Raul Crimson’s experiences in Second Life®
Mitch Kapor… who?
After reading the post in the Official Linden Blogrelated to the program for SL5B i’m full of curiosity.
Some time ago Lindens said there will be an important announcement at the closing of SL5B, and the one closing SL5B will be Mitch Kapor, but… who is Mitch Kapor?
Image by Isfullofcrap published under a Creative Commons license.
In the image above you can see him (at left) in Second Life, during Life 2.0 conference. Well, Mr. Kapor is head of the Open Source Applications Foundation, Chair of the Board of Directors of Linden Lab, has been chair of the Mozilla Foundation, founder of Lotus (the software company, not related to the genitalia makers in Second Life :-P ) and is an active member of the Advisory Board of the Wikimedia Foundation (source: Wikipedia).
Mr. Kapor published also some articles about Civil Liberties in Cyberspace, co-founding the Electronic Frontier Foundation with fellow digital rights activists John Perry Barlow and John Gilmore.
So, knowing the biography of Mr. Kapor i wonder what will be the “special announcement”.
I have my personal guesses about this, one more technical and the other more social: Open Source of the Simulator Side Software and/or some kind of regulation about the use and contents in the simulators (a clearer one), maybe a new Mature-PG structure, specially if they want to merge Teen Grid with Main Grid.
Of course, all that is just ideas… we will have to wait until July 7 to know the answer.
Open Letter: Resident’s festival
about 1 year ago - No comments
Shoshana Epsilon posted in her blog an Open Letter to Linden Lab.
She and some other residents will push the organization of a resident organized event for the next Second Life birthdays. It will be intended to be resident (and corporate) supported, absolutely off Linden Lab. The festival is meant to be a complement to “official” [...]
Family is censored now in SL5B
about 1 year ago - No comments
Image copyrighted by Sue Stonebender, published with permission.
Now all this is going too far. All the credit Linden Lab had fighting against the so called “Ageplay” (simulated paedophile) now is lost in that stupid (yes, stupid, i can’t use other word) censorship for virtual familiar behaviours in images.
Thanks to Sue Stonebender and her post in [...]
off-SL5B
about 1 year ago - No comments
I won’t be in the SL5B official celebrations this year, and i won’t be there for more than one reason.
I was there last year, in SL4B, with a pavilion, quite simple, trying to speak about the diversity of Second Life (it sounds ironic under the actual circumstances, eh?). Was really interesting, met there wonderful people, [...]
So… are you invited or not?
about 1 year ago - No comments
Finally Linden Lab wrote a post in its Official Linden Blog with the answer to this issue.
They now say everyone can apply, as long as it’s accordance with PG standarts.
Not sure if a what we can call a fix on the issue, but is the nearest to a correction we will have.
Of course in [...]
You are not invited to the party
about 1 year ago - No comments
If you are a child in Second Life now you are a second class resident… don’t you think is an irony? Second class resident in a Second Life?
Once i read someone defined irony as “a sadness that can’t cry so it smiles”. Sadly this time is difficult to smile. Linden Lab has decided to ban [...]
The next big thing…
about 1 year ago - No comments
This image is just to illustrate i’m having fun lately, but even it seems i’m having too much fun, actually i’m working on some things, of course.
I’m the man of the thousand projects who normally just finish a few… I admit it. But i will tell you about projects almost done.
First, i’m working [...]
Linden Research Inc’s unnameable virtual world
about 1 year ago - No comments
Image by Jacek Antonelli published under a Creative Commons Attribution – Share Alike license.
The name of the post is a suggestion by Tateru Nino in a post in Massively , quite a good suggestion I think. From that post i arrived to Jacek Antonelli’s image you can see above, one of the funniest parodies i [...]
about 1 year ago
Hmmm yessssssss, very interesting… changes are afoot.
about 1 year ago
/me wonders if changes are a foot or are good.