Tip of the Week #9: How to create and join a group ‘Tis a basic guide with newer Residents in mind who’re getting familiar with Second Life, but if you’ve never created a group before and want to see how the process works before shelling out L$100, watch as Torley does it.

He also mentions he gets asked how he takes such pretty pictures, and has been putting together a User:Torley Linden/Snapshot tips The following covers what he does to get his beautiful inworld photography.

Hire some journos! If Linden Lab couldn’t find any evidence of wrongdoing at Wonderland, perhaps they need to hire some journalists to investigate incidents like this.

Learning and Research in Second Life: What’s so different about SL? As part of the Learning and Research in Second Life workshop we ran during this year’s Association of Internet Researchers’ conference in Vancouver, we asked the participants to discuss how Second Life was different to and the same as other (perhaps offline) learning environments.

Reminder: Daylight Savings Time ends this Sunday AM Linden Labs reminds us about daylight savings time.

A presentation that formed part of a double workshop given at the 6th Open Classroom Conference hosted in Stockholm from October 24th to 26th 2007.

Same Offender, Different Alt There is nothing quite like being abused for writing a news report on an assault. So, at the risk of raising the ire of the misogynists who criticised me for having the temerity to write about having been virtually assaulted and shot in my most recent report, I now feel bound to report yet another attack by the same individual, this time on my neighbour in Caledon.

Residents Hail 24×7 Linden Hair Presence In-World Exclusive interview with Walker Linden’s hairpiece. As Linden Lab reduces in-world support, a new presence service offers the citizens of Second Life twenty-four hour access to the game gods, or a partially rezzed Linden anyway. Amongst the stately Linden builds in the heart of the mainland lying on the ground in the serene Hawkshead forest is Walker Linden’s hair.

Second Life as an unproven seedbed for real world innovation The latest issue of the MIT Press journal Innovations has a couple of interesting articles about innovation and virtual worlds. I just finished reading Philip Evans excellent essay “A Silicon Silicon Valley? Virtual Innovation and Virtual Geography.” He describes a number of the unique aspects of Second Life that make it a prime breeding ground for new kinds of innovation including : spatiality, fun, experiential learning, trust building, experimenting with personae, and chance interactions.

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Linden: “No firm evidence” of wrongdoing at Wonderland Linden Lab said there’s no evidence that Wonderland, a sim at the center of a recent investigation into depictions of adult-child sex, violated Second Life’s rules over content.

“Blondezilla” [Recruit App] It was a typical day here in the sprawling metaverse
of Second Life when I first spotted her; I was dancing at an out-of-the-way club when I looked over my shoulder and saw the tall, boxy goddess of horrorsluts… towering over the crowd, surveying with lidless, dead eyes… ready to unhinge her jaw and drink the blood of any hapless newb who turned his or her back.

Canada Post launches in Second Life On Saturday, Canada Post will launch a virtual city in Second Life, where online shoppers will be able to visit the 3D virtual stores of Canada Post’s retail partners and shop for real gifts and merchandise.

SushiSamba opens online branches in Second Life Tuesday, the restaurant group will open two branches in Second Life, the massively popular online virtual community, and become the first real-life eatery to do so. One will be based on SushiSamba’s spot on Seventh Ave. in the West Village, the other on their nightlife-oriented Park Ave. hangout.

Snapshots of Second Life use in UK HE and FE The Eduserv Foundation is funding a series of rolling reports, looking at the take-up of Second Life (SL) within the UK Higher and Further Education sector.

The Second Life of UK Academics Interest in SL among academics has been growing for some time. This has been fostered by Linden Lab, who provide various information resources, support and (heavily trafficked) mailing lists for educators developing within SL. Various surveys into education use, such as that recently released by the New Media Consortium (NMC), has also stoked academic curiosity. Consequently, an increasing number of universities, colleges, libraries, research centres and other academic entities have created a presence within SL (more commonly known as being ‘in-world’). In the UK Higher and Further Education sector, it is not just universities and colleges which are developing in SL. For example, JISCmail and the JISC Regional Support Centres have an SL presence, as has the Scottish Further Education Unit. UCAS even built an island to assist potential students going through the clearing process this year.

Second Life jobs fair pays off for KPMG Professional services firm KPMG has succeeded in attracting potential recruits through a jobs fair on the Second Life virtual world.

The online fair allowed the company to meet more people and carry out more activities with them than a traditional jobs fair, said Alison Heron, senior manager of recruitment marketing at KPMG.

Police officers learn to follow online clues to real life crimes Raise your hand if you’ve heard of “Second Life,” police Lt. Charles Cohen asks a room of about 75 law enforcement officers from around the country.

“Second Life,” a sprawling online universe, has had technology circles abuzz for a while. But here, it might as well be a watch repair shop. Only a few hands go up. Cohen has some explaining to do.

YAAR! The Pirates of Sanchon - You’ll Pay Double For That “YOU’LL PAY DOUBLE FOR THAT!” Sin Trenton’s Slovakian accent was thick with threat. The Navigator was beside himself with fury.

“Save yourself for the melee. She’s the a wily one.” Tiny cautioned.

[Resolved] SF Hosted Regions Temporarily Offline At of 1:20AM PDT approximately 1,100 regions are offline as the result of a grid infrastructure failure. At 5:36AM PDT the issue had been resolved.

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