I’ll be speaking at the Virtual World Conference in NYC the end of March, so I spent a few minutes speaking with Chris Sherman, the Executive Director of the conference. Chris founded the Austin Game Developer’s Conference and recently sold it to CMP Publications. He grows and sells boutique media, conference, and tradeshow companies.
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While not really new news, the land mass increase substantially the last three months of 2006, as the numbers released by Zee Linden indicate.
Total Second Life land increased by 65% from last October to last January. Second Life’s two broad categories of land are the Mainland, which is a contiguous “continent” of land, and […]

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As the controversy rages on about Unique registrations vs. Alts (for a good start into the controversy, read Henry Jenkins’ post, which references many other peoople), Linden Lab released some metrics ten days ago that shed light on the discussion. In this particular controversy, people were wanting to know how the registration numbers on […]

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This was going to be a post about the multimedia media experience “Myst” and how it’s come to Second Life. Back in the day (1993), Myst changed the way we all thought about computer games. Coming fast on the heals of The 7th Guest, it’s lush environment enticed viewers in a way that […]

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I was listening to KUT, the local NPR station, this morning and heard a story about how a recent research report showed that funding of newsrooms is correlated to profits. That is, media organizations that have higher levels for funding for their newsrooms make more money.
I couldn’t find a reference to the story on […]

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