“An ingenious system created for Second Life land holders to reduce incidents of harassment and abuse by malicious griefers has itself turned out to be a potentially nefarious tool of harassment and abuse. zF RedZone is a tool that was designed to help Second Life users identify and block problem users from entering their territory and wreaking havoc….
Month: February 2011
Burning Man wants a mid-Market HQ, tax break or not
Black Rock City, which stages the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert and in a variety of regional Burning Man festivals, including one in Second Life, is now looking for a San Francisco headquarters and wants to apply the principles of Burning Man to a real life city. (Steven T Jones, San Francisco Bay Guardian,…
The lost world of There
In the old days, people occasionally would rummage through their attic or basement and find forgotten treasures. People probably still do. I don’t, but I do have old webpages and websites. This week I went rummaging through one of them, what I used to call my Thereography Studio – photographs from the now defunct virtual…
Tweets, typewriters, fountain pens, and quill pens
I was talking with a friend today about the San Francisco Writers Conference and the need for writers to be skilled (or able to afford to hire the skill) to build a website, blog, Tweet, and use Facebook. My friend didn’t think it was fair. Writers shouldn’t need to deal with this stuff. But are…
San Francisco Writers Conference
I spent almost three days at the San Francisco Writers Conference this weekend. It was excellent. There were some superb presentations in workshops, particularly by Tee Morris and Rusty Shelton, and Donald Maass made some very perceptive comments about genre that I welcomed, but I was surprised that not a single person I spoke with…
HBO documentary filmed partly in Second Life
On Monday February 14, 2011 HBO will present the documentary When Strangers Click: Five Stories from the Internet. It includes machinima segments filmed in Second Life™. The film features five couples who met over the internet, including one who met in Second Life The film’s website says “Kim packed a wedding gown and flew to…