I’ve Moved - Relink to http://dusanwriter.com

Many kind thanks to all the folks who linked here, blogrolled and rolled over laughing, commented and cross-pollinated….and while I’ve flagged this in the header and so on, for those of you catching this in an RSS feed kindly note that I’ve switched domains so I could crawl out from under being on a WordPress server and take all the flack personally for glitchy stuff or slow connections.

Visit me at http://www.dusanwriter.com and if you have time update your blog rolls, it’s much appreciated.

(And for all you Papervision fans, I’ve set up your own little corner and have a few new samples for your entertainment).

Papervision Aggregated List and Examples

To try to keep my mind from getting to muddled, I’ve dropped past posts on Papervision into one page for reference. (Also available in top nav).

Enjoy.

Second Life Rendered on Your Phone - Vollee

Vollee has launched the ability to browse Second Life on your cell phone - rendered, ability to move, and testable now for free (if your phone is compatible).

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Urban Planning In a Web 2.0 World

Planning cities and buildings - the real ones - has, for a long-time, been a top-down exercise. Meaning that concepts and city plans were, for the most part, implemented from on high through architects, city planners, consultants and developers, allowing for very little collaboration with those in the “bottom” and those for whom these projects would impact the most - namely, the ordinary citizen.

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Papervision Alternative

Digado points us to a Papervision-like Flash 3D development project built by a team of Russians at Alternativa 3D.

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Linden Lab Appoints New CEO and Staff Are Now Numbers

The search for a new CEO is over as Linden Lab announced the appointment of Mark Kingdon to the position, and residents watched for smoke in the upper window and the choosing of a name, much like the anointing of a Pope, it’s just too bad he’s, well, M Linden, I rather like Marcus Voom (who mysteriously I believe is on my friend’s list, must have been that beach party with the 8 foot avatar dressed as a, um…I digress).

Mark, or M, who is expected to soon name Kate Linden Agent 005 Linden and Sidewinder will become 006 Linden, with Philip Rosedale becoming 007, which is the same as Chair, murmured the right noises in his interview with Reuters about the failures of big brands in 2007…

The rest of this post can be read here on the new domain.

The Thinner the Client the Sweeter the Pie? Mapping Virtual Worlds for Brands

There’s a sweet spot somewhere out there for marketers, a dream space where that elusive beast the consumer (that means you and me, or maybe not, maybe it means Joe FlickrPack with his mySpace page and his Facebook widgets, but in any case), and the Electric Sheep Company are graphing it out and hunting it down.

And they’re on to something. Because what they’re trying to do is build a bridge from the vision and promise of the Metaverse to today - where it’s a lot messier looking, and the technology isn’t quite there yet, and the user base isn’t quite large enough, and the promise and hype of last year and the rush into Second Life was followed by….hmmm, well, it was followed by a rush into the promise and hype of Facebook widgets, or is it viral youTube videos like that bad hair lady, or are they now sniffing around Twitter?

THIS HAS BEEN A TEASER. Head on over to the new domain to read the rest of this brilliant and scintillating article. Or, because I have a picture of an old guy bowling on a Wii.

Summary of TC008 Keynote - E-Learning and Virtual Worlds

Christy Tucker at Experiencing E-Learning liveblogged from the TCC08 keynote address presented by Dr. Barbara P. McLain, a professor at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa, and Professor Lilliehook in Second Life.

The keynote addressed the question, “Why Do We Need a Second Life?” as it pertains to professional educators. The main point of the presentation was that “change ahead requires vision now.”

Overall, the two professors were effusive in their praise of Second Life’s potential for education. They cited the growth of online education as a precursor to virtual education, and then cited the many reasons that virtual ed. should be a major part of a teacher’s toolkit in the future, including:

- The trend to social networks

- That everyone has the ability to build in SL

- Almost anything can be taught in SL (exemplified by the phrase, “No Subject Left Behind”)

- SL - and virtual worlds in general - are more engaging than the traditional lecture

- “91% of students see the Internet as a place for answers”

The keynote ended with some comments about prickly adminstrators who would need to approve virtual learning programs. The professors concluded that, in order to move ahead a forward-thinking move such as virtual education, “sometimes you have to wait for those administrators to retire.”