For the second year running I have committed myself to take a photograph every day, and to post it here. It is a visual diary; a form of visual knowledge building.

I realised towards the end of last year that I had become addicted to missing visual opportunities, and that this must change. I never seemed to take the photograph I wanted to take, but instead went to bed at night thinking about the opportunities I had missed. This year I am going to recover from this in the only way possible: one place at a time. I have committed myself to take a photograph every day in 2008, and to post it here.

About a week ago Linden Labs announced the availability of a beta version of SL Enterprise, a product that had been rumoured for some time because people knew something was being developed under the code-name Nebraska. This has implications for our work.

Over Christmas my eight year old daughter decided that she wanted “her own web site”, which turned out to mean her own virtual clubhouse, where she and her friends can meet, hang out, play games, and live the kind of life they live when they hook up their DS Lite Pokemon or Nintendogs games.

A few minutes ago Johnny Bistrom pointed out to me that the new version of Unity 3D has been released – and that it is free. Unity 3D is a game engine and development platform that can be used to build games & worlds online, on iPhones and on the Nintendo Wii. It has been around for several years and we have both noticed its existence, but done very little more.