Second Life - I Finally Got My Motorcycle! I learned to drive a Norton even before I could drive a car and ever since then I have wanted a bike. Buying a bike in RL has not been an option. Buying a bike in Second Life became a reality last night!

Spanish Jobs with Infoempleo I’ve been meaning to visit the Infoempleo island in Second Life for a couple of weeks now, since discovering that my company’s Spanish division had taken part in a recruitment fair there in mid-October. I finally got around to it tonight.

Changes to Virtual Economies and the Dissolving Membrane: Metaplace, Second Life, Twinity A few developments seem like natural shifts in the nature of virtual worlds and their economies but leave me perplexed about the future. I’m not an economist and don’t really know the first thing about it other than what I’ve picked up in bits and pieces with my initial framework provided by Edward Castranova who helped me to understand the reason for the biases, misunderstandings, and flaws in virtual world economies.

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Reminder - November 10th In this follow-up session to the Digital Storytelling workshop during EduIsland II’s recent EduFair, Celestia Cazalet will introduce participants to techniques for capturing images and video in Second Life, culminating in a project to create machinimas entirely in SL.

Reveal your virtual life - on MTV MTV are looking for virtual worlders for their (perhaps not entirely appropriately named - but people still get the Web mixed up with the Internet) “I Live Another Life on the Web” part of MTV’s True Life. Not just any virtual worlders, either. Ones who are willing to put their real selves on display.

An open letter to Philip Linden Well, we know why bbcode was disabled. On Monday, January 31, 2005 a cross site scripting vulnerability was discovered in all versions of vBulletin prior to v3.06. The forums are using vBulletin v 3.05, so that for nearly a year and a half, we were vulnerable to someone stealing our authentication cookies. The exact same authentication used for our SL accounts.

The illusion of Second Life government Tateru Nino’s recent post about F.I.R.E., an organization claiming to be Second Life’s first political party, reminded me of a blog I wrote in 2005 about Second Life’s de facto political parties. It’s well worth the read, if only for the humor factor, but the gist of the article was basically that several political parties are starting to informally emerge in the arena of ideas. In today’s article I would like to discuss two of the most passionate and vocal de facto parties whose debate rages on even today…

Governance Team Office Hours Members of the Governance Team will be holding office hours on an island in the Kremer region http://slurl.com/secondlife/Kremer/164/137/27.

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