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Sci-fi & fantasy snapshot contest

Posted on March 3, 2009 by Erik Gordon Bainbridge (Apollo Manga)

The Alliance Virtual Library has announced a sci-fi and fantasy snapshot contest. The deadline for entering is March 12. You can read more about it at my Examiner.com column You can read the complete contest rules here, or you can read them on a notecard in Second Life next to the Talis Sci-fi & Fantasy…

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Ursula Le Guin’s Feb 28th appearance in Second Life

Posted on March 1, 2009 by Erik Gordon Bainbridge (Apollo Manga)

Yesterday’s Ursula Le Guin event in Second Life was an overwhelming success.  You can read more about it on my examiner.com blog. Here are three pictures from Friday’s rehearsal and from the actual event (click to see each one in full):

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Ursula LeGuin will be beamed into Second Life Feb 28th

Posted on February 27, 2009 by Erik Gordon Bainbridge (Apollo Manga)

Famed author Ursula LeGuin will be beamed into Second Life tomorrow, Saturday February 28.  She will be at the Potlatch 18 Conference in Sunnyvale, California, reading from her novel and taking questions.  Second Life members will be able to watch her in real time video from the amphitheater on Info Island.  It will be a…

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A New Blog Is Born

Posted on February 24, 2009 by Erik Gordon Bainbridge (Apollo Manga)

OK, I guess a new blog isn’t something the world desperately needs, but I’ll do it anyway. I am Apollo Manga, one of the avatars of Erik Gordon Bainbridge, who’s been a Second Life member since 2004, when Second Life was a much smaller and much more primitive world than it is now.  Back then,…

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Will Virtual Worlds Rescue TV (or vice-versa)?

Posted on February 1, 2009September 5, 2016 by Erik Gordon Bainbridge (Apollo Manga)

As online audiences continue to ignore TV and vanilla/social virtual worlds suffer from a lack of direction, will the marriage of the two will save both from irrelevancy?. (Gary Hayes, PersonalizeMedia.com, Feb 1, 2009) Read

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ScienceSim, a Step on the Way to a 3D Internet?

Posted on January 29, 2009September 5, 2016 by Erik Gordon Bainbridge (Apollo Manga)

ScienceSim, using OpenSim open source technology, is a collaborative virtual world for scientific researchers. (John A. Hengeveld, Intel Blogs, Jan 29, 2009) Read

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Is Second Life Your Feudal Lord?

Posted on January 19, 2009September 5, 2016 by Erik Gordon Bainbridge (Apollo Manga)

The similarity between ownership of land in feudal England and in Second Life suggests that offline courts should protect user interests in virtual items, gradually, without treating them as full-blown modern “property.” (James Grimmelmann, Yale Law Journal, Jan 19, 2009) Read

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Sundance Film Festival holds first time ever screening in Second Life

Posted on January 24, 2007September 5, 2016 by Erik Gordon Bainbridge (Apollo Manga)

Never before had Sundance Film Festival audience members been part fox, used names like “NeoConD” and “Apparatchik,” or had the power to teleport away. Marking a first for both Sundance and cyberspace, these viewers were avatars watching a feature-length festival film Monday from a screening room in the virtual world of Second Life. (Michelle Meyers, CNET…

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