Virtual week

Last week I was rather quiet for several reasons. On Wednesday I presented a paper entitled “Build Your Own World” at the beautiful Glasgow venue called The Lighthouse (available from the awesome Slideshare website). I was very impressed with the knowledgeable and diverse audience, but I am now a complete Read more…

Second Life PI

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Urban Spaces event in Glasgow

More self-promotion of speaking arrangements. Well, if I cannot have self-promotion in my own blog, then where can I have it? Anyway, here is the information: Build your own worldAndres Guadamuz, AHRC21 November 2007 10am – 12.30pm The Lighthouse, Glasgow Free Andres Guadamuz is an academic interested in the ownership Read more…

Bloodspell and the raise of machinima

Bloodspell: The rise of machinimaViewing and panel 22 November 20075.15 – 8.30pmLondon Metropolitan University Graduate Centre 166-220 Holloway RoadLondon, N7 8DB Bloodspell is the world’s first feature-length machinima, and it is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Bloodspell “is a story of a world where men and women Read more…

Bragg v Linden Labs

The dust is starting to settle in the widely publicised case of Bragg v. Linden Research, which was settled out of court for an undisclosed sum. However, one must assume that plaintiff Marc Bragg has done rather well out of the deal, as his alter ego Marc Woebegone has been Read more…