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/