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Roomba Frogger Conquers Memespace
The story about Roomba Frogger broken by Herald Editor Walker Spaight is now officially the talk of the metaverse now that Daniel Terdiman’s story has appeared on News.com. A quick visit to Technorati also shows a rapid diffusion of the story into blogspace, and why shouldn’t there be? But of course along with the oohs [...]
Full StoryRealFrogger Technology Revealed at SXSW
Among the innovative new technologies revealed at South by Southwest this week, there was no doubt that the most future-forward of them all was the RealFrogger street-crossing device that made its debut on the final night of South by Southwest Interactive. (Disclaimer: Development of the RealFrogger technology was sponsored by iHerald, the rarely-heard-from technology arm [...]
Full StoryBored of War at the Jessie Weapons Fair
by Special Correspondent Lexander Solzhenitsyn Thankfully, hunting deer and foxes from horseback was recently made illegal in the UK. Any Englishman wishing to revel in the thrill of the chase must now pursue his prey as our ancestors did — stripped naked, covered from head to foot in woad and armed with nothing more than [...]
Full StoryLindens Shoot for Blockbuster with Machinima Film
by Dow Jonas Forget the Oscars: blockbuster moviemaking is coming to Second Life in the form of a machinima movie produced in SL by Eric Linden and Bedazzled Studios, a group of SL’s top architects and content creators who have designed and built an elaborate stage set for the project. Titled “Silver Bells and Golden [...]
Full StoryTalk to Us
Episode #3 of Teh IntarWeb’s most lovable podcast — featuring such playahs as Cristiano Midnight, Aimee Weber, Lordfly Digeridoo, SNOOPYBrown Zamboni and myself — is now available over at Johnny Ming’s site, where, Johnny also reports, there have already been more than 1,000 downloads of the first three shows. If you want to get involved [...]
Full StorySecondCast, Round Two
The SecondCast crew gathered again a few nights ago to talk past each other, courtesy of the talented Johnny Ming. I call him talented because he manages to edit down our unabbreviated gumflapping into something at least halfway intelligible each time we show up. In Round Two, Aimee, Cristiano, Lordfly, Johnny and myself are joined [...]
Full StoryThe Train Wreck of Virtual Journalism
Tony Walsh over at Clickable Culture reports that two journalism professors at the University of Minnesota have built a version of Neverwinter Nights, the designed-to-be-moddable role-playing game, in which players take on the roles of journalists in modern-day America, assigned to cover a train derailment and hazardous materials spill. The game is being used in [...]
Full StoryIdentity: Blathering Pundit
Question of the Day: Was it Walker Spaight or Mark Wallace — or perhaps some other strange oily self-promoting personage — who agreed to give a podcast to Aldo Castañeda of The Story of Digital Identity? Fortunately, Aldo is a smooth operator on the interviewing end, jumping right into questions of why identity is important [...]
Full StoryIn Which I Happen to Invent Web 3-point-D
Perhaps because I feel for the most part that “Web 2.0” is just a fancy term for the march of Web-related progress, I don’t use the phrase all that much. But its particular rhythm has stuck in my brain, and now that we’ve begun talking about places like Second Life as part of a possible [...]
Full StoryFirst Cast of SecondCast Catches a Few FIC
SL resident Johnny Ming’s new Second Life podcast site, SecondCast.com, went “live” today with a podcast featuring four of Second Life’s famous Feted Inner Core — including yours truly, for some reason.
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