OpenSim is great because it is far more open than Second Life is, but is it too open? OpenSim does not have a general currency and that is good and bad. everyone is used to the economic model of Second Life – say you want to sell a chair, well just set the price on [...]

this week has been lots of blah, blah, blah about educators and not-for-profits and how to move to OpenSim. for whatever reason Linden Lab has sent a pretty loud message to educators about their support. and it is often human nature to wait until it becomes so bad that we then change i’m not going [...]

i think Lalo made the “these socialist idiots want your money with blog ads and are only popular because all you readers are blind stupid sheep following autocratic instruments of the populace driven autobot culture” list the other day lol, i don’t even know what that means, but it’s the best Prok impression i can do! not [...]

call me quick (really, after a year?) but i just found the events page for happenings on the OSGrid! i am such a frigging hermit these days! i think i am still in rehab from the overload of the estate in Second Life! the last two months were so stressful, i was crying all the time [...]

When I spoke at conferences about using Second Life for eLearning, I discussed it as an animation tool and not as a learning environment. Multimedia developers creating eLearning for internal and/or external clients are always looking for fast and easy-to-use tools. I believe Second Life is very easy to use for creating video for use [...]

Second Life has very good audio when you consider how much info has to transmit back and forth (and lip synch too). if it is still the same as two years ago, voice is carried on different servers and that helps with server and bandwidth load one really nice thing is that you can set audio to [...]

is that $4,500 thing for 11 and a half hours still going on in Second Life? the MotD dealio? that is some serious scratch for sure! and i know that a few people had done it (must be nice to have that kind of cash in your pocket!) =) brilliant me now has my own screen [...]

With Second Life’s Teen Grid closing in December, where does that leave the educational use of virtual worlds? Adult education can carry on but K-12 may need to change. Certainly those working with students under 16 will need an alternative. Those working with students 16 and older may also want an alternative rather than be [...]

i heart Maria from Hypergrid Business. why? because when subQuark tossed out the idea of doing OpenSim i was bikkuri collar deep in Second Life estate woes. i’m not sure why my leather collar is called bikkuri (it was made by a Japanese lady in Second Life), i can’t find that on the web, but [...]

if you are coming from Second Life and actually did stuff in there (more than dancing and shopping) then you need groups. apart from having done the estate thing inSL where groups are not optional, i have done builds for corporate use and universities. nothing too major, but without groups, those would have been impossible [...]

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it was not a huge shock that Philip announced the Second Life Teen Grid would be closing. concurrency is low and the cost is too high for teachers and teens. i look at this mainly from an educators point of view but also read some comments on other blogs which gave me some insight into [...]

when i left SL, it was under stressful conditions (awwww, poor ener) and it’s really funky to go from a dozen sims to a crappy Linden home =( plus i had a new and exciting project where all i “had” to do was just build. i love building and did not miss all the issues [...]

facelights are all over the place in Second Life and are also in widespread use in OpenSim. one reason they exists is because virtual world lighting is pretty harsh. it makes harsh contrasts in the shading of your face and people don’t like seeing themselves that way. i don’t know if this is still true [...]

with so many grids popping up, it’s a bit of a drag rebuilding yourself for each one. i decided to follow Maria’s advice from Hypergrid Business and make myself on an OSGrid account. from the OSGrid i can teleport to many other grids. i can actually do that from our sims in Reaction Grid, but [...]