The highlight session of the conference for me was Regulating Virtual Worlds, which I was very much looking forward to. I’m sure this was intentionally built into the choice of speakers, but each of the panelists took a very clear regulatory approach to the new technology. Charles Lim Aeng Chang Read more…
I’m in Singapore for State of Play V, which concludes a self-indulgent week of buffing-up my research into games and virtual worlds in preparation for next month’s Gikii 2. I’ve just come from a dinner where we were shown a documentary on businesses in Second Life, following the rise of Read more…
The second day was extremely interesting, particularly from my perspective. The first two sessions were very PS3 heavy, with a session on motion-capture in Heavenly Sword. I was very impressed with this game, enough to actually consider buying a PS3 just to play it. Virtual Societies Session:This was the best Read more…
As part of my growing interest in games (from a research point of view of course), I have decided to make the Edinburgh Interactive Festival my one and only August Fringe event this year. This conference is mostly directed towards games industry insiders, but it is quite an amazing insight Read more…
Those interested in the GikII 2 (pronounced geeky) workshop, which will take place on September 19 at UCL, London, will be delighted to know that the provisional programme is now online. Yours Truly will present a paper entitled “From Zero to Hero: Building a New Virtual Economy”. Those of you Read more…
In September 2006, panGloss and yours truly organised the first GikII workshop, a tremendously entertaining gathering of like-minded people willing to discuss the interface between geek culture and the law. The resulting workshop provided a look at the virtual personality of avatars; legal aspects of fandom, anime and even hentai; Read more…
Here’s my iSummit in pictures (check out the iCommons Flickr stream): Not a bad place to hold a conference Badges? We don’t need no stinkin’ badges!(courtesy CreativeCommoners) So, THAT is how he does it!(courtesy Joi Ito) Snowclones are the new black(courtesy Mathias Klang) Tessi disagrees with me about the quality Read more…
(photo courtesy of Becky Hogge) One of the coolest activities I managed to do during the summit (besides annoying random people with rants about contract law) was to participate in the Free Radio broadcast. As you can see, it is a radio broadcasting outside one of the venues. I managed Read more…
A common theme running through the summit has been the question of the nature of the Creative Commons organisation. Is it a movement? And if so, what is its philosophy? Ideology? Is it political? I think that these are important questions, and while I believe clearly that this is a Read more…
Venerable (I sort of hate that word, but I don’t know how else to describe him) Harvard Professot Charlie Nesson gave an excellent talk on poker and democracy. I’m sure this will be one of those events which will be part of the many excellent talks we have been seeing Read more…