From: CBS News A Second Life For LBJ, Lady Bird Quote from the site - LBJ might be coming back the only way dead folks can: virtually–through a site like Second Life. We’re told that the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum in Austin is examining virtual sites to hook today’s techie generation on his days.

From: Computer World Second Life for a Cisco virtual press conference: fly on over! Quote from the site - When Cisco Systems Inc. said it would announce the winners of a networking technology innovation contest called Connected Life inside a Second Life simulation, it seemed like the place for me to be, if only to see how major companies might use this virtual world.

From: openPR Crescendo Corporation of Second Life Outsources its Advertising Unit to Real Life Company Setori Spire Quote from the site - Continuing to increase their high quality standards in public relations and marketing. The public relations powerhouse of Second Life (SL), Crescendo has chosen the renowned (SL) & Real Life (RL) metabranding company Setori Spire to manage all of their clients advertising needs.

From: Dusan Writer’s Metaverse User Experience Mapping of Second Life: Academic Model Quote from the site - The following is a map of the common user experience of Second Life posted as part of a serious dissertation on bringing users up to speed in Second Life.

This map was validated using advanced statistical and research tools (hey, it was published out of the University of Texas at Austin so it must be serious!). It uses something called Interactive Qualitative Analysis.

From: Window Second Life and UpStage walkthroughs tonight Quote from the site - The team who run UpStage, which we’ve blogged about here in the past, are conducting a walkthrough tonight at 9pm New Zealand time. Just click here at the appropriate time to view the performance and be stepped through some of the features of the virtual performance software. If you’d like to be more involved as a participant, just e-mail them for a guest login.

From: Kapp Notes Much Happening in Second Life Quote from the site - Yesterday, I presented with Tony O’Driscoll at the DevLearn event virtually. Assisting us expertly was Matt Monahan my graduate assistant who has been helping me with many Second life tasks. Neither Tony nor I could make it in person so we presented virtually. Which, of course, was a perfect use of Second Life.

From: continuous partial attention The Live Music experience in Second Life Quote from the site - Despite my expansive background in Second Life (I lived there for a year) I don’t blog about it enough. Perhaps I should change that. Rather then go the technical angle, let’s start with something cultural!

From: Second Life Merchant Times NEW SECOND LIFE SPORT: POGO STICKS AND LANDMINES Quote from the site - Ladies and gentlemen, Lionel Oliva is pleased to bring a sport that will revolutionize the events of Second Life: Pogo Sticks and Landmines.

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From: SL News The American Cancers Society continues to innovate in Second Life Quote from the site - While the leaders of the American Cancer Society in Second Life may not be walking from sim to sim in a Relay for Life today, they are still on the move. With some key organizational steps this Fall, this organization continues its innovation in SL.

From: Onrez Blog Grid Related Problems Quote from the site - Recently, we have noticed xml-rpc calls failing more often or taking longer to respond from the Second Life grid. Shop OnRez relies on xml-rpc to notify dropboxes about sales (xml-rpc is a method of initiating communication from outside Second Life to objects inside Second Life). While we don’t rely on xml-rpc for transmitting data, we do use it to initiate contact from our servers to in-world objects.

From: Shopping Cart Disco The Girl of Many Faces Quote from the site - An avatar is impersonating other model avatars, or, at least pretending to be them. First she stalked Mariya Nesiote. Then Aradia Dielli. And now she’s on to Violet Xingjian, even stealing Violet’s one RL self photograph and putting it on her profile under “first life” and claiming to be a 20-year-old girl from Chicago. I can confirm that she’s much older, and doesn’t live in Chicago.

From: Digital World Tokyo Magic carpet offers virtual ride to Second Life Quote from the site - According to the Nikkei, a research team at the University of Tokyo has come up with a virtual-reality system that could transform the way we see games like Second Life by allowing players to actually walk around as they explore onscreen environments.

From: Press Dispensary Second Life Unites 45 Countries for Luxembourg’s First Virtual Job Fair Quote from the site - A virtual job fair for Luxembourg, which aims to recruit high-calibre candidates to take up skilled roles, is attracting keen Second Lifers from 45 different countries world-wide. Set up by Gax Technologies and taking place on Second Life from Wednesday 28 November, 2007, ‘Working Worlds’ is turning into a truly international event.

From: News.com When virtual legal chickens come home to roost Quote from the site - Netizens are spending more and more of their time living their lives online in virtual worlds. But while many virtual world interactions are not real and take place in fictitious places, virtual disputes increasingly are landing in real courts back in terra firma.

From: Wayne Porter Second Life Avatar & SMS Language Barrier Quote from the site - I am still chewing over some comments on metrics and while I think it over I decided to take a quick look at avatars and expression. A question was asked in a forum along the lines of whether Second Life is a good medium or not for education?

From: Physorg.com University of Tokyo Expands Second Life Type Games Quote from the site - A team of undisclosed researchers at the University of Tokyo have a prototype in development that will bring the public one step closer to entering the Virtual World.

From: Metaversed It’s Not An Economy, It’s A Product Quote from the site - Yesterday we hosted another Metanomics session featuring a bare-footed Ginsu Linden, the avatar of Gene Yoon, Linden Lab’s VP of Business Affairs. He gave us some unique perspectives on how the company sees Second Life and made some bold statements about which types of analysis aren’t useful, and which might be more pragmatic.

From: Your 2nd Place The Second Life Economy As A Product Quote from the site - In It’s Not An Economy, It’s A Product, Metaverse Network reports that Gene Yoon (Gene Linden), VP of Business Affairs for Linden Lab, made some interesting statements while under a disclaimer that his opinions do not necessarily reflect those of Linden Lab.

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