DKMonroe

I just finished reading a great article on cultural differences when using email. It seems that in East Asian countries workers avoid using email to communicate with their superiors because it seems disrespectful. They fax them. I would say that Second Life would allow people to work while respecting cultural differences. East Asian workers could [...]

I went to a Dharma talk by kusaladharma Demar, a RL Buddhist monk in SL, whose studied for 11 years and came to SL simply to teach the Dharma. kusaladharm speaking: A shot of him with the group in the background.

World Cafe combines facilitated conversation and visual thinking to promote new ideas, links, and understanding. Often their work shows a visual pattern of living relationships: conversations, relationships, and mental processes and paradigms. Now they are taking this process and way of thinking into Second Life. They had an event recently that used their process: “There [...]

Once I started doing research on virtual worlds, I felt there weren’t a lot of people who GOT what I was talking about. Then through Twitter I met VRWorkplace. He’s actually developing a business around what I’m reading. I’ve had a lot of esteem for him, but now he’s gone and made something pretty amazing: [...]

With all the talk about bots over at New World Notes, first here as a salvo against land barons; then here as a defense for using them; and even here regarding possible positive uses, I thought: “My god we don’t have enough info about bots!” My personal experience with bots was a transaction between me [...]

If we can have scripts that allow us to change properties of prims on doors, why do we make them so complicated by having them rotate, which involves rotating the prim and fixing that it moves ever so slightly over each time? Why not simply make a script that makes the door change texture from [...]

While reading “The Emerging Geographies of Virtual Worlds” the author invoked the feeling that virtual worlds create a shamanistic quality by flying over virtual geographies (Taylor, 1997 pg. 185). That got me thinking about furries and their desire to transform themselves into wolves, tigers, etc. That’s another example of the desire for a shaman like [...]

Second Life Architects have plenty of in-world inspiration, but they may find new inspiration by watching T.E.D. talks on the subject. T.E.D. : “… stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.” I’ve found their [...]