In the them of virtual worlds and games, today I present a slide show of photos from World of Warcraft. All of these photos, except the first four are all of a single build, called Ulduar. It is quite the complex both in size and detail. I love the amazing mix of styles that can [...]
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Wednesday was apparently so busy that when I woke up on Thursday I realized that I had not posted. Today has been filled with interesting topics, but also a diverse set of topics. Just to give you an idea of what has caught my attention today here are a few links: First off we [...] This past weekend there was an academic conference in World of Warcraft. When I first heard about the conference I was intrigued by the concept. The topic of the use of virtual worlds for research was intriguing, but even more so I was intrigued as to how the conference would work As many [...] Before you is a passage. Blocking the passage is a large sign made up of a wide plank with four pendant planks.The top plank invites you to press with the words ‘Install World of WarCraft(tm)’ A small creaking voice of warning is heard ‘don’t press that – turn around! turn around!’. Do you1) Press Install World of [...] Hopefully I will correctly have followed the guidelines and read enough in the four of the, I believe, 8 pages of trademarking law and guidelines that this post will not result in my account in the Second Life® virtual world being revoked. The strange wording of the previous sentence was predicated by the new [...] I just went to an incredibly interesting panel at Life 2.0 on Intellectual Property, Privacy and Identity in Open Virtual Worlds. One thing that came up in the discussion was griefing, and was griefing free speech. Several people posited that it wasn’t but I think that the issue is not so cut and dried. [...] The video in the previous post seems to have disappeared so I will try to recap what I discussed in the previous post. First there is the general lay of the land in law and virtual worlds. Since the people behind the avatars live in a physical space those people will fall under the [...] I have been involved in a discussion over on Virtual Worlds Connect about how law applies to cyberspace. Some side discussions got me thinking about how one might go about creating a virtual world that could have an independent legal system. I thought I’d capture the general ideas in a video. After the introduction [...] I was just reading an article on ABC News about the SLCC. I find it amusing the constant “well only x people made a lot of money in Second Life”. What percentage of Internet users make real money on the internet. Is it even 1%? What use is the Internet then? Oh..it [...] |
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