Kristina Dell Can’t Get the Box Off Her Head. I’ve been rather annoyed with Time magazine the past few days. I cracked open an issue to read the interview with Drew Carey, and then several pages in I was assaulted with an article about Second Life - illustrated by some horrible mash up of a Second Life screen shot and over sized human beings, cut out and pasted together like a third grade art project.

South Africa and Second Life Uthango Social Investments has opened an international virtual office in Second Life. Uthango Social Investments Leads the Way to Virtual Africa, Leading the Way for Africa in Second Life. Uthango Social Investments is a company that is located in Cape Town, South Africa. They are the first NGO (non-government organization) to establish a presence in Second Life. Second Life URL.

Other than Free Lindens in Second Life for 8/19/07 Today I ended up searching for blogs out there that talks about Second Life and this one seems to be for the mature.

Second Life Meta-Me The experience of identity is often heavily influenced by physicality (race, gender, height, nose size, etc.). Virtual worlds such as Second Life offer freedom from physicality via unlimited self re-presentation opportunities.

Time Magazine Hates Second Life Too Despite being something of a mainstream media darling, there’s at least one magazine out there that thinks Second Life sucks: Time has a short and sweet piece up on the ‘5 Worst Websites,’ and coming it at number five is the MMO that Kotaku readers love to complain we still write about - Second Life.

Killing Old Media in Second Life The Metaversed group met to discuss the science and art of hosting large events in Second Life on Friday. We came away with a lot of cool ideas, some of which will have been done, are being done, and some of which may be unique. As we discussed it, a few overriding themes kept cropping up in the conversation…

Wirecast + Google Earth = DIY Weather channelOver at the Swedish Institute we’ve been experimenting with Second Life as a communications medium for engaging in public diplomacy, homing in on those specific functions that virtual worlds excel at, and for which there is no equivalent on the web. (We quickly found that if there is an equivalent on the web, it is likely much more efficient to use the web — there is no point trying to read any sizable amount of text in Second Life, for example.)

Second Life Corporate Hype Bubble Deflates - Now What? Recent articles have focused on various issues affecting Second Life of late. But they have simply reported issues and, sometimes, commented on the issues as isolated events. I think it’s about time the causes were discussed, the likely outcomes and potential future moves.

Most of Second Life’s troubles - other than the ever present infrastructure ones which I don’t propose to even attempt to tackle here - can actually be traced to the decision - and it was a decision by Linden Lab, not something that ‘just happened’ - to court corporate America.

Techcrunch on Second Life Stock Exchanges Duncan Riley of Techcrunch tries out investing in a Second Life Stock Exchange.

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