SENIOR MEDIA THESIS

As part of our (group 6's) project about crime scene investigation education in SL, I am researching some fundamental limitations of SL ...

Some have asked for me to post the grade breakdown I had up on the screen on Tuesday, so here it is: Item Percent ...

That is a tall order, but it is related as with most everything to the power of numbers. Or if you wish to the empowerment of the user at e...

When I first began buidling in world, it seemed extremely difficult because there were so many ways to manipulate objects/prims. So at firs...

As we have discussed the challenges of finding balance between the real world and virtual worlds, I thought this was an interesting op/ed fr...

Someone had mentioned violence in second life a few weeks ago and asked the question "How long until terrorism spreads into second life...

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Eduserv%20Island/140/127/26 http://slurl.com/secondlife/Buena%20Vista/146/191/28 Based on ALICE, an award winnin...

This is something a friend sent that I thought everyone might find interesting.

Charlie Miller of Independent Security Evaluators, and Dino Dai Zovi demonstrated an RTSP tunneling exploit in Second Life at the ShmooCon, ...

From Tech Crunch - Click Here for Article This is an interesting move and I think shows the power of "free". I haven't used th...

I've still got some strong and some ambivelant feelings on violence and games and learning. For those of you that didn't get a chanc...

How will information gatherers and hunters survive in the digital age? Some signs are already apparent. As blogs matured they became a real...

You should probably take some time to check out the literature factory in SL. It is a factory full of robots that are building works of li...

CHI 2008 a Social Data Analysis Workshop is coming up in April of this year, and in Florence of all places! the New Renaissance. A blurb ...

The link on the class website to the research article on academic institutions in Second Life used INSEAD as one of its case study samples. ...

Electrophoretic Display by Phillips In a recent conversation with Gary I believe, I mentioned the idea that books, that robust and tradition...

If you do here are the entire proceedings of a very interesting conference put together by the Club of Rome ( a global think tank and centre...

Seems to be an ever increasing security issue. Will we ever have a worldwide governing body for the internet?

Linden Lab's decision to open-source its grid as reported by zdnet here suggests a strong belief in its user generated content. It sug...

We have created a pbwiki (just click the title to check it out). It works very nicely for the project template. I would like to know if anyo...

As our group works to develop an educational product that very well may be suited for secondary students, I can’t help but wonder about the ...

Google's data center, from Harper's magazine, March 2008 This blueprint depicts Google's data center, code named "02 PROJEC...

I think that this and other examples illustrate quite well a quote I read recently by Richard Purcell (former chief privacy officer at Micr...

I had a chance to glance through Mark Bell's blog for a bit. He has some interesting thoughts on VE and on identity. One statement he ...

I came across this link and thought you should see it. Looks like a brain-interface for SL??? Could this work around the idea of a haptic ...

I ran across this business report recently and thought you might be interested. I think it is interesting that the things they were trying ...

The newly revised project document template is now available on the class resources page . It includes several questions by Gary and answer...

I wanted to clarify some of what I said today. The more I thought about my comments on spanking the more worried I became about offending o...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flkgNn50k14

I was wondering if anyone knows how to use SL as a video game. I know that the purpose for this class is to research innovative ways to acco...

How would someone go about getting a random sample of Second Life educators? Is this possible in the current structure of Second Life? I am ...

The main objective of the project I am working on with my group is to show the potential of virtual worlds like Second Life in enhancing the...

I thought some of you might find this to be an interesting event, I recieved this email from the Entrepreneurship department in the college ...

Beta testers? http://www.vollee.com/secondlife

Dennis/Arturo: Some members of our group (Group 2) met on Sunday to discuss the project scope and how our project was shaping up with respec...