Our UOC Second Life textbook: released under CC license
A few weeks ago, Max Senges, Thomas Praus and I got the chance to draft and write a summer university course about Second Life for the UOC (Universitat…
Category: Identity 2.0
Culture Clash: Busy Economy vs Burst Economy
Anne Zelenka recently wrote a great busy vs bursty manifesto on Web Worker Daily, comparing the “busyness economy” (aka traditional) with the “burst economy” (aka the web): There’s…
Pew Internet Report: “Teens, Privacy and Online Social Networks: How teens manage their online identities and personal information in the age of MySpace”
Pew Internet just published a great report about how teens magage their online identities: The majority of teens actively manage their online profiles to keep the information they…
Second Life goes open source (this time, for real?)
According to mashable.com, LindenLab will open up the source code for Second Life servers, too. (Awhile ago, the client software was open-sourced.) As if there weren’t enough freedom…
Financial Times features Twitter on front page, “looks like someone forgot to separate their whites on laundry day”
While the hyperbole around Twitter is hardly news, the Financial Times (FT) front page is a pretty clear signal that Twitter is reaching out being reached out to…
John Edwards’ (unofficial) Second Life campaign HQ vandalized
John Edwards was, as far as I know, the first candidate in the U.S. presidential elections with a campaign presence in Second Life (if only an unofficial one).…
Cory Doctorow’s Eastern Standard Tribes, podcasted
Quote: “It’s like this,†I said. “It used to be that the way you chose your friends was by finding the most like-minded people you could out of…