From: syracuse.com Second Life colleges Quote from the site - Syracuse-area colleges are creating branch campuses in Second Life, a virtual world where members meet, shop, travel and interact through their avatars.

From: G4 ‘Second Life’ Sponsors Film Contest Quote from the site - Hey, would-be Fassbinders and Michael Bays: This is the luckiest blog post you will ever read.

Lucky for you, the 48-hour film project is taking their “Make a movie in 2 days!” thing and moving it to Second Life for a 48-hour machinima contest.

From: Information Week Join Us For GridTalk With The Author Of ‘The Entrepreneur’s Guide To Second Life’ Quote from the site - Join us in Second Life Tuesday for GridTalk with Daniel Terdiman, author of the new book The Entrepreneur’s Guide To Second Life, to learn about the best ways to do business in-world. Daniel will pass along the wisdom of the world’s best fashion designers, retailers, and other in-world business people.

From: New World Notes Text My Avatar! Telecom Service Lets Residents Send/Receive Texts Through Their Avatar Names Quote from the site - This post needs a mammoth full disclosure right at the start, because the British telecom Vodafone has been an NWN advertiser for the last couple months, but in all honesty, this is a genuinely cool project I’ve been meaning to blog about since watching a demo presented by the company’s project manager at a panel for the Virtual Worlds Forum I hosted.

From: Instructional Design and Development Blog Too Cool for School Revisited: Second Life in Higher Ed Quote from the site - I just returned from Orlando, where I attended the Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning, and can’t stop thinking about Ellul’s views on technology.

From: NMC Campus Observer Challenges & Solutions for Teaching in Second Life Quote from the site - Yes, we are aiming to get out our January event notifications early, as we know those of you in the real world have to deal with the challenges of holiday time traffic, shopping, cooking… all of those tasks which are much easier here in the virtual world!

From: David Edelman The Plot to Understand Second Life Quote from the site - Last night I had the privilege of attending a reading and interview of renowned science fiction author Paul Levinson in support of his book The Plot to Save Socrates. I stayed in my bathrobe the whole time, because the event took place on Second Life.

From: Second Life Herald Op/Ed: Why I’m not looking forward to OpenSim Quote from the site - I was sitting in Robin’s office hours and looking around. I came to the realization that I am not looking forward to OpenSim.

From: Second Life Blog [UPDATE] Reminder: Service Outage Planned for 11 December Quote from the site - As part of the service outage, registration, LindeX, and the Land Store will be taken off line at 6:30 a.m. PST this morning, thirty minutes ahead of the other grid services.

From: Indy Star Just 1 minute Quote from the site - Two Indiana University School of Informatics faculty researchers have received funding to study how people respond to social computing — such as video games, virtual worlds like Second Life and other computer- based interactions.

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Second Life with WindLight and the SpaceNavigator Quote from the site - As an update to our previous post on the Second Life beta using the WindLight atmosphere rendering system we thought it would be worth posting a movie.

From: New World Notes The Second Life of Harlem Quote from the site - It has an Apollo Theater and a Cotton Club, and with luck, one day (I hope) a Billie Holiday AI may sing onstage. The brainchild of Bryan Mnemonic, Virtual Harlem is a recreation of the legendary New York neighborhood during its Renaissance years.

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From: IT Director Second Life is now too important not to be accessible Quote from the site - Just over a year ago I wrote an article Second Life Class Action about the inaccessibility of Second Life and followed that in January by the suggestion of a beginning of a solution in Second Life open source accessible client.

From: Military.com French Navy Uses Second Life to Recruit Quote from the site Warning: Popup - In the old days naval recruiters used to get young men drunk in bars, make them scrawl their signature on a bit of paper and next thing the young men knew they woke up not only with a hangover but aboard a ship.

From: BBC ‘Exodus’ to virtual worlds predicted Quote from the site - The appeal of online virtual worlds such as Second Life is such that it may trigger an exodus of people seeking to “disappear from reality,” an expert on large-scale online games has said.

From: UgoTrade Virtual Bali Quote from the site - I am on vacation (sort of) this week. But I did manage to get up early this morning to participate in the UN’s climate change negotiations currently underway in Bali, Indonesia via the Virtual Bali initiative from OneWorld.net, the civil society portal in Second Life (also see the Guardian Unlimited).

From: SL I-Reports Worldwide Candle Lighting in Second Life Quote from the site - The Second Life Worldwide Candle Lighting was held in conjunction The Compassionate Friends Worldwide Candle Lighting[R], an event held around the globe at 7:00 p.m. local time. The Worldwide Candle Lighting is held in remembrance of the lives of children of all ages who are no longer with us “…that their light may always shine.

From: Business Communicators of Second Life Brand Land Happenings: Dec 11 - 18, 2007 Quote from the site - December 10, 2007 - AOL Pointe closed. December 11, 2007 - Information Week 10:00 a.m. SLT GridTalk.

From: whatsnextblog Don’t Give Up on Second Life, Eric Reuters Tells NY Social Media Breakfast Quote from the site - Although I’m more of an 8 PM type, than an 8 AM type, I got up before the sun this morning to go to the first NYC Social Media Breakfast. It was organized by Bryan Person and Paull Young.

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