Consumer Guide to Virtual Worlds
Posted in Uncategorized on May 13, 2008 | No Comments »
Consumer guide to virtual worlds - published by the Association of Virtual Worlds can be
downloaded here.
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Senate Committee on Homeland Security
Posted in Uncategorized on May 13, 2008 | No Comments »
Senate report on the Internet and homegrown terrorist threat.
Can be downloaded here.
Fear the Daemon
Posted in Uncategorized on April 30, 2008 | No Comments »
Yesterday saw the release of Grand Theft Auto IV accompanied as usual by howls of protest from certain quarters of the media about declining moral standards. For the uninitiated Grand Theft Auto is a video game where the player takes on the guise of a criminal character in Liberty city, which is modeled to look [...]
HiPiHi Opens
Posted in Uncategorized on April 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Apparently the Chinese virtual world HiPiHi has opened for public beta.
Clearly a significant shift in the world of virtual worlds!
Profile of John Zdanowski - CFO Linden Lab
Posted in News, Uncategorized on April 24, 2008 | No Comments »
Interesting profile — in which he discusses Second Life’s economy and the challenge of law enforcement (or not) in a globalized virtual word operating across legal jurisdictions. Worth a read:
Link here.
Announcement of new Linden Lab CEO, Mark Kingdon here.
Comment from MidEast News
Posted in Uncategorized on April 24, 2008 | No Comments »
Link here to Yaniv Berman’s article.
Ignore the silly avatar!
Meta-terror panel in DC
Posted in Uncategorized on March 5, 2008 | No Comments »
Remarks from the event will be published on the Counter Terrorism Blog soon!
In the meantime the presentation I wasn’t able to show at the event is below:
Information as a Weapon of Mass Destruction
Posted in Uncategorized on December 19, 2007 | No Comments »
This piece is a couple of months old now but still it strikes me as being very important:
Information as a Weapon of Mass Destruction
By pdp
Date: Oct 5, 2007
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Information is the single most important thing that moves the global economy, influences political regimes, and constructs human behavior. It is a tool of our [...]
Counter-Terrorism blog
Posted in Uncategorized on November 14, 2007 | No Comments »
I am doing a stint over on the Counter-Terrorism Blog.
There is a growing interest in the intersection between security, terrorism and technology so I accepted an invite to participate. I will however, still be posting comment relating to the security of virtual worlds on this site.
First CT-blog entry is here.
The rise and fall (and rise again!) of IGE
Posted in Uncategorized on November 13, 2007 | No Comments »
Many thanks to PJ for emailing me about a recent article on mmobux.com looking at the rise and fall of IGE and it’s power in the secondary market. It’s an excellent read and an outstanding case study, indeed, I’m considering using it as a teaching case with my students as it explains the issues very well.
