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Computer Viruses as Art
By rights this should be a humdog post, but while we wait for the good dog to return to us, I give you the following very interesting post from amico Allesandro Ludovico of the Italian hacktivism and cyberculture magazine Neural. Computer viruses as works of art? Oddly this sort of makes sense to me.
Full StoryTo the Editor: Top Simolean Dealer Delivers Low Blows
In reference to the story in the Second Life Herald about Mick?s Online Game Bucks site evaluating other simolean dealers. Mick?s decision to judge his competition is a low thing to do. I could understamd if he was maybe just listing the competition, but rating them (claiming he used them under an anonymous name when [...]
Full StoryEditorial: If Lindens won’t help, then Land Owners Unite!
By Prong Thetan It is easy to say that the recent sim demolitions were the land owners fault, but I look at it from a slightly different perspective, because I am a land owner. If Linden Labs provided the necessary tools for land owners to properly secure our land, then I could see some validity [...]
Full StoryFinally, Skewl is Kewl
I took an hour off from war reporting yesterday to drop in on a course being taught by Ancient Earth (AE) member Archaegeo Platini, and while I was AFK and up to my neck in IMs for much of it, I have to say that for the first time ever I had the impression that [...]
Full StoryStuttgarter Zeitung examines Alphaville mafias
S? Iwersen, of the Stuttgarter Zeitung has just published part one of a two part article on Alphaville — this part dedicated to the golden age of Alphaville when JC Soprano of the Sim Mafia squared off agains the SSG. Lots of discussion of Piers and Jen and JC. I only have the article in [...]
Full Story“Two Steps From The Move” (If You Want It): A passionate cyber hater encourages us to look “inward” instead of to the Internet
EleanaTobias In case you haven’t noticed, there is a fairly substantial group of people who display a great deal of antipathy toward the Internet. In this interview (and if you think it’s easy to get someone who hates the Internet to agree to sit down for a piece appearing in an on-line journal, think again), [...]
Full StoryBodega Dialogues II –
Hamlet Linden has posted part II of the Bodega Dialogues (a discussion between me and The Thinkers in Second Life). This one has some interesting discussion of language in the context of MMORPGs; how does the MMORPG lexicon develop, etc.
Full StoryMMORPGs, company towns, and free speech
A few weeks ago we blogged Yale Professor Jack Balkin’s paper on free speech issues in the context of MMORPGs. Now attorney Peter Jenkins has contributed to the discussion on this topic with a paper in the Journal of Internet Law: “THE VIRTUAL WORLD AS A COMPANY TOWN: FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN MASSIVELY MULTIPLE ON-LINE [...]
Full StoryEditorial: It?s Time for Mr-President to Resign
With recent revelations that AVG officer Chad Thomas voted up to 200 times in the AVG Presidential elections, David Pierce has filed a class action lawsuit vs. Mr. Thomas. We believe that this is a classical case of an underling taking a hit for the party that is ultimately responsible. In part one of this [...]
Full StoryUri meets The Thinkers
A couple weeks ago Hamlet Linden organized a meeting between me and The Thinkers — a group of 100+ Second Lifers that like to cogitate/discourse/ruminate about deep things etc. It was a fun time, but it does raise questions about exactly how far one can get with discussions in an online setting (at least one [...]
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