By Stone Culdesac

Viewer forks - unforeseen consequences In a few days we’re going to have people using the new OnRez Second Life viewer. Maybe a lot of people.

Here’s the latest commercial for the upcoming CSI: NY - Down the Rabbit Hole featuring Second Life.

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Johnson & Wales Professor Recruits Second Life Teens At the first Second Life college fair this past weekend, Hilary Mason, an assistant professor of new media and computer science at Johnson & Wales University, in Providence, R.I., tried to whet students’ appetites for studying technology at the university by telling them about some new media projects that students have been involved in.

EDUCAUSE Conference: Hot Topics Discussion on Virtual Worlds As part of this year’s EDUCAUSE Annual Conference in Seattle, there will be a Hot Topic Discussion on Virtual Worlds which will bring together those who want to discuss how virtual learning environments impact all facets of the institution.

Join Us For GridTalk To Discuss Virtual Worlds Standards And Interoperability You’re invited to GridTalk tomorrow in Second Life and on the Web, where Mitch Wagner be talking to IBM and Linden Lab about their joint initiative to create standards for interoperability between virtual worlds and the Web.

When Avatars Go on Murderous Rampages Cyberspace gets deadly in this week’s CSI: NY episode. The next installment of the hit CBS (NYSE: CBS) crime series will feature the cast delving deep into the community of Second Life.

The Game Of Second Life I know some people are upholstering fire-arms, drawing katanas or just fast-searching their inventories for that gun that was useful once or twice, just because I said that second life is a game.

Countdown to History? CSI in Second Life. Can 400+ sims be wrong? Wednesday sees a special episode of CSI New York called “Down the Rabbit Hole” in which the pursuit of a killer takes Gary Sinise into Second Life.

Introducing the Knowledge Base Article of the Week This week’s KB Article of the Week: How to Mute Another Resident or Object. Is there somebody inworld giving you a hard time over chat or IM, or annoying you with their particles, or talking some nonsense at you in voice?

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World Bank and IFC Report Ventures into Virtual World with Second Life The World Bank and IFC will present the Doing Business 2008 report in the virtual world through Second Life via an interactive, live, mixed reality event. World Bank and IFC experts will interact with Second Life residents and will address key findings of the comprehensive global report on business development.

Liverpool’s 40,000 virtual visitors a day - it’s Second Life IT’S sunset over central Liverpool. Only a couple of people are milling about in Mathew Street, but the pavements are spotless and the weather picture-perfect.

Residents no longer own Second Life? Big discussion on the Terra Nova site about Linden Labs changing the wording of the slogan on the Second Life website, about who owns Second Life.

A Simple Exploit Jeopardizes Original Content in SL? News came to me today about a very, very disturbing series of events in Second Life. Screenshots uploaded to Flickr.com tell the story — the allegation is that apparently an avatar named Rase Kenzo, born in 2005, has been able to unlawfully obtain hundreds — thousands? — of items of original created content from Second Life by using an exploit.

Working cultures in Second Life The other day I was in a class, and in the wrap up at the end I was asked to say what I thought the differences between working for an educational institution and a commercial one were in SL.

OpenSim: The Do-it-Yourself Metaverse First read about this on Will’s blog a while back, have had it in my del.icio.us links for a while, and have been meaning to blog it.

What to Call a Griefer? Uh, Griefer

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