An overview of the Virtual Industries course, organised by Arcada, explaining its aims and objectives, and outlining its three stages. This course will be taught entirely online, with optional classroom workshops for students in Helsinki.

In the back of my mind I have felt that the word memexie was wrong since the moment I coined it. It sounds as though it comes from a bad fifties science fiction film.

Here are two sites I have found recently that may be of use in a number of ways.

There are a growing number of designers who claim to be making most or all of their living working with clients in SL. Some work with real life clients to build content for them that they can place in SL. Others work entirely inside the world, where their avatar makes objects or runs services for other avatars.

There has been a thread on the Second Life Education mailing list about griefers, of which there have been a plentiful supply recently. This set me thinking and I posted the following note, which I will expand at some point into a more considered piece.

There are four steps that you need to complete before you can even start the course assignments. These are listed here. Each step links to a page with more detailed instructions.

The course will be in two parts. Each part will consist of a task or set of tasks. There will be two end dates. The details are here

The Entropia Universe is another online synthetic world that claims to have a “real” economy. Currently it claims to have about half a million members.

Yesterday British Telecom announced that they were investing £100 million in a new service to be called BT Vision. This has been misleadingly described in some reports as “BT’s new television service”. It would be more accurate to say that this represents BT’s calculated bet that, like radio, television is in terminal decline.

In the kind of ideal world where you could do everything that you wanted, even if they were apparently contradictory, one of the things I would have been doing over the weekend is attending the State of Play conference in New York.