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Virtually Blind Interview

For the full interview at VirtuallyBlind.com Interview: Employment Attorney Dave Elchoness Discusses IRS Ruling Holding that Electric Sheep’s Virtual World Greeters Are “Employees” May 15th, 2008 by Benjamin Duranske An The Second Life Herald recently reported that the IRS issued a ruling that the Electric Sheep Company’s Second Life greeters for its CSI:NY promotion were “employees” rather than contractors, implicati… Continue

Added by Dave Elchoness on May 15, 2008 at 6:47pm — No Comments

ActiveWorlds

Just got a big crew in to the AVW from ActiveWorlds. I haven't spent a lot of time in ActiveWorlds, but do recall being a touristy-looking avatar there with a hat, hawaiian shirt, and bermuda shorts for a while. A stocky fellow I think. I enjoyed the world and looking around it. At the time, I was doing a survey of a whole number of worlds, and as such moved on. Having ActiveWorlders here is fantastic as this is an organization seeking to further the medium of virtual worlds rather than any bra… Continue

Added by Dave Elchoness on May 3, 2008 at 8:28pm — 3 Comments

ABA Technology in the Practice & Workplace

I spoke today at the Midwinter Meeting of the American Bar Association's Technology in the Practice & Workplace Committee in Chicago (link). What a pleasant experience this was. Sure seems like we're getting somewhere when attorneys outside of IP spend valuable time thinking about virtual worlds and their impact. On the panel with me were some excellent attorneys from private practice, government, academia, and ADR. A wonder… Continue

Added by Dave Elchoness on May 1, 2008 at 8:49pm — 3 Comments

Double Happiness Jeans Redux

cross-posted at www.VRWorkplace.com Way back when Double Happiness Jeans was announced as manufacturing its jeans inside of Second Life using avatar workers, I suggested in a number of places including Business Communicators of Second Life (http://tiny.cc/dCLST) that this kind of employment remains subject to real life workplace laws including minimum wage, benefits, pension, etc. Double Happiness was, of course, compensating avatars at the rate of, I believe, L200 an hour (or about .90$) plus… Continue

Added by Dave Elchoness on April 11, 2008 at 6:54am — 4 Comments

"The Emergence of a New Global Culture in the Imagination Age" by Rita J. King

When you spend as much time as I do reading through what's written about the metaverse everyday, you sometimes get a bit down about what you see day after day. Invariably it's the same article written time and again and typically it includes the "I have a first life, I don't need a Second" refrain from the journalist who probably has never set virtual foot in a virtual world. Sometimes you see writing that recognizes the potential of virtual worlds. Only very rarely, in my opinion, do you see th… Continue

Added by Dave Elchoness on March 29, 2008 at 10:06pm — No Comments

Land Grab

I wrote the following in response to a post announcing the start of this Association, and a comment that perhaps it was a sort of "land grab" in virtual space. www.3donthewebcheap.blogspot.com This suggestion of land-grab really is sort of silly. What percentage of the internet using population knows what a virtual world is, much less has regularly spent time in one? I can assure you that I'm not intere… Continue

Added by Dave Elchoness on March 23, 2008 at 8:08pm — No Comments

Adoption Hurdles

This is a comment I posted at the Forrester Information Management blog, authored by our friend Erica Driver. It's the 'adoption hurdles' that I'm most interested in as Executive Director of the Association of Virtual Worlds. Having run a large enterprise for a well-established Fortune 200 company, it is clear to be that it's these hurdles that pose the biggest challenges… Continue

Added by Dave Elchoness on March 22, 2008 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Neutrality

This is a comment I posted at our member Andrew Peters' blog APLink (http://www.aplink.wordpress.com) in response to his post concerning the Association's partnership with Altadyn (www.3dxplorer.com). In his post, Andrew wonders how the community will reach to the partnership and whether the Association ought to remain "neutral in its activities." This is one that I have struggled with quite a bit i.e. whether… Continue

Added by Dave Elchoness on March 22, 2008 at 12:26pm — No Comments

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