[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJNWidQrgf8[/youtube] Links: Open Simulator Overte Foundation Justin Clark-Casey's Master's Dissertation on Internet-Scale Virtual Environment Architectures Hypergrid Unity 3D Second Life Experimental teleport between Second Life and OpenSim Diva Distro Kitely OpenSim Creations Topics: 1:30 How do you become an OpenSim core developer? 8:00 Can OpenSim become the "3D web"? 14:00 Does OpenSim need asset security? 24:00 Does OpenSim need feature parity with Second Life? 31:30 How do you decide which features are in OpenSim core? 37:30 The state ...

I just now found Maria's article on "content as a service", which deals with the same subject as my short note on "software as a service", even though they have been written independently of one another. Must be something in the air. And, unsurprisingly, I disagree. ((I'm writing this here mainly because I can't be bothered to log into HGB ...

I recently held a class on VWBPE about this topic, and I think I didn't too good a job at it, hence this article. The problem is, this topic is larger than it looks at first glance, and has so many facets to it, that I struggled to cover them all in an one-hour lecture. In the end, all I ...

I recently picked up a link sent to my feedreader from Planet OpenSim of an article about copyright, that discussed an issue that looked suspiciously familiar. Upon reading the article, I discovered that lo, the issue was indeed very familiar. It is the same mix of fear, uncertainty, and doubt, which is being spread by some "content creators" and their ...

Here's a new idea: Put the authors of this blog together on skype and make them read blogposts to each other, then post it on the site again. Today, let's talk about piracy. Dwell On It - Piracy (Read it at: Dwell on it - Piracy is a real problem) in connection with this, an older, quite famous piece about the musicians ...

Free to copy Yes, it's there. Look harder. It's on the second level in the pie menu, and in the General tab in Edit. And it's the difference between open grids and closed ones. The difference between OpenSim and Second Life. Everything digital revolves around copying, and copies are not a technical question, but a legal one: Copyright. Laws, unlike technical processes, ...

Freedom confined Freedom and creativity are funny things. Creativity seemingly can't exist without freedom, and yet, an infinite amount of freedom does not lead to an infinite amount of creativity, but rather to a... blockade. It's as if I don't know where to start or what to do when there are no confines that will define the boundaries of my creative ...

Something I thought would be good and important to share is Erika Lusts movie "The Good Girl". It's a 20 minute short movie featuring some tasteful and nicely done porn scene with a bit of story wrapped around it. It  was produced in 2004 and originally was licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License. While the movie is not ...

Take a look at this offer, please. Just shortly, do it for me. Thank you. Now tell me, are you taking anything I wrote there serious? I mean, even if you don't really know me, are you believing what is written there? Why? Because I wrote it? God, it's tough to try to be not too blatantly ironic and give the ...

What I can't say I had a sentiment lately, that was very disturbing to me, and which I haven't had ever before in my life, in any circustance: There are things I can't say. More precisely, there are things I can't say, but want to say. ((I know there are a lot of things I can't say but which I am ...