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Filed under: News items, Second Life, Legal, Virtual worlds You may remember Richard Minsky, founder of The Center for Book Arts in New York City and owner of SLART Magazine. We previously wrote about his assertion of his rights and obligations with respect to his SLART trademark, which covers (among other things) Minsky's SLART magazine.

Second Life Will Never Save the World, or Even Mobilize It 08.31.08 | 1 Comment The virtual world that will contribute to significant social change hasn’t come along yet, according to Ben Rigby in an interview with tweedy Web 2.0 prof and raving ACA-Fan Henry Jenkins.

Do We Need a National CTO? Techdirt Wed, 08/27/2008 - 17:00 The 463 blog points us to an interview with Mitch Kapor of Lotus and EFF fame, in which he makes the case for a national Chief Technology Officer.

If you follow us on Twitter, you might have seen this link to an interview with Mozilla Foundation chairman Mitch Kapor. MIT's Technology Review asked Kapor (who developed Lotus 1-2-3 and co-founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation, among other things) why he thinks the United States needs a national chief technology officer.

Washington Post on Virtual World Governance and Policing 08.20.08 | No Comments The sheriff has come to virtual worlds, according to the Washington Post, which gives an overview of approaches being used to govern and police, pointing out that “nearly all …users agree to certain policies when signing

Filed under: News items, Second Life, Virtual worlds With all the talk about virtual environments (virtual world is, after all, something of a misnomer), what if you could use the real environment and bring the virtual to you?

[image source] We all love Mitch Kapor! Well, not exactly, of course, but anyway: I greatly respect Mitch Kapor, and lots of other people agree with me. That’s why there is so much about his recent Keynote at the fifth SL birthday event (SL5B): - A new Torley Linden documentary on Mitch Kapor

In an amazing turn of EPIC FAIL over the week, SL5B keynote speaker Mitch Kapor had the following to say about SL residents - especially the early ones: “So the first is, in the earliest wave of pioneers in any new disruptive platform, the marginal and the dispossessed are over represented, not

You TOO Can ENJOY Improved PERFORMANCE! Second Life Economic Stats 07.08.08 | No Comments Linden Lab announced its economic statistics today with bold, beautiful bar graphs. Among the highlights: - Land mass BIGGER!!!! - User hours LONGER!!!! - LINDEX Volume FLUSHER!!!! - Businesses PERFORM BETTER!!!!

Yesterday Robin Harper interviewed Mitch Kapor. Mitch is on Linden Lab’s Board of Directors. Mitch Kapor: “We bring all of ourselves to it, we bring the good, the bad and the ugly. What we choose to do with the possibilities is extremely important.” Dusan Writer have made this great article about