Finally :: An Alternative to Text Chat in SL

Yes! I'm bored with text. It's too slow and furthermore, texting leads to misunderstanding. Here's to emotional information.

clipped from blogs.electricsheepcompany.com We spoke tonight… A year ago at GDC I met with the folks from Vivox which resulted in the blog entry, Voice you on Sheep Island. So it is with great satisfaction that a year later, Linden Lab has announced VOIP integration with SL and tonight the SL Voice beta group was invited to give it a try. The client ran awesome (on my Intel Mac), the voice quality is better than Skype, the 3D proximity chat works great and the experience was amazing.

A Conversation with Miss Odinal Malaprop

A Conversation with Miss Odinal Malaprop
Originally uploaded by Dagny Hemingway.

Lovely to see the amazing Miss Malaprop again, and to learn she's creating and building as ever many magical things in Second Life. She's making machinima, too.

Power Move for Ze Frank

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From Second Life. This is an example of the heart of viral advertising, people. Move a community to bring the best parts of themselves forward. Ze Fuckin' Frank gets it. Not everybody has what it takes to build a community. It is a rare and beautiful thing. Jay Dedman's got it, too. This kind of leader is charisma on crack. This is something that cannot be taught, bought or bottled. Valuable on the scale of supply & demand. Ze Frank moves me. I'd sooner be addicted to movement than sugar.

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Time :: $ :: Illusion

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Video poem in Second Life machinima.

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SL on CBS Sunday Morning with David Pogue

Watch the video that features Eric Rice (known in-world as Spin Martin) HERE.

How did they do that Pogue morph at the end???

Here's Pogue's NY Times blog post on Second Life.

Wish CBS allowed its videos to travel down RSS pipes.

Sigh.



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News Flash: Potato Monster Invades 2nd Life

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Second Life has been invaded by a potato monster.

 

More footage at 11:11. 

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Fire Vultures for Media Equity :: Second Life

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Playing with Second Life machinima. Getting the process down. Learning curve: steep.

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Listening to Radio in Second Life

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Reading the NY Times while listening to the Presidential Podcast in Second Life.

Uh-oh.

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An Invitation to Second Life Machinima

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Stop by Road Node 101 Second Life. Click HERE to teleport there and/or download Second Life.

IM me, Dagny Hemingway.

Let's do something together.

Machinima of any kind of interest isn't done alone.

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Valentine's Day :: Spring Fever

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Oh. Got it bad.

I'm as restless as a poet on a string.

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Advice to Marketers Who Would be Avatars...

Good advice from What's Next Blog.

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Nixie Tube Steampunk Christmas Ornament, Anyone?

From Make Magazine who got it from Instructables. Click the Instructables link to learn how to make this Nixie Steampunk Christmas Ornament yourself.

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Testing BlogHud from SL. What an advantage to be able to communicate with first life from within virtual life. Here goes nuthin\'.

posted by Dagny Hemingway on Phoenix Enlightened using a blogHUD : [permalink]

The Infinite Mind interview with Kurt Vonnegut live from Second Life

"Author Kurt Vonnegut is interviewed by host John Hockenberry, live from Second Life. The interview was for the "Through the Looking Glass" series, from the national, weekly public radio program, The Infinite Mind, which featured the first live broadcasts from virtual 3-D cyberspace."

Almost machinima vlogging. "The Infinite Mind" goes digital with a videoblog. It's the first national broadcast to establish a base of operations in Second Life. Unfortunately, their site is not RSS-enabled. Videos are Google-hosted in flash and there's no subscribe button.

Suzanne Vega is the first major musician to appear in concert in Second Life. See the Suzanne Vega video here.

Wowowow.

Geek Entertainment TV::Interview w/Hamlet Au (nee Linden)

GET interviews James Wagner Au / Hamlet Au (nee Linden) in the flesh.

Great to see the man behind the white suit who was so generous in helping us raise funds for the Creative Commons earlier this year at our Second Life Burns Night Supper.

In-world, Hamlet Au is publisher of New World Notes. In first life, James continues to write his book.

Geeky? Check out Geek Entertainment Television.

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Robert Scoble Banned From Second Life? Maybe. Maybe Not.

While at Gnomedex, Scoble contracted his 12-year-old son to make some builds for him in the adult grid with a Linden Lab employee in Gnomedex attendance. They were "toast".

Here is Scoble's follow-up to the incident. You'll find a link to an interview with LL employee Beth Goza there, too.

Interesting issues here on lots of fronts.

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Second Life::Google Map

You can now give dimension to your Second Life / First Life parallel existence with a special Second Life Google Map from Community Walk.

Thanks to a heads up from Walker Spaight and his multi-media blog at http://3pointD.com which covers all things digitally three-dimensional.


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New Steampunk Sim Raising Funds

The Steampunks group has united to raise money to create a Steampunk sim. Here's a wee tour with Ordinal Malaprop and her doppleganger butler.

Visit Jefferson Gould's 3-D map at Steampunk Headquarters in Caledon.

Music courtesy U.C. Santa Barbara Library Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project.

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Thanks to 3pointD for the nod.


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A Hotlink to a Ben Linden film on the New Followcam Functionality

Check it out, new followcam scripting options illustrated in a motion picture.

But as Ordinal Malaprop points out, "...it appears that only attachments and vehicles can control the camera as yet, which is something of a blow." You said it, Ordinal. That said, I'm confident that camera controls scripting and future menu options will flourish soon.

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Second Life Music, Part II

Second Life Music, Part II

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A St. Patrick's Day reflection on the state of music in Second Life.

The short version is: music thrives.

Visit Robbie Dingo's store in Second Life by clicking HERE.

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