Second Life
Australia: Lost and floating toward Antarctica
Dear Minister,
RE: Banning of Second Life as part of mandatory internet filtering
In March 2010 I am presenting a panel at the South by South West (SXSW) Interactive festival titled “Time Travelers: Why Australians are Virtual World Innovators.”
Myself and VastPark founder, Bruce Joy, will be talking about how we have been able to establish and maintain […]
Could Rupert be wrong?
I am actually starting to feel really sorry for the old media types. I mean that genuinely. I can’t imagine it’s easy for them to accept that whatever they know and understand about audiences and distribution now, will soon be completely irrelevant.
Boing Boing recently pointed out Rupert Murdoch’s goof up on this subject:-
“The people who […]
Peeling off the onion skin of multi-layered realities
In a few days Treet.TV will be broadcasting another mixed reality event using two planes of reality and creating another two.
The first layer is real world video captured live from the Engage Conference in San Jose and streamed to a screen on stage in Second Life to be viewed by a live audience of approximately […]
The wiki model spreading q’wiki’ly
I followed a link from Mark Pesce today (@mpesce) to an article about a collaborative animation project where material elements for the film were contributed from all corners of the globe, in addition to the wisdom of crowds prevailing through the voting on elements to go into the final creation.
Now most film directors would be […]
Why not watch live shows from virtual worlds on TV?
I got the good news today that one of our shows has been short-listed in the Online Machinima Film Festival. Congratulations to the very talented Pooky Amsterdam and her team for The 2nd Question, a quiz show for science nerds.
It’s great to see the rise in profile of content created in games and 3D social […]
Wisdom of crowds in a virtual shoot
The dynamics of social enterprise to create online encyclopedias, open source software and alternate reality games has proven itself as an effective model for creativity as well as engagement.
However, we haven’t really witnessed this kind of remote collaboration when it comes to producing TV shows apart from the webcam social TV model - which is […]
Sustained engagement with brands supporting creativity
Earlier this week we filmed our weekly Real Biz in SL show, hosted by Cybergrrl Oh, on Orange Island. I had the pleasure of meeting Fab Outlander, the island manager, at the Second Life Community Convention in Tampa, Florida several weeks ago.
The show did a tour of the Mad Pea game environments. Mad Pea […]
Virtual world conferences
I’ve been woefully silent on my blog of late. No excuses but there has been a lot going on! I am about to head to the USA where I will be attending the Virtual World Expo in Los Angeles. Directly afterward I’m crossing the continent to Florida for the Second Life Community Convention.
The Expo in […]
TV coverage of SLCN
A few weeks ago freelance journalist Sonia Lear produced this news story on virtual television production. It aired on News Hour Asia Pacific. Paisley Beebe, the host of our weekly evening talk show Tonight Live, was also included in the story and following her blog post about the feature I have had many compliments from […]
Somewhere in the not too distant future
On SLCN.TV we have a quiz show called The 2nd Question. One segment features a notable quote each week. Today it featured Ray Kurzweil:
I’m an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started.
After […]