Barack Obama’s change.org website is accepting requests for ideas and projects to be implemented during his term. Knowing that he’s all for technological innovation, and that several successful experiments with e-democracy were done inside Second Life®, let’s try to push for even more. Andabata Mandelbrot is proposing that we vote to create an international metaverse - the Internet equivalent of virtual worlds.
To get this implemented, we need 400 votes! And the deadline is… today at midnight, so we need to hurry…
Voting is simple, you just need to create an account on the change.org account and vote (you can even log in with your Facebook or MySpace account) by clicking on the icon. If you’re willing to promote this idea, you can, of course, do more — add widgets, push it to your social network, and so on. With a surprisingly open-minded approach, voting is not limited to US residents, but it’s totally open to international voters too. The change is for America, but its impact will be global. A nice touch!
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Social annotations and bookmarking for the SLED archive and beyond. - 75 views
Social annotations and bookmarking for the SLED archive and beyond. ------------------------------------------------------------------- (Tags:Socialannotation Socialbookmarking SL Secondlife Educat...
Project Goals : Preserving Virtual Worlds - 1 views
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Project Goals Our goal is to help develop mechanisms and methods for preserving digital games and interactive fiction by 1. developing basic standards for metadata and content representation; and 2. investigating preservation issues through a series of archiving case studies representing 1. early games and literature and 2. later interactive multi-player game environments. Key deliverables includedevelopment of metadata schema and wrapper recommendations, the archiving of key representative content and the development of generalizable archiving approaches for preserving this content. Our approach is intended to address both the pressing need to preserve the bits and available representation information of early and significant works now, and the need to begin to address more difficult issues surrounding long-term preservation of more recent multi-player interactive virtual worlds.
The Educators February 2007 Archive by thread - 0 views
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sl education mail archive
Faking HDR in Photoshop CS2 - bring your Second Life snaps (and more) to life - Eloise... - 0 views
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How to retouch your Second Life snaps in Photoshop in 7 quick steps
Gwyn's Home » Blog Archive » Let's put e-democracy to a test! - 0 views
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Vote for a change in the US and the metaverse, even if you're not a US resident
Philip Rosedale at TED Talks in May - Eloise's thoughts and fancies - 0 views
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Watch Philip Linden's talk to TED about Second Life
Lively no longer moribund: "it's dead dave" - Eloise's thoughts and fancies - 0 views
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Lively has died, what might this mean for Second Life?
Need to convince the boss about Second Life? - Eloise's thoughts and fancies - 0 views
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IBM decided, deliberately, to have a conference for their Academy of Technology in Second Life. It was a roaring success for all the "soft" reasons we talk about so much - social networking, chat out of sessions, sessions overrunning through interest, impromptu discussions and the like - but IBM also estimate a clear cut ROI of US$320,000
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One of the attendees at this conference was so impressed with her first experiences in Second Life for a conference, that she cancelled the upcoming AGM in Florida, and moved it to Second Life. At two weeks notice! They reused the conference spaces - lots of instant savings there - and their estimates are that running their AGM in Second Life cost them about 20% of the costs of a RL meeting, as well as giving all the good soft outcomes once again.
Two new items (with lots of packs) for sale - Eloise's thoughts and fancies - 0 views
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Today I have managed to put up for sale two new items. Item one is a texture organiser HUD
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Also released is the long awaited movie screen and HTML-on-a-prim screen with category storage.
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New stuff for sale
Second Life Interface design contest - Eloise's thoughts and fancies - 0 views
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I agree that each of these has something to glean from. A more intuitive cockpit will only improve the performance of the vehicle and the driver!
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Second Life™ text-to-chat software: E.V.A. - Eloise's thoughts and fancies - 0 views
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What Louise has done is work on a guide dog and a white stick that use sensors to detect the surroundings and say in text what is around you. You can pick up your own copy at Wheelies.
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EVA: Essential Voicechat Advancement. This is, in effect, a plug-in for Windows that reads the chat log and reads it out via the system's text-to-voice system.
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My blog entry about Louise Later and the guide dog/white stick for the blind in SL, and EVA that does text to voice on a windows machine.
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Dear SLEDizens, dear Diigos:
the amount of information in the highly appreciated SLED mailing list archive is formidable.
So social bookmarking (and hyperlinkable, rich text formatted) annotations might be helpful as additional tools to keep the overview by social biidirectional interlinking the SLED archive within itself and the rest of the Web.
This way we can easily "weave the web" (and our memory :-) by setting links from
older contributions to newer ones (and of course vice-versa).an abitrary externally annotated <<blog/ forum/ wikipage/ static webpage>> to an archive-posting (and vice versa) an annotation via SLURL-links to special SL locations (and v.v.)
I opened a tag-supported group forum Second Life Social Annotations where technical questions concerning this social bookmarking/annotation tool, applied to SL / SLED, can be addressed by SLED / Diigo peers and beyond.
Dr. Fridemar Pache
( My profile as an admin of the newly created Second Life Social Annotations can be found at return