people prefer SLEX or OnRez? For buying or selling?

Digado tweets Rivers Run Red, a development company for Google Lively spaces:
http://riversrunred.com/company/home/

Dog peeves:
http://www.snootypaws.com.au/blog/index.php/ten-peeves-that-dogs-have-about-humans/

Poinky tweets Virtual Worlds Research Tools:
http://www.slideshare.net/storygeek/virtual-worlds-research-tools/
seems to be little real meaning in the last 5 or 6 slides though.

Harper Beresford recommends this site for fun stuff:
http://www.k10k.net/

Bacn (pronounced "bacon") is not quite spam:
http://www.bacn2.com/

Prok tweets the death of humdog:
http://ceteri.blogspot.com/2008/08/shared-memory-humdog.html

Dandellion plurks Botgirl on immersion and emergence:
http://botgirl.blogspot.com/2008/08/spectatorship-immersion-and-emergence.html

Weblog of Wednesday 13 August 2008

Al Kronos tweets a 1994 article explaining http and the internet:
http://tomayko.com/writings/rest-to-my-wife

focusing in particular on REST:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer

Pavig tweets Chandler, calling it a Mitch Kapor project:
http://chandlerproject.org/

and Twingly, an RSS search engine:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/twingly-search-and-awesome-screensaver/

and server-side 3D graphics rendering:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/09/otoy-developing-server-side-3d-rendering-technology/

more of the above, about something called LivePlace:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/11/liveplace-to-launch-photo-realistic-virtual-world-rendered-in-the-cloud/

The latter said to be a fake:
http://www.adamfrisby.com/blog/2008/08/oh-look-vapourware/

OpenGL3 is disappointing:
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/11/2135259

Disqus 2 is out:
http://blog.disqus.net/2008/08/12/introducing-the-new-disqus/

Dusan announces SL UI winners (Rheta, Jacek and Roy Cassini, in that order):
http://dusanwriter.com/?p=803

The lab of ArminasX:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caso%20Milo/237/108/131

Linden Lab rejects Jacek's patch:
http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-8056

Dandellion shares the ultimate plurk guide:
http://freelanceswitch.com/working/social-media-communication-and-conversation-for-freelancers-and-web-workers/

Codie says this is the best plurk:
http://www.plurk.com/p/2bazu

Dandellion plurks a site to share links - and share the revenues that result:
http://vimu.com/

as explained here:
http://vimu.com/faq/#14

Vint blogs about SL instant messaging (SLim):
http://www.vintfalken.com/slim-a-second-life-light-instant-messaging/

Pavig cites Citrix Xenapp as a typical server-side application:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrix_Presentation_Server

New Spore prototypes:
http://www.spore.com/comm/prototypes

My tinyurls

Tinyurls to my posts on Virtual Jungle:

Tour of OS grids: http://tinyurl.com/3wclkx
Alternate SL viewers: http://tinyurl.com/3lb8k5
Danton goes OS: http://tinyurl.com/5ckofw
Micro-Ode to Proko-Fly: http://tinyurl.com/4bffkr
CDS election update: http://tinyurl.com/6y9ntu
The Road to Illich: http://tinyurl.com/5f9fdd

Weblog of Monday 11 August 2008

Moggs doing research on where to find men's hair in SL (just in case...).

Tenebrous makes a Wordle:
http://i37.tinypic.com/24yzdd4.png

using this site (but you also need Java?):
http://wordle.net/create

and here's what he gets with Katharine's blog:
http://i36.tinypic.com/2zyldfb.png

Katharine blogs Ajaxlife for iPhone:
http://blog.ajaxlife.net/2008/08/iphones/

and gets blogged by Hamlet:
http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2008/08/ajaxlife-now-fo.html

Zha working on an OGP (Open Grid Protocol) patch:
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Pyogp

Digado continues about clients versus browser plugins:
http://digado.nl/client-versus-browser-part-ii.html

Sin uses ordinal 's Caledon On Sea 86,176,27 Blogger email function to send notes from inworld to Evernote: copy a line from a chat, send to Evernote from inworld.

Ugo Trade says Rezzable is on "Open Grid", but on which one?

Security attacks use linking to false Youtube site and downloading fake Flash video viewer:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7543014.stm

Dusan's photos of notable features from UI contest:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/13768013@N05/

A colleague sent me this:
http://producten.hema.nl/

Weblog of Sunday 10 August 2008

Prok suggests the Lindens read this blog post on Edge Cases:
http://www.blueflavor.com/blog/2008/feb/11/edge-cases-are-the-root-of-all/

Ugo Trade interviews Avi Bar-Zeev about browser-based virtual worlds:
http://www.ugotrade.com/2008/08/08/will-the-future-of-virtual-worlds-be-in-the-browser-interview-with-avi-bar-zeev/

Hamlet on Xenki, which runs SL and OpenSim in a browser:
http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2008/08/introducing-xen.html

Al Kronos wishes Squeezebox would coordinate with Reciva (internet radio):
https://www.reciva.com/

Crap creates his profile on Wikia:
http://secondlife.wikia.com/wiki/Crap_Mariner

Ugo Trade tweets Avi's table about brower-based VWs:
http://www.realityprime.com/articles/some-definitions

iYan tweets the Cuddlefish Junction opening:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Dynamism/47/99/4

Dandellion on virtual pregnancy:
http://metaverse.acidzen.org/2008/virtual-pregnancy

Prim touch coordinates are coming:
http://gwynethllewelyn.net/2008/08/09/a-touching-event/

Draxtor makes a video about Manpower in SL:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p39sWkiKnR8

Peacefest at Turtle Island:
http://slpeacefest.wordpress.com

Weblog of Thursday 07 August 2008

Techcrunch on feedburner:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/02/one-year-later-feedburner-gains-google-server-power

Sin Trenton tweets tiktrac:
http://tiktrac.com

Squid (re)tweets the Internet Memes timeline:
http://www.dipity.com/user/tatercakes/timeline/Internet_Memes

Al Kronos comparing Magicbox to Squeezebox.

Pavig tweets new blender version
http://www.blendernation.com/2008/08/05/blender-247-rc1-available-to-download
http://identi.ca/tag/linuxworld

Weblog of Wednesday 06 August 2008

Pavig tweets Kevin Kelly on the next 5000 days of the web:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/kevin_kelly_on_the_next_5_000_days_of_the_web.html

and Plasma Pong:
http://playthisthing.com/plasma-pong

Al Kronos is on the Twine beta (a semantic-web site):
http://www.twine.com

Digado explains how Lively uses Flash:
http://digado.nl/are-client-based-worlds-being-replaced.html

Random accounts deleted from twitter:
http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter/topics/account_deleted_banned_with_no_reasoning

Dusan plurks prim baby bazooka:
http://sldiscoveries.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/baby-bazooka.jpg

The Best of SL:
http://www.thebosl.com

Arminasx finds netvibes to be the fastest way to skim RSS.

Dandellion has embeded plurk widget on her blog.

iYan plurks Mal's Metaverse Week in Review on Operator11:
http://lite.weblin.com/?http://operator11.com/shows/4091

ArmminasX plurks Nika's Second Homes:
http://secondhomes.wordpress.com

Rik tweets video tour of 50 VWs:
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=0CijdlYOSPc

and another similar video:
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=wMOqI3hH9Gs

LL blog on the future of the Mainland:
http://blog.secondlife.com/2008/08/05/the-future-of-the-second-life-mainland

Poinky tweets social media gender gap article:
http://www.iabc.com/cwb/archive/2008/0808/PointofView.htm

Gwyneth tweets .sl domain names:
https://www.nic.sl/domain

Weblog of Tuesday 05 August 2008

Maracas gives Tenebrous a link about robots that think people taste like bacon:
http://majikthise.typepad.com/majikthise_/2006/10/robots_think_pe.html

Weblog of Monday 04 August 2008

Long Zha Ewry post of protocols, software, trust and virtual worlds:
http://zhaewry.wordpress.com/2008/08/01/protocol-software-trust-and-worlds/

Grace on the Stanford Prison Experiment and SL:
http://phasinggrace.blogspot.com/2008/08/stanford-prison-experiment-and-our.html

Pavig tweets an EFF sponsored test to see if you ISP is interfering with your internet:
http://www.eff.org/testyourisp/switzerland

Also from Pavig, neat wave image:
http://vorpal.us/img/waveofthefuture.jpg

Rik tweets about tethering your pc to your iPhone, which seems to mean you can use the phone number for a computer internet connection:
http://gizmodo.com/5032248/how-to-tether-your-iphone-with-netshare

Pavig tweets Lively vs IMVU vs SL:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=%22lively%22%2C+%22second+life%22%2C+%22imvu%22&ctab=0&geo=all&date=mtd&sort=4

Comcast acquires Plaxo (whatever that was):
http://www.plaxo.com

Katharine says del.icioi.us moved to delicious.com?

Codie (also) is using ZHAO (whatever that is).

Weblog of Sunday 03 August 2008

Dakota's shared Google items:
http://www.google.com/reader/shared/13418282095375417306

Then she said change it to this:
http://www.google.co.uk/reader/shared/16927801312977376159?hl=en

iYan plurks Gartner's denial of vw prediction:
http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/07/vbusiness-expo.html?cid=124575300#comment-124575300

Lekdawg's lost zombies hits 2000 members:
http://www.lostzombies.com/

Dandellion's SL quotes page:
http://metaverse.acidzen.org/memorable-quotes

Plurk CSS instructions:
http://www.plurk.com/stylingHelp

Katharine's fixed collapsible plurk dashboard:
http://katharineberry.co.uk/plurk-dashboard-collapsible.user.js

Madame Maracas uses MediaMonkey to organize her music and stuff:
http://www.mediamonkey.com/

Vint on the SL UI contest:
http://www.vintfalken.com/the-second-life-user-interface-design-contest/

Weblog of Saturday 02 August 2008

Pavig tweets a lesson about fair use using Disney material:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJn_jC4FNDo

Also from Pavig, the virtual museum of computers:
http://www.esi.uclm.es/museo/index_en.html

David Orban: "Best Talk at iSummit '08 was Hiroaki Kitano, Director of Sony Computer Science Labs about 'Opensource Pharma'."

Jeremy Kemp tweets Yahoo design patterns library:
http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns

Crap tweets rolling teardrops in SL:
http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2008/07/_and_the_whole_grid_cried_with.html

Weblog of Friday 01 August 2008

Another reference to Scratch for SL (S4SL), a graphical programming language for interactive objects in SL:
http://web.mit.edu/~eric_r/Public/S4SL

Pavig tweets rezzable blog about what enterprises need in SL:
http://rezzable.com/blog/rightasrain-rimbaud/what-enterprises-need-sl-maybe

Pavig tweets trailer for Japanese Cyworld:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEup7KYcO5Y