Since my last post here, a lot has been accomplished.
Last time I wrote, I was downloading the OpenSim server software to my external hard disk via SVN. That went well, but I have to admit that the instructions for compiling and running it on MacOS 1.5 were so daunting that I deferred that until after [...]

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Troy McConaghy, who in SecondLife™ is known as Troy McLuhan, gave his presentation about “science stuff” in SecondLife tonight for the Serious SL in Boulder Meetup group. This blended reality event was primarily a SecondLife event projected into real life via projected computer images.

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LSL, or Linden Scripting Language, was originated by Linden Lab, the creators and owners of SecondLife™. It is remarkably easy to use, and can allow “residents” of SecondLife and OpenSim based virtual worlds to do many marvelous things in these 3D environments. (OpenSim is the open source version of SecondLife’s server software.)
One of the things [...]

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I just saw a link to this Google Docs spreadsheet in another blog, Virtual World SIG. It is much more than just projects using OpenSim server software, but rather covers all VWs, commercial and open source. Thanks to Orange Montagne (SecondLife name) for this link.

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After one of my friends in SecondLife, Opal Lei, asked me if I’d seen OpenLife and I had to say no, I decided to take a look. We at the ISM have been talking for years about finding if not an alternative, at least an adjunct to SecondLife, since having all our IP eggs in [...]

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I got an email this morning from Goldie of Machinima by Silver & Goldie, producers of the machinima that has been at the center of the controversy here for the past week. She gave me the link to the newly revised video that replaces the one shown to the House Subcommittee. She apologized again for [...]

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Following the comment on this site from Catherine Smith, Marketing Director at Linden Lab, apologizing for the mistaken impression left by the voiceover in the video shown to the House Telecommunications & Internet Committee, I’ve been contacted by Goldie of Goldie and Silver, the company who produced the machinima. They are replacing some of the [...]

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The response to my previous article is the most activity this blog has seen yet. But I do need to make some clarifications, and highlight at least one thing that has happened as a result of the brouhaha.
First, I should not have made it sound as if I thought Linden Lab’s misattribution by allusion of [...]

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I was just watching the video of Rep. Ed Markey’s committee hearing yesterday about virtual worlds, during which Philip Rosedale (CEO of Linden Lab, creator of SecondLife®) and others testified. Rosedale showed a machinima that included images of several parts of the International Spaceflight Museum (ISM), of which I am a co-founder and CEO. That’s [...]

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I laughed at this so hard I cried. Or maybe I cried because it’s so to the point!
Thanks to Universa Vanalten (SL name) for this link.

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