Come and join for a walking tour of a virtual installation and discuss collaboration and participation in the 3D environment in Second Life. Here Cameron Sinclair (Architecture for Humanity) and John Gage (Sun Microsystems) will engage and discuss Open Source design and going from virtual to real solutions. The theme of the event, hosted by [...]
As of today DreamHost, the provider that hosts this blog, is officially a carbon-neutral company. Well done.
As you may know (if following my tweets for instance), in the last 3 weeks I spent a good share of my time off exploring Second Life. I used to subscribe almost one year ago, but at that time I just logged in, pretended to bypass the newbie tutorials and… got bored in a matter [...]
Now this is just a test aside, made with BlogMate. If this works well, being able to blog smoothly from my main editor is a very neat feature… I may even consider walking this path and leave my beloved Ecto. But we’ll see…
From New World Notes: Meltemi Editore, a publishing house based in Rome, is sponsoring a contest to design their SL office, and the winners will be selected by a panel of architects, editors, and Mario Gerosa, author of Meltemi’s Second Life book. The design must fit in a 4096 square meter space and total 937 [...]
Hey! I was just skimming through friends’ events on upcoming and… look! John Maeda comes and speak at the Design Museum on May 2nd! As simple as that… ;)
High above the clouds covering Europe and thus artificially detached, I reckon this to be the best place from which to look back at the past few days (but maybe we could say weeks), the RitaliaCamp and all. For the impatient If you want my impressions in a nutshell, I think the RitaliaCamp was a [...]
‘A number of people at BarCampBangalore wanted to know what the Spirit of Barcamp is… here’s your chance to define it. Either write up your thoughts here or link to your post (tag it spiritofbarcamp).’ As for myself, I think Barcamp is the new stone soup
A few days ago I was reading with much interest this article on Robin Good’s blog about an in-depth analysis of the italia.it portal. He mentioned also our little collaborative effort and reading that I smiled childishly. He connected it with the concept of crowdsourcing (the term was, I think, conied by Jeff Howe) , [...]