Of course, moments after I post about organizing a Second Life marathon run, I get brought back to earth by the big elephant in the room: Second Life is down. As great as SL appears to be for things like machinima and interactive community building, the technical monster is rearing its head. Critics say much [...]
A Marathon, for virtually everyone
Here’s a crazy idea I had while talking to Amy the other day: Organize a virtual marathon in Second Life. OK, so there’s an embedded problem with transferring the training, motivation and competetive aspects to a virtual world where all of the pretty avatars have essentially the same skills. So? There’s method someplace in my [...]