Monthly Archives: December 2009
Next: Our avatars, ourselves
Join us on the next Copper Robot program for a conversation about avatars. The movie Avatar is cleaning up at the box office. Those of us in Second Life are familiar with avatars–they’re the faces that we show the virtual … Continue reading
Another jackass proclaims the death of Second Life
What gets me about cretins like this is that (a) they don’t bother to do any research and (b) they don’t even have the decency to hide their lack of research. They’re very upfront about the lack of research they … Continue reading
Playback: Tamra Hayden, singer and star of Second Life and Broadway
Listen to the Copper Robot interview with Tamra Hayden, singer and star of Second Life and Broadway. Tamra headlined on Broadway in Les Miserables and Cabaret, and has toured the US in plays including Phantom of the Opera, and Fiddler … Continue reading
ArminasX Saiman’s write-up of the Cory Doctorow interview
ArminasX Saiman has a great write-up of Wednesday’s interview with Cory Doctorow: Me, Cory’s avatar, HALEY Salomon, Armi (l-r) Cory spoke of the Hacker Ethic, which is an unconscious urge within all of us to rework the world to better … Continue reading
Copper Robot re-imagined as a fotonovela
I love this: The fantastic Rita J. King (SL: Eureka Dejavu) of Dancing Ink Productions blogged our recent interview with Cory Doctorow, imagining parts of it as a fotonovela. Click to view full-size The audience chatted about their own struggles … Continue reading
That’s a wrap on the Cory Doctorow interview
We had a fantastic interview with Cory Doctorow, blogger at Boing Boing, Internet activist, and author of Makers, Little Brother and other excellent novels that routinely keep me up until 4 in the morning. Thanks to Cory for coming, the … Continue reading
I’m being interviewed by Paisley Beebe in Second Life tonight
This time, instead of doing the interviewing, I’ll be the subject of the interview, on Tonight Live With Paisley Beebe. Paisley runs an interview program in Second Life, as do I. It’s the same time as Copper Robot, 6 pm … Continue reading
FTC goes looking for sex and violence in virtual worlds, doesn’t find much
FTC Report on Kids and Virtual Worlds This morning the Federal Trade Commission released its report on kids and virtual worlds. You can read the report, entitled Virtual Worlds and Kids: Mapping the Risks, here. (I’ve posted similar thoughts over at … Continue reading
Next: Cory Doctorow, science fiction writer, blogger, journalist, and Internet activist
Join us on the next Copper Robot program for a conversation with science fiction writer, blogger and Internet activist Cory Doctorow, whose latest novel, Makers, tells the story of hackers trying to survive and stay happy in a collapsing economy. … Continue reading
