Virtual Worlds Growing in Popularity
The virtual worlds consultancy kzero.co.uk reports that membership of virtual worlds grew by 39% in the second quarter of 2009 to an estimated 579 million. Some …
Year: 2009
Teachers Without Borders on Secondlife
I wandered around Teachers Without Borders space on Secondlife and recorded a video of it that you can watch below or watch on youtube. You can …
Sculpture in SL using Blender
I have been experimenting with Blender again this weekend. He has produced some really nice modern sculptures. You can view the sculptures here in Second Life, …
Australian Government Targets Gamers
Stephen Conroy the Australian Communications Minister, has been nominated by the British ISP industry for its annual “internet villain” award. Senator Conroy was nominated for the …
End Software Patents Australia
Recently I received an email Ciarán O’Riordan about his work on FSF’s End Software Patents campaign. I think its wonderful that we have people working on …
Digital Britain
The UK culture secretary, Andy Burnham, said today that the government intends to acquire powers to apply “technical measures” to crack down on persistent illegal filesharers …
Microsoft’s deal with New Zealand comes to an end
Microsoft’s nine-year software licencing deal with the New Zealand government has apparently collapsed according to the Inquirer today. In a statement, the State Services Commission (SSC) …
UK ISPs fight back over licensing of legal content
The UK creative industries have demanded that ISPs start disconnecting users accused of repeated online copyright infringement. Ars Technica spoke to the ISPA earlier this week: …
GCompris, the best suite of free educational software for children
GCompris is amazing, its fun and kids love it. Over the years I’ve distributed a lot of educational freedom respecting software and GCompris is popular. Lets …
Linux Educational Comicbooks
Hackett and Bankwell is an educational comic/cartoon manual designed to teach readers how to get started with Linux-based operating systems. You can download copies of the …