Today I was feeling like writing on the other blog. It’s been a while: six months and a week. There is the place for code. This is the place for life. But for today let’s keep the door open.
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From the Official Linden Blog (emphasys by me):
[...]While Linden Lab does not offer an online gambling service, Linden Lab and Second Life Residents must comply with state and federal laws applicable to regulated online gambling, even when both operators and players of the games reside outside of the US. And, because there are a variety of conflicting gambling regulations around the world we have chosen to restrict gambling in Second Life as described in a revised policy which is posted in the Knowledge Base under “Policy Regarding Wagering in Second Life”.
Now, I’m not a gambler and sincerely not interested in this specific issue at all, but I always considered virtual spaces like SL interesting just for one tiny little quality: they help us abstract physical constraints and, more specifically, space. Now this means, among other things, making business relationship possible, more profitable (for the parties involved) and sustainable (for the environment itself).
But what we have here is quite the opposite: a transaction that is forced to abide to the federal laws, even if conducted by two individuals who live and operate in countries other than the USofA, and that never “experience” the US at all, being the physical space of the transaction totally wrapped by the virtual world share illusion. This is like having a u.s. made tv set that refuses to display porn to under age public even if in a country with different age limitations (and where thus it could be perfectly legal to display it).
Just experienced the ultimate crossverse experience: twittering from AjaxLife, the web interface to Second Life.
Back from reboot9.
Here in this sunny London morning, while unpacking my stuff and gathering notes, bizcards (and try remembering faces), post-its and jaiku stickers I suddenly realize how much I enjoyed (and already missing) the quiet, but at the same time vibrant, fresh, open atmosphere of the past two days.
This and the sweet sensation of being connected as never before, although technically unplugged for most of the time… because you know, in the end, it’s really just about you.
KTHXBYE.
As of today DreamHost, the provider that hosts this blog, is officially a carbon-neutral company. Well done.
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 primitives.
First submission deadline is May 20. Winning design team comes away with 5000 Euros– about $6762, or L$1,818,978.
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… ;)
‘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
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