Here are some SL news nuggets from around the web.

Virtual Worlds as Eco Incubators What does a virtual world have to do with making a real world businesses more eco-friendly? Potentially a lot. Here’s a cheat sheet on noteworthy green development projects in Second Life.

Wired, Too, Bearish on Second Life The August 2007 issue adds its voice to the growing murmur of disenchantment. Its story “How Madison Avenue Is Wasting Millions on a Deserted Second Life” has a great quote about the preceding SLandrush: “It’s as if the moon suddenly had oxygen.” Then it goes on about how there’s nobody around and there’s nothing to do and how advertisers now feel stupid for choking on Wired’s own hype.

Magazines offer opposite takes on Second Life Current issues of Newsweek and Wired offer two opposite views of the Second Life virtual world.

“Can Second Life live up to the hype?” So the mainstream media and the overall blogosphere is having yet another negative reaction to the Second Life hype, and that reaction is expressed as … you guessed it: Second Life Hype.

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